RXI News and Press, iShares Global Consumer Discretionary From 01/19/21

COVID-19 didn't cause physical retail's steep decline - it just accelerated it. Retail survivors and thrivers will invest in the apps and digital tools that eliminate friction from the shopping experience. Consumers in the U.S., U.K., and Australia consistently rate the in-store s...

Aimed at ramping up relief for the U.S. economy to avert a recession from the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, Senate Republicans are completing their proposal which, they say, will differ from the Trump administration's but will be similar to the Treasury Department's $1T plan. More ne...

"The market is in our view currently pricing a deep recession for the entire year, with no anticipation of light at the end of the tunnel. Reconciling consensus expectations from a bottom-up perspective and the recent price action, which has a more top-down perspective, we believe that the w...

CNBC's Jim Cramer was recently quoted as saying " this should be the beginning of the end for sector ETFs ". While I agree with Todd Rosenbluth's initial response on Twitter , I felt it important to lay out a few facts and lists of sector ETFs highlighting why their importance to investors wi...

By Justin Leverenz , Team Leader and Senior Portfolio Manager, Bhavtosh Vajpayee, CFA, Director, Equity Research China’s experiments in shopping have moved into high gear. The world needs to pay attention. We believe China is ground zero for the future of retail and the West wi...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services jumped 1.6 percent in March, following a 0.2 percent decline in February. Over the past year, they are up 3.6 percent. Core retail sales, which excludes motor vehicles and gasoline, rose 0.9 percent in March following a 0.7 percent decline in...

Is it possible to achieve a 20%+ total annual return in the late stages of a market cycle? Yes, it is - with sector rotation. All it takes is gradually taking profits on the more cyclical names in one's portfolio when they're running hot and shifting into high quality defensive names when th...

The U.S. Week Ahead (Mar 11-15) U.S. economic releases are set to surge in the week ahead, while investors grapple with a long list of uncertainties, including slowing Chinese growth, monetary policy shifts in Europe, as well as trade negotiations and Brexit developments. Among the host...