UCC News and Press, ProShares Ultra Consumer Services From 08/19/20

Ecommerce retail sales jumped 44% in the second quarter 2020, compared to a year earlier, to $201 billion, not seasonally adjusted, according to the Commerce Department Tuesday. On a seasonally adjusted basis, ecommerce sales hit $211 billion. In dollar terms, the jump of $62 billion compare...

Q2 E-Commerce Retail Sales : +31.8 % Q/Q vs. +2.4%  in Q2. More news on: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs Read more ...

The SPDR S&P Retail ETF ( XRT +0.5% ) is a mild outperformer after retail sales came in solid for July in comparison to expectations. More news on: SPDR S&P Retail ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF, Consumer stocks news, New...

Q&A on Splits and Reverse Splits ProShares, a premier provider of ETFs, announced today the record date and payment date of the forward splits previously announced on August 4, 2020. All forward splits will apply to shareholders of record as of the close of the markets on Aug...

Q&A on Splits and Reverse Splits ProShares, a premier provider of ETFs, announced today forward and reverse share splits on eleven of its ETFs. The splits will not change the total value of a shareholder's investment. Forward Splits Five ETFs will forward split their shar...

By Jill Mislinski The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report for June was released this morning. Headline sales came in at 7.5% month-over-month to one decimal and was above the Investing.com forecast of 5.0%. Core sales (ex Autos) came in at 7.31% MoM (to two decimals). Here is the...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services spending posted another strong gain in June, rising 7.5 percent from the prior month following an 18.2 percent record surge in May and two devastating declines in March and April. The gains likely reflected the continued easing of restriction...

Retail sales topped expectations for June with a 7.5% increase from May. The June tally was also up 1.6% from a year ago after gas and auto-related sales were stripped out. More news on: The Home Depot, Inc., Lowe's Companies, Inc., The Kroger Co., Consumer stocks news, News on the U.S. ec...

76% of Americans plan to celebrate Independence Day this year, down from 86% in 2019, as concerns run high over gathering in large groups or attending public events due to the coronavirus pandemic. More news on: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector ...

The big worry Or rather the small worry for I was really very sure indeed it wasn't going to happen. Anyway, to get to the predictions on an L shaped recovery - one where we don't bounce back at all - it was necessary that consumers just didn't go out and start spending their money when the ...