Financial Focus – February 24th, 2021
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus where Nate Kreinbrink and James Nelson discuss Social Security with a focus on the nuances involved when claiming spousal benefits.
Up, Up, and Away
We’ve seen a lot of prices going up recently: real estate, building materials, financial assets. James Nelson joins the 4 Your Money news team to let us know if we should be worried that inflation could get out of hand.
Small Goes Big
OVERVIEW The major U.S. stock indices were mixed last week, with the S&P 500 falling 0.71%, the Nasdaq declining 1.57%, and the Dow gaining 0.11%. Large-cap and growth stocks led the declines lower, falling about 1.13% and 1.7%, respectively. Small-cap...
Chart of the Week: Oil’s Round Trip
This past year has been a wild ride for crude oil prices. At the start of 2020, oil was hovering around $60 per barrel. But then the pandemic hit, and oil demand plummeted as people stayed home and traveled less. At one point in late April, oil prices...
Indicator Insights: Global Stock Participation
This week’s featured indicator looks at global stock participation. We tend to focus heavily on U.S. stocks a lot of the time. But if the rest of the world is bullish on stocks, it means risk appetites, in general, are high. This tends to be a good...
Financial Focus – February 17th, 2021
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as Nate Kreinbrink and Andy Fergurson of NelsonCorp Tax Solutions discuss the 2021 tax filing season and what people should be doing to ensure things go smoothly.
How Low Can You Go
The Federal Reserve played a big role in the financial markets in 2020 since the markets certainly needed help at the start of the pandemic crisis. Bradley Fritz joins Local 4 News to discuss whether or not they have gone too far with their policies.
Ending on a High Note
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market had another strong outing last week, with the S&P 500 Index rising 1.23%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining 1%, and the Nasdaq Composite rising 1.73%. The most significant gains were centered around small-cap stocks,...
Chart of the Week: Appetite for Junk
This week we look at the high-yield, or junk, bond market in the United States. This market is where companies with poor credit ratings (below the investment-grade threshold of BBB-) go to borrow money. With cash deposits near zero, and less-risky bonds...
Indicator Insights: Unit Labor Costs
This week’s featured indicator looks at nonfarm unit labor costs. Unit labor costs measure how much a business pays its workers to produce one unit of output. To find it, we take the total compensation of workers, including wages and benefits (such as health...
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