Kyle Risdall

PepsiCo, which sells, as you know, both traditional Doritos and the protein-enhanced kind, whatever, bubbled up 4.9%.

Today, our tribal Coca-Cola gained 2.1%.

Cereal and granola bar King General Mills added 1.9%.

Bond prices went up.

When that happens, the yield goes the other way.

10-year T-note stands at 4.27%.

At the moment, you're listening to Marketplace.

This is Marketplace.

I'm Kai Risdahl.

There are some challenges in retail construction right now.

Building costs and borrowing costs are both high.

There are tariffs and the trickle-down effects thereof.

The president's immigration policies are a very particular kind of headwind.

And consumers continue to buy a whole lot of their stuff online.

That is not to say, though, that there aren't some bright spots.

And a lot of them are to be found in Texas, which is seeing some significant brick-and-mortar construction, as Marketplace's Elizabeth Trovo tells us.

You've got a Target, an Academy, Ross, Burlington, you know, in a row with some kind of smaller shop retail and pads up closer to the road.

Live music is kind of having a moment.

149 shows for Taylor Swift on the Heiress Tour.

86 for Beyonce the past couple of years.