Discounted Cash Flows
With many areas of the financial markets under pressure recently, James Nelson joins the Local 4 news team to explain what trends he is seeing and what we should be considering when it comes to our investments.
Indicator Insights: High Quality/Low Quality Index
This week’s featured indicator focuses on the High Quality/Low Quality Index. This is what we call a “relative strength” indicator because it takes the performance of one stock index and divides it by another to get a relative strength line. When the line is...
Passing the Baton
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market had a lively week that ended with the Nasdaq declining 2.06% but the Dow and S&P 500 gaining 1.82% and 0.81%, respectively. The divergence between growth and value stocks was particularly notable. Growth stocks fell about...
Chart of the Week: Widespread Shortages
The latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business revealed that economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew again in February, its ninth consecutive month of growth. Demand for manufactured goods has remained high since the reopening of the economy first...
Indicator Insights: Momentum Reversals
Imagine you throw a ball into the air. What happens? The ball keeps rising for a while—due to its momentum—and then it tumbles back to earth as gravity takes over. This is the basic concept of this week’s featured indicator: Momentum Reversals. Momentum is...
Financial Focus – March 3rd, 2021
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as Nate Kreinbrink and James Nelson talk about the importance of addressing all aspects of personal finances when planning for retirement. Of particular interest is the discussion on areas that don’t get as much attention as they should: required minimum distributions and changes to Medicare premiums.
When You Owe the Bank a Trillion Dollars
It seems pretty common now for us to return to the topic of the frothiness we are seeing in financial markets. John Nelson joins the Local 4 news team for an update on where things stand today.
Punitive Rates
OVERVIEW The major U.S. stock indices fell for the second week in a row last week. The S&P 500 dropped 2.45%, the Dow fell 1.78%, and Nasdaq got slapped with a 4.92% decline. Foreign stocks suffered declines as well. Developed country stocks dropped...
Chart of the Week: Too Much Flow?
Investors have been buying into stock funds at a frenzied rate lately. As our chart of the week above shows, the 50-day average of daily inflows into U.S. stock funds has hovered above $2 billion a day for over two months now. About a month ago, that number...
Indicator Insights: Consumer Comfort
Confidence is key when it comes to investing. However, like a skier who has leaned too far out over her skis, confidence can backfire when it becomes excessive. When everyone is overly optimistic at the same time, trades become crowded, and returns tend to...
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