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Message to WORLDWIDESHARES Readers !!!

2010-06-25T09:41:00.000-07:00

Thank you very much for your warm follow up and support during these 100 posts at www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Now, I begin a new time with "THE INVESTOR" at my new web log: www.JoseLuisRevillaEscudero.blogspot.com

You are all kindly invited to join this new debate and analysis place.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
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RUSSIA readers:

Большое спасибо за Ваши теплые последующей деятельности и оказание поддержки в течение этих 100 должностей www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Теперь я начинаю новую время в моей новой веб-журнал
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Вы все приглашаются присоединиться к этой новой обсуждения и анализа место

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
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BRAZIL readers:

Muito obrigado pela sua calorosa acompanhamento e apoio durante estes 100 posts
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Agora, vou começar uma nova época com "O INVESTIDOR" na minha nova web log:
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Vocês todos são gentilmente convidados a participar deste novo debate e análise local.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
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INDIA readers:

आप अपने गर्म अप का पालन करें और इन पर 100 पदों के दौरान समर्थन के लिए बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

अब, मैं अपने नए वेब लॉग के साथ एक नए समय के लिए शुरू www.JoseLuisRevillaEscudero.blogspot.com

आप कृपया इस नई बहस और विश्लेषण जगह में शामिल होने के लिए आमंत्रित सभी कर रहे हैं

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
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LATINAMERICA readers:

Muchas gracias por la calurosa acogida y seguimiento de estos 100 posts publicados en www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Sin embargo, ahora empezamos un nuevo momento con THE INVESTOR en la nueva dirección web:
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Les invito a todos Uds. a unirse a este nuevo foro de analisis y debate que ahora comienza.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
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CHINA readers:

非常感谢你对你的热情和支持，跟进，在这100个职位
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现在，我开始与新时代的“投资者”在我的新网络日志 www.JoseLuisRevillaEscudero.blogspot.com

谨请你加入这个新的辩论和分析所有的地方

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero

100th

2010-06-06T04:09:00.000-07:00

This is my post number 100.

For many, 100 will always mean much more than a simple numerical figure. 100 always means an stop-and-think turning point.

We are in year 2010 according to our calendar, but we are aware that thousands of millions of years remain behind us. It seems we run the progress path, since life nowadays look more comfortable than ever, and human being life expectancy has increased substantially.

Nevertheless, the 100 age range becomes now an undoubtful sign that life, according to what it means to us now, is in the nearby of an end. In most developed countries, life expectancy average is around 80 years old.

We live in a planet and we have no further information about what is happening in others. Our space navigation systems are extremely antique and do not allow us to sail around the universe in front of us.

Therefore, and mainly due to our way of thinking, human beings continue deploying theories about what are the foundations of our planet, its development along the years, and why we are this way, as physically as well as mentally...

This sourced along the centuries many religions creation, thinking groups, secret societies, psychological trends, etc ... all focused on trying to explain the still unknown.

Along our known history as human beings, economy deserves always a key mention due to the relevance along the times of how humans achieved to share limited goods.

Obviously, economy derived into the huge expansion of banking institutions, the creation of the PAPER MONEY, and the unlimited value bubble of this money without any link now to GOLD or NATURAL RESOURCES reserves.

This has made our current world crunch into different heavy dramatic economy periods along our last 2 centuries. Before that, change of goods seemed to work effectively.

The lack of a real link among PAPER MONEY and something real ( natural, necessary and limited resources ) has made us live in a golden jail guarded by finance titans. Titans that are not more than 35 years old, but and with a single computer button touch, may make billions of cash money by attempting to what at that time, more easy to get a quick profit may be.

The loss of the PAPER MONEY link with something real has made us enter into a new huge speculation game.

Then, and once this is understood, we may go further talking about Lobbies, hidden powers, politicians, etc ... But now, in our new world order, financial markets become the referees of our lives. No guns or swords to conquer the world, just simply a computer button press fueled by the real world owners, that obviously always try to keep unknown..

Along this scenario, 3 main countries domain the world today: USA, EUROPE and CHINA.

CHINA has joined this group recently due to a more than 1 billion population that has been able to develope recently into a finally powerful nation.

3 main currencies: US DOLLAR, EURO and for sure, Chinese YUAN that will integrate this PAPER MONEY pack soon.

USA continues being the leading nation of the planet, menaced by the increasing power of CHINA. Many economists forecast a lead change in a 10 years time frame.

USA became the leading nation 3 centuries ago. Romans, Arabs and Egyptians were its predecessors and for many the cradle of the cultural and economic foundations of our current world order.

Nevertheless, our world suffered recently ( 20 years ago ) one of the greatest revolutions ever, and for sure, studied and analyzed by our decendants along the next centuries. It is obvious I refer to INTERNET.

INTERNET has fueled the concept that everybody can use now with a meaningful sense, GLOBALISATION.

INTERNET has linked the countries, the peoples, the civilizations, has joined us together as a one single thing, has re-united us without taking much into consideration to politicians, religious gurus, or biblic leaders ...

INTERNET was born as a single network of communications, but its impressive growth along our planet frontiers has made us possible a new way of understanding social relationships, life habits, business models, jobs, families, ...

INTERNET - GLOBALISATION - MOBILE PHONES - WIFI - UNPLUGGED TRENDS - ... have positioned our world as an unique thing. Information now is deployed at high speed, everybody knows everything no matter where the news happens or whom affects, ...

INTERNET has gone beyond the limits and now is our real GURU and LEADER.

Nevertheless, INTERNET has made us look unmoved almost 15 hours per day into a single screen. Yes, most homes around the planet or even walking citizens look now a screen, well a mobile screen, a laptop one or a PC ... We just do not look any more to other people´s faces ... We look into screens.

Screens everywhere ... People talking with a mobile phone, or checking the e-mail in a Palm, or even exploring the INTERNET with a PDA.

No kids anymore playing soccer in the parks, or shooting each other with gun toys ... No, each one in front of a screen doing these same things but virtual and interactively.

Many continue asking themelves WHO MANAGES our EVOLUTION, our INVENTIONS, our LIVES ???

A new philosophical mana for those religious gurus or biblic leaders that almost lost their "jobs" with recent evolution changes.

Meanwhile, the social life continues focused on appearances, money life, consumption, luxus, credit, loans, ...

What´s next ??? ... Who knows ???

Along these 100 posts I just wanted to share with you a portion of our daily reality, and I have tried to do so, to make you think about issues that maybe you do not pay attention to, mainly because of being involved in your hectic routine ...

I really hope that for those readers who have followed my articles I may have been of some help to try to make you happier each day that at the end, is the goal that all of us must fight for ...

My conclusion is clear:

Apart from the amount of money you may have or make...
Apart from the number of condos, town houses or villas you may own ...
Apart from the position on the FORBES list you may occupy ...

