SkyPostal Networks, Inc. (SKPN.OB), an international wholesale mail distribution company that specializes in hand delivery of commercial mail, periodicals and parcel post into the Latin America-Caribbean (LAC) region, recently announced that its Punto Mio division has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Banco Santander Rio, the Argentine branch of the Spanish bank Banco Santander. This is the world’s 12th-largest bank based on market capitalization with more than 10,850 branches in the Western world.

Under the co-marketing agreement, Punto Mio, an Internet shopping portal that bridges the gap between the online international shopper and U.S.-based Internet merchants from the time of purchase through cross-border delivery, Banco Santander Rio will promote the Punto Mio online shopping service to the bank’s 1 million banking clients in Argentina. Banco Santander Rio clients will also be offered a free Punto Mio U.S. address, providing users seamless cross-border parcel-post delivery through SkyPostal’s established

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SkyPostal Networks, Inc. (SKPN.OB), an international wholesale mail distribution company that specializes in hand delivery of commercial mail, periodicals and parcel post into the Latin America-Caribbean (LAC) region, recently announced that its Punto Mio division has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Banco Santander Rio, the Argentine branch of the Spanish bank Banco Santander. This is the world’s 12th-largest bank based on market capitalization with more than 10,850 branches in the Western world.

Under the co-marketing agreement, Punto Mio, an Internet shopping portal that bridges the gap between the online international shopper and U.S.-based Internet merchants from the time of purchase through cross-border delivery, Banco Santander Rio will promote the Punto Mio online shopping service to the bank’s 1 million banking clients in Argentina. Banco Santander Rio clients will also be offered a free Punto Mio U.S. address, providing users seamless cross-border parcel-post delivery through SkyPostal’s established

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GM is essentially already bankrupt, says Horacio Marquez. And it has been for years. This clearly makes the company one to avoid for investors. But Horacio says there are still some ways for those with a big risk appetite to make big profits with the giant automaker.

This from Money Morning:

With America’s “Big Three” automakers all due to submit turnaround plans to Congress today (Tuesday) – a requirement if General Motor Corp. (NYSE:GM), Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F), and Chrysler Corp., are to receive $25 billion in government loans – I couldn’t help but recall the moment eight years ago when I realized the U.S. auto industry was skidding toward a financial collapse.

I’ve been thinking about that market call of mine a lot of late, particularly after recently reading that JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) credit analysts had

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Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. (OTCBB: DYMTF) provides energy solutions through its offices in the United States and Argentina. The company’s pyrolysis technology turns biomass into BioOil for power and heat generation. Dynamotive Energy today announced a commercial agreement centralized on its pyrolysis technology, which will allow for the construction of the company’s first plant outside Canada.

“The first project in China marks an important milestone for our company,” Dynamotive Energy’s Chairman Richard Lin stated in the press release. “China’s economic development is in the world’s spotlight, and energy security and environmental protection are two major global concerns. As a leader in the bio-fuel industry, Dynamotive uses its patented technology to convert agricultural residues into valuable and clean renewable energy. The process makes use of non-food resources and creates no competition for land with food crops.”

The agreement will support the development of Dynamotive’s pyrolysis plant in the Henan province in

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by Edward Hugh: Barcelonabr /br /blockquote“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”br /Tolstoy/blockquotebr /Well this strongis/strong an interesting little fable of modern family life, even if all the families involved may not be ones which many of my readers would normally wish to belong to.br /br /As is now reasonably well know Russian private oil company Lukoil is currently making a bid for the shares in Spanish energy company Repsol which are owned by the deeply indebted Spanish property company Sacyr Vallhermosa.br /br /Shares in what is Spain's fifth biggest builder, and which currently occupies the somewhat ignominious position of being Spain's worst-performing stock this year, jumped the most in two years last Thursday (20 November) on reports they were about to sell their 20 percent stake in Repsol YPF to the Russian oil company OAO Lukoil. Sacyr, which said last week it ...

The planet is facing a topsoil crisis, meaning that the greatest commodity of them all one day could be farmland. That potentially makes Cresud Inc. (NASDAQ: CRESY), which owns large swathes of farmland in Argentina and also has a growing presence in both Paraguay and Brazil, a sound long for punters. Additionally, the firm is currently involved in a variety of other projects including crop production, cattle raising and milk production, not to mention real estate accumulation (several shopping centers in Buenos Aires, for instance). In fact, while it is estimated that the firm owns about a million acres of farmland and 50,000 head of cattle, Guy Bennett of Q1 Publishing, an investment research firm, mentioned that Cresud’s executives consider themselves to be primarily a real estate development company. But all this diversity may not necessarily be a ...

HIDDEN VALUE

Dear Value Seeker,

The center cannot hold.

At least it seems that way from where we’re sitting.

Yesterday, the Dow closed below its October lows, breaking through the psychological barrier of 8,000 points.

The S&P 500 ended the day at 806, its lowest reading in six years.

Who knows how low stocks can go from here.

Nicole Elliott, a technical analyst at Mizuho Corporate Bank, says the Dow will sink to 6,400 within the next few weeks.

There is chatter among quants of a “Bermuda Triangle” setting itself up in the Dow charts.

We’re not sure what this means exactly. But it sounds bad.

Word is the Dow is now bouncing around within this triangle, posting lower high after lower high.

We do know that the losses are getting scary.

The planet’s losses from the sell-off of equities have now reached more than $30 trillion – or more than twice the GDP

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Industrialized countries are dropping like flies into recession. So far, emerging markets have avoided the economic meltdown. But that is changing, says David Newman. He says investors should not be tempted by the huge bond yields on offer in countries like Argentina. In today’s climate, knowing you will get your money back is much more valuable.

This from The Sovereign Society:

I found this chart online and thought it was such a good representation of what is going on that I just had to share it with you. (Thanks to the folks at http://frigginloon.com/ )

As I’ve written about before, this is really just the beginning of the flood of bad news we’re going to continually hear about over the next few months.

As you look back over this list, you’ll notice that none of the emerging market countries are on

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By grabbing $26 billion in private pension money last month, Argentina may have put itself on track for its second debt default in a decade – ironically, the very situation that country’s government had hoped its bit of leisure-fund larceny had hoped to avoid.

“The misguided macroeconomic and monetary policies, especially the confiscatory tax policy and huge government spending – much of it inefficient – was doomed to catch up with the country someday,” says Horacio Marquez, a Wall Street veteran, emerging markets specialist and editor of two trading services affiliated with Money Morning: The Money Moves Alert and the Shadow Stock Trader services.

Argentina’s act of not-so-petty larceny was launched late last month when the government, in a surprise move, ordered Argentine pension funds to liquidate their foreign holdings, the first step in a plan to transfer that money into the state pension system. Argentine

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When Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. (NYSE:BUD) shareholders voted to be acquired by Brussels-based InBev N.V./S.A, it affirmed a long-term strategy to penetrate the emerging markets that have long eluded the American giant.

As August A. Busch IV, president and CEO, said his prepared statement, “Under the merger, the new company will expand Budweiser into new markets around the world, fulfilling the global ambitions my family has long dreamed about for this great American brand. I’m proud that the Budweiser tradition and our 150-year commitment to delivering the best brewed beer in the world will live on.”

At $70 per share for A-B, the deal is valued at $52 billion. It now only requires approval from antitrust authorities in the U.S., U.K. and China to close.

Wall Street has been hounding A-B for years that it was too U.S-centric. Compared to other countries, America one

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