10 big problems facing big consumer company stocks: Chart

Packaged goods companies are staring into the abyss of big challenges. "We believe intensifying headwinds and emerging challenges have been building for some time to undermine historical assumptions underpinning the US consumer packaged goods investment case," warned Deutsche Bank analyst Steve Powers in a new note on Monday. "Some of these dynamics may ultimately prove fleeting, temporary, or more cyclical in nature (e.g., macroeconomic or geopolitically derived factors). However, others (e.g, demogra ...