by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 31, 2023 | Chart of the Week
This week’s big news was that the Nasdaq 100 Index—a basket of the 100 largest (mostly tech) stocks traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange—surged into a new bull market on Wednesday. Our featured chart above shows that the tech-heavy index has rallied more...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 24, 2023 | Chart of the Week
There’s been a lot of stress in the banking system lately. So much so that recent data published by the Fed showed that a record $152.9 billion was borrowed from the Fed’s discount window last week, surpassing the $111 billion reached during the 2008 financial...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 17, 2023 | Chart of the Week
I’ve got a couple of charts this week showing just how quickly expectations can change in financial markets. The first chart, shown above, compares the market’s expectations for the terminal level of the federal funds rate (green line) vs. the current target...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 10, 2023 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows the year-over-year change in the U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (excluding food and energy). This is a popular measure of core inflation in the economy that the Federal Reserve follows closely. The problem,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 3, 2023 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows that the S&P 500 stock market index is about to enter a seasonally strong period for the year. How so? For any given year in the stock market, the period from March to July tends to be strong. But if we take this concept one...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 24, 2023 | Chart of the Week
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...
