VCR News and Press, Vanguard Consumer Discretion From 06/21/20

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Quantitative Research Analyst Abraham Robison and Senior Client Investment Analyst Chris Kyle discussed the U.S. Federal Reserve's (the Fed) recent announcement on corporate bond purchases, the latest macroeconomic data and the outlook for...

There was a good bit of excitement on Tuesday with the release of the retail sales report, which came in stronger than expectations. However, the bounce will be difficult to maintain as tapped out consumers face high unemployment and a slow recovery. As we have discussed many times previousl...

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It's a pandemic, so there are problems with the data. Total retail sales in May bounced off 17.7% from the April low, according to the Census Bureau Tuesday. April had been the lowest April since 2013. May retail sales, at $485 billion seasonally adjusted, were down 6.1% from May 2019, d...

These numbers do seem epic, don't they? It's hard to ignore when you have the greatest percentage increase in the history of a major economic account. Just writing that sentence it's difficult to deny the power of those words. Which is precisely the point: we already know ahead of time how the...

Retail Sales are reported higher by ~18%, well ahead of expectations, and equity markets are higher in response. Personal Income spikes due to government income replacement during the COVID-19 shutdown. We can trust that Personal Income which is April's data will return to trend and that Real ...

Macroeconomic Thesis One of the most commonly raised critiques of my recent article, " The Monetary Death Spiral Is Accelerating ," was that the massive fiscal and central bank spending measures being carried out by various agencies of the United States federal government right now have jus...

Many restaurants will not survive the lockdown phase of the coronavirus pandemic. The Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes chain has shut down for good. Some restaurants will try to reopen but not last very long. Other small businesses, such as gyms and yoga studios, will permanently close as well. A...

Anthony Okolie recaps the news of the day including the latest COVID-19 updates, followed by a conversation with Anita Bruinsma, Consumer Discretionary Analyst, TD Asset Management, about the latest trends that will shape the future of retail in North America and around the world. Ori...

By Jharonne Martis Sixty seven percent of companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported Q1 2020 EPS. Of the 143 companies in the index that have reported earnings to date, 59% have reported earnings above analyst expectations, 2% reported earnings in line with analyst expectations...