by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 10, 2022 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, we feature a chart showing the relative valuation of stock dividends and Treasury bond yields. The idea behind the indicator is that stocks and bonds compete for investor dollars. So by comparing their yields, we can get a sense of...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 3, 2022 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, I want to delve a little deeper into this idea of the money supply and how it affects the stock market. In general, we know that more liquidity is good for the stock market. However, the money supply—a component of liquidity—also...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 27, 2022 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, we look at margin debt and how we use it to measure market sentiment. Margin debt is a measure of the amount of stock market borrowing that investors are doing with their brokerage accounts. When there is an increase in margin debt,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 20, 2022 | Indicator Insights
When it comes to generating income in retirement, an investor has two primary choices: stocks and bonds. A bond is straightforward; the income comes from the bond’s yield. On the other hand, stocks throw off dividends, which have the potential to be lucrative...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 13, 2022 | Indicator Insights
Earnings are an important driver of stock market returns. But the stock market is a complicated beast—it doesn’t just trade off earnings growth alone. The key insight of this week’s featured indicator is that the market trades off the change in the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 6, 2022 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator looks at the stock market’s median price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio to measure valuation. For those unfamiliar, the P/E ratio is the price of a stock divided by its earnings per share. The higher the ratio, the more investors...
