by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jan 7, 2022 | Chart of the Week
The theme of this week’s chart is comparable to your favorite sports team who just completed a “three-peat”—winning three championships in a row—but instead, it’s applied to the S&P 500 stock index. Each green bar on the chart above represents the annual...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 31, 2021 | Chart of the Week
A lot of money flowed into financial products in 2021, but investors made it clear which investment vehicle they preferred the most: the ETF. As our chart above reveals, ETFs saw a record $880 billion inflow of new money this year, beating the previous record...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 17, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week the Federal Reserve announced their intent to dial back bond purchases and perhaps raise rates up to three times next year. What’s weird, though, is that this is happening at a time when the yield curve is as flat as it is. The chart above shows the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 10, 2021 | Chart of the Week
The United States’ unemployment rate is the focus of our featured chart this week. It’s something nearly everyone has heard of, and it’s the economic metric that people probably care the most about. To state the obvious, we don’t like a high unemployment...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 2, 2021 | Chart of the Week
The labor market continues to improve in America. Our chart above shows that initial weekly jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to just 199,000 recently. That’s the lowest it’s been since the pandemic started, and even more surprisingly, it’s the lowest...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 19, 2021 | Chart of the Week
The Baltic Dry Index. It’s funny; despite having the word “dry” in its name, the Baltic Dry Index involves a lot of water. This is because it measures changes in the cost to ship various raw materials such as coal, iron ore, and grains across the...
