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DSM, Hilary Clinton, Melinda Gates--read this>>>
NTRZ fits right into this article, this could be HUMONGOUS, GARGANTUAN, etc. if we get a bigger deal with DSM. DSM is obviously "IN" with the big boys.
DSM looks like the only food company making a presentation.
This is the kind of support us shareholders have been dreaming about for SRB, much more likely to happen now.
http://www.nutraingredients.com/Industry/Hilary-Clinton-to-tell-United-Nations-to-back-nutrition-interventions-in-NCDs
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"The Boyz" buying up food companies...
Mergers & Acquisitions Activity Returning to Pre-2008 Levels
With 322 total mergers and acquisitions recorded in 2010, the food and beverage industry is seeing the highest M&A figure since 2008, and about even with the 2005 figure.
The year 2010 began and ended with blockbuster deals
Kraft Foods Inc. engineered the two biggest mergers and acquisitions of 2010: acquiring Cadbury Plc (in a drama that played out through most of 2009), then helping to pay for that $19.4 billion purchase by selling its pizza business to Nestle SA for $3.7 billion. Both those sales closed in January of 2010.
February saw suddenly acquisitive Diamond Foods get chip maker Kettle Foods, and Sunsweet acquire Herbal Water, maker of Ayala’s Herbal Water.
Last summer, Snyder’s of Hanover Inc. merged with Lance Inc. Seneca Foods Corp. bought Unilink LLC and Lebanon Valley Cold Storage LP, both makers of frozen fruits and vegetables.
In the fall, Ralcorp Holdings bought American Italian Pasta Co. And Cott Corp. got juice-maker Cliffstar Corp. TreeHouse Foods bought S.T. Specialty Foods.
Smithfield Foods said it wanted all of Butterball LLC or nothing, but Maxwell Farms did not want to be bought out. So Maxwell bought Smithfield’s half of the turkey company and resold that share to Seaboard Corp.
And the year ended with two blockbusters: Bimbo Bakeries announced a deal to buy Sara Lee’s bakeries for $959 million, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and two other investment firms said they were taking Del Monte Foods private again. Both those deals closed in 2011.
There were 322 total mergers and acquisitions recorded by The Food Institute in 2010, an increase of about 22 percent over 2009’s 264 recorded deals. That’s the highest figure since 2008, and about even with the 2005 figure.
Gains were observed across all categories. As usual, food processors were the busiest, responsible for 77 acquisitions, approximately 33 percent more than they engineered in 2009. The largest increase was among multi-product processors
The Food Institute takes a broad view of the "food industry," including in its tally brokers, consultants, packaging and equipment suppliers, restaurants and foodservice, retailers, and wholesalers and distributors. Not all those categories are shown in the table at right.
Investment firms and banks were involved in 49 food industry deals, eight more than in 2009, demonstrating their access to more capital. Restaurants and foodservice operators accounted for 32 acquisitions, and retailers were involved in 38.
"The across-the-board increase of mergers and acquisitions demonstrates the influence of an economic recovery, albeit a tempered improvement over 2009," the Food Institute report states. "Buyers tended to value a variety of assets and firms similarly rather than any isolated trends influencing one segment more than any other."
The global market for mergers and acquisitions in 2010 totaled $2.4 trillion, a 22.9 percent increase from 2009 and the strongest full-year period for M&A since 2008, according to Thomson Reuters data cited by the Food Institute.
"2010 marked the return of measured confidence for the investment banking industry," said Neil Masterson, global head of investment banking at Thomson Reuters.
"While we are clearly still in a post-credit crunch environment, M&A and private equity firms are returning to robust deal activity, and investment banking fees are on the rise."
Private equity-backed merger activity also returned to pre-2008 levels, reaching $225.4 billion during 2010. Additionally, global investment banking fees amounted to $84 billion over the year, increasing 9 percent over 2009, to become the biggest year for investment banking fees since 2007.
CHART IN LINK>>>>>
http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2011/top100-companies-mergers-and-acquisitions.html
"The Boyz" are buying up food companies.
http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2011/top100-companies-mergers-and-acquisitions.html
John Sebastian ~~Woodstock~~
NTRZ,DSM, biofuel and condolezza
A poster from iHub named condolezza posted about srb and biofuel. Was DSM already involved with NTRZ and the biofuel angle a year ago when comnfolezza as posting?
