by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 25, 2022 | Chart of the Week
Something weird happened in the bond market this week. The interest rate on the 3-year U.S. Treasury bond (2.35%) surpassed the rate of the longer-dated 10-year bond (2.34%). In the finance world, we call this an inverted yield curve. Usually, it’s the other...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 18, 2022 | Chart of the Week
The big news this week came from the Federal Reserve. In an 8-1 vote, the Fed’s policymakers decided to raise their benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point, the first increase since 2018. Additionally, they announced their plan to raise rates at...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 11, 2022 | Chart of the Week
Our featured chart this week shows that groceries are getting more expensive worldwide, with food costs jumping to a record high last month. The World Bank’s Food Price Index, a measure of global food prices, climbed 5.68% from last month and 21.01% from a year...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 4, 2022 | Chart of the Week
For this week’s Chart of the Week, we show the return of the MSCI Russia Index, a broad gauge of the Russian stock market. Due to crippling sanctions from the western world, the Russian stock market is now effectively uninvestable and illiquid. As you can see...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 25, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s chart shows the average performance of the S&P 500 index a year after the Federal Reserve first starts a new monetary tightening cycle. What is a tightening cycle, you might ask? It’s the opposite of an easing cycle, meaning instead of lowering...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 18, 2022 | Chart of the Week
You’ve heard the saying before: your car depreciates in value the moment you drive it off the lot. But, while that is still true in general, the pandemic has challenged that notion in recent years. According to the Used Cars and Trucks component of the US...
