Consumer Sustainability Concerns Threaten Amazon’s Ecommerce Juggernaut

Front Door of House with Stack of Delivery Boxes from Online Ordering and E-commerce getty Amazon had a spectacular year in 2021, reporting a 22% increase in net sales. But buried in the details there...

PepsiCo and 4 Other ‘Low-Volatility’ Stocks That Can Beat the Market

Text size Pepsi products for sale Mario Tama/Getty Images Investors have been buying up low-volatility stocks to protect their portfolios against stock market declines. These stable stocks can probabl...

Starbucks Stock Has Gotten Crushed. This Analyst Says It’s Time to Buy.

Text size Starbucks stock still looks good for the long haul, Jefferies says. Scott Olson/Getty Images Starbucks stock is off roughly 25% year to date, but Jefferies argues that the market has it wron...

Why Altria’s Stock Could Be a Buy and Philip Morris Isn’t

Text size Analyst Bonnie Herzog raised her rating on Altria to Buy from Neutral and her price target to $57 from $48 Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Altria Group has been the standout in Big Tob...

Altria Stock Is a Buy and Philip Morris Isn’t, Says Goldman Sachs

Text size Analyst Bonnie Herzog raised her rating on Altria to Buy from Neutral and her price target to $57 from $48 Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Altria Group has been the standout in Big Tob...

JPMorgan Invests In Oakbrook Finance To Enhance Consumer Lending

Consumer lending platform provider Oakbrook Finance has completed a £142 million funding round, with JPMorgan and alternative investment advisors Atalaya Capital Investment leading the list of investo...

5 Retail Stocks That Can Shine in a Slowdown

Text size A customer browses gift-wrapping supplies a Dollar Tree store in Louisville, Ky. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Same-store sales are critical for retailers, but many investors worry that they will ...

Nike Reports Earnings Monday. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up.

Text size The Nike store in Miami Beach, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Nike already had a China problem. Now you can add Europe to the list. The only question ahead of Monday’s earnings report is wheth...

Gas prices ‘without a doubt’ changing consumer behavior, AAA spokesman explains

Drivers around the nation are beginning to shift their driving habits in response to soaring gas prices as the White House attempts to present the pain at the pump in a full context. As of March 19, t...

Food Prices Keep Going Up. The Impact May Be Felt Far Beyond the Supermarket.

An economic maelstrom is brewing. A few months ago, it cost Rachel Lee about $150 to buy two weeks of groceries for her family of four. Lately, she says, it takes almost $100 more to buy the same food...

Deere, Hershey and More Stocks to Buy to Combat Food Inflation

The highest inflation in decades is hitting consumers and rippling through the food industry, from farm equipment to packaged food, grocers, and restaurants. At-home food costs climbed 8.6% and out-of...

Food Costs Are Rising. Here Are the Stocks to Buy.

The highest inflation in decades is hitting consumers and rippling through the food industry, from farm equipment to packaged food, grocers, and restaurants. At-home food costs climbed 8.6% and out-of...

Marrying Consumer Expectations With Values

Key Themes from the Wharton CEO Conference Gen Z Online Shopper getty How to align brand values to today’s consumer expectations was at the center of topics covered at the recent 2022 CEO Summit hoste...

Companies raise consumer prices but only sleuths can detect it

Alexanderford | E+ | Getty Images Americans are paying more for a broad swath of household goods these days. Even items without a higher sticker price may still cost more — it’s just hard to not...

GameStop Earnings Are Today. Don’t Expect to Learn Much About Its New Strategy.

Text size Wall Street analysts expect GameStop to report fourth-quarter sales of $2.16 billion Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images GameStop is set to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the marke...

EBay Stock Has a New Bull Who Sees a Strong Second Half

eBay’s German headquarters Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size The market seems to be underestimating e-commerce giant eBay , according to one analyst. Deutsche Bank analyst Lee Horowitz initiate...

Retail sales February 2022 come up short as inflation puts dent in consumer spending

An Amazon Prime truck pulls away after a delivery in Washington, DC, on February 17, 2022. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Consumers continued to spend in February through at a slower pace than exp...

China’s Intervention Sends Stocks Soaring. Powell’s Unlikely to Make That Big a Splash.

The Chinese government just had the sort of impact on markets that the Federal Reserve can only dream about. In fairness to the Fed, it hasn’t spent the best part of a year undermining the stock marke...

Peloton Stock Has Tumbled. Here’s Why Morgan Stanley Isn’t Bullish.

Text size A Peloton exercise bike Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Peloton Interactive stock has dropped more than 40% year to date. Morgan Stanley thinks investors are wise to stick to the sidelines. Analyst L...

High Price Drives Consumer Demand For Luxury Brands

“Price functions as a fee for the right to exhibit the logo of a well-known brand and co-brand … [+] oneself,” J.P. Kapferer and P. Valette-Florence report. getty The personal luxury goods...

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Leads £210M Round in UK-Based Consumer Finance Platform Lendable

  Lendable.co.uk, a major AI-powered consumer finance platform based in London, announced on Thursday it raised £210 million in a funding round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board through ...

Data Shows US Consumer Prices Hit a 40-Year High, Biden Blames Inflation on ‘Putin’s Aggressive Actions’ – Economics Bitcoin News

Following the record 7.5% high for January, the U.S. Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) data shows February’s CPI metrics rose to 7.9%. The CPI data published on Thursday is a new 40-year h...

Amazon’s Stock Split Follows Alphabet’s. Here’s Who’s Next.

Text size Amazon.com’s share price is likely to go from nearly $3,000 to less than $150 as a result of the split. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Amazon . com announced a stock split just over a month...

After an Incredible Rally, Beware a Dead Cat Bounce

An oil tanker stands at an oil terminal Thursday at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Getty Images Text size It has been a tough year for stocks. A rally on Wednesday seemed to promise some reversal of the tren...

MTO Brings Decentralised Consumer Protection to the Blockchain

Merchant Token was one of the most acclaimed ICO’s in the year 2021. By the end of the ICO, it had raised over 60 million dollars from investors to actualize the project. There was, and still is, the ...

American consumer still healthy, but lower-income shoppers at risk

Pedestrians carry Macy’s shopping bags in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Macy’s says the American consumer is still he...

DraftKings CEO Vows to Make Stock Sellers ‘Regret’ Their Decision

Text size Jason Robins, CEO of DraftKings, vowed to make any seller of the company’s stock “regret that decision.” Marco Bello/Bloomberg DraftKings CEO Jason Robins vowed to make any...

5 Digital Wallets With The Best Consumer Ratings

Mobile and other web-based payments have come a long way in the last few years, but they have a lot of room to run. That’s good news for investors in this rapidly burgeoning fintech sector — and...

Grab Stock Rebounds From Slump After Losses Widened

Text size A Grab Food delivery rider. Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg Shares of Grab Holdings rebounded Friday following a slump after the Singapore-based ride-sharing and food delivery company reported a wide...

Buy Foot Locker Stock. It’s Gotten Hit Hard Enough.

Foot Locker shares have declined but that may be good news for bargain hunters. James Bugg/Bloomberg Text size Here’s a Hail Mary play: Buy Foot Locker after the stock’s recent post-earnings swoon. Fo...

What Does $5 a Gallon Gas Mean for the Average American?

The idea of paying $5 a gallon for gas scares most Americans — at least the ones who don’t live in California, where AAA reports that the price per gallon for gas currently sits at $5.07. ...

Consumer Companies React To Russian Conflict In Ukraine

Getty Images Takeaways Major consumer companies are pulling products and services out of Russia The stances some companies are taking (or not taking) have the potential to rouse investors Investors sh...