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He noted that there were signs of inflation in core goods, like furniture and apparel — areas hit by tariffs.

Parsing the pieces of the report, John Ryding, Brean Capital’s chief economic adviser, points to tariff pressures pushing up apparel and footwear and household equipment prices.

With most major kids movies, the owner of the intellectual property will sign hundreds of licensing deals well in advance with toy manufacturers, packaged food companies, fast-food chains, apparel makers and, yes, Halloween costume manufacturers.

The footwear and apparel company also provided guidance for the fiscal year, forecasting for sales growth after withholding its outlook over macroeconomic uncertainty.

The athletic apparel maker expects its gross margin for its fiscal year ending in May to decline by 1.2 percentage points, worse than its previously estimated drop of 0.75 percentage points.