"The use of rice bran in the fermentation processes in the creation of biofuels are other unique opportunity areas for Nutracea. The use of rice bran in place of more costly nitrogen and micronutrients as the feed start material for microbial growth used in the production of bioethanol has significant efficiency and economic advantages.
Bran material can also be used as a source of nitrogen and micronutrients in microbial bioreactors used in the production of enzymes, therapeutic proteins, organic acids, antibiotics and other pharmaceutical compounds.
Both raw rice bran and defatted rice bran are excellent sources of nitrogen for these processes
and can effectively replace typical nutrient sources, such as yeast extract, in the fermentation medium.
Both RB and DRB yielded significantly higher ethanol concentration compared to YE. This suggests that in those bioprocesses using synthetic glucose to produce high purity products, such as in biopharmaceuticals and specialty industry chemicals, RB or DRB can serve as effective nutrient sources to alleviate downstream processing cost."
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=56379558
DSM is very interested in biofuel, coincidence??? I think not.
http://en.dsm.mobi/PR/201006/1428552_5.html
What a fit with DSM, food ingredients, nutraceuticals, pharma AND BIOFUEL interests.
The World I Know - Collective Soul
Enigma ~~ Return to Innocence ~~
You are rather quiet Rhino for a hot day
You had 4 big gains that I know of
1. SUGO up 43%
2. SMKY up 7.5% and 4300% total since you bought-- woo hoo
3. ISML up 40%
4. ABVV up 61%
Thanks for the board, I'm supprised more don't post here.
DSM continues leadership in Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
http://www.dsm.com/en_US/cworld/public/media/pages/press-releases/56_11_dsm_continues_leadership_in_dow_jones_sustainability_world_index.jsp
More DSM stories>>>>
http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/DSM-joins-Dutch-university-ageing-programmes
India story>>
http://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Sectors/Dairy/DSM-release-new-dahi-culture-range-for-India
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/BreakingNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1712255
Could DSM buy 51% of Z(after creditors are paid off) Like they did with AGI?
http://www.dsm.com/en_US/cworld/public/media/pages/press-releases/48_11_dsm_successfully_acquires_51_percent_stake_in_agi_corporation_taiwan.jsp
DSM is one size fits all for NTRZ as a partner of some sort, food ingredients, nutraceuticals and pharma. We have talked about Bright Foods, ADM, Bunge, Kerry, yet DSM is a better fit that any of the above.
Enigma-Gravity of Love
cork--Volume was so low and the market makers only make money with action, I suspect skaking the tree. But, How about kissing the tree and induce buying once in a while.
Today was a market maker event.
Another market maker controlled event. Buy volume was 93,533 shares and sell volume was 79,471 acording to the iHub "Video Trades Tutorial". There was one dude selling 50,000 shares at once that was the .13 trade. I am sure the buyer is thrilled, and he could have been a market maker. That was the only trade at .13.
Price ---Size --- Exch Time
$0.1500 3,000 OTO 15:54:45
$0.1400 5,000 OTO 15:54:23
$0.1400 5,700 OTO 15:52:20
$0.1400 5,000 OTO 15:48:49
$0.1400 25,000 OTO 15:46:00
$0.1400 5,000 OTO 15:45:15
$0.1400 1,333 OTO 15:41:10
$0.1300 50,000 OTO 15:41:07
$0.1400 300 OTO 15:41:06
$0.1400 5,000 OTO 15:40:56
$0.1500 1,500 OTO 15:40:00
$0.1500 1,500 OTO 15:39:59
$0.1500 35,000 OTO 15:39:56
$0.1501 5,000 OTO 15:39:49
$0.1600 200 OTO 14:09:05
$0.1501 200 OTO 14:00:50
$0.1600 500 OTO 12:13:13
$0.1501 1,271 OTO 11:58:52
$0.1600 2,000 OTO 11:48:45
$0.1501 800 OTO 11:27:35
$0.1501 4,200 OTO 11:27:35
$0.1501 1,000 OTO 11:27:12
$0.1600 500 OTO 11:22:04
$0.1501 2,000 OTO 11:21:59
$0.1510 5,000 OTO 11:15:40
$0.1600 6,000 OTO 09:30:05
New private horse feed coming out October 1st. Yahoo poster winwolcott of Wolcott Farms posted about his new company and it's new feed using SRB, but not in total, but significant.
