by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 18, 2022 | Chart of the Week
Supply chain stresses are getting better. That’s the message from this week’s featured chart, highlighted above, showing various regional Fed manufacturing indexes of supplier delivery times. Supplier delivery times are one of the most important economic...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 17, 2022 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator uses the Reuters-CRB Continuous Commodity Index (CCI) to measure inflationary pressures and how that affects stock prices. The CCI represents the average price of 17 commodities. It includes many of the major commodities we are...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 14, 2022 | Weekly Market Thoughts
OVERVIEW The best week since June. That’s what the U.S. stock market delivered last week, as investors embraced the prospect of falling inflation and a potential deceleration in the Fed’s rate hike cycle. The S&P 500 Index of large-cap U.S. stocks surged...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 11, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart is the ICE BofA MOVE Index, a well-known measure of U.S. interest rate volatility. Specifically, the MOVE Index calculates future volatility in U.S. Treasury yields implied by prices of one-month options on Treasuries of various...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 10, 2022 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, we feature a chart showing the relative valuation of stock dividends and Treasury bond yields. The idea behind the indicator is that stocks and bonds compete for investor dollars. So by comparing their yields, we can get a sense of...
