$Pistol Pete$, $Mick$ & Friends Stock Picks /news, DD and charts

[mick]

“retail apocalypse” of two-ish years ago?

For a few months in 2017, mainstream financial news websites were littered with photos of abandoned malls and sad stories of retail workers who lost their jobs to e-commerce competitors like Amazon.

The mainstream media has long since moved on from the “retail apocalypse” story, but that doesn’t mean retail stocks are out of the woods. Not by a long shot.

In fact, for many struggling brick-and-mortar stores, the apocalypse never ended. And now that the yield curve is inverted and the U.S.-China trade war is in full swing, some weakened retail stocks are facing a scary question: Can they survive the next recession?

Today, we’re looking at three retail stocks that likely can’t.