by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Aug 5, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows why the recent rally in the stock market might have some legs. The chart, shown above, is a “breadth thrust” indicator that measures the ratio of advancing stocks to declining stocks. Specifically, it takes the ratio of the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 29, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week, the Commerce Department announced that real GDP fell at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.9% in the second quarter. This followed a 1.6% decline in the first quarter. Taken together, that’s two consecutive quarters of declining real GDP, which...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 15, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s big news was the release of the June Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation number. On a year-over-year basis, headline inflation came in at 9.1%. That’s the highest it has been in 41 years and was higher than Wall Street’s expectations. As a...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 8, 2022 | Chart of the Week
The 60/40 portfolio had a rough first half of the year. As our chart of the week above shows, it just registered its worst first-half performance since the worst one occurred during the Great Depression in 1932. So, what happened? The 60/40 balanced portfolio...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 1, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows a reason why we probably won’t see inflation come crashing down any time soon. The chart, shown above, shows the ratio between home prices and rents. When it’s rising, it means home prices are growing faster than rents; when it...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 24, 2022 | Chart of the Week
It’s getting a lot harder for the average American family to afford a house these days. As shown on our featured chart above, the Housing Affordability Index (blue line, top clip) has fallen off a cliff. Compared to last year, the index has dropped 44 points...
