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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 5, 2014) - Vista Partners ("Vista") published its FREE Macroeconomic & Investment Monthly Newsletter for the month of August. Each monthly newsletter from Vista contains macroeconomic thoughts from Principal Analyst Ross Silver, investment considerations, monthly highlights of each covered company and other broad based commentary.

In the August 2014 Macroeconomic & Investment Newsletter, Mr. Silver states, "As reported by numerous media outlets, the $675 billion rise in nominal GDP in the past year, a whopping 52%, or over half, is due to nothing else but inventory hoarding. Retailers seem to be making a big bet that consumers will show up and I think they will be right. The SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSE: XRT) which had been ripping since February and hit a 52-week high in the beginning of July, gave back around 5.5% of those gains by the end of July. This 'correction' of the XRT seems to tell me..." To read more, please download the FREE August 2014 Macroeconomic & Investment Newsletter available at http://www.vistapglobal.com and click "Download Newsletters" to