A streak of sales declines. Price cuts led to more Customer Traffic in its shops. The Picture Wasnt so rosy at macys. The Department Store Chain reported another quarter of shrinking sales. Meanwhile, the owner of Tj Maxx posted another quarter of Sales Growth and raised its Profit Forecast for the year. To help make sense of it all, im joined by ryan dykmans, the chief Investment Officer of dunham associates investment counsel. Thank you forjoining us. What do these results tell us about us shoppers and their spending . Sure, so, the way we see the sales is that the consumer has been pretty resilient, despite Wage Growth barely keeping up with inflation, at best. We have seen the Consumer Spending and that has really kept the economy afloat for the most part. These sales we are seeing now, some of it is from discounting, we are seeing some of those improvements because the retailers have adapted and found ways to sell to these consumers who have been constrained and hopefully that is
rather than the roads. yorkshire are investigating a new racism allegation this time from a former academy cricketer. it comes after their new chairman said azeem rafiq should be praised for being a whistleblower on discrimination. this is poppies, an artwork that captured the nation back in 2014. i ll start to the day and a mild day generally. we have cloud and rain moving across england and wales and wales and showers in scotland and northern ireland with sunshine in between and wherever you are, it will be breezy. good morning. a man who was injured caving in the brecon beacons has been rescued after being trapped underground for two days. he is said to be in good spirits after 250 worked in shifts to bring him to safety. 0ur correspondence sent this report. mission accomplished. after more than two days of painstaking, exhausting work, relief all round. together, these volunteers carried the casualty through an underground assault course of boulders, streams and ledges,
derailment have been prevented? if so, how? the answer to that question will eventually come from the ntsb, which is currently investigating the crash, but we can and should take a look at the conditions of rail freight across this country and the allegations that across the industry safety is being sacrificed for profit. we spoke with one 40-plus year veteran railroader and certified accident investigator who told us what happened in east palestine was the logical outcome of precision schedules railroading. and that without change it will happen again. we re going to explain what that means in a moment with greg reagan, the president of the transportation trades department of aflcio. it s important to understand the operating conditions because the crash itself is becoming a political football. donald trump is touring the derailment site, and the mayor of east palestine who told us on this show the other day that he didn t want president biden to visit because the security d
it comes after easyjet announced plans to cut more flights over summer. a setback for french president emmanuel macron as he loses his majority in parliament after elections over the weekend. a report into grooming and child sexual exploitation in oldham between 2011 and 2014 finds there were serious failings in the handling of some cases by the council and police. in sport, a first major trophy for england s matt fitzpatrick who s won the us open. and.up close and personal we have a special report from uganda on a successful conservation effort to increase the number of mountain gorillas he so close to us. whenever closest relatives on earth. one of our. wow! still no sign of a deal to avoid a strike. so, today, network rail has set out a plan for the limited number ido i do think it is important that we send out a message early this week that industrial action is likely to proceed and therefore people should take sensible preparations now because there is no point in g
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