Maybe a bit of a canary in the coal mine with Walmart missing pretty bad on earnings despite beating on revenue. More people are shopping at Walmart but margins are shrinking as costs go up. People are also buying more store branded products with lower margins.
Yeah apparently much of todays sell off is tied to bad retail earnings reports. That couldn't have been a surprise higher prices, no stimulus money seemed pretty likely people would do less discretionary spending but I guess they are bad numbers so far.
People like this drive me nuts sounds great but so far you're always wrong. This is about the Fed speech yesterday.
"I don't think he said anything that caught us off guard ... but let's not forget where we are," Ryan Detrick, LPL Financial Chief Market Strategist,
told Yahoo Finance Live on Tuesday, noting that the S&P 500 has fallen for six consecutive weeks heading into this week. "It hasn't been down seven weeks in a row for 20 years, so we're awfully oversold here. Then you come in today and you've got industrial production pretty solid, you've got retail sales pretty solid. Things aren't perfect, but we just think so much of the negativity that is priced in ... it's just a little overboard for us, and we think this could very well be an opportunity for some of the longer-term investors here."