by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jan 6, 2023 | Chart of the Week
2022 was a wild year. We witnessed a surge in global inflation unlike anything we had seen in decades, and various commodities saw significant price increases. One of those commodities was natural gas. As our chart of the week above shows, natural gas prices...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 30, 2022 | Chart of the Week
Our chart of the week above shows that the US economy faced a contraction in the first half of 2022 as GDP (green bars) declined in the first and second quarters, leading to concerns about a potential recession. However, as the gold bars reveal, consumer...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 23, 2022 | Chart of the Week
Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan, made quite a stir in the financial world this week when it announced that it is relaxing the allowed trading band for 10-year Japanese government bonds (known as JGBs) by 25 basis points. This means that, after keeping...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 16, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s chart features two extremely important interest rates for the U.S. economy: the 10-year Treasury rate and the fed funds rate. The 10-year Treasury rate is a longer-term rate that the U.S. government charges on the money it borrows for ten years. By...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 9, 2022 | Chart of the Week
The S&P 500 Index is a popular stock market index often used to measure the overall health of the U.S. stock market. One way to gauge the strength of the market is to look at the number of days the index spends below its prior high. As I’ve pointed out on...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 2, 2022 | Chart of the Week
We’ve talked some this year about the U.S. yield curve and how its inversion is signaling that a recession could be right around the corner. But it’s not just a U.S. problem. Global bonds joined the party this week. The chart above shows that the average yield...
