Does InBev's $52 billion purchase of Anheuser Busch have impact on Chinese investors? Not really. The five largest beer companies in china are (in order) China Resources Snow Brewery, Tsingtao Brewery, Yanjing Brewery, and Anheuser-Busch.A-B does own 27% stake of Tsingtao and 100% of Harbin Brewery. I wouldn't rush out and invest in InBev, but the Chinese brewers are worth a look.

Long time readers will know this is about the 678,211,121st (give or take) time I've cut back the fertilizer names as they break support at the 50 day moving average, only to reverse on me within days. [Jul 7: Cutting Some Fertilizer Exposure] I even wrote in that entryHistorically you want to buy them when they touch the 50 day moving average since they bounce, but with the market acting so poorly we could get some washout action.So ONCE AGAIN - I am repeating the same pattern, and with egg on face buying back what I sold - luckily I sold right near support so we are paying almost the same price to get the position back. It would of been nice to of bought on yesterday mornings dip but I was greedy ...

Ok we're having a good day... another of our names is flying - that's 3 of them @ 15%+. Again this is not NEW news to blog readers and this stock was beaten to a pulp in this panic - I actually added a touch first thing this morning to take A-Power Energy Generation (APWR) to a 3.1% stake. This is a good company WITHOUT the wind business, but with the birth of this new line, it's going to be a lot more than good in my opinion. [Jun 27: New Position in A-Power Energy Generation Systems to Create Alternative Energy Mini Basket]A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ:APWR - News) ("A-Power"), announced today that it has completed the construction of the first phase of its wind turbine production facility ...

Entrée Gold Inc. (EGI) is an American mining and exploration company with active copper and gold interests in both the United States and Mongolia. Of the company’s 179,000 hectares (or roughly 4.5 million acres) of prime mining property, 40,000 have been thoroughly explored and shown to be extremely promising.

The land is part of a joint venture between EGI and Ivanhoe Mines, Ltd., and is known as the Oyu Tolgoi development project located in Southern Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The resources contained in this stake are estimated to be more than four billion pounds of copper, and over two million ounces of gold. On an added note, Ivanhoe is a world mining leader, and has been associated with other multi-billion dollar superpowers such as Rio Tinto in the past. Both Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe own roughly fifteen percent of Entrée Gold, Inc. Partnership with these companies all but ensures EGI’s potential

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Impressive bounce off that 1260 level on the S&P. Like a magnet the market bounced to S&P 1275…. (thanks PPT) and away we go to 1280s. Reader Shax is happy and smug somewhere in Asia with his 100% long exposure. I just cannot see a break through that 1260 on the first attempt with all the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men here to socialize the market, all over again. They have charts too and realize how important this level is. It’s going to take repeated attempts I believe, to break through their purchasing power.Frankly at this point we have 2 outcomes (a) crash i.e. a 10% drop in the markets (June) followed by even more rampant selling layered on top or (b) an oversold bounce.I wrote last week I was done for now with Ultrashort Financial (SKF) as …

By Mike Caggeso Associate Editor Baosteel Group Corp., China’s largest steel producer, will pay $4.2 billion in cash for an 80% stake in a new Guangzhou-based steel mill that will merge two rivals, Shaoguan Iron & Steel Group and Guangzhou Iron & Steel Group. China is already the world’s top steel consumer and producer, churning out one-third of the global supply. This newly formed company, Guangdong Iron & Steel Group Corp., will boost Baosteel’s capacity by 33% to 40 million tons. Specifically, it will help supply steel-hungry Toyota Motor Corp. (ADR: TM) and Honda Motor Co. (ADR: HMC), both of which have plants in the city of Guangzhou. Baosteel also wants to build a new 10 million ton-capacity mill in Zhanjiang, Reuters reported. Story continues below…...

Again, I cannot short individual names but I would of liked to short Apple (AAPL) for the near term as I wrote a few days ago [Jun 9: Apple Buy the Rumor, Sell the News?]Don't look now but this chart has all the makings of a double top. I can't short individual names, but this might be a short term short, at least until the $160-$170 range.... in lieu of that I have just cut back the long position, awaiting lower entry points to rebuy. We'll see if I get one.We are down to the first support, 50 day moving average ($172) so I am beginning to rebuy, but only a bit here since this is definitely a double top we have formed. I'd much prefer the 200 day moving average of $161 (or lower - maybe low to mid $150s would be ...

Ctrip.com (CTRP) is an interesting thesis right here - one could make an arguement that as China slows so will travel, but it is all relative ("slowing" in China is a very different proposition than the US - i.e. GDP dropping from 12% growth to 6% growth would seem like a recession for them, while in the US we would dream for 6% growth). That said a major risk would be the post Olympics removal of energy subsidies which would put a serious crimp in the growth story there. We shall see how it plays out. All I know is for nearly 5 years, when I buy Ctrip.com on dips I am always rewarded over time - even though it is ALWAYS expensive on a P/E basis. Much like the DryShips purchase I don't expect any huge rebound anytime soon, and thus I am (as always) ...

Latin America internet player Mercadolibre (MELI) is one volatile stock... every time it weakens we get commentary about a coming secondary (which they tried to price in the past, but withdrew) - eventually I assume it will happen. But for now, we just like to layer in on dips, and layer out on strength. The chart is quite poor as the stock has broken all major key support levels but with the stock down 15% from its peak Friday (and 30% from its peak), I made some purchases this morning in the $40s/$41s, taking the stake up from 0.7% to 1.5% of the portfolio. Due to the bipolar nature of this stock it is hard to tuck this away as a buy and hold; not to mention a very pricey multiple. So we'll pick our spots and when some of our holdings, especially ones we've cut ...

Our current #1 position reports tomorrow AM; usually my methodology is to cut back on all positions ahead of earnings but due to the severe undervaluation in this name, I am keeping my entire stake going into the cattle call tomorrow. I'm not sure if this quarter will be "the one" or it will happen next quarter, but the current $3.14 EPS 2008 analyst estimate I find to be completely beatable, in fact by a large margin. I am hoping guidance tomorrow better reflects that. But even at the "$3.14" we have a forward P/E ratio of under 15 for a company growing well over 100% this year, and should be able to grow >50% for the next few years. At the $4.00 or so I believe it can achieve this year in EPS its trading under 12.Most peers trade at forward P/e ...