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S&P Dow Jones Indices will drop Nike and Simon Property Group from the S&P 100 on September 21, 2026, replacing them with four information technology names. Nike’s market value has fallen about 78% from its 2021 peak, while Simon is leaving the index despite raising its full-year guidance.
Bain & Company forecasts US November to December retail sales above $1 trillion for the first time, up 4.5% year over year. More than half of that growth is inflation, and online sales are set to grow 9% against 2.5% in stores.
Casey’s General Stores releases first quarter fiscal 2027 results after the close on September 8, with consensus near $6.58 per share on about $5.65bn of revenue. The fuel margin line, not the headline EPS, will decide how the quarter reads.
GameStop releases full second quarter fiscal 2026 results on September 8, a week after pre-releasing sales of $780m to $800m and net income of $290m to $310m. Roughly $238m of that profit came from its 9.8% eBay stake, not from its stores.
The Justice Department has expanded its beef antitrust investigation from meatpackers to eight of the largest US grocery retailers, seeking pricing, cost and margin data covering 2020 to 2026. No retailer has been accused of wrongdoing.
Chewy reports fiscal second quarter 2026 results before the open on Wednesday, September 9, guiding to $3.30bn to $3.33bn in net sales and about $0.36 in adjusted EPS. The print is the first full test of the outlook the company trimmed in June as pet demand cooled.
The FTC pushed the comment deadline on its proposed personalized pricing enforcement policy statement to September 25, 2026, seven days later than planned. The proposal would require retailers to disclose when a price is individualized, why, and what data feeds it.
Ulta Beauty is facing an organized boycott campaign over Flock Safety license plate reader cameras installed in the parking lots of a small number of its stores. Amazon cancelled a planned Ring integration with the same vendor in February 2026 after a similar backlash.
Nuvei will pay $4.85 million to settle FTC charges that it opened and kept merchant accounts for schemes it knew were defrauding consumers, including more than $30 million processed for the Reimage tech support scam. The accompanying commissioner statement sets a knowledge requirement for payment processor liability for the first time.
Four US retail earnings reports in ten days of August 2026 booked a tariff refund and immediately named fuel and energy as the offset. The pattern suggests energy displaces tariffs as the quantified cost headwind in Q3 guidance issued November 17 to December 4, 2026.