RXI News and Press, iShares Global Consumer Discretionary From 11/30/23

2023-11-30 00:10:00 ET Summary A strong Q3 earnings season is in the books, and the focus turns to what near-term consumer shifts may be brewing. Costco and The Buckle provide their usual monthly same-store sales reports this week. Global automakers also post production and sa...

2023-11-29 22:25:00 ET Summary Are Canadian shoppers likely to keep shopping through the holidays? How Canadian consumers compare to their US counterparts. The problem with Canada's high household debt troubles. With the holiday shopping season underway, the ...

2023-11-24 23:35:00 ET Summary Spending for the entire holiday season is only set to rise 1.4% over last year’s sales levels. The LSEG U.S. Retail and Restaurant index is only expected to show a 1.4% revenue growth over last year’s Q4 levels. The estimated earnin...

2023-11-24 22:30:00 ET Summary When considering the broad picture of consumer spending in the United States, many assume the holiday season accounts for a significant percentage of total consumer spending. When considering retail alone, holiday season sales are indeed substantial,...

2023-11-23 01:30:00 ET Summary Slowing inflation and strong growth of GDP are set to keep labor markets tight, wages growing and consumers spending in 2023. According to a new analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence, retail sales are on track to outpace expectations this ...

2023-11-22 02:15:00 ET Summary Q3 earnings season had many familiar refrains relative to the year’s first two quarters. One difference was a return to positive earnings growth for the first time since Q3 2022. Not unlike the first two quarters of the year, earnings for ...

2023-11-21 08:30:00 ET Summary Consumer inflation is fading fast, and producer prices actually declined last month. This means the Fed is done raising key rates. The prices of imports also declined 0.8% in October, which is the first monthly decline since June, giving evidence of ...

2023-11-20 22:40:00 ET Summary Black Friday deals are arriving earlier this year as U.S. consumers are still dealing with higher prices from a year ago. As a result, retailers know that shoppers have become price-sensitive and are looking for steep promotions and discounts. Th...

2023-11-16 06:30:00 ET Summary After November 14’s big reaction to the benign CPI data, which saw risk assets rally hard and the dollar come off as interest rate expectations fell sharply, it is the turn of retail sales and producer price inflation today. It once again feed...

2023-11-14 01:11:00 ET Summary I think the trimming or revising of lower forward growth estimates is a reflection of the FOMC policy. Crude oil and gasoline have fallen sharply in the last 6 weeks. High-yield credit spreads actually tightened a little this week, as did high-gr...