"HAPPINESS is only possible by DREAMING, and if possible, becoming your DREAMTS into a reality"

Do not stop your DREAMT production factory !!!

To dream is a fantastic workout since if you do not get along your dreamts, you can design others and others, and others, and continue being happy !!!

Thanks to all of you for having paid enough attention to my first 100 posts,

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Investors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Who runs the BACKSTAGE ?

2010-06-04T12:33:00.000-07:00

2008 Lehman´s fall recorded the beginning of the worst crisis ever known in recent history.

Banks seemed to be falling down as in a chain production factory. The banking sytem was nearly defaulted if the public help from governments would not have arrived on time.

Now, the governments are the ones at default risk.

The classic economists recipes were used during 2008, but what do we do now when the governments are the ones at risk ???

What is now the upper level to save us ??? ... This is the scenario that university professors used to explain us what PAPER MONEY really means.

PAPER MONEY is worthless if the world is broke. So, the main question now would be: IS THE WORLD BROKE ???

There are 3 main currencies in our planet: YUAN, DOLLAR and EURO.

YUAN is not traded in forex organised markets. Chinese government does not let speculation attack yuan by protecting its quotation.

DOLLAR was said not to be any more the reference currency. This was 6 months ago. Now, it is the saving currency for many.

EURO achieved at that time 1,60 against DOLLAR. Now it is breaking down the 1,20 level, dynamiting the foundations of global commerce. Chinese exporters menaced today not to trade in EUROS any more. This same situation happened with the DOLLAR 6 months ago.

So, who is managing our markets, our lives, our future ???

Because I have no doubt that many people are getting very rich with all these scenarios. A lot of money challenging currencies, countries, non stop pressure on governments ...

Do you want me to put "names" on these people ??? ... Very simple. Sovereign and hedge funds.

Do they enjoy Insider trading ?? ... Maybe !!!

Are they supported by key Lobbys ??? ... Maybe !!!

But what has more power that a mass of money directed into a weak economy ??
But what has more power that negative gossip on someone at the right time, at the right place ???

DOLLAR was weak, then let´s drive it to 1,60 against EURO. Now US ECONOMY seems to recover, let´s attempt against EURO. What ´s next ??? ...

Maybe to say in public that CHINA is overheated. Maybe to publish in main media that BRAZIL needs urgent funds to survive.

Or maybe not, maybe it is ok to say the world now has no issues to worry about, let´s be LONG on assets, stop to the SHORT positions !!!... No BEARS any more !!!

But, who manages this dance ??? ... Who manages the BACKSTAGE of our futures ???

I gave you the answer before.

But, no surprise at all with these practices. In year 1985, Soros was a pioneer on these arenas. It is very extrange how he thought 2 months ago that attempting against euro was next and very lucrative.

And you, what do you think ?? ... Why do you think that traditional GURUs always died in poverty ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

ISTANBUL, the bazaar of cultures

2010-06-02T04:56:00.000-07:00

Turkey is outperforming global economic indicators and therefore, becoming one of the countries to take into consideration inside the new world order we are going through nowadays.

Its unique geographic position as the front door of 2 continents ready to trade, Turkey becomes the only place in the world where TRADE means TRADE, with all respects to ASIA countries.

Istanbul emerges as the frantic city, cosmopolitan as well as traditional, muslim as well as open minded, big as well as small, a city ready to say " How much would you pay for this, sir ... ??" ...

Istanbul deserves at least, the mention of being one of the most dynamic cities in the world.

If you get bored at your home town, please book a direct flight to ATATüRK modern and comfortable airport to face the turkish new reality, the pulse of commerce, trade and tourism ... Non stop, with no vital traffic lights to be respected, quick, fast, high speed life ...

Grand Bazaar might be the main exponent of the commerce temple, but there is even no need to go inside its labyrinth of shops and short corridors to notice that the entire city is the one speaking to you asking for an inmediate trade.

Sultanhamet old town transports you and your mind to the mosques splendorous image. But maybe it is the Bosphorus view from GALATA bridge, the way to understand why Istanbul is due to be one of the most beautiful cities in our world. The water sparkling due to the sun rays shooting directly into the tides, identify the continuous row of boats coming and leaving designing maybe the best view of what an active city must mean.

No way to try to guess where local people are from. No way to know if they came to stay or they came to leave. No way to do an effort to speak to them in English, or French, or even German ... because they speak them all.

ISTANBUL is the Grand Bazaar of cultures. ISTANBUL is the speaking city, the city where mosques speak to you loudly almost all day long, where individuals do not walk, run...

Surrounded by Marmara Sea, Bosphorus and Golden Horn, the best experience is definitively a sunset at GALATA tower.
To become an unique witness of how lights begin to turn on the city, mosques begin to glare in the night, and all this, without reducing the intensity, the boats coming and leaving, the non stop traffic jams, the speaking prays from temples, etc...

Minery, tourism, trade, front gate between Europe and Asia, make Istanbul a great place to analyze and therefore makes Turkey as well, a country to be highly considered.

Latest business reports identify Turkey and Iran as the next emerging powers ... For sure, at least Turkey, has all the cards to go !!

Recent key strategic steps reinforce this idea since TURKISH AIRLINES is becoming a hub airline for all connections to ASIA. ATATÜRK Intl airport is gaining enough confidence to become the hub of the middle east, defeating DUBAI in this particular air competition, and key LOGISTICS companies move now their headquarters to Istanbul, together with key cruises lines that arrive now in Bosphorus as a preference stop for their trips to Greece or the Middle East.

Turkish businessmen are moving fast as well, they plan to steal DUBAI supremacy of gold commerce and transform some areas of Istanbul in luxury gold sellers market arenas.

Nice plans ahead. Nice starting point. Let´s see what future tells us about Turkey and its main business city, Istanbul.

We will be watching closely !!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

iPhone, iPod, iPad, ... iWhat´s next ??

2010-05-29T03:56:00.000-07:00

Top Business schools around the world should be analyzing without further delays what is happening with the APPLE power.

Pschycologists may also have something to say.

But, and overall, key technology corps. marketeers must look really close to this astonishing phenomenom ...

APPLE surpassed MICROSOFT maket value last week. Not big news if it were not by the fact that APPLE was a bankruptcy company at least 2 times in its recent history.

Now, it requires a deep analysis of what is happening with the social impact the "i" is having among us, not just as consumers, but as human beings as well.

More than 600 euros is the cost per unit of the new iPad... But, what is an iPad?

It is a small laptop ??
It is a single interactive screen ??
...

It has the cared look of the Biblic Messiah tables, some kind of mental link that, for sure, Mr Jobs did not prepare accidentally.

9.000.000 units were sold out in just hours around the planet. A simple gadget that has been capable of selling 9 million units at a cost of more than 600 euros, around 720 dollars ...( if a change rate is applied to convert into US dollars ) is something worth studying.

Some time ago, many wondered if a company could survive by selling expensive gadgets from time to time, without exploring other key areas such as software, internet applications or improving connectivity standards ...

