Thursday, November 30, 2006

Retail Sales Roundup

The market has shaken off early weakness, and now is trading back in positive territory. Oil is hovering at $63, and the 10-year is at 4.47%. Measures of investor anxiety are only at average levels so far today.

In terms of some of the individual retail sales reports, here is a quick rundown:
  • GES (+12.1% vs. +6.7% consensus)
  • TGT (+5.9% vs. +5.7%)
  • ZUMZ (+12.1% vs. +7.3%)
  • ANF (-3.0% vs. +3.4%)
  • ARO (+1.0% vs. +2.0%)
  • AEOS (+14.0% vs. +15.0%)
  • BEBE (+5.6% vs. +8.6%)
  • CHS (-0.4% vs. +0.4%)
  • CTRN (+1.8% vs. +2.5%)
  • COST (+5.0% vs. +5.6%)
  • KSS (+3.7% vs. +5.0%)
  • JWN (+5.4% vs. +6.3%)

long CHS

2 Comments:

At 7:25 AM, Blogger Untiedshu said...

For what it's worth, Macke over at Minyanville has a good retail roundup there, too.

http://www.minyanville.com/articles/index.php?a=11698

 
At 8:53 AM, Blogger J. Kahn said...

Yes, Kevin. I am friendly with Jeff. I agree with you, he does a very good job.

 

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