January 2019 Financial Asset Roundup

Here are my current financial assets as of the market close on January 10th, 2019:

Asset	Dec 2018	Jan 2019	Change
Checking	3,472	286	-3,186
Money Market	53,375	68,295	14,920
Savings Bonds	156,136	145,552	-10,584
Treasury Bills	10,000	10,000	0
CDs	57,434	57,626	192
Brokerage	155,521	157,016	1,495
401k	161,647	168,106	6,459
Roth IRA	143,576	144,659	1,083
SEP IRA	721,697	717,085	-4,612
529 Savings	174,121	170,838	-3,283
Total Assets	$1,636,979	$1,639,463	$2,484
			0.15%

The market has continued to drop since the last update, with the S&P 500 falling 1.56% during that time:

(chart courtesy of nasdaq.com)

On the jobs front, the unemployment rate for December rose to 3.9%, but expectations were exceeded with 312,000 new jobs created. Oil prices have increased slightly to the $53 level (up from $52). Markets also have to contend with uncertainty of a continuing government shutdown over a border wall.

On the financial front, I once again rolled my maturing 28 day T-Bills into new ones with an investment rate of 2.438%. Last week I also sold my April 2013 issue Series I savings bonds with a 0% fixed interest rate and will be replacing them with January 2019 issue bonds with the current 0.5% fixed interest rate later this month.

As for the non-financial, it's another new year and I'm hanging in there with the short days and cold weather. It's also time to start getting things together for my 2018 business and personal tax returns. Hopefully the IRS will be open for business in time to handle the onslaught of tax returns headed their way.