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Major retailers are making moves ahead of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts

Stocks end higher Friday and Wall Street closes the week on an up note.

Once-popular retail apparel brand will dispose of its remaining U.S. subsidiaries.

The retail store chain targets luxury apparel market with a new partner.

The bond market is keying on today's PCE inflation reading, while stock volatility has spiked amid market jitters tied to inflation risks.

The Russell Mid-Cap Index has gained 6.3% year to date.

The trendy shop's website has been down for 24 hours.

The brand is known mostly for its specific clothing but wants to reinvent itself as customers move away from what was once its bread and butter.

Taming inflation comes with a cost, and investors may start paying it sooner than they think.

Gap and its brands are likely to see slowing sales over the holiday period, but with improving profit margins thanks to lower input costs and few product markdowns.

Stocks are on pace for their third consecutive weekly gain, the longest since July, amid a retreat in Treasury yields and slumping oil prices.

It could be an excellent time to buy this retail stock and sell this financial services stock.

Gap and Nordstrom will post second-quarter earnings after the close of trading.

Markets will focus on two potentially game-changing events: Nvidia preps its earnings report for Wednesday and Fed Chair Powell speaks at the Jackson Hole summit on Friday.

Stocks look set to start the week as they ended on Friday: focused on Fed rate risks and China's weakening post-Covid recovery.

Old Navy is changing an important customer policy to be more like Target.

The retailer is doing little to exploit its connection to the hotly anticipated summer movie 'Barbie'.

However, the promotion does little to drive people to Old Navy stores.

Instead of punishing customers for returning items, the online apparel retailer offered an incentive for them to keep the merchandise they bought.

Let's look at this retail giant as we head into the holidays.

Fear & Greed gets extreme, along with some sentiment indicators. But we're not yet at the point where stocks are overbought. Maybe we'll get there this week. Plus, IWM, TLT, ANF, GAP, GNRC, GOOGL, MBLY, and CTRA.

While we enjoy the move and its impact on the Portfolio, we see some warning signs.

The question becomes where to buy it. Let's check.

Are portfolio managers unsure of themselves right now? I think a lot of them probably are.

Bags are where the dollars are and as investors that is where we want to put our attention.

Technician Bob Lang sees positive seasonality -- including for small caps -- and a nice close to the year. Let's see what he thinks about the start to 2024, with this week's podcast.

Will we see a bigger move higher or is this a temporary surge that's going to be retraced?

Without provocation of a recessionary economic environment, the Fed might resist pressure to cut short-term rates until well into the second half of next year. Maybe longer than that.

The timing of the report also gives us a yardstick by which to measure the array of retailers reporting this week.

The market will then face the Fed's next policy decision and their updated comments.

With Apple use the stock's 'thin green line' as a guide.

Target's results and comments from Tesla's Elon Musk suggest that consumer discretionary spending is coming under pressure.

The big employment report is landing Friday, but before that arrives, we've got plenty of quarterly reports to keep us busy. Let's dig in.

This could be the right time for value investors to put select retail names on their Christmas shopping list.

Amid the choppy week, the portfolio moved quickly to start a position in Arhaus Inc., sell some Transocean Ltd. and dump some bullpen names.

Here's why we're ringing the register on one holding and throwing out a bullpen name.

We're adding to this new holding and have updates on another stock and a bullpen name.

The big kids have been far more active in rallies. Selloffs have more than likely been composed more of traders taking profits, while those big kids have sat on their hands.

The distressed retail chain files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, facing macroeconomic headwinds.

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