U.S. consumers have been able to increase savings even as they increased spending.

The first month of 2023 (and the last month of the retail industry's Q4 2022) saw America's largest party supply store file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a move that the StarMine credit models had predic...

40% of the online merchandise for U.S. retailers is on sale as we enter Black Friday week of 2022. The average percent discount in November is 36.3%; this has come down from the YTD levels of 37.6% an...

As inflation reached its highest point in four decades, consumers spent more in June across a range of pricier goods and services like gasoline, groceries, furniture, and even restaurants. In a sign t...

The broader retail space has been weak relative to the S&P 500 so far this year. On a YTD basis, the VanEck Vectors Retail ETF has underperformed the S&P 500 by 4.5 percentage points, trading down by ...

US Consumer Discretionaries have fallen back to old support relative to Staples.

We highlight 3 ETFs poised to benefit from record holiday sales

Wall Street has been hovering around a record high level due to earnings strength, the ebbing pandemic, the economic reopening and the associated economic growth.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve made it clear that it will begin dialing back its $120 billion in monthly bond buying later this month. That's also known as tapering.

Fernandes: U.S. retail sales in June 2020 were already higher than in December 2019. Fernandes: US consumer is in a much better position than they were in 2008.