After 20 years in the retail and consumer goods sector, I became a research analyst and market strategist for Capital Ladder Advisory Group. Since 2011, I have published some 400+ articles surrounding mainstream retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Costco and more. I've covered ...
more After 20 years in the retail and consumer goods sector, I became a research analyst and market strategist for Capital Ladder Advisory Group. Since 2011, I have published some 400+ articles surrounding mainstream retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Costco and more. I've covered consumer goods corporations such as Apple, Keurig Green Mountain, SodaStream, Skullcandy, Fitbit and more. To date, I've garnered over a hundred media references to my analytics including Forbes, /yahoo Finance and The New York Times. In 2018 I co-founded Finom Group https://www.finomgroup.com, a subscription website for financial market daily information and investment research reports.
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Are You Prepped For Better News In H2 2019?
I don't think your representing the reality at the root level and therefore it may prove a daunting task to draw appropriate conclusions.
How Do Cash Holdings Turn Into Equity Holdings?
Thank you very much!
Spring Crash Potential Not About China
Just awful
Spring Crash Potential Not About China
To that extent there's also a reason the chart is so condensed.
Spring Crash Potential Not About China
He's done it purposefully, I actually already debunked this lumber theory of ill repute in a previous article and video.
Spring Crash Potential Not About China
Is there a reason you don't explore why Lumber prices rose so significantly last year, dropped within months, housing still near 11-year highs in certain respects? Any reason? Isn't it true that bonds prices and equity prices have risen together in nearly 40% of quarters since 1990s?
If "Getting Ahead" Depends On Asset Bubbles, It's Not "Getting Ahead," It's Gambling
sure, why not miss out on the equity market rally and resign myself to the offered income gap that will only lessen my chances of prospering when the so-called asset bubbles burst. Logical?
S&P 500 Heads Into Earnings Season Up Roughly 15%; What Could Go Wrong?
I said, "still part of the retail sales equation". Yes! But again, suggesting Xmas sales over the last 10 years have been lower is a complete farce.
S&P 500 Heads Into Earnings Season Up Roughly 15%; What Could Go Wrong?
Additionally, household debt to income ratios now stand at the best levels in some 17 years. To suggest the consumer is weak is just not logical. They may simply be making better choices which is logical given the greater millenial concentration of consumer spending and their relative proximity to the former Great Financial Crisis.
S&P 500 Heads Into Earnings Season Up Roughly 15%; What Could Go Wrong?
Total retail sales only go in one direction long-term which is confirmed in all St. Louis Fed charts of consumer spending and retail sales. Not sure where youre finding such data suggesting that over the last 10 years that Xmas sales have fallen? Just doesn't make sense. I agree about weakness in clothing in other certain discretionary goods, but that's because a greater portion of household purchases have been diverted to smartphone and media packages over that time, which are still part of the retail sales equation.