Earnings Watch: Walmart reports this week. Its ‘resilience’ will be tested amid signs of consumer slowdown, analyst says
Over the past week, we saw more evidence of a tired consumer: Evidence that people were spending less at amusement parks and holding off on booking vacation trips further out, along with signs that investors were getting cranky over the U.S. job market and the Federal Reserve’s response, although others downplayed that fit of selling in stocks.