Q: What important service does McGowanGroup Wealth Management provide to clients to make tax time easier?A: MGWM provides automated delivery of all tax forms directly to your chosen CPA through a secure document vault before the end of the year.Q: What does the Personal Consumption Expenditures Index (PCE) tell us about the current Federal Reserve’s (Fed) tightening interest rate cycle?A: One of the Federal Reserve’s important inflation measures is the year over year PCE. For the trailing year, inflation dropped to 5% and core inflation 4.6% meaning that the Fed reached their stated target for the Federal Funds Rate.Q: What are some of the reasons the 10-year U.S. Treasury Note yield fell to just 3.25% when the current overnight rates are 5%? A: Recession fears, expectations of lower interest rates in 2024 & Disinflation evidence.C.B.O.E. Short-Term Interest Rate Index & 10 Year Treasury Note Yield Index (04/06/2021 – 04/06/2023)– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures Chain Type Index, Year over Year Seasonally Adjusted & Federal Funds Target Rate – Upper Bound (02/24/2021 – 04/03/2023)– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Dow Jones Industrial Average (04/07/2018 – 04/06/2023)– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Evolution of Atlanta Fed GDPNow Real GDP Estimate for 2023 – Q1 (04/05/2023)– Courtesy of The Atlanta Federal Reserve
U.S. New York Fed Equifax Flow Early Delinquency 30+ Days Auto Loans (12/31/2002 – 12/31/2022)– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil Spot Price (12/30/2022 – 04/06/2023)– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
Standard & Poor’s 500 – Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Industry Total Debt to Total Assets (04/13/1993 – 04/06/2023)– Courtesy of Bloomberg LP
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