When many found out the videogames mana, including X-BOX from MS Corp., Steve continued in one single direction without being tempted by huge potential returns coming from the emerging digital interconnected videogame industry.

He decided to continue with the best he can do, design and develop gadgets.

As a new gadget is released, experts and tech analysts think what will be next ... what other application is due to be released next and what for ?? ... What uncovered use is going to find out mr Jobs to design a new "iWhat ???"

I really think that iPad was a risky bet. I really think it. Obviously, I may be fighting against the world, since sales figure make me think I may be very wrong. But anyway, I want to expose my thinkings to all of you.

APPLE global image (always deployed as a huge media marketing campaign fuelled by a huge MOUTH-TO-WORD movement driven by the so called "early adopters" ) has become a symbol for the following attributes:

- YAEPs = Young Although Enough Prepared to succeed.
- FASHION = to carry on a Mac or an iPhone is like wearing Armani or Gucci ... it has become a social standard identification card.

- MODERNITY & REBELLION against established standards.

So, at the end, it has become a LIFESTYLE, very linked to those new sysmbols such as taking a relaxed coffee at STARBUCKS or simply not wearing ties even in key meetings.

From the MARKETING perspetive, maybe there are other items to be mentioned, but I think main are those commented.

Now the question must be ... Is there something more around "i" apart from a marketing master lesson ???

Are these gadgets supplying some key inventions to our daily life to improve it substantially ???

Is the iPad supplying any additional use to that achieved with a laptop + mobile phone ??? ...

Maybe that includes all ??? ... But if so, do you imagine someone speaking to a table like the iPad instead of using a common mobile phone ???...

Do the Armani suits have big enough pockets to get this iPad into ??? ... or should be carried as a common laptop ???

Will the "iPad" be part of a supra marketing strategy from APPLE or it is simply one additional gadget from Steve´s factory without any link or articulated strategy behind it, apart from collecting the Steve´s FAMILY of GADGETS ??

Will the iPad stop the worldwide sales of Mac ??

At this time, I have not a clear idea of where all these gadgets take us ?? ... Because, and if all these releases have no common link or strategy behind them, we may be attending to a not very bright future for APPLE. But, and according to the latest numbers, Steve always made us be completely wrong.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Why are you NOT rich yet ?

2010-05-22T03:25:00.000-07:00

I remember I was training in a South Beach gym, right in the Miami Beach most glamorous area, when someone asked me the following direct question:

What do you do for a living ? ... ( By the way, a very common question when you live in the US, moreover in Miami )

I answered simply by saying that I was a private stock exchange investor.

The following question was inmediate:

... You must be very rich, aren´t you ???

In this case, if you are really very rich, you try to be diplomatic not to look so aggressive to admit an incredible wealth ... but when you are NOT, you try to answer just like: " I am on the way ... "

People use to link finance investors with incredible wealth levels. Obviously, it is not that wrong to do it, but it may create some kind of internal thinking for those individuals, who just like me, try to advance in the wealth highways of life:

Therefore, I tried to face this internal dilemma with the following phases analysis:

1- First of all, I thought it was necessary to classify the wealth levels.
2- Second, we should analyze what professionals belong to each level.
3- And finally, it becomes necessary to look at the origin country of these fortunes.

WEALTH LEVELS:

Official Government publications tend to say that millionaire is someone with more than 1 million dollars in assets.

To this, I must say that from 1 million dollars to 50 thousand million dollars according to the FORBES wealthiest man on earth net worth, we have a gap that is too wide to ignore.

If your wealth level is one real estate property valued at 1 million dollars, I must say you are really POOR, since you have to pay all other monthly expenses ( clothing, food, utilities, kids school, car insurance, etc ... ) living in a house from which you cannot obtain any rent since it is your living property.

So, my first approach makes me conclude that 1 million dollars is not an accurate measure to establish who is really millionaire.

The smartest way to establish a good level to divide the population between RICH and POOR should be based on a living budget of necessities:

1- A property to live in: 1.000.000 dollars.

2- A second residence for seasonal stays, well in the mountains, well in any tropical island: 500.000 dollars.

3- A car for the husband, another one for the wife: 100.000 dollars

4- Monthly expenses ( including 2 kids school, utilities, clothing, food, servants, housing taxes and additional expenses ... ): 10.000 dollars / month.
So, and according to a 5% average annual fixed rate for deposits, it makes necessary a savings cash amount of around 3.000.000 dollars.

That makes a net worth of 4.600.000 dollars. Let´s round it to 5.000.000 dollars.

Many would say that this calculation is stupid and would do their own one. But in all cases, the total final figure would not be that far from this one.

This has nothing to do with highly endebted families that enjoy all these mentioned assets through loans over loans. In that case, I would name these cases as VERY POOR wealth levels.

PROFESSIONALS range:

If you read some of my previous posts about FORBES list, you would find the split of fortunes according to what kind of professionals belong to each level, concluding that the new era of millionaires come from the "political inheritance" of natural resources empires, or the trading of commodities through hedge funds.

Doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc ... would be well based on the 5-10 million dollars range, even higher in specific cases. But for that range between 100-500 million dollars we must go to the celebrities area, or to the finance trading magicians.

Well over 1.000 million dollars, only big business conglomerates ( Wal-Mart, Oracle, Microsoft, MANGO, ZARA ... ) or young emerging countries ( political beneficiaries ) oligarchs may respond to this distinguised group.

ORIGIN COUNTRIES:

More than 60% of the wealthiest people on earth built their fortune in the US. 30% in countries such as China, Japan and India. Remaining 10% comes from Russia.

So, why are you NOT rich yet ?? ...

That is the question I want to help you find out now, exploring the reasons why you do not belong to any of the groups previously mentioned. It is not that hard to be excluded of these groups since we use to think that MONEY DOES NOT BUY THE COMPLETE HAPPINESS... Although I think this is not more than a simple excuse to get resignated with our given destiny ...

I always look at those who say that the multimillionaire eating a 1000 dollars lobster in a 50 million dollars yacht is not completely happy, answering them that maybe he is not, but you either, and he is the one who is eating the lobster in his yacht.

So, and diving into this permanent question that for sure, many of us have asked ourselves more than 2-3 times per day ... just joking !! ... better say, 2-3 times each month end, ... we must go further with our analysis.

Leaving apart you did not receive a grandpa inheritance of more than 100 million dollars, or you inherited a well run company just like Wal-Mart, we must establish how we can earn by our own some kind of fortune.

Age is also important, because we need to be rich before being 40-45 years old. Since and after this age level, things become tougher and the enjoy gets smaller every year after.

So, and if you spend at least till you are 22 years old studying or inventing little business models without further impact, this makes us only 20 years more to really execute actively our business strategies.

