These retailers and take a huge chunk out of their earnings because we havent seen this since 2013 that we had 6 plus days and 2013 was one of the worst years for retailers securities a lot of days but lets also be clear about this so the american retailers theyre obviously going to take the hit them from what youre saying based on christmas so they really have to make one of 2 choices right choice number one is you have to raise the price on those items so that the consumers have to carry that cost or as a retailer you dont want to anger the consumers so you simply eat the cost yourself. With what theyre left with or both actually because they have to rely on both aspects in order to make their margins work and right now all the Amazon Sellers have been feeling this and 72 percent of them have actually increased the price of their goods furthermore the latest market surveys show that while 60 percent of American Consumers say that they are worried about terrorists when asked about the
Worth of chinese goods those tariffs in theory would take effect on december 15th and yes they would hit video game consoles computer monitors Christmas Decorations all the stuff you care about plus thousands of other items so lets talk about this for a 2nd because kristie if december 15th ok is when these tariffs take effect and when the big question for a lot of people is isnt that too late to really affect christmas were talking about black friday has already passed by then cyber monday is already passed by then. With this kind of squeeze in everything for christmas or we still get hit by this you actually start to hit by because while got a lot of shopping does take place during black friday and cyber monday now increasingly more as more sales go online 30 percent of annual sales actually take place between black friday and christmas and almost over half of the shoppers dont even finish their Christmas Shopping until late in december so this will actually be a huge chunk out of the
Largest taxpayer investment with the backbone of us and ally fifth generation inventory for the foreseeable future. The joint Program Office are laser focus to drive cost ou out, quality up and achieving timely deliveries to our war fighters. With respect to ontime deliver delivery, we exceeded the total aircraft quantity we delivered to the war fighter last year and have 96 percent ontime delivery rate. A tremendous improvement for one from where we were last year with an average ontime delivery rate of 64 percent. While we made progress there is significant opportunities for improvement and we continue to communicate specific concerns to lockheed based on the data we collect. The 34 billiondollar agreement f 35 production includes the delivery of 478 f 35 aircraft 149 lot 12160 lot 13169 lot 14 in support of Us Military Services our partner nations and sales customers this represents our continued commitment to reduce the f 35 cost to deliver advanced capabilities to our war fighters
Not only suggesting another election date. The stoxx 600 down just over. 10 lets dive into some of these sectors as it plays out on the boards technology right at the bottom apple comes out today. We saw some caution on wall street and the sector. Some of those big supplier stocks caution on trade investors are waiting on details. Industrials towards the bottom of the boards. The light ups of some of those big names. Retail stocks trade lower. Household goods, media and Construction Chemicals are in the mix too banks, very important basket today. Going through the numbers of that Deutsche Bank at the bottom. Mixed reaction to those numbers. Utilities. Telco trading higher auto is significant basket today too with the likes of volkswagen that stock surging 7 lets go to the volkswagen news. It has cut its numbers despite reporting 11. 2 rise thanks to Strong Demand for porsche. Adding to gains. 6 higher for stock now. The group needed to be efficient amid weaker global auto demand you ne
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