In this clip from The Call @ Hedgeye, Financials analyst Josh Steiner touches on MasterCard, Inc. (MA) holiday spending data while expounding on recent disinflationary shipping updates.

“This period last year (Nov 1-Dec 24) total retail sales were up 2.4%,” explains Steiner. “This year that number is up 8.5%. Pretty good acceleration.”

“Apparel for last year was down -19.1% YoY, this year it’s up 47.3%. Department Stores went from being down -10.2% to being up 21.2%.”

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