by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 26, 2021 | Chart of the Week
Investors have been buying into stock funds at a frenzied rate lately. As our chart of the week above shows, the 50-day average of daily inflows into U.S. stock funds has hovered above $2 billion a day for over two months now. About a month ago, that number...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 19, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This past year has been a wild ride for crude oil prices. At the start of 2020, oil was hovering around $60 per barrel. But then the pandemic hit, and oil demand plummeted as people stayed home and traveled less. At one point in late April, oil prices...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 12, 2021 | Chart of the Week
This week we look at the high-yield, or junk, bond market in the United States. This market is where companies with poor credit ratings (below the investment-grade threshold of BBB-) go to borrow money. With cash deposits near zero, and less-risky bonds...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 5, 2021 | Chart of the Week
For this week’s featured chart, we look at a widely watched segment of the U.S. Treasury yield curve: the gap between the 30- and 5-year Treasury rates. The top half of the chart shows both the 30-year Treasury bond rate and the 5-year Treasury note...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jan 29, 2021 | Chart of the Week
For our featured chart this week, we look at the world’s total debt load as a percentage of the world’s economy or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The blue line at the top of the chart represents the total amount of the world’s public and private non-financial...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jan 28, 2021 | Chart of the Week
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” This expression is generally used to describe when something good is eliminated while trying to get rid of something bad. Interestingly enough, this tends to happen from time to time in the stock market. To see...
