by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 30, 2022 | Indicator Insights
Volatility comes in many different forms. But in the stock market, there are two commonly looked at measures of volatility that investors focus on. The first has to do with the VIX index or the so-called “fear gauge” of the stock market. It’s a forward-looking...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 23, 2022 | Indicator Insights
This week, I want to focus on what is called a “credit spread” indicator. We highlighted the specific indicator above about a year ago. It measures high-yield (junk bond) credit spreads. In particular, it evaluates the distance between a safe asset—in this...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 16, 2022 | Indicator Insights
Inflation—a general rise in the price of goods and services in an economy—can be problematic for the stock market for various reasons. Not only do input prices go up, which can crimp corporate profits, but consumers lose purchasing power if wages don’t also...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 9, 2022 | Indicator Insights
Corporate profits matter for the stock market. In fact, corporate profitability is one of the key long-term drivers of stock market performance. So, as investors, it’s important that we accurately measure corporate profits. A commonly used measure of corporate...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 2, 2022 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s Indicator Insights, we highlight a price-based indicator that measures the intermediate-term trend of the stock market. Specifically, it measures the 126-day (6-month) moving average of the S&P 500 stock market index, shown as the orange...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 26, 2022 | Indicator Insights
When a bank makes a loan, it provides money for commerce and greases the gears of our economic machine. But this increased liquidity for the economy does not necessarily translate into increased liquidity for the stock market. Why? Because banks typically do...
