More on: Retail Booming
With our earlier look at Inflation free CPI out of the way, let’s have a gander at Retail Sales. Did they really increase 1% in...
Inflation Vanquished ?
We have long used this platform to provide a reality check on some of the questionable errata we hear from various entities. It seems...
The New Reality: Four 20 inch monitors
In the end of November, (at the premium site) we did an analysis on the Dow Transports (you can see it here). Classic Dow theory states...
How Good Were Retail Sales Really?
I must admit to being baffled by yesterdays’ Retail Sales Data. I am as guilty as anyone else of having selective perception; Like...
Five Things You Need to Know
My favorite part of Minyanville is Kevin Depew’s Five Things You Need to Know. His take on yesterday’s Fed meeting is a...
Sustained demand or opportunistic deal-hunting?
There has been a bit of debate as to how weak or strong the U.S. Consumer truly is. Considering that he/she has been acting as the...
Gift Shopping: DVDs
Amazon keeps sending out special announcements about all sorts of sales they are running. The discounting is selective, but heavy. The...
Retailers’ Massive Discounting
One of the issues we have been discussing has been how widely and deeply Retailers will be discounting, and what it means to the overall...
Blaming Soft Retail on all the Wrong Things
The latest retail sales data is out, and its rather mixed: -Gap fell 2 percent. They expect pressure on profit margins to continue into...
Blogger’s Take: Holiday Retail Sales
Given all of the news on Retail sales — Black Friday, Cyber Monday, same store sales — I thought this might make for a...