by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 16, 2023 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, we’re going to look at fund flows and how they affect stock market returns. What is a fund flow? It’s simply the amount of cash flowing into or out of a financial asset. It doesn’t measure the performance of the asset but rather the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 9, 2023 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator focuses on breadth, or participation, in global financial markets. On the top half of the graph, we have the MSCI All-Country World Index, a benchmark index for the global stock market performance. On the bottom half of the graph,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 2, 2023 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator is based on the concept that reversals in bond yields (interest rates) often call the tune of the stock market. Why? Because bond yields compete with stock dividends for investors’ money. Additionally, interest rates affect the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 23, 2023 | Indicator Insights
When we think about what drives stock market returns, earnings come to mind. This makes sense. The stock market is comprised of businesses, and the goal of those businesses is to make money—or earnings. On a stock exchange, buyers and sellers come together to...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 16, 2023 | Indicator Insights
We’ve received some good news about the state of the economy recently. For example, the nonfarm payrolls report for January revealed that the U.S. economy added 517,000 net new jobs last month. This was way higher than the expected 185,000 jobs. And on top of...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 9, 2023 | Indicator Insights
An important commodity-based inflation indicator that we highlighted a few months back recently fell out of its high negative zone—a sign that inflation has likely peaked and that stock market returns could be stronger going forward. This specific indicator...