At this stage is where financial markets appear. What kind of business can make you millionaire faster than the financial markets ??? ... What kind of business can, without having to pay monthly to your employees, without fixed costs apart from a laptop and an internet wifi connection, make you earn huge amounts of money in a reduced time frame ??? ...

The answer is simple. INTERNET.

So, INTERNET and FINANCIAL MARKETS fight every day to show us which business model makes you millionaire faster.

HEDGE FUNDS managers ( 35 years old traders ) compete against INTERNET freaks hidden behind a garage metal gate, to become the youngest millionaires of our current times.

The conclusion is well simple again. If you are not an INTERNET freak,... buy a laptop, sign in an INTERNET banking account and begin trading leveraged commodities.

That guy of the SoBe gym was right. If I was working as a finance investor, I should be rich ...

If you achieve 40-45 years old, and you did not get your expected wealth levels, your only hope is to find an old millionaire who wants to share with you some of his/hers.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Investors -
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Learning how to succeed

2010-05-17T02:33:00.000-07:00

There are many success stories around us. Not only one or two, but many ... many in each country, many in the same city, many in the same neighborhood.

Maybe I must clarify I am talking about business and wealth success stories.

It is becoming very usual how TV broadcasters issue prime time documentaries about how emigrants achieved to succeed in foreign countries and how they live now with it.

Nevertheless, in all these stories I miss always the same component: the origin.

The first steps, the first stones to build the huge business or wealth models they present us, the first loan to open the first branch, the paperwork to establish the first legal LLC, the first employee hired, etc ...

The audience of these docs are common people sitting on the couch right in the middle of their living rooms, that after a long routine working day, they watch how others live now a movie based life, after having set up their own business model or conglomerate in a foreign country. They just look at the comments from these men and women and try to get conclusions for waking up the next day fully convinced they can do the same to abandon their boring workplaces.

Maybe they do not tell anyone about these thinkings, but they begin imagining a place like Bali or Hawaii to set up a small apparel business, to be franchised afterwards worldwide. Or maybe, they imagine they will be able to run a chain of 3 ethnic restaurants in Manhattan´s fifth avenue just as the young emigrant guy told them last night on these tv docs.

The reality is other. First, nobody explains how long did it take them to decide the business model they wanted to set up, or why they decided to do it at that time. They do not tell us how tough it was to get the first cash money from the banks, or if they got this money from a friend or relative that does not appear on screen, and that becomes the main reason for this success, reivindicating he/she was the first owner of that business due to the first dollars invested when no bank gave the guy on screen any cash.

They do not tell us why they decided to open a chic bar in Manhattan. Maybe he was a barman once he arrived into NYC and with no money in the pockets, barman was the only job available. Afterwards, maybe he and 2 working colleagues decided to rent a noisy and dirty small space to set up their first business adventure. Obviously, they were then lucky enough to grow and succeed with such a competition. Or maybe, we can say it was hard work and not luck what made them succeed.

I always want to go back to the very beginning. I want to understand how a 35-year-old trader becomes multimillionaire trading with oil and natural resources derivatives.

I want to understand if Bill Gates dreamed ever to create such a business company as Microsoft, or maybe, as many say now, he was only one part of it and not the real origin developer.

I want to know if it was an inheritance or a grandpa 1.000.000 dollars donation what made that guy to invest them wisely and develop a huge fortune. Because if it was so, no one in our common and normal daily world has easy access to 1.000.000 dollars to set up a business dreamt.

At the end, everything has a reason and an origin.

To learn how to succeed, someone successful enough must explain the origins. I do not know yet anyone telling others his success formula. So, and for those in this early business set up situation, I can only recommend them to keep dreaming and suffering at the same time, the reality of our daily world.

Entrepeneurs will always come up, although they won´t explain us their success secret.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

NEW ZEALAND: The last stop

2010-05-09T03:18:00.000-07:00

I did not know exactly what I was going to find there.

I just boarded the plane from Sydney to Wellington as someone that waits for a blind date candidate to show up, and meanwhile try to guess what kind of appearance he or she will have.

I do not use to read much about the destinations I am due to visit. The reason for this I think it is the sense of surprise that you feel once you land from the air into a complete different environment.
From the very moment the plane lands you are receiving sensitive information,... the airport personnel, wether they are black, white, indian or chinese ... the aspect of the airport, the smells, the way people wait for other flights to leave ... how the women are dressed, how the men behave, ... sensitive feelings that make your first introduction to the new place.

But in this case, sensations were different since my mind asked me to know more about the place I was due to visit.

My only references were that movie director Peter Jackson was born there, and therefore, he had decided to film the Lord of the Rings trilogy in the country. Nothing else.

Once in the aircraft, I started analyzing all, from the cabin crew members that looked exactly as those people in the Pacific lost islands such as Polinesia or New Caledonia. A mix of chinese eyes, strong dark hair, and wide bodies. Till the extreme quality of the airplane and the cared service.

At 00,15 a.m., we landed at the Wellington international airport. Due to the timing, the airport was completely empty apart from the customs agents that looked at us as the african hunter looks an elephant stampide coming close to his position.
The controls were nothing but exhaustive, as a sign of welcome to a country that does not want to create any issue to the entrance of foreign visitors. A friendly country.

Cabs were the only cars waiting for us beyond the exit doors. So, I took one of them and rushed into the hotel to get some rest after a crazy day in Sydney and a 3 hour flight.

I had time to ask the cab driver about the main resources of the country, receiving a short answer as well as accurate and widely explanatory: Farming and Tourism.

After 30 minutes, the cab stopped in front of the hotel. The environment promised a lot, but the moon shine was not enough to forecast exactly the quality of the surroundings ... Thing that the next day I would accomplish for sure from my room exquisite views.

6,35 A.M. ... The first sun rays woke me up, since I decided to leave the window curtains completely open, being convinced that my first view of the place, from my room terrace, would astonish me from the very moment of my wake up.

I was completely right. A huge fjord surrounded by mountains perfectly disposed as in a movie set made me feel so relaxed that I knew from that very moment that CALM was the main adjective to define my first encounter with New Zealand.

New Zealand is the main living and working destination for those people leaving Polinesia islands searching for a life beyond palm trees and bungalows. For us, this would be hard to understand how these people leave the paradise to look for a salary working routine, more stress, colder weather and loneliness. But for them, Polinesia is only a nice place with few future opportunities.

The 2 main NEW ZEALAND islands are known as North and South Islands. A ferry takes you from Wellington ( North Island ) to Nelson ( South Island ), where main tourist attractions are concentrated ( Christchurch, Queenstown, the fjords national park, Franz Josef Glacier, Wanaka lake, etc... )

Tourist type is that shaped by backpackers. Young couples or lonely travellers designing their own travel routes without any danger but being in a huge nature garden.

What surprised me the most and therefore what I would use to define New Zealand from a touristic perspective is something like the DIVERSITY of BEAUTIES. This means, in half an hour drive, you can find huge tropical forest waterfalls followed by incredible dry plains surrounded by snowy mountains. One common link: Pure nature.

