If you were curious about the recent news regarding Goldman Sachs' () and Warren Buffett’s () interest in acquiring the tax losses of Fannie Mae (), the details are in Fannie's 10-Q. This deal was agreed to and inked a month ago. It is still pending approval. So the information that was first reported by Bloomberg was a deliberate plant. A possible objective would have been to get a decision on the transaction before yesterday's release. Note that the Q provides an update of the deal’s status as of November 5. Someone was waiting to edit this section right up to the last minute. A tad unusual.