by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 30, 2021 | Chart of the Week
You may have noticed lately that home prices have gone up in your neighborhood—in some areas by a lot. But that’s not just true anecdotally; the national housing market data is telling a similar story. According to the Case-Shiller Composite 20 Home Price...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 23, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows the S&P 500 stock index (green line) accompanied by its 50-day moving average (orange dashed line). The vertical black line demarks the start of this year. And the blue arrows mark every occurrence this year when the S&P...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 16, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week we have a pretty cool chart that shows the number of record highs attained by the S&P 500 stock market index per year. The calculation is fairly straightforward: Every year, you count the number of S&P 500 record highs, and that total becomes...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 9, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Americans are quitting their jobs at a record-setting pace. The U.S. Quits Rate—which measures the number of U.S. workers who leave their job during the month as a percentage of total employment—rose 2.8% in April and 2.5% in May. That’s the highest since the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 2, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Generally, coming out of a recession like we experienced last year, the industries or sectors that are more sensitive to economic growth—Industrials, Consumer Discretionary, Materials, Information Technology, and Financials—tend to perform better than the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 25, 2021 | Chart of the Week
“Buy the rumor, sell the news.” This is an old Wall Street maxim that refers to the idea that one should buy a rumor in anticipation of an event, but by the time the rumor has become an actual fact, it’s time to sell. This is because, in today’s world,...
