175th Edition Of The Festival Of Stocks

We are pleased to welcome you to the 175th Edition of the Festival Of Stocks. The Festival Of Stocks is a blog carnival dedicated to featuring posts on a variety of stock market topics.

Though the Inelegant Investor has published only sporadically of late, we were a frequent participant in early Festivals Of Stocks, including the first edition. We hope that hosting this will mark the beginning of our return from a long hiatus.

This week’s posts offer a wide variety of different perspectives and approaches.

Dividends Value provides a nice analysis of an interesting P&C insurer in Harleysville Group Inc. (HGIC) Dividend Stock Analysis

Dividend Growth Investor offers Five Consumer Stocks For 2010

ZachStocks examines the Healthcare bill and how investors might profit in Weakened Healthcare Bill Exposes Stock Risk
Fat Pitch Financials is the driving force behind the Festival Of Stocks, and this week, updates us on the (out)performance of the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio in Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio 2009

I’ve always liked Stillwater Mining(SWC) as a play on Platinum and Palladium, but ETFdb explains what the state of Palladium ETFs is today in Definitive Guide To Palladium ETF Investing: Palladium ETFs 101

Bargaineering explains to us some of the mechanics of dividend investing.

The Sun’s Financial Diary wonders: Is The January Effect Real?

Wisebread has a 4 step program for those who would like to learn to invest in Learn to Invest in 2010: 4 Steps to Educating Yourself

The Digerati Life has advice on investing specifically for those who may be getting a late start on planning for retirement in Retirement Investing Advice For Late Start Investors

We know nothing of the Australian stock market, but the Australian Stock Market Investing Blog has much to say about 2010 Share Market Floats- What Can Investors Look Forward To?

Dough Roller provides a comparison of discount online brokerages.

Foreigner’s Finances weighs in with a review of Zecco.

Good Financial Cents writes about the yield curve and what it means for economic growth in The Yield Curve Flashes Green

Learning Stocks explains the basics of How To Read Stock Charts

We don’t follow forex, and have little interest in technical analysis, but for those who do, Forexoma explains How Forex Market Reacts to Bollinger Middle Band

Saving To Invest reviews 2009 and looks ahead to 2010

We’ve enjoyed hosting the Festival Of Stocks and look forward to reading and participating in future editions.

As always, the schedule of past and future Festivals can be found here. Next week’s Festival will be hosted by The Kirk Report.