by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 17, 2023 | Chart of the Week
I’ve got a couple of charts this week showing just how quickly expectations can change in financial markets. The first chart, shown above, compares the market’s expectations for the terminal level of the federal funds rate (green line) vs. the current target...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 10, 2023 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows the year-over-year change in the U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (excluding food and energy). This is a popular measure of core inflation in the economy that the Federal Reserve follows closely. The problem,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Mar 3, 2023 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows that the S&P 500 stock market index is about to enter a seasonally strong period for the year. How so? For any given year in the stock market, the period from March to July tends to be strong. But if we take this concept one...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 24, 2023 | Chart of the Week
It’s well-known that people like to spend money when they’re happy. Well, as our featured chart this week shows, that’s true for CEOs too. On the bottom half of the chart above, we have the CEO Confidence Index, which measures how optimistic America’s CEOs are...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 17, 2023 | Chart of the Week
The U.S. Census Bureau unveiled a new data product called the Index of Economic Activity (IDEA) this month. The IDEA is a monthly composite of 15 economic data series produced by the Census Bureau. It measures economic activity in various sectors ranging from...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 10, 2023 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows that a key indicator of the economy’s strength took a sharp U-turn last month. The ISM Composite indicator rose to 51.3% in January, up from the previous month’s reading of 48.8%. According to the indicator above, this is good...
