Tough Times in Retail

It’s not just Bed Bath & Beyond. The entire retail sector has been hurting (Target, JC Penney, Best Buy, etc). The Retail ETF ($XRT) has trailed the market for eight of the last nine days. Check out the XRT’s relative strength.

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Many of the big retailers have quarters that end in January so it will be interesting to see how they report in February.

Posted by on January 16th, 2014 at 11:49 am


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