The logo of Home Depot in Encinitas, Calif., on April 4, 2016. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Home Depot Inc. on Tuesday cut its annual sales forecast and projected a steeper-than-expected decline in profit, stoking fears about inflation-wary consumers trimming discretionary spending as a big earnings week for U.S. retailers rolls out.
Shares of the largest U.S. home improvement chain, which also blamed a wet start to Spring and falling lumber prices for a first-quarter sales miss, tumbled about 4 percent, while those of smaller rival Lowe’s Cos Inc. dropped nearly 3 percent.
Home improvement retailers have lost their pandemic-era sparkle as Americans cut […]
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