December 2014 Financial Asset Roundup

Here are my current financial assets as of the market close on December 10th, 2014:

Asset	Nov 2014	Dec 2014	Change
Checking	927	2,089	1,162
Money Market	47,836	48,279	443
Savings Bonds	92,887	93,019	132
Treasury Bills	0	0	0
CDs	63,599	63,775	176
Brokerage	129,429	130,288	859
401k	134,862	131,870	-2,992
Roth IRA	100,398	99,881	-517
SEP IRA	483,832	480,718	-3,114
529 Savings	113,690	114,452	762
Total Assets	$1,167,460	$1,164,371	-$3,089
			-0.26%

The S&P 500 had been strong since the last update before a recent slide down 0.59%:

(chart courtesy of yahoo.com)

On the jobs front, the unemployment rate for November remained at 5.8% (making 2014 the best year for job gains since 1999). Oil prices have continued their slide from $78 to about $60, which has been a pretty nice dose of relief on American pocketbooks.

On the financial front, my next domino to fall is a Penfed 3.5% APY 5 year CD maturing in January. There haven't been any hints of a Penfed end of year deal like the Penfed 3.04% APY 5 year CD offering from last year, so I'm figuring to use some of that cash to make final 2014 Federal and state estimated tax payments and have actually considered throwing the rest of the money at my mortgage principal if a better opportunity doesn't present itself.

Other than that, I'm prepping for an all-nighter this weekend as a client migrates a critical production environment to new hardware with disaster recovery capabilities. I'm certainly going to be ready for the Christmas holiday once that work is finally complete. :p