The Mall Meltdown Continues
Retailers’ earnings season has gone from bad to worse. The bleeding
intensified last week, with shares of
Abercrombie & Fitch plummeting 26% on Wednesday, the biggest percentage decline since the company went public.
PVH Corp., owner of brands including Van Heusen, Tommy Hilfilger, and Calvin Klein, dropped 10% that day, too. On Thursday, women’s wear chain
J.Jill was down a jaw-dropping 53% and on Friday,
Gap Inc. slid 9%.
Definitely bad news for the economy. If Trump wants to run on the economy to get reelected he might want to pass over this bit of bad news.
For Abercrombie and Fitch to plummet 26% is unprecedented.
Trump's band of thieves is also hard at work on Wall Street "deregulation" as the Foreclosure King regularly demonstrates:
"Prudential Financial Traded as a Clone to the Big Wall Street Banks from October to December of Last Year. Prudential, green line, versus Citi, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.
"By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 3, 2019 ~
"U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (a/k/a the former foreclosure king) has been attempting to dismantle regulatory restraints on Wall Street’s worst instincts since he took office.
"Making Mnuchin even more dangerous is the fact that, under statute, he simultaneously sits as head of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC) even as he appears to be attempting to undermine financial stability in the U.S.
"One of Mnuchin’s most alarming actions on behalf of F-SOC came last
October 17 when the
Council announced that it was removing the designation of Prudential Financial as a SIFI – a Systemically Important Financial Institution that required enhanced supervision and prudential standards.
"Mnuchin stated at the time: “The Council’s decision today follows extensive engagement with the company and a detailed analysis showing that there is not a significant risk that the company could pose a threat to financial stability.”
"The chart above shows what happened to Prudential from the date of Mnuchin’s statement to the end of 2018.
"Its stock started sinking like a rock in a pattern that was so close to the trading pattern of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank that they could have been clones of one another.
"What does Prudential have in common with those three banks?
"Like them, it’s a major derivatives counterparty and on the hook for billions of dollars if derivatives blow up Wall Street again as they did in 2008."
Mnuchin’s Dangerous Plan to Deregulate Wall Street Is Captured in this Chart