by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 30, 2020 | Weekly Market Thoughts
OVERVIEW After a tumultuous few weeks of trading, stocks around the globe switched to rally mode last week. The MSCI All Country World Index, a measure of global stocks, rose 9.94 percent. The S&P 500 Index, which tracks the 500 largest companies in the United...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 10, 2020 | Weekly Market Thoughts
OVERVIEW Well, that was quite the Monday. Some are even calling it Black Monday (the 2020 edition). Pretty much all financial assets were down, some down a lot, after a failed meeting between the oil-producing giants Saudi Arabia and Russia resulted in the biggest...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 9, 2020 | Weekly Market Thoughts
OVERVIEW Things continued to happen in financial markets this week after stocks ended the previous week with one of the largest weekly declines on record. Not to be outdone, bonds took center stage this week as U.S. 10-year and 30-year Treasuries had incredible drops...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 25, 2020 | Weekly Market Thoughts
OVERVIEW U.S. stocks hit another rough patch last week, as the S&P 500 index fell 1.25 percent. The declines were fairly broad-based, but they were mostly centered around large-cap and growth stocks, which have been outperforming recently. Emerging market stocks...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 18, 2020 | Weekly Market Thoughts
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market had another good week, with all the major indices ending in the green. The S&P 500 index, which represents the 500 largest companies in the U.S. by market capitalization, rose 1.58 percent. The more tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite did...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 10, 2020 | Weekly Market Thoughts
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market rallied last week as the major indices posted gains of more than three percent. Volatility, as measured by the VIX Index, is up relative to the start of the year, but it did pull back a bit last week as the stock market bounced off its...
