by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 29, 2023 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator looks at the relative valuation of the stock market based on the money supply. The idea is that if we compare stock prices to some economic gauge—like the money supply—we can determine whether prices are competitively valued or...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 22, 2023 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is called the Risk-On/Risk-Off Indicator, or RO/RO indicator for short. It’s designed to gauge the relative risk tolerance in the investments landscape. In other words, it is a gauge of economic confidence. The Risk-On Index, shown in the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 15, 2023 | Indicator Insights
The unemployment rate is the one economic indicator most people are likely familiar with. To state the obvious, we don’t like a high unemployment rate; it means people are out of a job, and that’s not good for anyone. But this week’s featured indicator shows...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 8, 2023 | Indicator Insights
In 2023, the stock market has been largely influenced by the Technology sector, which has emerged as the best-performing sector within the S&P 500. Indeed, approximately 90% of the S&P 500’s gains this year can be attributed solely to the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 1, 2023 | Indicator Insights
Investors often find themselves confused and overwhelmed amid the vast sea of financial information. That’s why we rely on a few fundamental investing principles to navigate our decision-making process. One such principle has to do with the importance of...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 25, 2023 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, we’re going to take a look at stock market earnings and how they can be used to forecast stock market returns. In the top part of the chart above, we have plotted the S&P 500 Index’s monthly close (green line), which we’ll be...
