Retail Sales
By David Randall and Lewis Krauskopf
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elevated U.S. interest rates are pressuring the U.S. retail sector, where shares of many companies have been dented by months of tight monetary policy while a select few have soared.
The S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Distribution & Retail index is up nearly 14% this year, roughly keeping pace with the S&P 500’s year-to-date gain. Much of the sector’s strength, however, has been... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -U.S. retail sales rose 3.1% between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, as shoppers looked for last-minute Christmas deals amid big promotions, a Mastercard report showed on Tuesday.
The increase is lower than the 3.7% growth Mastercard forecast in September and last year's 7.6% rise as higher interest rates and inflation pressured consumer spending.
Amazon.com and Walmart ramped up promotions through November in the United States to entice... (continue reading...)
By Katherine Masters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Last-minute shoppers looking for late deals ahead of Christmas may find smaller discounts and fewer items marked down at major retailers including Macy’s, Target and Ulta Beauty, according to an analyst and two datasets measuring retailers' recent prices.
After ramping up promotions for Black Friday, some of the country’s top gifting destinations cut back both the number and size of their price... (continue reading...)
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that its extended Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event—which kicked off November 17 and continued through November 27—was its biggest ever compared to the same 11-day period ending on Cyber Monday in previous years. Customers around the world purchased more than one billion items on Amazon, with shoppers saving nearly 70% more on Amazon during the 11 days of deals compared to the same period last year. Amazon also... (continue reading...)
By Ananya Mariam Rajesh and Savyata Mishra
(Reuters) - As the holiday shopping season approaches, major U.S. retailers from Dollar General to Walmart and Macy's could be saddled with too much stock for a second straight year, according to a Reuters analysis, jeopardizing retailers’ profit margins and generating steep discounts for shoppers.
LSEG Workspace, a financial news and data platform, calculated inventory turnover ratios of 30... (continue reading...)
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