by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 28, 2025 | Chart of the Week
If you’ve felt like the market’s been spinning its wheels lately, this week’s featured chart might explain why. It looks at the VIX Index—Wall Street’s so-called “fear gauge”—and shows how the S&P 500 tends to perform over the next six months depending on...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 21, 2025 | Chart of the Week
The market’s off to a bumpy start this year, but beneath the surface, there have been some clear winners and losers. Just take a look at this week’s chart. It’s been a story of gushers for energy and glitches for tech so far. Energy stocks, as represented by...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 14, 2025 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart is, well… it’s a table. It tracks how short- and long-duration bonds have performed whenever the S&P 500 stock index has dropped by 5% or more over the past five years. The table highlights whether long-term bonds...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 7, 2025 | Chart of the Week
It was a wild week for financial markets, with tariff announcements and major policy shifts in Europe keeping investors on edge. These developments fueled significant volatility in stocks. The S&P 500—Wall Street’s go-to benchmark—swung more than 1% in...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 28, 2025 | Chart of the Week
It’s been a golden era for gold—but not so much for gold miners. This week’s chart shows how gold prices have skyrocketed over the past three decades, while mining stocks have lagged far behind. Since 1993, gold has soared more than eightfold, while the index...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 21, 2025 | Chart of the Week
This week’s chart is all about earnings—expectations versus reality, to be exact. Each green bar represents the market’s forecast for S&P 500 year-over-year EPS (Earnings Per Share) growth, while each gold dot shows what actually happened. As you can see,...
