The Big and the Small of It
This week, we show a chart of the long-term relative performance of small-capitalization stocks versus large-capitalization stocks. A small-cap stock is one in which the underlying company has a market capitalization of under $2 billion. Whereas a company with...
Shock Absorbers
Mass crowd psychology in action. That’s one way you could describe the action of the stock market. Sure, plenty of financial professionals are doing discounted cash-flow analyses and other fundamental calculations on stock prices. So we tend to hear things...
Financial Focus – August 25th, 2021
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as Nate Kreinbrink and James Nelson discuss students heading back to college and some of the best vehicles that families can use when saving and planning for higher education.
Doubling Down
Back in July, we talked about the market’s winning streak. Today, David Nelson joins Local 4 News to discuss how stocks have recently hit a new milestone.
Searching for Inflation
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market had a volatile week as the VIX (the "Fear Gauge") jumped above 20 on a few trading sessions. The S&P 500 fell 0.59%, the Dow dropped 1.11%, and the Nasdaq decreased 0.73%. Growth stocks fell 0.4%, which outperformed the 1.31%...
Make It a Double
Well, that was fast. On Monday, the S&P 500 stock index officially doubled in price from the pandemic low it touched on March 23, 2020. It took stocks only 354 trading days to get there, making it the fastest bull market doubling from a bottom in the...
The Risk Switch
Risk is like a switch. Or, at least in the investment world, it can be helpful to think of risk as sort of like a dimmer switch. It slides between the “On” and “Off” positions depending on the investment setting and how much risk tolerance is out there. When...
Financial Focus – August 18th, 2021
Listen to this week’s Financial Focus as Nate Kreinbrink and Andy Fergurson talk about the importance of understanding tax brackets and other tax thresholds as well as ways that income can be managed to these levels.
Liquidity
Financial markets are now more than a year into the recovery from the pandemic-induced panic last spring. James Nelson joins Local 4 News to discuss the point when we can consider things to be back to normal.
A Few Observations
OVERVIEW U.S. stocks were mixed last week, with the S&P 500 rising 0.71%, the Dow gaining 0.87%, and the Nasdaq losing 0.09%. Small-cap stocks lagged the broader market, falling 0.47%. Growth stocks also underperformed, gaining just 0.04%. Value stocks,...
