by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 20, 2020 | Chart of the Week
This week’s chart looks at the amount of money flowing into global stock funds on a weekly basis, as compiled by the Investment Company Institute. For most of the year, money has been flowing out of stocks—to the tune of about $9.5 billion a week. However,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 13, 2020 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart is a scatterplot of the daily returns of the Russell 2000 Index versus the Nasdaq Composite. These are two very different measures of the stock market. The Russell 2000 Index is comprised of the 2,000 smallest companies in the United...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 6, 2020 | Chart of the Week
For this week’s chart, we show the weekly returns of the S&P 500 Index over the past three months. Each bar on the graph represents the total return of the stock index for that week. As expected, returns were quite volatile heading into the election. The...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 29, 2020 | Chart of the Week
The Covid-19 pandemic has done a number on quite a few economic charts this year. GDP is its latest victim. GDP—Gross Domestic Product—is simply the market value of all goods and services produced in a country over a specific period. It is a crude but useful...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 22, 2020 | Chart of the Week
After a dip in March, investors are once again gobbling up bonds that are certain to lose money if held to maturity. This week’s chart shows the total face value of negative-yielding corporate and government debt in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 16, 2020 | Chart of the Week
This week’s chart shows yet another sign that the pandemic continues to take it’s toll on the U.S. economy Here we are looking at the 30-day visible supply of the municipal bond market. It represents the total face value of all new debt that is...
