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In June this year, a company called intu (CCRGF) (no capitalisation) collapsed. Most people had never heard of it. But they knew what it did. It was the owner of many of the UK's biggest shopping centres. Lakeside in Thurrock, Metro Centre in Newcastle, and the Trafford Centre in Manchester - ...
If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Nike (NKE) posted its lowest quarterly sales in two years, along with a $790 million quarterly loss, when it reported its Q1 2020 earnings in late June. A key driver of the results was a 50 percen...
76% of Americans plan to celebrate Independence Day this year, down from 86% in 2019, as concerns run high over gathering in large groups or attending public events due to the coronavirus pandemic. More news on: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, Consumer Discretionary Select Sector ...
The big worry Or rather the small worry for I was really very sure indeed it wasn't going to happen. Anyway, to get to the predictions on an L shaped recovery - one where we don't bounce back at all - it was necessary that consumers just didn't go out and start spending their money when the ...
The fragile apparel and restaurant sectors are facing another negative few weeks of COVID-19 developments as cases soar. A record level of hospitalizations in Texas tied to the virus has already prompted Governor Greg Abbott to limit capacity at restaurants and close bars, while shopping cen...
Redbook Johnson reports chain store sales are down 1.4% M/M in June so far and decreased 6.1% Y/Y for the week ending June 20. More news on: Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, SPDR S&P Retail ETF, Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF, Consumer stocks news, News on ETFs, ...
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...
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...