UCC News and Press, ProShares Ultra Consumer Services From 10/31/20

The coronavirus pandemic continues to restrain normal activities, including traditional Halloween events, such as trick or treating and costume parties. As a result, retailers are feeling the pinch of a very scary Halloween season. The National Retail Federation says that total Ha...

With the release of September Retail Sales and the Consumer Price Index, we've updated this commentary to include the latest Real Retail Sales. Month-over-month nominal sales in September increased by 1.91%. Real Retail Sales, calculated with the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price...

Retail sales and food-services spending posted a strong gain in September. The September gain was the fifth in a row. Core retail sales, which exclude motor vehicles and gasoline retailers, posted a 1.5 percent gain for the month. Unit vehicle sales, reported earlier in the mo...

Industrial production has a 100-year-plus record of measuring the production side of the economy. Similarly, retail sales have a 70-year-plus record of measuring the consumption side of the economy. In September, both surprised, as production failed to confirm leading indicators a...

US retail sales are incredibly strong, rising 1.9% month-on-month versus 0.8% consensus. Strength was broad based with 12 out of 13 categories reporting a rise. Nonetheless, we shouldn't take too much away from what was a very good report, which saw sporting goods up 5.7%, health ...

Among the largest names in retail, as represented by the MVIS U.S. Listed Retail 25 Index, the differences between winners and losers this year is dramatic. The difference separating many of the names into winners and losers is their ability to leverage not only ecommerce, but all cha...

Retail sales climbed back to record levels in June and continued to grow in July and August - despite painful levels of unemployment and income loss. But the good times will not last much longer: The massive government income support programs that funded consumer spending are ending, ...

In this article I will walk you through the commonly used but wrong way to think about volatility decay. We'll then walk through an example of volatility decay with realistic numbers. Afterwards, we'll build a simple mathematical model to calculate volatility decay from first prin...

By Jill Mislinski Note : With the release of August Retail Sales and the Consumer Price Index, we've updated this commentary to include the latest Real Retail Sales. Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably ...

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...