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Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

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<ul><li>Consumer discretionary stocks hard hit in recent market action (Figure 1) as economic and policy/tariff uncertainty continue.</li><li>The WTR Commercial/Contract Furniture Index (- 3.7%), Residential Manufacturers &amp; Suppliers Index (-1.2%), and Home Goods Retailers Index (-7.4%) all trailed the broader market indexes last week.</li><li>Consumer spending is trending down across all income levels as recession fears increase (1).</li></ul>

Consumer discretionary stocks hard hit in recent market action (Figure 1) as economic and policy/tariff uncertainty continue.The WTR Commercial/Contract Furniture Index (- 3.7%), Residential Manufacturers &amp; Suppliers Index (-1.2%), and Home Goods Retailers Index (-7.4%) all trailed the broader market indexes last week.Consumer spending is trending down across all income levels as recession fears increase (1).

Furniture/Furnishings Weekly - Consumer Spending Slowdown