Economically speaking, the Wellington cab driver was completely right. Farming is the main economic source, as well as tourism, focused mainly in the snow high season for aussies coming to ski from the Australian nearby land, and out of season trekking fans wishing to taste the mentioned diversity of enrironments.

So, opportunities for youth are few, and many leave the country to Australia, Asia or even the United Kingdom. Local job conditions remain only useful for polinesians or young bohemian tourist entrepeneurs.
Nevertheless, many personalities around the globe, mainly focused on the entertainment industry come from NZ. Keith Urban or Peter Jackson may be the most recent examples, but many others were born and raised in this land.

For me, NZ is always the last stop. For world round travellers is the mid trip stop from SAN FRANCISCO to AUSTRALIA.
Anyway, NZ will always be the hidden place.
A quiet place, a pure nature environment. That is all, and let´s hope that we care for this not to change, because maybe we could be destroying the only CALM place that remains pure in our planet.

By the way, NZ natural born people are called kiwis. The explanation for this has no sense.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

WORLD is broke ?

2010-05-06T12:17:00.000-07:00

05/06/2010 - TODAY BREAKING NEWS
15,20 p.m.
New York City
Wall Street - NYSE Stock exchange

Fifteen minutes ago, Dow fell suddenly 900 points, scaring even the glamourous dogs peaceful morning walk at the high Central Park, with one of the most sudden drops ever seen in the US market.

One minute later, Dow and SP500 climbed again till a -3,6% level, closing around -3,20%, waiting for tomorrow´s new surprises.

It was said that Greece concerns over a possible debt default affecting additional countries in South Europe, has been the main driver of this panic scene.

A systemic risk once again flouring around the world economies, just in case several key european countries cannot pay their huge sovereign debt and renew therefore, their cash needs.

I am really impressed on how we forget our recent past, or how we care for things that one day after another have been there and nobody has paid any attention to.

1) HOW MANY TIMES has been said that the US PUBLIC DEFICIT is unsustainable ?

2) EVERYONE expects that one day, the US will pay its entire debt charge ? ... Of course not. But this has been so, for such a long time that if one day the markets panic because of this reason I would not understand the surprise of many.

I completely agree that today´s situation or even these week´s drops in Dow and SP500 are driven by speculators playing games again. But this time, playing with entire countries such as GREECE, PORTUGAL, SPAIN or ITALY. But they play with issues that are there, that are critical and that nobody looks at them the way they deserve.

So, and as investors, how must we react to these events ?

Very simple. Ups and Downs, volatility, etc ... But the riskiest thing now in markets worldwide is that this volatility is increasing heavily, and this makes extremely difficult to guess future market trends.

I strongly believe in the CYCLES theory ( I published a post in this blog with regards to this point called "CYCLING" ), but in our current market situation, even this theory becomes terribly doubtful.

SP500 was reaching maximum levels. That is true. So, a correction was expected.

But my doubt now is: Is this movement today a correction signal or maybe a once again systemic default risk ?

I really think the answer is NO. It is NOT acceptable that governments once again let the world enter into a systemic risk, so I really hope that this will only be some kind of wear correction.

Let´s see tomorrow ... and the day after tomorrow ... to confirm if this hope is real.

Meanwhile, it is also true that problems such as the countries PUBLIC DEFICIT is there, it has always been there, and if we get really serious with this, let me tell you the problem has not an easy solution.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

LEATHER Chairs

2010-05-04T02:20:00.000-07:00

Everybody thought that main enemies for countries were those ready to begin a war against them, mainly in terms of guns and bombs, as common army interventions.

Latest events are showing us how in this new world order, the real menace for countries are speculators, finance speculators. 35 year old traders sitting on their City skyscrapers leather chairs, betting against CDS and Countries by just clicking some computer buttons.

George Soros achieved to force british pund to leave international change standards for a while by betting against it some time ago. So, all this happening now is not that new in the financial arenas.
But, what makes it so surprising is how the governments seem to do nothing to stop these attacks, no international call against leveraged positions against CDS, no international calls to brake exposure to currency speculation positions ... no international call at all.

Greece had to be rescued by IMF last friday since its debt renewal climbed till astonishing levels, paying more than 8% per year for its sovereign issued debt, mainly due to CDS risk premium scalating non stop.
Now, Spain and Portugal seem to be next. But, are there enough reasons to attempt against these countries debt ???

Spain´s unemployment is at 20%. Obviously, an incredibly high level, but public deficit is well below United Kingdom´s, Italy´s, or even the USA. Do you imagine an speculative attack against the USA to force the americans to pay 8% for their T-Bond issues ??? ... Probably not.

So, and only for those weak internationally imaged countries, the easy profits for bear speculators may arise more easily.

How can a government stop this attack once started ?? ... Extremely difficult to say, but obviously, the first idea that seems more feasible would be that of sending signs to the international community that reforms to reduce public deficit are going to be undertaken seriously.

Not because these measures were extremely necessary to accomplish but just to stop artificial attacks from the international finance titans that get countries in real troubles to refinance its public debt, elevating the CDS or risk premiums to incredible sommets.

We are living in a world that wars do not get along the battle fields but in luxury meeting rooms, with fancy leather chairs, and many, many quotations running the bloomberg and reuters screens.

Wars fought by 35 year old traders, becoming billionaires attempting against countries by simply pressing computer buttons as playing video games.

Obviously, times have changed. At these times, Napoleon ( history´s most famous war strategist ) could not be that short any more, and obviously not that ugly. He should be more than 6 inches tall and look hot and sexy, necessary suited by Armani or Valentino,... and without any doubt, he would not be wearing that big hat or wear watches,... Instead, he would be wearing a ROLEX SUBMARINER bathed in gold.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

BILLIONAIRES: Bill, Warren & Carlos

2010-05-01T03:48:00.000-07:00

FORBES edition uses to tell us, from time to time, who are the owners of that thing called MONEY.

It has been doing it for a long time. We mainly follow its rankings as a mere footpage note in all key newspapers around the globe. Remembering only if Bill Gates continues being the wealthiest man on earth, or who has the chance to win that privileged first position each year, competing against Warren Buffet and the new billionaire "intruder", the mexican Carlos Slim.

But, and if we go further deep inside the list, we can clearly take some conclusions of how they became rich, really rich... just with a close look at the first 100 positions of the 2010 ranking release :

1- No CELEBRITIES or SPORTSMEN among these first 100 people.

2- 5 Public known faces. The remaining would not be recognised publicly apart from among his colleagues, family or friends private circles.

3- 32% ( exactly 32 out of 100 ) of the official list personalities were born or became billionaires in the USA.

4- 16% ( 16 out of 100 ) come from ASIA ( India, Japan and Hong Kong ).

5- Only 4 people come from SAUDI ARABIA and KUWAIT.

