finance charts

In a note to investors today, a well-regarded strategist on the equity sales desk at a major sell side firm put up the following two Bloomberg charts next to each other. The two charts reflect different time frames but are from related…

Courtesy of FinViz.com, these heat maps give you an idea of the breadth of the stock market rally. Look at the year's heat map to see what a broader recovery in shares looks like over a longer time frame. My takeaway is that the rally in…

From Annaly Capital Management There has been a lot of discussion recently about corporate cash levels, both in newspapers and blogs. Back in June, the Fed published the 1Q 2010 Flow of Funds report that shows corporations are sitting on…

Here's a chart that Bespoke Investment has drawn up. Bespoke says: The percentage of stocks in the S&P 500 now trading above their 50-day moving averages is down to 4%.  At the March 2009 lows, the reading only got down to…

This comes via Economix: The writers there have a two related pieces (with equally revealing charts) that I recommend reading: Bleak Outlook for Long-Term Unemployed The Recovery Is Losing Steam I guess this is why they call…

These charts were compiled by Pimco via data collected from the Federal Reserve and Credit Suisse. They show that U.S. companies are earning record amounts of money but are not re-investing it. Instead, companies are hoarding cash.…

From the BEA. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would have been, on average, 2.7 percent, or $301.5 billion higher between 1998 and 2007 if research and development (R&D) spending was treated as investment in the U.S. national income and…

Below is a chart of the ten-year Treasury yield over the last three months. After peaking near 4% in April, it has since dropped to below 3% and currently yields for 2.97%.  This is as abrupt a move as you are likely to see in…

I am going through the BIS Quarterly Review that just came out and it is packed with useful information about the global economy.  With regard to the sovereign debt crisis, I found the following chart a good one for getting a feel for…

Courtesy of FinViz.com, these heat maps give you an idea of stock and asset allocation performance yesterday.   Here are the same heat maps for the year-to-date: