Dollar Tree (DLTR) – owner of almost 16,500 Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores – just reported 2Q23 earnings. While the top line was strong with enterprise comps of +6.9%, DLTR’s margins are being pressured by shrink (i.e. theft) and…
The market got the benign January CPI Report this morning at 5:30am EST that it needed with Core CPI increasing 0.295% compared to the previous month according to Nick Timiraos – below the median forecast of 0.34%. But while the…
January 3, 2026 It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes – Jesse Livermore The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at…
NOTE: Every week or two I wrote a Client Note for my clients. I post most but not all of the notes to my blog but with a time delay usually between 1 day and 1 week. To receive the…
“The bullish commentary from Microsoft is helping the market, [as is] Countrywide coming out and saying they’re going to be profitable.” – Robert Pavlik (subscription required), Oaktree Asset Management Markets are up this morning on a strong earnings report from…
A close analysis of earnings reports from five companies over the last two weeks suggests to me that economic growth has peaked. The clearest example of a coming slowdown comes from $10 billion home furnishings retailer Restoration Hardware (RH). On…