by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 18, 2021 | Chart of the Week
The stock market loves liquidity; it thrives when excess cash or other liquid assets are available to buy stocks. To illustrate this concept, the chart above shows a measure of household liquidity—called household free liquidity—versus the value of the stock...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 11, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart looks at how American households are slicing up their economic pie or total wealth. Using data from the Federal Reserve, we break down the overall wealth of American households into four major categories: stocks, real estate, cash,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 4, 2021 | Chart of the Week
The week’s featured chart shows the Cboe SKEW Index, an option-based indicator that reflects the “cost” of protection against tail risk in the S&P 500 stock index. Broadly speaking, tail risk refers to an event with a small probability of happening. If you...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 28, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows the performance of the S&P 500 stock index around the start of new cyclical bull markets. There have been 15 new cyclical bull markets (including the current one) over the past 50 years. Each line on the chart represents the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 21, 2021 | Chart of the Week
For this week’s chart, we look at the percentage of U.S. stocks that are beating their quarterly earnings expectations. Every quarter, financial analysts forecast what they believe companies will report for revenues and profits at the end of the quarter. If the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 14, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Inflation was the big topic of discussion in the financial world this week. So, for this week’s featured chart, we show the monthly change in the U.S. Core Consumer Price Index (CPI). The CPI is a commonly followed metric for inflation based on a survey...
