Tag: consumer spending
Consumer Discretionary ETF (XLY) Signaling Caution In Q1
2015 didn't end quite the way the bulls wanted it to. The month of December saw the S&P 500 decline nearly 1 percent as a...
Investors Eye Black Friday Trends As Holiday Sales Kick Off
Over the coming days, the business news headlines will not speak of the Federal Reserve, commodity prices or currencies. Instead they will likely focus...
How The Wealth Effect May Soon Become The ‘Stealth Effect’
The Wealth Effect – a term associated with bullish stock markets and/or real estate expansions driving asset gains, which in turn spurs on spending...
Are Consumer Stocks Ready To Roll? …Or Roll Over?
After a period of sideways price action, active investors are hoping that earnings season provides some clarity. Yesterday, I wrote a post about the importance...
Is The Consumer Ready To Make a Comeback In 2015?
Unfortunately, the body of economic evidence over the past 5 years would lead most (including myself) to say "probably not". And this would likely be...
Consumers Down But Don’t Count Them Out Yet
One big question this quarter is how consumers are spending their extra cash saved by the drop in gas prices. So far, we haven’t...
Anemic Wage Growth May Soon Hit Consumer, Stock Market
The current "crisis" entails the government shutdown, the possibility of debt default, and the uncertainty of the default’s impact to GDP. While many are...
US Housing Market Improving, Recovery Taking Hold
By Joshua Schroeder
Here we go again. The political ping pong in Washington has once again impeded any resolution leading to certainty regarding fiscal policy and...
Economic First Down… or Another False Start
By Joshua Schroeder
In both 2010 and 2011 the US economy began growing at quick pace only to peter out later on in the year. Once again...
