VCR News and Press, Vanguard Consumer Discretion From 10/06/20

ShopperTrak forecasts in-store traffic for the six-week holiday season will be down between 22% and 25%. Black Friday (November 27), Super Saturday (December 19) and the day after Christmas (December 26) are expected to be the three busiest shopping days of the year. Many retailers are closin...

The retail sector is outperforming on the day with the S&P Retail ETF (XRT) up 2.44% in comparison to the 1.38% gain for the S&P 500 Index. Specialty retailers are leading the charge, with online retailers, sporting goods sellers and household furnishers notably higher. Gainers includ...

AlixPartners is out with a forecast for the 2020 holiday season (defined this year as October through the end of December).The research firm expects an increase in sales of 1.0% to 2.6% over the same three-month period last year, when sales totaled $1.132T. AlixPartners' survey showed that 49...

Two days ago we saw that gains in industrial production had decelerated sharply in August. This morning we saw the same thing with real retail sales, one of my favorite indicators. Nominal retail sales were up +0.6% in August. Meanwhile, July's reading was revised downward by -0.3%. Since in...

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 ...

My take on this is a bit different. I think businesses are anticipating a slowdown and cutting inventory ahead of it. Reported this morning with August Retail Sales is data on Inventory/Sales ratio from July. While a lagging indicator and not historically a good indicator of future economic ...

Century 21, the famous New York discount store chain, has become the latest retail casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it would file for bankruptcy and close all 13 of its locations after failing to receive money from its insurers. More news on: Consumer Discretionary Select Sec...

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA: VCR ) - $3.7937 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.56% as of Aug. 31. Payable Sep 16; for shareholders of record Sep 14; ex-div Sep 11. More news on: Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

If I could, I would, but I can’t, so I won’t. - Anonymous Long-standing subscribers of The Lead-Lag Report will acknowledge the significance I attach to the health of the U.S. consumer while gauging broad economic conditions as it accounts for two thirds of the economy. Ret...

Retail giants are setting strategies for a holiday season expected to be unlike any other. More news on: Target Corporation, Best Buy Co., Inc., Kohl's Corporation, News on ETFs, Read more ...