CVS to Close 900 Stores, Convert Others from Retail to Services, as Ecommerce Competitors Gobble up Pharmacy Revenues by Wolf Richter • Nov 19, 2021 • 103 Comments Brick & Mortar Meltdown Continues.
Stock Market Leverage Spikes, Margin Debt Up 42% YoY. Fed Warns about High Leverage Ratio of “Younger Retail Investors” by Wolf Richter • Nov 18, 2021 • 165 Comments “Potentially Destabilizing Outcome could emerge if elevated risk appetite among retail investors retreats rapidly.” But what the heck.
How Can an 11-Year Old Company Lose $844 Million on $661 Million in Revenues? WeWork Shows How, Having Lost $13.3 Billion on $10.6 Billion in Revenues in Less Than 4 Years by Wolf Richter • Nov 15, 2021 • 153 Comments It just doesn’t let up with this outfit.
Zillow Comes Unglued, Lost $1.4 Billion on Flipping Houses since 2019, Bails Out, Lays Off 25% of Staff, Stock Plunges Further by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2021 • 146 Comments Another one of the most hyped Wall Street schemes belly-flops.
House Flipper Zillow Seeks to Dump 7,000 Houses to Big Investors after Reports it Overpaid: Buy High, Sell Low, Take “One-Time Noncash Charge?” by Wolf Richter • Nov 1, 2021 • 187 Comments How Zillow helped whip house prices higher and got caught with its pants down (AI = artificial idiocy?).
Employers Forced to Raise Wages by Most in at Least 20 Years: Whole Power Balance Has Changed by Wolf Richter • Oct 29, 2021 • 126 Comments Margin pressures from surging labor costs for the first time in two decades.
Why Walgreens is in Trouble in San Francisco and is Closing Some Stores: It’s Not Shoplifting, that’s an Artful Distraction from the Real Reasons by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2021 • 234 Comments Caught up in the brick-and-mortar meltdown, it faces its own botched decisions and a market that has horribly turned against its pharmacies.
Afterhours Massacre: Intel Plunges 9% for Other Reasons, Snap Collapses 25%, Takes Down Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google by Wolf Richter • Oct 21, 2021 • 167 Comments The Everything Shortage worms into social media and internet advertising. Facebook and Google better walk that back pronto.
What P&G Said about Soaring Costs, Supply Chain Woes, Inflation, and Trying to Keep Shelves Stocked by Wolf Richter • Oct 19, 2021 • 152 Comments Profit fell despite price increases, more price increases coming to a shelf near you. “We do not anticipate any easing of costs.”
Banks Disclose Tidbits of Hidden Stock Market Leverage, as Known Stock Market Leverage Surges by Wolf Richter • Oct 15, 2021 • 115 Comments No one knows total stock market leverage, but it’s huge and ballooning, as we see from the tidbits we’re allowed to see.
