November 2020 Financial Asset Roundup

Here are my current financial assets as of the market close on November 10th, 2020:

Asset	Oct 2020	Nov 2020	Change
Checking	1,517	2,880	1,363
Money Market	71,658	71,375	-283
Savings Bonds	163,935	174,153	10,218
Treasury Bills	0	0	0
CDs	66,158	66,355	197
Brokerage	203,879	193,465	-10,414
401k	287,330	297,298	9,968
Roth IRA	198,548	201,311	2,763
SEP IRA	975,437	977,149	1,712
529 Savings	183,258	183,454	196
Total Assets	$2,151,720	$2,167,440	$15,720
			0.73%

Despite the surging COVID-19 pandemic and a potentially dangerous "contested" Presidential election, the S&P 500 has been relatively flat, up 0.32% since the last update:

(chart courtesy of nasdaq.com)

On the jobs front, the unemployment rate for October fell to 6.9%, with 638,000 new jobs created. Unfortunately, we're still down ~10 million jobs since February. Oil prices are up slightly to the $42 level, which translates to a local regular unleaded gasoline price of $1.79 at my last fill-up.

On the financial front, my assets have once again hit an all-time high, surpassing the previous high from October 2020. To cap things off, I took another distribution from my S Corp and also made my 2020 Series I savings bond purchase.

As for the non-financial, it's all COVID, COVID, COVID from where I sit. We're seeing an all-time high in hospitalizations, which means we have an ugly winter ahead of us. Hopefully a new POTUS that will take this pandemic more seriously and the promise of an effective vaccine will help put this behind us sooner rather than later.