by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 30, 2021 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator focuses on the National Financial Conditions Index (NFCI) produced by the Chicago Federal Reserve. There are several “financial conditions” indexes out there, but the NFCI version includes a number of financial indicators (over 100)...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 18, 2021 | Indicator Insights
This week’s indicator is all about pricing power. When a company has pricing power, it can increase its prices and still maintain demand for its products. Whether or not a company can do this depends on various factors. But for many companies, labor is the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 11, 2021 | Indicator Insights
Here’s an unusual argument you may have never heard before: good investing is like being a teenager. What do I mean? Well, teenagers tend to follow the latest trends (social, fashion, etc.). They do this to be cool. Now, whether that is good or not for...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 28, 2021 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator focuses on the volatility of the volatility of the stock market. Yes, you read that right. Volatility of volatility. It sounds a bit weird. But more specifically, we are measuring the volatility of the VIX Index—aka the “Fear...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 21, 2021 | Indicator Insights
Momentum is an important concept in financial markets. Sure, if you look at a chart of a broad stock market index like the S&P 500, the price seems to squiggle up and down erratically, sometimes with no clear direction as to where it’s headed. But if you...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 14, 2021 | Indicator Insights
This week’s featured indicator focuses on industrial production, or how much physical stuff is produced in the economy. It includes everything from prescription medicines, cell phones, and TVs to nuggets of gold, steel bars, and planks of wood. Despite our...
