by NelsonCorp | Sep 11, 2026 | Chart of the Week
For the past few years, savers had it easy. Money market funds and short-term Treasury bills paid more than almost anything else in the bond market, and you didn’t have to lock your money up to get it. There was no decision to make. All that has started to...
by NelsonCorp | Sep 4, 2026 | Chart of the Week
Will the Fed raise interest rates this month? It’s the big question on Wall Street right now. The Fed cut rates three times last fall and has held steady ever since. But this morning’s jobs report came in much stronger than expected, and the odds of a rate hike...
by NelsonCorp | Aug 28, 2026 | Chart of the Week
There’s no doubt about it: interest rates are high compared with what we became accustomed to over the past decade or more. It’s pretty clear that the Federal Reserve is no longer in “easy mode.” But that doesn’t necessarily mean financial conditions are tight...
by NelsonCorp | Aug 21, 2026 | Chart of the Week
It’s been a rough stretch for the bond market lately. Long-term Treasury yields are pushing higher. The 30-year yield has climbed above 5% and recently reached levels not seen in nearly two decades. For bond investors, this can feel pretty painful. Bond prices...
by NelsonCorp | Aug 14, 2026 | Chart of the Week
How old is too old for a bull market? It’s something you naturally start asking after stocks have been rising for a while. Surely the stock market can’t just keep going up forever, right? Eventually, a downturn must be right around the corner. Well, we dug into...
by NelsonCorp | Aug 7, 2026 | Chart of the Week
For this week’s chart, we’re looking at a topic that tends to fly under the radar of many investors: correlation. What is correlation? Simply put, it measures how closely two things move together. In the stock market, high correlation means stocks are generally...
