While the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) led by Jerome Powell have been lowering short term rates, see notes by us here, here and here….
Until just recently, longer term rates were following short term rates down…
Good News From Interest Rates
While the FOMC does control short term rates, they have much less control of longer term rates and actually by lowering short term rates they were hoping for this….
Higher long term rates are our friend … Possible reasons:
- Market participants way of being more positive
- Tariff talks proceeding
- Less fear
- Expectation of future growth
10 Year Treasury Rate
If we showed a longer term chart you would see it still has a ways to go as we are only nearing 2% – half full guys… have to start somewhere… For now, good news!
Newsletter Under Way
We have some really neat items under way for the Q 1 2020 (yikes- did we just say that) Newsletter… we have found some great Government Public sources of information that we think you will really like – now on to pulling it all together for brevity and clarity — never thought those research paper skills would be so used – Sorry to all the English teachers that did not get full effort..yes you told me so! haha
Today is a chilly Friday and Thanksgiving is just around the corner…
Have a Great Friday and Weekend!
John A. Kvale CFA. CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
jkfinancialinc
street-cents
November 2019 Podcast Video, Financial Planning and Capital Market Update – By John Kvale
Hello and Welcome to our November 2019 Financial Planning and Capital Market Update!
If you are too busy to read, feel free to listen as we describe our post and thoughts in friendly podcast audio format as well as Video!
Newbies –
We like to articulate our thoughts and review on a Monthly basis our Financial Planning Tips, Capital Markets and current events!
November – 2019 Video
Financial Planning Tip (s) –
Email is the New Physical Address – Harder to Change
With email replacing our home address in importance, its not a surprise and only a mild inconvenience (due to the safety) to have to get a signed form in order to change our address.
In our descriptive post on the subject, we also predict eventually we will all likely be forced to transact most of our business in a paperless way…. Uncomfortable for many, but much better for our environment in the long term!
Why an Inheritance is Usually NOT Taxable
After running into this question numerous times we did a post here, and will also have an expanded article coming in our Q1 2020 Newsletter.
For the most part, inheritances are not taxable and in our post we go over the reasons why, and discuss techniques for being most tax efficient.
Just after this post a good follow on subject directly related to this post occurred that will go well in our “Why” Series Collection – Watch for another Inheritance Related Post and likely Newsletter Article !
Capital Market Comments –
When FED lowers, Recession Averted? Hmmmm
Near the end of the Quarter, as mentioned in our Fire Hydrant CEO post here, we ran into a most interesting chart (below)….
A first ever to see, the speaker points out that recessions are averted when the FED (Federal Open Market Committee – Jerome Powell the leader currently) lowers rates during an inverted yield curve… hmmmm
Not to worry, doing more research on this … oddly the speaker did not think much of Powell’s economic prowess, but spoke firmly that due to his LACK of horsepower on the Economy he may have a better chance of soft landing this slowdown…
Always learning!!
Have a Great Day – Talk to you at the end of December!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
www.jkfinancialinc.com
street-cents
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