UCC News and Press, ProShares Ultra Consumer Services From 01/20/21

The business climate index has been abysmal since March. Capital spending continued to fall, but at a slower pace. But wages are rising, despite declining employment. For further details see: Everything Drops, Including Jobs, But Prices And Wages Rise

Last week, the 10-year Treasury bond yield continued to rise, as last Tuesday's bond auction had a lackluster bid-to-cover ratio of 2.47. This means that the Fed is going to have to do more quantitative easing or the federal government is going to have to curtail its spending. The Fed...

Among strong, positive numbers, industrial production rose 1.6% in December, while the manufacturing component rose by 1.0%. Nominal retail sales declined -1.0% in December. Excluding the food services sector, which has been especially hard hit by the pandemic and lockdowns, sales wer...

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...

Consumer spending fell 0.4% in November, its first drop since the April when the Coronacrisis was about at its worst. Bankruptcies of major US companies scaled old heights in December to finally hit their 2011 levels with 16 major companies filing in December. Job losses jumped fo...

The economic recovery that arises from COVID vaccination will bring relief to some retailers, but what about those whose sales grew during the pandemic? Will they enjoy permanently higher sales, or return to normal, or will they learn that their 2020 sales gains were simply borrowing ...

The National Retail Federation says it saw the expected shift to digital by consumers during the Black Friday to Cyber Monday shopping period, For the first time ever, the number of online shoppers on Black Friday topped 100M and was 8% higher than a year ago. Overall, there were 186M shopper...

Amplify Online Retail ETF has delivered 116% year-over-year gains, mainly because of the push that the e-commerce sector received from the COVID-19 disruption. Currently, e-commerce retail sales make up 14.3% of total retail sales, but the percentage is estimated to rise to 95% by 204...

U.S. retailers are getting ready to report Q3 2020 earnings. The Refinitiv U.S. Retail and Restaurant Q3 earnings index is expected to decline by -13.8%. When looking at the earnings growth rates for Q3 for the 206 retailers tracked by Refinitiv, the Leisure Products and Internet ...

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...