6- and what is maybe the most explanatory conclusion in terms of nationalities and wealth origins, 12 out of the wealthiest 100 billionaires living in this planet come only from one single country such as RUSSIA !!!

Obviously, RUSSIA changed dramatically its state and national business model, taking part of the privatisation of oil and gas big conglomerates, as well as, becoming one of the most corrupted nations in the world. But it is clear that only RUSSIA with 12 billionaires born in that country, shines as one of the most individual wealth generating country.

Therefore, and following with the RUSSIAN case, we must determine that:

7- 40% ( approx. 40 out of 100 ) of the richest people in this list created or inherited their fortune thanks to the natural resources ( oil, minerals, raw materials ... ).

8- WAL MART, swedish IKEA, DELL, GOOGLE or AMAZON founders, ORACLE, ZARA, or MARS owners and other famous entrepeneurs, including obviously MICROSOFT´s Bill Gates account only for 20% of the billionaires number.

9- Meanwhile, private investors and commodities traders account fo more than 30%.

10- Coming to an end, it is clearly exposed here, how to be an entrepeneur ( 20% ) is not very profitable these days. No more than being a HEDGE FUND manager, or an OIL COMMODITIES TRADER ( 30% ), or obviously, being part of an inherited natural resources conglomerate ( 40% ).

This is not very good news actually, since this means that our current world is full of speculation and unreal profits coming from unreal pricing of natural resources mainly.

The real economy is not being taken into consideration, and if you want to be BILLIONAIRE, and always according to this FORBES released data, it is better that you trade leveraged commodities positions or take profit of russian industrial IPOs, much more than founding a company from zero.

Obviously, the hope for current entrepeneurs remain by saying that only MICROSOFT, ORACLE, WAL MART, GOOGLE and DELL founders wealth, account for more than 200 billion dollars. 30% of the 100 billionaires total fortune.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

The iPower

2010-04-24T10:16:00.000-07:00

APPLE was bitten by someone in its origins. At least, that is what its famous logo tells.

Now, APPLE bites stronger than ever, becoming the most valued company in the US, and revitalizing the technology indexes in this recovery process since Lehman fall.

Steve Jobs is undoubtedly the chief commander. Someone, that took APPLE at a difficult stage and drove it into the worldwide companies highest sommet.

A dreamt become true thanks to something called CREATIVITY. Nothing else.

To try to say that APPLE success is more than that, would be to hide the real essence of this multi decade continuous creativity master lesson.

Moreover, when these gadgets did not cover much more of the current uses of existent inventions, but that obviously, made you feel out of this world without them.

Positioning, Communication, Steve Jobs personality, white colours, design, ... I do not know !!! ... but without an iPhone you are out of fashion, and with a Mac, you get automatically included in the new worldwide elite groups.

The scrolling around the airport boarding gate lanes makes you identify the white Mac spots of those who cannot stop using the computer even minutes before going into a 12-hours-long-flight.

APPLE Mac store, right in the most visited Manhattan´s corner, shows us the whitish colours, the bitten APPLE, the crystal clear windows, the image of innovation of always ...

APPLE exceeded MICROSOFT capitalisation, but that is not exactly the key point.

MICROSOFT is WINDOWS.
APPLE is STEVE JOBS.

So, is APPLE a highly CEO dependent company ??

How would the APPLE shares perform if one day, STEVE JOBS abandons the company forever ???

We know that already. That happened once, and thanks god that Steve came back.

Would it happen the same with Bill ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

IT WASN´T ME, it was my employee ...

2010-04-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

GOLDMAN SACHS prepare its defense against the fraud suit issued last friday by the SEC.

Its allegation, very simple: IT WASN´T ME, IT WAS MY EMPLOYEE !!!

GOLDMAN was not that long ago the paradigm of the employee development and the fair retribution. Everybody wanted to work in GOLDMAN SACHS. All HARVARD and WHARTON graduates fougt to get a position within the huge multilateral organisational structure of the famous investment bank.

Now, GOLDMAN declares that it will pursue all the illegal activities conducted by its executives. And it charges the whole accusation against one of his salary workers.

Jerome Kerviel, from SOCIETE GENERALE, suffered the same consequences when SG declared unprecedented losses from one of its trading units.

This is not rare. Almost 15 years ago, Nick Leeson, from BARINGS BANK, was declared guilty of playing derivatives "without authorisation" and getting the bank into bankruptcy.
Nick Leeson was sent to prison and spent there some time, preparing his memories.

Jerome Kerviel had the same destiny.

Wall Street seems to be highly aggressive these days. It was always aggressive to work in the world´s famous neighborhood, but these days, it looks more like a movie set for Roman Polanski´s next revenge thriller script.

I like when business schools put the big corporations worldwide as an example of employee respect and career development, making them highly attractive to fresh students and graduates, showing them how the ethical code matters in our current business system, and how big companies respect employees and ethics at work.

GS is now accusing others. But these "others" were working for GS. So, the first question that may arise could be... did the internal audit systems worked, just in case the accusation issued against one of your employees is right ??

Once again, the world shows us how dangerous it is "to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time".

Mr Bankfein, please. Show some kind of dignity !!! ... NO, maybe that is to ask you too much !!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Private Wealth Advisors -
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

GOLDMAN & Barack

2010-04-18T03:51:00.000-07:00

Not all couples resist a life together.
Even, some of them, no longer resist the first year of marriage.

WASHINGTON political games are so well scripted, that no one really knows what is real and what is not. Even politicians living daily the rollercoaster of politics seem lost within these games.

Let´s begin analysing the story of this poticial marriage between Goldman & Barack, that right now "seems" to be seriously menaced:

1- GOLDMAN SACHS is founded by jewish.

2- BARACK is in power thanks to jewish lobbies. You only have to look at Rahm Emmanuel campaign funding efforts ( president´s office responsible ) to understand this point.

3- GOLDMAN SACHS has been the main supplier of cash for political campaigns since the beginning of US recent history.

4- GOLDMAN SACHS was one of the main supporters of the NEW finance regulation due to be moved forward by Barack.

5- But, ... :

5.1. - Barack wants now to establish a new legislation to uncover who and how, big US corporations fund political campaigns. I do not know if GOLDMAN likes to explain in public whom and how it funds political campaigns.

5.2. - Barack denied the bonus payment now the economy is suffering its worst collapse in ages. GOLDMAN did not pay much attention to this "recommendation".

5.3. - Barack did not receive Mr Netanyahu, Israel prime minister, the way former american presidents used to, leaving him apart in bad mood because Barack had to have dinner as the first option with his 2 daughters and I do not know if also with Bo, his dog.

Is it then a break-up ?? ... I would not be so sure actually.

Once you have attended several events in Washington, you really learn that around Capitol Hill, nothing is what it seems.
So, and since these year´s fall elections look critical for both parties ( Democrats and GOP ), internal political wars may arise with always collateral damages.

