
Retail sales jumped 1.2% in August despite inflation, spotlighting five retailers with strong online presence and improving earnings estimates.
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Retail sales jumped 1.2% in August despite inflation, spotlighting five retailers with strong online presence and improving earnings estimates.

Dollar Tree's stronger sales, traffic and earnings lift its outlook, but tariff volatility and reinvestment keep margins in focus.

FIVE, DLTR, KSS, TGT and TJX stand out as retail sales rise 1.2% in August despite inflation and higher rates.

TJX trades below its industry valuation as solid comps, store expansion and earnings revisions offset rising costs and tariff risks.

Stock markets rebound ahead of the CPI inflation report, diesel prices soar, and more news to start your day.

Gap reports earnings Thursday after disappointing results sent its stock tumbling, but lowered expectations could give the retailer an opportunity to turn things around.

Kohl's posted a blowout earnings beat and raised its full-year outlook, yet shares are cratering while rivals Ross and TJX barely flinch. The reason buried inside the margin numbers may explain why investors are refusing to celebrate.

Walmart set a somber tone for the first week of retailer earnings, but that wasn’t the whole story. The big news was Walmart’s sales woes as the Bentonville, Ark.-based giant reported a same-store sales decline—the first since 2020. Target meanwhile, showed some signs of life, reflecting its turnaround efforts.

Today Federal Reserve: FOMC minutes from Fed’s July meeting Earnings (a.m.): Target, Lowe's, TJX, Analog Devices, Estee Lauder Economic data: EIA weekly petroleum status report, CPI (UK), PPI (UK) Tomorrow Earnings: Walmart, Alibaba, Deere & Co.
Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton previews several of the biggest stories to come tomorrow, Wednesday, August 19, including earnings from major retailers TJX (TJX), Lowe's (LOW), and Target (TGT), alongside the minutes from the Federal Reserve's most recent FOMC meeting.

Today Earnings (a.m.): Home Depot, Baidu Earnings (p.m.) Toll Brothers Economic data: Housing starts for July, pending home sales, import and export price indexes, July industrial production and ...

Monday Economic data: Empire state manufacturing survey (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), NAHB home builder confidence index, Treasury international capital data (U.S.), CPI (Canada). Earnings (p.

Lowe’s, TJX, Alibaba, and Toll Brothers will also report earnings. On the economic front, we’ll see Fed minutes, housing-market data, and readings on manufacturing and services activity.

Markets face a retail-dominated week where Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), TJX Companies (TJX), and Walmart (WMT) report earnings providing critical consumer spending assessment across income segments.
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