{"id":7330,"date":"2014-01-21T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:25:47","slug":"the-warnings-from-the-retail-space-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=7330","title":{"rendered":"The Warnings from the Retail Space Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is a follow up to last week&#8217;s post where I wondered out loud if the declining retail group was a &#8220;canary in a coal mine.&#8221; Here are more stocks from the group that support my claim that something may be going on with the consumer. A few stocks are doing well (AMZN, M), but most are struggling and some are in very bad shape.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>BBY<\/strong> &#8211; one of last year&#8217;s big winners got clobbered last week. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/bby012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>BONT<\/strong> &#8211; has fallen almost 50% in the last month. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/bont012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>DG<\/strong> &#8211; broke out and then gave it all back.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/dg012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>DLTR<\/strong> &#8211; broke down in November, formed a bear rectangle, broke down again. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/dltr012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>GNC<\/strong> &#8211; no trendlines here&#8230;just a stock which has been falling for two months and is almost 20% off its high. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/gnc012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>HGG<\/strong> &#8211; the stock tripled in 2013 but has since dropped 50%. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/hgg012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>KR<\/strong> &#8211; broke down last week. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/kr012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>KSS<\/strong> &#8211; broke support and is now at a 3-month low. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/kss012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>PIR<\/strong> &#8211; took a big dump.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/pir012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>RH<\/strong> &#8211; doubled in 2013 but has since given half the gains back. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/rh012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>RSH<\/strong> &#8211; they&#8217;re still in business?<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/rsh012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>SHLD<\/strong> &#8211; is manic depressant. Big moves up, big moves down&#8230;currently near a 2-year low. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/shld012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>TFM<\/strong> &#8211; it&#8217;s following Whole Foods down.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/tfm012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>TGT<\/strong> &#8211; their credit card problems are covering up the fact that the stock has been struggle for a while.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/tgt012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>TJX<\/strong> &#8211; new high got sold into&#8230;now it&#8217;s made a lower low. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/tjx012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>WMT<\/strong> &#8211; lower high, lower low.<\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/wmt012114.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It&#8217;s one thing when a specialty retailer struggles. It&#8217;s nother when Wal-Mart, Target, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Kohl&#8217;s and TJX struggle. If that&#8217;s middle America, they&#8217;re in trouble. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow up to last week&#8217;s post where I wondered out loud if the declining retail group was a &#8220;canary in a coal mine.&#8221; Here are more stocks from the group that support my claim that something may be going on with the consumer. A few stocks are doing well (AMZN, M), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}