Foot Locker is an athletic shoe, apparel, equipment and accessories retailer with about 2,500 stores in about 26 countries and about 200 franchised locations in the Middle East. The company is headquartered in New York and employs more than 40,000 people.

Markets are having trouble making up their minds which way to go this morning. It's a data-packed week though a short trading one. Powell is speaking in Europe tomorrow. The minutes of the last Fed meeting - the one with the dot plot indicating one rate cut this year - is due on Wednesday. As is the U.S. Trade Deficit. Thursday - Happy 4th! Markets are closed. And then on Friday, the always heavily-anticipated Jobs report is due. No summer doldrums here.

Stocks are up at midday trading on Monday following a volatile week. The 10-year Treasury yields are the highest since November on the heels of strong retail sales data. U.S. retail sales were above expectations, rising 0.7% in March. This follows an upwardly revised 0.9% increase in February. Sales excluding automobiles were up 1.1%, and excluding gasoline were up 0.6%. Among the advancing sales categories were gasoline stations (+2.1%), general merchandise (+1.1%) and building material & garden stores (+0.7%). Among the declining sales categories were sporting goods, hobby, music & bookstores (-1.8%), clothing (-1.6%) and electronic & appliances (-1.2%).The Dow was up 0.5%, while the S&P 500 gained 0.4% and the Nasdaq rose 0.1%. Crude oil is trading near above $84 per barrel and gold fell $6 to $2368 per ounce.

Foot Locker is an athletic shoe, apparel, equipment and accessories retailer with about 2,500 stores in about 26 countries and about 200 franchised locations in the Middle East. The company is headquartered in New York and employs more than 40,000 people.