WIN>>>>>>>>>
New SRB Product
While not as exciting,(to most),as pharma or other higher value rice bran derivatives, my new company is releasing a new performance horse product "Renew Gold" this month with a significant SRB inclusion. This is the first of a new line of products that will market under the "Renew" banner. Most will have SRB involved in the formulation. All of the SRB used is provided from Z's production at the ADM mill in California. Two years of work with new formulation technology has resulted in a product that we could not be happier with. First production will go to Southern Ca stores by Oct 1, with print advertising and web site, equinerenew.com, on line in about a week.
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_N/threadview?m=tm&bn=47300&tid=184590&mid=184590&tof=1&frt=1
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Enigma ~~ Return to Innocence ~~
I got to repeat this one from last week
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US targets more trade in green energy sector
Obamas energy policy has been a total failure in that no new "Green Energy" jobs have done much, in fact the one he gave $535,000,000 to and 2 other USA solar companies went belly up.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/08/solar-energy-company-touted-by-obama-goes-bankrupt/
But, they don't give up, now reaching out for China's help according to this new story.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-09/10/content_13663439.htm
And, how can a company lose $535,000,000 in two years? I'd like to see the trail of that money.
Next earnings won't be til mid November. Z has another payment schedule to the creditors in mid October Z must come up with something by then. Remember what Short said at the last CC.>>>
" Discussions continue with potential distributors, licencees and partners who we believe can provide increased sales, marketing and financing resources for expansion of our srb and bio refining segments in other markets around the world where we don't have either market knowledge or the human and financial resources necessary to pursue aggressive sales and growth strategies..[b] WE EXPECT TO BE IN A POSITION TO MAKE FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATED TO THESE EFFORTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE."
Jim Rogers on CNBC as I keyboard>>>
Short stocks, long commodities, especially food.
A story from World Food Crisis imbedded in Dew Diligence's post, "The Limits of Farming">>>
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=66919279
The limits of farming
Op-ed piece from The Boston Globe
›By Gareth Cook
September 4, 2011
By the year 2050, Earth will be home to another 2 or 3 billion more people. The most vexing question is: How will we feed them all? Not only will there be more people, but everyone will have more money to spend on food. Where, on this ever more crowded planet, will we grow all of it?
By 2050, the world’s farmers will need to supply almost twice as much food as they do today, according to an analysis by the World Wildlife Fund. Put another way, we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as have in the last 8,000.
Where will the food come from? Today, we use about a third of the planet’s land surface for agriculture, according to Jason Clay, a senior vice president at the fund who prepared the analysis. But when you subtract the areas that are already “taken’’ - deserts, mountains, lakes, rivers, cities, and highways - the figure rises to about 58 percent of the land. Take out the national parks and other protected areas, and food production already consumes 70 percent of available space. At current growth rates, Clay says, we will be nearing the planet’s capacity by 2050.
For every square inch of unclaimed land to be converted to farming would be an irreversible ecological disaster. But even if you are entirely deaf to green arguments, the problem is fundamental and unavoidable: At some point, the amount of land devoted to agriculture must stop expanding, because there is only so much land.
What we must do, then, is freeze the footprint of food – find a way to roughly double the productivity of farming, so that we can produce twice as much food on the same amount of land. It is a daunting technological and social challenge, and one that does not have a single solution, according to Clay’s report on the idea in a recent issue of Nature.
The most powerful tool is one that makes some environmentalists uncomfortable: genetics. The tools of modern biology have brought tremendous improvements in some crops, like corn, by breeding in traits like faster growth and increased resistance to drought and disease. But of the 10 crops that produce about three quarters of the world’s food, only one is on track to double production by 2050.
A consortium including the World Wildlife Fund and BGI, a genome research group based in China, will be working through a list of “orphan crops,’’ such as cassava, banana, and peanuts, which are widely used for food, but which have not had their DNA sequenced. Such information would make breeding useful traits faster and more efficient.
