Cash & Savings: $109,813 => $116,360 (5.96%)
Foreign Currency: $37,963 => $37,901 (-0.16%)
Domestic Brokerage: $281,435 => $273,569 (-2.79%)
Int'l Brokerage: $242,014 => $238,551 (-1.43%)
401(k): $5,935 => $5,913 (-0.37%)
Rollover IRA: $178,581 > $177,550 (-0.58%)
Roth IRA: $111,264 => $110,346 (-0.83%)
Total Assets: $967,005 => $960,190 (-0.7%)

December came in with a loss in terms of total asset after a global stock market retreat. This ends the longest stretch of monthly asset increase I've ever had, a total of 16 months since August 2012. The previous record was 13 months, from November 2008 to December 2009.

My biggest worry though, has nothing to do with the stock market decline itself because the market always goes up and down; my biggest worry is about the over 40% drop of oil prices and how that affects the US energy industry - my employer has a strong presence in this sector and had won large and lucrative contracts in the last few years, with the industry in decline and even starting to lay off people, I have to assume our clients will start cutting their investment and capital expenditure.