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Retail sales exceed forecasts, underscoring solid 2024 economic growth

CFO Dive

Recent signs of vitality have prompted some economists to mark up growth forecasts, despite weakness in manufacturing and a hiring slowdown early in the summer.

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Retail sales exceed forecasts, highlighting steady consumer-fueled growth

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Robust retail sales defy predictions that trends such as declining savings and a cooling labor market will inhibit consumer spending.

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Warehouse robot forecast lowered as retail correction persists

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While growing at a slower pace, global mobile robot sales are still projected to reach $5.5 billion in 2024 and rise more than 20% annually up to 2030.

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Grinch: Ignore Black Friday Retail Forecasts

Barry Ritholtz

It’s Black Friday and you know what that means: Lots of promotional sales and lots of holiday retail spending forecasts. As we have seen historically , holiday sales forecasts tend to be a reflection of people’s mood at the moment — not an actual measure of intended holiday spending. billion and $960.4

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Consumers, inflation give hopeful Halloween retailers a dose of the scaries

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Total Halloween spending is forecast to hit $12.2 billion this year, but rising wage and sugar costs are cutting into profits.

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Retail Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft”

Barry Ritholtz

billion in retail inventory losses in 2021 was not “attributable to organized retail crime.” That line is just another in a long series of falsehoods put forth by the professional b *s at the National Retail Federation. This costs retailers anywhere between $15-20 billion annually in the US. No, “ nearly half ” of $94.5

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Goldman Sachs Forecasts Acceleration In eCommerce Sales

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Goldman Sachs has predicted that online shopping will expand by 19 percent each year during the next three years to come, which marks a rise from its past forecast of 16 percent. Goldman Sachs also noted that eCommerce penetration rose to more than 40 percent in May from 16 percent of retail spending domestically in the first quarter of 2019.