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Retail sales climbed back to record levels in June and continued to grow in July and August - despite painful levels of unemployment and income loss. But the good times will not last much longer: The massive government income support programs that funded consumer spending are ending, ...
Ecommerce allowed us to continue buying things we probably wouldn't have been able to buy otherwise. Consumer adoption of ecommerce is probably going to be sticky as concerns about the virus fade. Retailers winning during the pandemic were in the right categories and had a strong ...
Barclays upgrades the broad retail sector to a Positive rating for the first time in over ten years as it looks beyond the pandemic. "In the wake of COVID, the Retail segment is: 1) reducing supply on multiple levels and 2) forcing store closures as e-commerce growth accelerates. In 2021, we ...
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...
In this article I will walk you through the commonly used but wrong way to think about volatility decay. We'll then walk through an example of volatility decay with realistic numbers. Afterwards, we'll build a simple mathematical model to calculate volatility decay from first prin...
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...
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...
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