Luxury Asset Have Performed Poorly This Year

Luxury Asset Have Performed Poorly This Year

The Q3 premium market earnings have been a bit of a mixed bag as we have been reporting over the past two weeks. To take another cut, let’s look at the year-to-date returns for a wide variety of global asset classes and compare with them with our FSW Markets All...
Introducing the FSW Markets Instagram Shoppability Index

Introducing the FSW Markets Instagram Shoppability Index

The FSW Markets team created an index of Instagram content shoppability with a select range of luxury brands to evaluate which brands use Instagram’s built-in shopping features and functionality. The “mostly shoppable” category is a signal of customer-centric,...
Luxury Among the Worst Performing Sectors this Week

Luxury Among the Worst Performing Sectors this Week

It was a generally turbulent week for global markets with most major indices closing down. The S&P 500 was down 1.4%, the FTSE 100 down 0.9%, and the Nikkei 225 was flat on the week. The CBOE Volatility Index, which many call the market’s “fear gauge” ticked up 12...
Prada Group reports decent earnings, driven by Miu Miu

Prada Group reports decent earnings, driven by Miu Miu

Prada released its Q3 earnings in the mid-afternoon, Central European time, on October 30 and met analyst expectations for continued strong volume growth at Miu Miu. Net revenues in Q3, compared with Q3 2023, were up 18 percent for the Prada Group. The Prada brand...
No Big Surprises in Kering and Hermès’ Q3 Earnings Reports

No Big Surprises in Kering and Hermès’ Q3 Earnings Reports

No trough in sight for Gucci On the heels of the broader slowdown in the luxury sector and clouded Q3 earnings from peers like LVMH and Swatch Group last week, Kering’s disappointing Q3 results were largely anticipated. The group, home to the fashion giant Gucci...