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<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, sans-serif">By Nick Hodge | Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012</DIV>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Over this New Year's weekend, I mused about India and China increasing their national petroleum reserves and about Israel, Iran, and $150 oil...</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Here's a<I>Reuters</I> headline and first sentence from this morning:</div>
<div style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em"><B>Oil above $110 on Iran, China Data</B></div>
<div style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em"><I>Crude oil rose above $110 a barrel on Tuesday as tension between Iran and the United States stirred fear of a possible disruption to oil supplies from the Middle East and as Chinese data showed economic activity increasing.</I></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">That price was for Brent, U.S. crude was up over $102.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">And the news is only getting more interesting, with the rhetoric — both governmental and media — only getting stronger.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">We're starting to see phrases like “cut off oil exports from the region” and “shut the Strait.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">The Ayatollah's have warned they'll “take action” if U.S. aircraft carriers return to the Gulf.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Iranian Army Chief Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi told the world:</div>
<div style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em"><I>The Islamic Republic of Iran will not repeat its warning... the enemy's carrier has been moved to the Sea of Oman because of our drill. I recommend and emphasize to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf. I advise, recommend and warn them over the return of this carrier to the Persian Gulf because we are not in the habit of warning more than once.</I></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">In the past week, Iran has produced its first nuclear fuel rod and test-fired two long-range missiles.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">France is urging the rest of Europe to join the United States in imposing sanctions such as an embargo on Iranian oil exports and a freeze on its central bank assets.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em"><B>Dog and Pony</B></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">On the financial side, at least, no one's buying it.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">I saw a representative from an international Swiss consultancy call it “a public relations show.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">The term “saber-rattling” has become hackneyed in three days' time.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">But Strait blockage or not... Nuclear tit-for-tat with Israel or not... Embargo or not..</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Only one thing is certain and real:</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><IMG title="Crude Oil 1-03-12" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0pt" alt="Crude Oil 1-03-12" src="https://images.angelpub.com/2012/01/12206/crude-oil-1-03-12.jpg" width=500 border=0></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">As the same Swiss consultant said, whether they have teeth or not: “In this environment of increasing tensions and rhetoric, global asset managers are unlikely to give up their long exposure to oil.”</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em"><B>Easy Money</B></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">It isn't like we haven't seen this show over and over for the past three decades.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">The first thing I did this morning after seeing the Iran news was click over to my brokerage account.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">My investment in Transocean (NYSE: RIG) was up nearly 4% in premarket — almost as high as the Dow went up <I>all of last year. </I>And Transcocean wasn't alone...</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Major oil companies with market caps half a billion or higher were making similar or bigger moves.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">By lunchtime, TransAtlantic (AMEX: TAT), Tesco (NASDAQ: TESO), Suncor (NYSE: SU), and plenty of others were marching even higher.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Owning a simple oil ETF like the ProShares Ultra DJ-AIG (NYSE: UCO) would've made you more than 7% richer already this year.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><IMG title="Oil Stocks 1-03-12" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0pt; BORDER-TOP: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0pt" alt="Oil Stocks 1-03-12" src="https://images.angelpub.com/2012/01/12207/oil-stocks-1-03-12.jpg" width=500 border=0></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">This isn't brain-racking, intensely-researched, needle-in-a-haystack stuff; this is political unrest in oil's most fertile region driving up the commodity's price — and therefore, the value of companies that operate in that sector.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">And you should be putting it to use for your bottom line.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Think about your goals...</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Are you running for office? Are you the head of an NGO? Are you the chairman of an international non-profit with billion-dollar resources?</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">If you responded "no" to all those questions (I certainly did), then you needn't take an ideological stand on the issue.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Forget the water cooler chat about how crazy Ahmadinejad is.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Quell that inner monologue debating U.S. policy on Israel.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Unless that stuff has a direct bearing on your day-to-day life and finances, it's a mere distraction.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Always wear your investor's hat.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">And always be thinking not of the outcomes and intricacies of international and domestic events, but of how you can put them to financial use for you. And then act on them.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">Spending a few minutes buying Exxon (NYSE: XOM), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), or any of the other big names in your IRA this morning would've already been worth the effort.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">You would've enrolled in a 2%-3% dividend program that far beats the return on many other “safe” investments out there.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">No one is going to capitalize on the opportunities for you...</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1em">You have to do it yourself.</div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">Call it like you see it,</div>
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