Financial Focus – March 1st, 2023
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as David Nelson discusses the state of the U.S. consumer, the Fed, and how to think about stock market volatility.
Improvement
It’s time for 4 Your Money! David Nelson joins Local 4 News to talk about rising CEO confidence and its implications for the economy and financial markets.
Trying to Trend
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market fell again last week, marking its third consecutive week of losses. The S&P 500 dropped 2.67%, the Dow dipped 2.99%, and the Nasdaq declined 3.33%. Foreign stocks didn’t fare much better, with developed country stocks...
Cheerful CEOs
It’s well-known that people like to spend money when they’re happy. Well, as our featured chart this week shows, that’s true for CEOs too. On the bottom half of the chart above, we have the CEO Confidence Index, which measures how optimistic America’s CEOs are...
Yearning for Earnings
When we think about what drives stock market returns, earnings come to mind. This makes sense. The stock market is comprised of businesses, and the goal of those businesses is to make money—or earnings. On a stock exchange, buyers and sellers come together to...
Financial Focus – February 22nd, 2023
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as Nate Kreinbrink discusses the current state of the economy and why it’s important to be proactive with your retirement planning.
Recession Forecast
It’s time for 4 Your Money! David Nelson joins Local 4 News to discuss some of the factors that are pushing back the recession forecast.
Leaky Liquidity
OVERVIEW U.S. stocks had a mixed but mild week last week. The S&P 500 dropped 0.28%, the Dow declined 0.13%, and the Nasdaq increased about 0.6%. Growth stocks saw positive gains, to the tune of about 0.3%, whereas value stocks dipped around 0.16%. Small...
Good IDEA
The U.S. Census Bureau unveiled a new data product called the Index of Economic Activity (IDEA) this month. The IDEA is a monthly composite of 15 economic data series produced by the Census Bureau. It measures economic activity in various sectors ranging from...
Surprisingly Good
We’ve received some good news about the state of the economy recently. For example, the nonfarm payrolls report for January revealed that the U.S. economy added 517,000 net new jobs last month. This was way higher than the expected 185,000 jobs. And on top of...
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