Without genetics, it is hard to see how the footprint of food will ever be frozen, or how we will avoid hitting the planet’s limited land capacity. For those who shudder at the very mention of genetics, remember that genetic manipulation is what created almost all the food we eat. Those delicious heirloom tomatoes you enjoy? They are the product of genetic engineering - albeit a cumbersome form of it - at the hands of farmers.
…The planet’s limited land area is a stark fact that changes how you look at farming. For example, from a long-term global perspective, organic farming is a problem. Organic generally takes more land to produce the same amount of food. Done on a vast scale, it could aggravate the conversion of wild land to agriculture.
There are many problems vying for our attention, but this is one we simply have to get a handle on: Farming must get better, or it will continue to expand—until it can’t.‹
http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-04/bostonglobe/30113446_1_genetic-engineering-food-production-farming
NSMG on this list, don't know what it means.
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2011/lr22083.htm
List>>
http://www.otcmarkets.com/service-provider/National-Stock-Transfer-Inc.?id=2256&page=1&pageSize=50
NTRZ--2 World Class partners
NTRZ stabilizes rice bran which is what is left over after milling. It goes rancid in 24 hours, but NTRZ found a way to stabilize it so that it is fit for human consumption with a shelf life well over a year. The product can be used as meat extenders, food ingredients, nutraceuticals, and a pharma angle. It just emerged from BK this year ans the chart looks OK. In January is signed a JV with Alothon who is a Latin American fund which is a spin off of Deutsche Bank with NWO ties. Last month NTRZ announced a product testing deal with DSM that is an ol line Netherlands NWO company and a distribution deal with them for NTRZ products is hope for in the new future. In August the CEO sdaid the following at the CC where sales up 29% were announced.>>
" Discussions continue with potential distributors, licencees and partners who we believe can provide increased sales, marketing and financing resources for expansion of our srb and bio refining segments in other markets around the world where we don't have either market knowledge or the human and financial resources necessary to pursue agressive sales and growth strategies.. WE EXPECT TO BE IN A POSITION TO MAKE FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATED TO THESE EFFORTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE."
My guess is that a buyout will happen in the next couple of years. That is how both Alothon and DSM operate. They buy an initial stake, then buy out later. The two major parts could be spun off to the 2 "Boyz"
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=NTRZ&p=D&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p45738837083
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/DSM-NutraCea-Announce-Joint-iw-830746243.html?x=0
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/110105/ntrz.pk8-k.html
http://www.nutracea.com/
NTRZ--2 NWO partners
NTRZ stabilizes rice bran which is what is left over after milling. It goes rancid in 24 hours, but NTRZ found a way to stabilize it so that it is fit for human consumption with a shelf life well over a year. The product can be used as meat extenders, food ingredients, nutraceuticals, and a pharma angle. It just emerged from BK this year ans the chart looks OK. In January is signed a JV with Alothon who is a Latin American fund which is a spin off of Deutsche Bank with NWO ties. Last month NTRZ announced a product testing deal with DSM that is an ol line Netherlands NWO company and a distribution deal with them for NTRZ products is hope for in the new future. In August the CEO sdaid the following at the CC where sales up 29% were announced.>>
" Discussions continue with potential distributors, licencees and partners who we believe can provide increased sales, marketing and financing resources for expansion of our srb and bio refining segments in other markets around the world where we don't have either market knowledge or the human and financial resources necessary to pursue agressive sales and growth strategies.. WE EXPECT TO BE IN A POSITION TO MAKE FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATED TO THESE EFFORTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE."
My guess is that a buyout will happen in the next couple of years. That is how both Alothon and DSM operate. They buy an initial stake, then buy out later. The two major parts could be spun of to the 2 "Boyz"
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=NTRZ&p=D&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p45738837083
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/DSM-NutraCea-Announce-Joint-iw-830746243.html?x=0
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/110105/ntrz.pk8-k.html
http://www.nutracea.com/
BAC--The ultimate insider bought
Warren Buffet and George Soros should not ber allowed to buy stocks with all the politicl inside they have. The banking situation looks terrible and Buffet buys BAC? He never loses big.
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=BAC&p=D&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p01685590458
I hope this is what this board is about.