We must not forget that Barack approves historic legislations such as the recent Healthcare one beacuse of a vast majority in Congress and Senate, inherited from George W. Bush last days in office, where GOP lost their voice and power either in both political arenas.

Even with that Dem majority, Barack did have to play some kind of TOP SECRET games with some Dem senators not fully convinced of what they were approving, when the final vote became critical to pass forward the Healthcare reform.

So, and since this year remains critical for the future either of Barack and GOP leadership, "extrange and contradictory news" in daily headlines will not be that rare.

The WASHINGTON political game has just begun, stronger than ever, and with both parties completely separated internally.

Meanwhile, Lloyd Bankfein, GOLDMAN SACHS archi-famous CEO, will look this game from his top office, right in the heart of MANHATTAN´S WALL STREET famous neighborhood, ... Actually, a non very recommendable neighborhood these days.

Only Lloyd knows the very truth of that historic SEC criminal suit, issued LAST friday, against GOLDMAN for fraud to customers during the subprime golden months,... at least I hope he knows the truth, because otherwise, that will be another proof that Washington will be again, playing games with everone at both sides.

By the way, will Lloyd ask for advice to Mr. GEKKO in this issue, now he is out of prison ?

Oliver Stone may have the answer to this.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

CHINA grows more and more !!!

2010-04-15T02:45:00.000-07:00

Last data released today show a chinese growth in the GDP of more than a 11% for the first term.

Therefore, China seems to continue unstoppable towards the world supremacy, the supremacy that belongs to the strongest economy on earth.

Nevertheless, some see some kind of heating up in their growing platforms.

Real Estate seem to bubble, maybe exploding in year 2012.

Trade balance became negative for the first time, with imports higher than exports.

Yuan value is now a doubt till inflation rate, that still remains low, might mean a menace in the near future.

Many questions for an unquestionable growth trend that began not that long ago.

Obviously, and as mentioned several times in my previous posts, "SUN DID NOT SHINE ETERNALLY for ANYONE", so China is now finishing its evolution from an emerging country into a leading developed country, and from now on, it will begin suffering the same political and economic diseases as any huge developed and powerful country.

So, problems such as Trade deficits, inflation rates, yuan volatility, etc... will for sure, arise and affect the country future growths,... but this will be a good sign, a sign that China has become a leading nation.

The bipolarity of our planet is still unclear.
USA & CHINA,... or maybe only one of them, ...but for sure, the world will be suffering a transformation.

- Population is now, at this time, unsustainable.
- Pollution will increase substantially.
- Competitiveness will reach incredible sommets.
- Globalisation will mean more than a nice economic definition.
- Health, Space, Biotechnology, Innovation, etc... will require a common leading effort not a conflict among nations.

Is CHINA ready for this scenario ?? ... But, what is more important, ... is the US ready to assume a bipolar role in the world supremacy ??? ...

Two questions that will define the future life in our planet.
Only politicians, lobbies, hidden powerful forces, big corporations, have the last word on it.
So, let´s pray so that they decide to do the right thing. That is, to collaborate, unite forces, and AVOID a new dramatic race for being "the main character in the movie".

Meanwhile, economists, investors, fund managers will continue observing, analysing and forecasting how to make money in this new world order.

And life will always go on suffering and enjoying the wrong or right decisions of mankind.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc

AUSTRALIA: The runaway land

2010-04-13T10:24:00.000-07:00

If there is a place in our planet where people arrive determined to begin life again, and reinvent themselves, that is AUSTRALIA.

More than 20 flight hours away from Europe, Africa or America, obviously this place becomes the main destination for runaways.

Split couples, widows, young dreamers, rebels, ex-playboys without family, war countries citizens, refugees, or just entire families moving like turtles looking for a new place to be born again.

Maybe is the distance that makes this place the perfect hiding corner to forget tough life circumstances, the place for second opportunities, the place for beginners, for dreamers... But for sure, the climate, the nature, the incredible environment surrounding main cities, ... make the rest.

A farm in the middle of nothing, a nice condo in Sydney, or maybe a surf bungalow along the Gold Coast, ... are the best options offered to begin a new life away from reminds.

It is maybe the only place where the distance to arrive remembers those long trips from inmigrants in the 40s that spent weeks in a boat to touch the promised land, the land of opportunities.
A one way trip where travellers used to get along all their life memories till that very moment whose mind images well looked like a documentary film titled just "YOU".

All this, walks along the main places inside AUSTRALIA. You can see that along the faces of the people, faces that may vary from black, white, indians or asians ... in one single block.

Sydney Harbour Bridge always stays there, looking after the impressive Opera House as a father cares for his kids in the park.

The most popular aussie symbol apart from kangaroos, welcomes you to the most peaceful and charming corner in the planet. A corner full of snack bars, restaurants, ferry piers, ... a place where glamour, peace and pure lifestyle achieve the maximum expression and merge together in an impossible mix.

I always defined AUSTRALIA as the only tourist destination where you only can talk about 4 main attractions but that you will come over again and again. The reason is simple:

The main tourist attraction of AUSTRALIA is lifestyle, and this cannot be photographed or explained to anyone without being present in this land.

North Darwin minery, a dynamic economy, farming, and a key business point for the region makes Australia economy a robust one, the first country in the world to raise interest rates after Lehman turmoil. The first economy in the world to say bye,bye to recession, if we consider that China never got into it...

Last migratory movements show malaysians, thais, and other asian regions moving into the west part of the country, the city of Perth, maybe the next big port in ASIA, who knows ... but a place where the new asian dreamers are arriving.

Therefore, these movements will make Australia stronger, since these people come into the country to work, fight for a better life, and establish the foundations of prosperity for next generations. The mistake would be to tranform Australia in a return ticket place.

Mankind always tries to look beyond the horizon, and maybe the future of Australia is still unknown,... These migratory movements will mean a change and a new order, so future is still unpredictable,.. but for sure, AUSTRALIA will always be the land of runaways.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Private Wealth Advisors-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

CYCLING

2010-04-07T02:26:00.000-07:00

It is usually said that "it never rained forever, or sun did not shine eternally ..."

We can take profit of this certain truth to run a theory that has been among us for ages, maybe since the beginning of our existence, but very few people apply to their daily routines.

Very few people ?? ... I think this may be wrong when we talk about politicians and economists. They know for sure that POLITICS and ECONOMY enjoy most of the times a remarkable CYCLES THEORY. Very useful for the Political campaigns planning, or to decide wether it is a nice moment to be a candidate for a country´s presidency.

Very useful to run investment funds, and step out at the right moment, to keep your trading prestige intact among colleagues.

Very useful to join companies, and leave them at the right time .... Very useful to every single aspect inside financial markets.

I strongly believe in the CYCLES theory, I always did, and I will continue believing, ... but let me tell you that the success now may not live within the mathematical models or analysis to predict these cycles, but in the PSYCHOLOGY inside them.

