Section
Consumption
70 posts
Consumers Say “Long Live the Bull Market”
by Jeffrey Buchbinder, CFA, Chief Equity Strategist, and Research Team, LPL Financial With additional content provided by Brian…
December 5, 2024
Prepare, Don’t Predict: Building Resilient Portfolios with Private Credit
For decades, investors climbed the 60/40 ladder with confidence. Now, every step feels less steady. High inflation that refuses to budge, interest rates that won’t come down anytime soon, and the growing correlation between stocks and bonds...
Five Investing Impacts of a Trade War
by Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA® Managing Director, Chief Global Investment Strategist, Michelle Gibley, & Heather O'Leary, Charles Schwab &…
December 1, 2024
Getting To The Bottom Of “Greedflation”
by Carl R. Tannenbaum, Chief Economist, Northern Trust Policies to address high prices are fraught with complications. “The…
August 25, 2024
Searching for Bargains Among High-Quality Retailers
by Will Keenan & William Smead, Smead Capital Management Dear fellow investors, At Smead Capital Management, our low…
July 31, 2024
Spotlighting Inequality
by Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist, & Robert Stein, Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios With a Presidential election…
June 10, 2024
Feeding Discontent
by Carl Tannenbaum, Chief Economist, Northern Trust Food prices are dragging down feelings about the economy. By Carl…
March 11, 2024
View from the Observation Deck: Consumer Delinquency Rates
by Bob Carey, Chief Market Strategist, First Trust Portfolios View from the Observation Deck For today’s post, we…
February 25, 2024
Inflation and Consumer Sentiment
by Shannon L. Saccocia, CFA, Chief Investment Officer—Private Wealth, Neuberger Berman U.S. consumer sentiment has defied predictions of…
February 19, 2024
CBO’s Rosy Scenario
by Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist, & Robert Stein, Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios Last week the Congressional…
February 12, 2024
Saving Grace
by Carl Tannebaum, Chief Economist, Northern Trust Are lower saving rates a sign of trouble ahead? When I…
February 8, 2024
The many lives of the U.S. consumer
by Eugenio J. Alemán, Chief Economist, Raymond James Chief Economist Eugenio J. Alemán discusses current economic conditions. To…
December 13, 2023
PepsiCo Inc. - (PEP) - October 6, 2023
by SIACharts.com Shares of food and beverage producer PepsiCo (PEP) continue to drift downward heading into Tuesday’s earnings…
October 9, 2023
Paranoid? An Update on Consumer Sentiment
by Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist, & Kevin Gordon, Charles Schwab & Company Ltd. Consumer and business…
October 2, 2023
Big Picture: Investors Not on the Defensive, Despite Talk of Recession
by Abhishek Ashok, M.A., MFE, CFA®, Analyst, AGF Investments Inc. Consumer staples, healthcare and utilities sectors have underperformed…
September 29, 2023
A Consumer Credit Cycle Has Begun
by Stephen Vanelli, CFA, Knowledge Leaders Capital With government stimulus over, accumulated savings starting to become depleted, rents…
September 13, 2023