One Step Into The Light HD - The Moody Blues
TEK has changed this board a bit, fun, music has many avenues
Lord Shiva in DEEP meditation
Door To The Temple Of Knowledge
USA Ferel Pig Problem
NY seeks stop to wild hogs; may ban captive hunts
VALLEY FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Wildlife officials in New York may ban captive boar hunts as they try to curb a growing feral hog population before it gets as bad as it is in Southern states, where roaming droves have devastated crops and wildlife habitat with their rooting, wallowing and voracious foraging.
Feral swine are breeding in three counties in central New York, according to a federal study done last year with funding from New York's Invasive Species Council. The wild population statewide is likely in the hundreds , said Gordon Batcheller, head of the state Department of Environmental Conservation's Bureau of Wildlife.
That's small compared with Texas, where biologists estimate the feral hog population at around 2 million, but Batcheller said any number is bad because they're certain to multiply. Damage becomes more noticeable when the population reaches the thousands and the hogs stake out home territories rather than wandering widely.
Eurasian wild boars have become popular on private hunting ranches throughout the U.S. in recent years as an addition to deer and elk. Ranch owners deny they're the source of the free-roaming pigs, but Patrick Rusz, director of wildlife programs for the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy, said the animals started showing up in the wild soon after hunting preserves began importing them. Their distribution is clustered near preserves, he added.
"We're not talking about Porky Pig getting loose from the farm," Rusz said. "These are Russian wild boars. Those animals are Houdini-like escape artists and they breed readily in the wild. We've had domestic pigs for centuries and never had a feral hog problem until the game ranches started bringing these in."
Wild pigs are intelligent and adaptable, eating almost anything and able to live in a wide range of habitats. They dig up cropland and lawns. They damage ecosystems by rooting and digging for food and devouring roots, stems, leaves, fruit, nuts, bark, bird eggs, mice, snakes and fawns. They compete with native wildlife for food such as acorns, carry diseases that can be transferred to wildlife, and destroy wetlands with their wallowing.
Feral swine multiply rapidly, with sows producing several litters a year of four to six piglets, so as with any invasive species, it's crucial to mount aggressive eradication efforts before the population is widely established, Batcheller said. They're also wily and secretive, and become even more so when people try to shoot or trap them.
New York trapped and removed 44 feral swine in Cortland and Onondaga counties in 2008 and 2009, but that effort ended when the state's budget got tight. Now authorities are working to build public awareness of the problem and encourage people to report sightings, as well as urging hunters with small-game licenses to shoot them, any time of year.
"Stopping escapes is the biggest and most important issue we're challenged with," Batcheller said. "It might require legislation so we can shut down the source of these animals before they get on the landscape."
A number of states have banned the captive wild boar hunts as a first step in controlling the wild population, including Michigan, with a population of boars estimated at 2,000 to 7,000. But ranch operators have lobbied the Michigan legislature to overturn the state's ban. While politicians argue, Rusz says the ban has been postponed and won't be fully in place for perhaps four years.
"That's a travesty," he said. "We need an aggressive, common-sense approach.
"Delays are just working in favor of the hogs."
Other northern states concerned with the spread of feral pigs include Maryland, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The animals are well-established in Southern states.
The boars are seen as a scourge for livestock, too. USDA wildlife biologist Justin Gansowski traps feral swine in New York and tests them for diseases that can be transmitted to domestic livestock. Several have tested positive for pseudorabies, a viral disease that's not fatal to humans but can sicken dogs, cats, goats and cattle.
Another problem comes when preserve operators don't take adequate precautions to keep hogs from escaping, said Dave Vanderzee, owner of Easton View Outfitters, a game-hunting and breeding ranch about 20 miles northwest of Albany in Valley Falls. He keeps his Eurasian wild boars behind an 8-foot-tall wire mesh fence encircling about a quarter-acre, with the bottom of the fence buried to prevent burrowing out.
"As an operator, you don't want to lose your livestock," Vanderzee said. They're too valuable."
While deer are hunted from September through January, when they have nice racks of antlers, boar provide an exciting hunt and tasty meat year round, making them popular with hunters and valuable to preserve operators, he said.
"With the cold winters and deep snowpack in the Northeast, I don't think New York is going to have quite the problem people think it will have with feral hogs," Vanderzee said. "But let's not find out. We should nip it in the bud."
Rusz said no fence is foolproof, and the only sensible solution is to ban captive boar breeding and hunting, just as it's illegal to propagate other exotic invasive species.
