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Walmart (WMT) closed near $116 as investors sought safer stocks and the retailer expanded health benefits.
Oct 15
Albertsons (ACI) began a review to cut costs and prices; shares are still down 27% this year.
Oct 14
Talks stalled on rare earths; USTR Greer backed 3-6 months but retailers (XRT) face 125% snap-back on Nov. 10.
Sep 22
Sprouts Farmers Market shares fell 23% after a Q3 earnings miss and a fourth-quarter comparable sales forecast of down 2% to 4%, as store traffic weakened.
General Motors (GM) shares rose about 5% after it said it will move from the NYSE to Nasdaq on Nov. 17, making the automaker eligible for the Nasdaq-100 index.
Walmart's $120 annual bundle of Walmart+ and Sam's Club Plus adds Peacock or Paramount+ and is aimed squarely at Amazon Prime's $139 fee.
Nike (NKE) rose about 5% on Thursday, leading the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher as investors rotated out of AI stocks and into cheaper consumer names.
Wall Street's Dow industrials average rose 1.08% on Thursday as investors rotated out of AI and chip stocks after hot CPI and PPI inflation readings.
Walmart (WMT) rose more than 2% after Deutsche Bank upgraded the retailer to Buy, citing margin gains from advertising, membership and automation into 2027.
US retail sales rose 0.8% in September, beating forecasts, but a 0.2% gain excluding gas stations points to prices, not demand, as interest rates stay in focus.
Lululemon (LULU) shares edged higher after new CEO Heidi O'Neill named Athleta's Maggie Gauger president and Joseph Godsey COO, a month into her tenure.
Bessent confirms US-China trade truce extension to January 10, 2027 on Fox News, removing a key macro overhang for multinationals heading into Q4 2026.
Costco Wholesale beat fiscal Q4 estimates with EPS of $0.60 versus the $0.48 consensus, sending COST shares 3% higher and affirming its defensive premium as recession fears intensify across equity…
Michigan's final September consumer sentiment index held at 47.8 Friday, the weakest since May's record trough, as a Federal Reserve rate hike and crude oil above $100 per barrel compound pressure…
Costco Wholesale (COST) posted Q4 FY2026 EPS of $0.75 against the $0.52 consensus, with $5.72 billion in revenue and 9.4% comparable-sales growth signaling that bulk-discount shoppers are…
Costco (COST) reports Q4 FY2026 results September 24, with $6.48 EPS and $94.85B revenue expected as the Fed's latest rate hike stresses holiday consumers.
Costco Wholesale and Darden Restaurants both report Thursday, September 24, putting household spending resilience under scrutiny just eight days after the Federal Reserve's surprise interest rates…
U.S. August retail sales surged 1.2%, topping the 0.8% forecast, as the core control group jumped 1.4%, lifting the probability of a second Federal Reserve rate hike before year-end 2026.
Walmart Q2 same-store sales of 2.6% missed the 3.8% consensus - slowest in six years - as fuel costs and inflation curb U.S. discretionary spending.
Kroger topped second-quarter profit estimates by $0.04 per share but nearly halved its full-year same-store sales forecast, sending KR shares down roughly 3% and signaling mounting strain on…
China's yuan broke below 6.77 per dollar for the first time in three years as the PBOC's firmest midpoint since 2023 signals official tolerance for renminbi strength amid a widening global…
Dow lost 628 points last week as US-Iran military exchanges drove oil above $100, pushed Treasury yields to 4.97%, and lifted Fed rate-hike odds to 91% ahead of the September 15-16 FOMC meeting.
Kroger posted a mixed second-quarter 2026 report under new CEO Greg Foran, beating per-share earnings estimates by $0.05 while missing the $4.68 billion revenue target and delivering…
New CEO Greg Foran posts a narrow EPS beat in Kroger's Q2 FY2026 report, raises full-year guidance, and launches the grocer's most aggressive pricing push in years.
Canada's $7.6B tariffs on 700 U.S. goods hit September 8, sinking the Dow 588 points as trade collapse and Iran oil shock create back-to-back pressure on the FOMC.
Citi flagged a downside catalyst watch on Kroger (KR) and cut its price target to $57 as record Iran-war diesel costs and Walmart's aggressive pricing campaign threaten to compress grocery margins.
Diesel hits $5.85/gallon, surpassing the 2022 Russia-Ukraine record, as Iran war outages squeeze refinery output and freight costs surge nationwide.
U.S. diesel hit an all-time record $6.85/gallon Friday as Ukrainian refinery strikes and Hormuz disruptions spark the worst global diesel crunch in decades.
University of Michigan's consumer sentiment dropped 7.6% to 51.0 in August as Iran-war price surges hit households and retail sales post their worst slide since May 2025.
Dollar General's second-quarter earnings shattered Wall Street expectations, sending shares up 12% and cementing discount retail's status as a primary beneficiary of tariff-driven consumer…
Burlington Stores posted Q2 2026 adjusted earnings of $0.37 per share, nearly doubling the $0.19 consensus estimate, as tariff-driven consumer trade-down pushed wallet share toward the off-price…
Dollar General's Q2 2026 EPS of $2.48 beat the $2.00 consensus by $0.48, same-store sales rose 3.5% on traffic growth, and the company raised its full-year profit forecast, sending shares up…
Dollar General's Q2 2026 earnings, due before Thursday's open, are Wall Street's clearest read on tariff-pressured low-income consumer resilience, with $2.00 EPS and $11.17B revenue on the line.
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