The Inglorious Nomination Edition

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover

I buy when other people are selling. - J. Paul Getty

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. - John Cleese

For the moment, a golfer was not the lead news story today. With the Golden Globe nominations coming out and a blockbuster trade in Major League Baseball in the works, we all got a reprieve, albeit a temporary one. The “Too Big to Fail” sticker is peeling off the GE trailer at the moment as analysts call for them to start divesting. The financials got both good and bad news as Wells Fargo (WFC) raised over $12 billion in a stock offering. Citigroup (C) offset that with news that an arbitration claim was filed against it by The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

With that, I have two publications for you all today. The first, Kelley Wright’s Investment Quality Trends, brings us their “Mid-December 2009” piece. In it they discuss the “dividend trend” and how it can be an indicator of where to buy and sell a specific stock. They have also compiled a list of the recent dividend changes and have updates on many of the stocks they follow. Come check out their “Timely Ten.”

The second piece for today is the Common Sense Investment Newsletter, which we covered in the very first post of this blog. In this edition, Joseph Klock talks about the “Price of Oil per Barrel.” When you think about something that went from $85 to $126 per barrel, back down to $31 and up to $70 in a two year timeframe, that is one heck of a roller coaster. He also has updates on the “Common Sense Portfolio” and some common sense tips.

Keep an eye on the year end distributions from your mutual funds. Any tax loss harvesting should be wrapping up for both the big institutions and the insiders as everybody looks to take next week off.

For more information, go to http://www.zepinvest.com.

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