Mortar retailers led the market today. Even though it marked time awaiting tomorrows job market. Indeed rising 2. 5 . Despite the churning and fl flopping, the stocks of so many household retailers, kohls, macys, nordstrom, target,elle bra brands, bed, bath and beyond and costco all soared. While amazons winning streak finally came to an end with the stock, up 20 for the year, down 11 bucks today. What happened . Are people suddenly going back to the mall . Are people saying, i want to try things on . Today was a relief rally and numbers came down too far too fast and numbers werent quite as bad as people had feared. Definitely not good numbers but when youre as negative as most Portfolio Managers have been on retail it doesnt take much to get it raising. Consider when smokey the bear suggesting a few burning embers left over from a campfire could burn down the whole forest. Today, we had a forest fire in retail. In the last few weeks we had pretty horrendous retail stories out there i