In the Margins

Home Depot earnings boost retail, consumer ETFs

February 23, 2016

By The Wall Street Journal

A strong earnings report from Home Depot and another jump in housing prices are strengthening retail and consumer exchange-traded funds. Home Depot accounts for 8.3% of the market-cap weighted Market Vectors Retail ETF as well as in consumer-discretionary sector funds such as the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDRRead the original story from The Wall Street Journal

 

 

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