by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 22, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week we look at a chart of the Bloomberg Commodity Index, a benchmark index that tracks the performance of the entire commodity market. The index itself is broken down into six major commodity groups: energy, grains, industrial metals, precious metals,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 15, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Inflation. It’s been a big topic of discussion this year because it’s been rising at a pace that we haven’t seen in this country in 30 years, as shown in our chart above. This chart shows the U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index. It measures...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 8, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Bonds have really struggled this year. Globally, they are down about 4.2%, as represented by the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index shown in the chart above. The index is on track for its worst annual return in roughly two decades, and it’s well...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 1, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Americans have seen their net worths surge over the past year and a half, thanks largely to gains in stock prices and swelling home values. However, they also have an incredible amount of cash lying around too. Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve reported that...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Sep 24, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Here’s a remarkable fact about the U.S. economy: Entrepreneurs have started new businesses at a record-breaking pace since the pandemic first started a year and a half ago. Sure, new business applications plummeted in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic....
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Sep 17, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart is the ISM Supplier Deliveries Index. It measures whether suppliers are taking longer or shorter to deliver materials to manufacturers. It’s an inverse index, meaning a reading above 50% indicates slower delivery times, and below 50%...
