Sales were robust last month. According to the latest government data, consumers spent more in april than expected and thats important because Consumer Spending is responsible for about twothirds of economic output. But it flies in the face of everything that weve heard this week from some of the nations biggest retailers who are struggling to attract shoppers and grow revenue. Jcpenney was the latest to report an unexpected sales drop and cut its gross margin guidance for the year. Steve liesman looks at the possible reasons behind the disc. Reporter a Strong National retail says report for april gave a major boost to the idea that the u. S. Economys in the early stages of a rebound from that weak first quarter. Retail sales grew 1. 3 , beating estimates in auto sales and furniture. Economists looking for 2. 5 Overall Economic growth in the second quarter. But the number raised a troubling question. Why have retail earnings been so lousy . Nordstroms had comparable sales fall 17 , koh
Sales were robust last month. According to the latest government data, consumers spent more in april than expected and thats important because Consumer Spending is responsible for about twothirds of economic output. But it flies in the face of everything that weve heard this week from some of the nations biggest retailers who are struggling to attract shoppers and grow revenue. Jcpenney was the latest to report an unexpected sales drop and cut its gross margin guidance for the year. Steve liesman looks at the possible reasons behind the disc. Reporter a Strong National retail says report for april gave a major boost to the idea that the u. S. Economys in the early stages of a rebound from that weak first quarter. Retail sales grew 1. 3 , beating estimates in auto sales and furniture. Economists looking for 2. 5 Overall Economic growth in the second quarter. But the number raised a troubling question. Why have retail earnings been so lousy . Nordstroms had comparable sales fall 17 , koh
According to the latest government data, consumers spent more in april than expected and thats important because Consumer Spending is responsible for about twothirds of economic output. But it flies in the face of everything that weve heard this week from some of the nations biggest retailers who are struggling to attract shoppers and grow revenue. Jcpenney was the latest to report an unexpected sales drop and cut its gross margin guidance for the year. Steve liesman looks at the possible reasons behind the disc. Reporter a Strong National retail says report for april gave a major boost to the idea that the u. S. Economys in the early stages of a rebound from that weak first quarter. Retail sales grew 1. 3 , beating estimates in auto sales and furniture. Economists looking for 2. 5 Overall Economic growth in the second quarter. But the number raised a troubling question. Why have retail earnings been so lousy . Nordstroms had comparable sales fall 17 , kohls saw them to 4 for the quart
These are foreseeable problems and they have not done what it takes to prepare for these breakdown so we can get those trains back on track. A growing number of elected east bay officials have begun raising questions since the 20 2013 strike. Bart is experiencing record ridership, that means record revenue. What is the money go . Reporter mary says you can only maintain the tracks, and cars for so long, eventually you need to replace them or they will start breaking down we are on to the everyday maintenance. We just dont have the big Capital Needs fulfilled. The problem with bart is that they are expanding at a time they cannot even take care of the basic systems today. Reporter is a sensitive sensitive issue with bart, in part, in San Francisco, alameda and contra costa counties to pass a 3. 5 billion bond to fix up the aging system. That means raising taxes. Is giving us false choices. I think that we are spending money, and it shows in a lot of the trains that are running all the t
Degree. The real question is, why . Is black friday dead as an entity in the Holiday Shopping season . Well get into that and more. We did all those stories leading up to black friday suggesting that it was losing its cache. In fact, that its goneful left the building just like elvis and hearing from tony hsieh. Now starting to open up brick and Mortar Stores in vegas and a popup store open 24 7. Almost a showroom. Perhaps a glimpse into the future of retail and where hell be coming to us from and a realtime view on zappos sales there and online. We are getting indications cyber monday is strong. Not just zappos but among other online retailers, sales very, very good today. Now about oil. You think its going to be lower because of opec. Speaking of black friday. Its going the other direction today. What a bounce up more than 4 on wti crude. Posting the best oneday gain in two years. Was that the bottom we had over the weekend . One top Oil Executive thinks it may have been and hell be