by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 9, 2022 | Indicator Insights
Corporate profits matter for the stock market. In fact, corporate profitability is one of the key long-term drivers of stock market performance. So, as investors, it’s important that we accurately measure corporate profits. A commonly used measure of corporate...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 2, 2022 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s Indicator Insights, we highlight a price-based indicator that measures the intermediate-term trend of the stock market. Specifically, it measures the 126-day (6-month) moving average of the S&P 500 stock market index, shown as the orange...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 26, 2022 | Indicator Insights
When a bank makes a loan, it provides money for commerce and greases the gears of our economic machine. But this increased liquidity for the economy does not necessarily translate into increased liquidity for the stock market. Why? Because banks typically do...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 19, 2022 | Indicator Insights
When you look at a graph of the stock market, or, more specifically, an index of stocks—like a global stock market index—you notice that it tends to travel in trends over time. Sometimes it trends up, and sometimes it trends down. Coming out of the pandemic...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 12, 2022 | Indicator Insights
According to the most recent report from the outplacement firm Challenger, Grey & Christmas, Inc., U.S.-based employers announced 24,286 layoffs in April. This was 14% higher than the 21,387 announced in March and up 6% from the 22,913 cuts announced a year...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 5, 2022 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s indicator, we focus on nonfarm unit labor costs. The biggest expense for most businesses is labor. And one way to measure the cost of labor is by looking at unit labor costs, or how much a firm pays its workers to produce one unit of output. In...