In Michigan, the Wildlife Conservancy is training volunteers to operate wild hog traps and working with landowners to ferret out and eliminate pockets of wild hogs.
"Biologists will tell you, once they get established, they're going to come to a neighborhood near you," Rusz said. "The hogs will find you. That's the situation we're in."
http://news.yahoo.com/ny-seeks-stop-wild-hogs-may-ban-captive-163701421.html
Strange Days - The Doors
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Elvis rare TV appearance mid 50's before he was well known.
With Steve Allen, Imagene Coca, and Andy Griffith
Ties to China and Netherlands (DSM) increase
Chinese companies head for Amsterdam
Updated: 2011-09-03 09:47
By Du Juan (China Daily)
BEIJING - About 30 Chinese companies will open branches or European headquarters in the Netherlands in 2011, a growth of 20 percent year-on-year, said officials.
The number of Chinese companies in the Netherlands will double or even triple in the coming years, said Hilde van der Meer, director of Amsterdam Inbusiness, the official foreign investment office of Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
She said the 70 Chinese companies currently operating in Amsterdam have created about 1,000 jobs, which is a big number for a city with a population of only 780,000. Generally, 70 percent of employees at Netherlands-based Chinese companies are local people.
"All the Chinese companies in the country have had good performances in the past years," said Van der Meer. "They have a wide range of the businesses, such as consumer products, electronic equipment, logistics services and banking."
"We are trying to broaden both the cultural and business relationship between the Netherlands and China," said Eberhard van der Laan, the mayor of Amsterdam. "The business is based on the interests of the people."
He said Amsterdam and Beijing will cooperate on sustainable agriculture development.
"We are also working on increasing cooperation with cities in western China, such as Chengdu and Chongqing," said Bas Pulles, commissioner for foreign investment at the Netherland's Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC), the world's biggest bank by market value, set up a branch in Amsterdam in January this year. According to the company, its profit in the first half of 2011 was top among ICBC's five European branches.
"It's a mutually beneficial relationship between ICBC and the Netherlands' government," said Zhang Weiwu, general manager of the Amsterdam branch of ICBC (Europe) SA. "We provide financial services to companies that invest in Europe. The local government also wants to attract more investment, so it offers many advantages to foreign companies."
Zhang said that most of the clients are Dutch companies, but an increasing number of Chinese companies, including Liugong Machinery Co, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Yantai Wanhua Group, are in talks with ICBC and are considering opening businesses in the Netherlands.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-09/03/content_13610919.htm
Fitch Ratings warns Chinese banks
They snuck this story in on a Saturday. I think most of us have read how many new Chinese developments sit empty as there has been over expansion. Well, who pays for it? And our lamestream media has led us to believe that China is financially perfect compared to the rest of the world and can afford to buy all our bonds. Think again!!!
But, will this be a real problem or is it a bit over blown? I think it could add to the fear out there, but too early to tell with the info I got. Warren Buffet just plunked down $5 billion into BAC. He is the ultimate insider with all his political donations and political friends. He and Soros should not even be allowed to trade with the political inside they get. If Warren is not afraid, I'm not. Buying opportunities ahead, but maybe a few more scare tactics first.
Good post Dew about the 4 myths. I think a 5th myth may be developing with the China bank story.
China story>>>>>
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-08/31/content_13281616.htm
GL ALL
realbiz--Great song and a well done remake. Some songs take on a new meaning when done by others.
Welcome to the board!!!
ABVV looking good Rhino
I picked up some 8/29 off your addition.
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ABVV&p=D&yr=0&mn=3&dy=0&id=p79106369477
New Product on the home page(elsewhere too, I hope)
http://www.nutraceaonline.com/riprosport-soluble-muscle-builder
And, you casn bundle it with RiProSport and save $10.
http://www.nutraceaonline.com/total-muscle-mass-builder
A poster at Yahoo, xybrfuture, called NTRZ and Charlotte said that "The new product has more of whats in the RiPtro Sport Gel caps but in powder form." The ingredients are not on the home page yet.
Penny--Z did a little fund raiser with a firm named Ironridge earlier to raise a little money/ and warrants issued at .20. I don't know if they sold any or not, but wouls into a PR. The big $50,000,000 PIPE warrants were sold in 2007 on the way up, and had no affect.