Technically Speaking
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, fell back into correction territory (10% off its highs) last week with a -2.88% weekly decline. The Nasdaq fell even harder, declining around 3.5%. And the Dow, which registered its fifth straight...
Unhappy Meal
Our featured chart this week shows that groceries are getting more expensive worldwide, with food costs jumping to a record high last month. The World Bank’s Food Price Index, a measure of global food prices, climbed 5.68% from last month and 21.01% from a year...
Surprise!
A lot of stuff in the financial world has to do with expectations. The stock market, for example, is based on expectations. It’s a forward-looking mechanism. This means that the price of stocks today reflects—among other things—what investors anticipate the...
Financial Focus – March 9th, 2022
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as Nate Kreinbrink and James Nelson discuss the impact of geopolitical events on financial markets as well as the Federal Reserve and interest rates.
Living Longer
The IRS has made a number of changes to their rules recently. David Nelson joins Local 4 News to share which changes are the most interesting and which age group will notice them most.
Mind the (Sentiment) Gap
OVERVIEW Another volatile week left U.S. stocks deeper in negative territory for the year. The S&P 500 fell 1.27%, the Dow dropped 1.3%, and the NASDAQ tumbled 2.78%. Growth stocks declined 2.56%, compared to a 0.45% drop for value stocks. Small-caps fell...
From Ruble to Rubble
For this week’s Chart of the Week, we show the return of the MSCI Russia Index, a broad gauge of the Russian stock market. Due to crippling sanctions from the western world, the Russian stock market is now effectively uninvestable and illiquid. As you can see...
Know Your Options
Let’s say you like a particular stock, and you want to buy a lot of it because you think it’s going to go up in price. But there’s a problem: you don’t have or don’t want to put up all the cash required to buy the shares needed. One solution is you could buy a...
Financial Focus – March 2nd, 2022
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as David Nelson discusses interest rate hike cycles and how different scenarios have varying degrees of impact on the stock market and other risk assets.
Crisis Events
The stock market has shown some volatile moves since Russia’s incursion into Ukraine last week. David Nelson joins Local 4 News to explain how we attempt to gauge the potential for lasting effects on the market from this type of geopolitical event.
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