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By Robert Hughes AIER's Everyday Price Index rose 0.4 percent in February after posting four consecutive declines between October 2018 and January 2019. The Everyday Price Index measures price changes people see in everyday purchases, such as groceries, restaurant meals, gasoline, and util...
By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services rose 0.2 percent in January following a sharp 1.6 percent decline in December. Over the past year, they are up 2.3 percent, ahead of the 1.6 percent 12-month change through December (see chart). Retail sales and food services have been broadl...
You just don't see $4 billion monthly retail sales revisions, in either direction. Advance estimates are changed all the time, each monthly figure will be recalculated twice after its initial release. Typically, though, the subsequent revisions are minor rarely amounting to a billion. Four tim...
It's only March, but retailers - including Dollar Tree, Abercrombie & Fitch, Kohl's, Gap, J.C. Penney, Victoria's Secret and Tesla - have already announced 4,810 store closures in 2019. More news on: Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, SPDR S&P Retail ETF, Vanguard Con...
The National Retail Federations continues to forecast that 2019 retail sales will increase 3.8% and 4.4% to more than $3.8T. More news on: Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, SPDR S&P Retail ETF, Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs ...
On this episode of the Cocktail Investing Podcast, we focus on the growing headwind for the economy and retail that is associated with our Middle-Class Squeeze investing theme. Consumers, especially those associated with our Aging of the Population investing theme, have racked up record...
How its own online sales, now one-third of its total sales, eat its brick & mortar. But it's a matter of survival. The largest brick-and-mortar retailers in the US don't disclose what portion of their revenues derive from e-commerce and from their brick-and-mortar stores. They don't be...
By Ansh Chaudhary For the month of January, the ETF Deathwatch increased in size. Twenty-six exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 15 funds were removed, making January a busier month in terms of additions. Of the removals, 14 were removed due to increased health an...
Last week, Retail Sales raised eyebrows as the December release came in with a horrendous print. Taking a step back and looking at sales from a global scale, though, US retail sales are still fairly strong compared to the other 23 major economies that we track through our Global Macro Dashbo...
By Jharonne Martis Earnings The 4Q 2018 blended earnings growth estimate is 14.7%. Forty-five percent of companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported Q4 2018 EPS. Of the 94 companies in the index that have reported earnings to date for Q4 2018, 65% have reported earnings abov...
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Index-based ETFs that provide exposure to companies engaged in streaming & gaming, future vehicles and e-commerce First Trust Advisors L.P. (“First Trust”), a leading exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) provider and asset manager, announced today...
First Trust Nasdaq Retail ETF (Nasdaq: FTXD) (the “Fund”), an exchange-traded index fund and a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VI (the “Trust”), previously announced changes to its investment objective, the Fund’s name and its ticker symbol....
First Trust Advisors L.P. ("FTA") announces the declaration of distributions for 115 exchange-traded funds (each a “Fund,” collectively, the “Funds”) advised by FTA. The following dates apply to today's distribution declarations: FTA is a federally registe...