{"id":33878,"date":"2025-02-20T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/walmart-shares-fall-upon-disappointing-forecast-fueling-us-spending-worries\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:45:12","slug":"walmart-shares-fall-upon-disappointing-forecast-fueling-us-spending-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/walmart-shares-fall-upon-disappointing-forecast-fueling-us-spending-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart shares fall upon disappointing forecast, fueling US spending worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s largest retailer expects inflation-weary consumers to pull back after shares hit record high of $105 last week<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/wal-mart\">Walmart<\/a> on Thursday forecast sales and profit for its latest fiscal year below Wall Street estimates, suggesting that the world\u2019s largest retailer expects inflation-weary consumers to pull back after several quarters of solid growth.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart shares, which had risen about 72% in 2024 and hit a record high of $105 last week, were down 6% in early trading. Shares of its rival retailer Target were down 1.6%, with Amazon 0.9% lower.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/20\/walmart-forecast-shares-spending\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s largest retailer expects inflation-weary consumers to pull back after shares hit record high of $105 last week Walmart on Thursday forecast sales and profit for its latest fiscal year below Wall Street estimates, suggesting that the world\u2019s largest retailer expects inflation-weary consumers to pull back after several quarters of solid growth. Walmart shares, which &#8230; <a title=\"Walmart shares fall upon disappointing forecast, fueling US spending worries\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/walmart-shares-fall-upon-disappointing-forecast-fueling-us-spending-worries\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Walmart shares fall upon disappointing forecast, fueling US spending worries\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}