I posted some time ago, here in my personal blog, that the successful traders of the future would be psychologists, some kind of change versus the 80s and 90s fashion of headhunting maths and engineer specialists to predict and design complex simulation models to predict trends.

Now, the reality is more complex:

- World is now global. So your eyes do not have to look in one single direction, but in all.

- Viral ECONOMY. Very important to understand why a government may default if other country 12.000 kms away from it cannot pay the issued debt.

- POLITICAL trends // ELECTIONS periods ... in the leading countries. Maybe some were very interested to let Lehman fall to force a change in the White House, just 2 months before the final elections. Obviously, Lehman fall hit the markets worldwide and its influence was global.

- POPULISM growth in emerging economies. Venezuela, Bolivia or even China with its sectary media policies represent good examples of this. Don´t you think that the avoidance of China to let Google expand in the mainland would have an effect on other parts of the globe in terms of political and trade relationships??? ... Or the yuan fixed rate policy ?? ... Or the increasing protectionist measures within oil ??

- Please, do not pay attention to MEDIA. If you decide to read papers, or watch TV, please try to listen or read not literally, but trying to understand why someone needs to put that article or that news right at this time and under that or this headline, and please, try to link things. Otherwise MEDIA will misinform you. What may someone expect from the democratic party if republicans win all states in this year´s local elections ??? ... Maybe some kind of headlines in main broadcasters about IRAK, or GUANTANAMO tortures, or maybe the hidden financing of GOP campaigns by some ex-Lehmans, ...

World has changed. That is for sure. So, please try to change yourself also. Otherwise, you will not understand anything during the next decades.

Why the governments bubbled the markets during year 2009, driving indexes 34% up from minimums with public money ??? ... It was simply because they decided that stock markets were good mirrors for the economy health recovery,... and moreover,because it was the only way to fill in again the huge holes that banks had in their balance shits ... Oh sorry !!! Balance sheets !!!

Do not think mathematically, rush into the university again, and study PSYCHOLOGY. The PSYCHOLOGY of the world.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Private Wealth Advisors -
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

GOLD: The financial BUNKER

2010-03-25T13:17:00.000-07:00

GOLD prices climbed during the last 2 years to break consistently the 1000 dollars per ounce key level.

GOLD reserves may not show any reason for this growth in the derivatives price, but speculation once again drove current prices to incredible sommets.

Obviously, the critical situation markets were suffering around the globe, the banking risk, the default of nations such as Iceland, together with the huge deficits in all countries worldwide helped to feed speculations GOLD was the only guarantee asset.

Some relatives asked me during the last turmoil after Lehman fall, if a "corralito" was possible, concerning all the banks in the world system. At that time, I did not know what to answer, because the menace sounded so real that all banks in the world seemed guilty of possible bankruptcies...

The human being feels some relief when the events affect everyone. Since it is affecting everybody, it seems the effects may be shared and together may get out of the hole more easily... But, aspects such as the dollar fall, a new world currency creation, the default of nations one after another, the total banking system collapse,etc... seemed really feasible at that moment.

According to these extreme situations, no references are available since these crisis use to happen every 75 years, and they are different one from the other.

But, it made me think about what we might consider the safest assets, something like the FINANCIAL BUNKER assets.

To my thinking, it only came GOLD, DIAMONDS, FINE JEWELLERY, REAL ESTATE ... and other very tangible assets not represented in mere papers indicating you are the owner of whatever amount of ounces or pieces. I was thinking about real gold, and real diamonds inside a safe, and not located in a current branch office, but in any place out of them.

Collapse always means desperate measures, and therefore people use to think about the end of the world. But the question now is what would be the MOST valid and exchangable asset in case of a complete financial collapse ??

Money, derivatives, checks, bonds ... would mean nothing but worthless paper in case of a complete chaos. No one would respond to those chartered titles or rights in this complex scenario.

Along the years, the human system has created some kind of financial pillars and instruments that do not get that easy into tangible "money".

Did you ever wonder what would happen if Bill Gates or Carlos Slim wanted to see physically all their money together in some bags ??

How would be able to touch with their hands more than 60 billion dollars in notes and coins ???

They are the owners of that amount, but is that amount real in case of a complete collapse ??

Obviously, the answer is no.

They would be only owners of their REAL ESTATE properties, their masterpieces collections, their jewels, their gold coins, etc... Nothing else.

Please, think about this point when managing a diversified portfolio. Moreover, when we have to manage huge fortunes.

This is not an apocalyptic message. Obviously, it is not. But the thinking exercise about what our current financial world is based on and the real value of assets, result very interesting and thrilling.

And, remember that in economy, a scenario is always needed to explain theories.

Let´s hope ... theories do not need to be applied.

But, late events showed us everything is possible in our current times ... mainly thanks to the power of that magic word called GLOBALISATION.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

The surfer & The broker

2010-03-23T03:14:00.000-07:00

5,30 A.M.
NEW YORK CITY -- MANHATTAN Island

The wake up call interrupts his ambicious dreamts and it becomes the starting line shot to begin a frantic daily session of analysis meetings, trades, charts, ... and finally, the cruel balance of a positive or negative profit day.

Obviously, and first of all, ... he must attend the fancy gym placed next to Park Avenue, and that gets open at 6,30 a.m. for those who, as him, are going to rush, right afterwards, into the labyrinth of screens, quotations, and meetings for all the day long.

Locking his one-million-dollar-apartment door and getting into the elevator to go down to street level, he begins heating up his numerical brain to avoid being out of play at the very moment of his entrance into his forecoming aggresive day.

A normal day, another aggressive day in the life of a high profile Wall Street broker.

5,30 A.M.
BALI ( INDONESIA ) -- BUKIT peninsula ( West coast )

First sunshine rays enter directly without previous notice into his bedroom. His eyes cannot resist the smell of the morning sea, the first sun lights along his oceanfront bungalow.

At 6,00 A.M., he will have breakfast as usual by TONY´S, his british friend´s tavern right in front of the sparkling Padang beach. No hurries, he will spend maybe one hour having his fruit-juices-vegetables breakfast, waiting for the best time to stretch muscles, running along the still wet sand and waiting for the sun finally shining as appropiate.

Will it be a nice waves-day ?? ... Who knows ?? ... Yesterday night, some friends in TONY´S told him weather forecast was going to be great, at least, early in the day.

Therefore, he waits patiently for the right conditions to surf.

Like another day in his life, that is a normal day, another quiet and peaceful day in the life of a common BALI foreign surfer.

Let me tell you they are the same person. At least, they were the same person. His name is Clark Mason and he left his occupation of Wall Street distinguised broker to pursue his child dreamt of becoming a well renowned surfer. Nevertheless, Life dragged him to become a well renowned broker instead of surfer, but his child dreamt kept on existing in the very bottom of his busy-numerical-brain.

During the week he could hide it deeply and almost not feel it,... but during weekends, and after having read all the articles and economy reports alone, in his fancy appartment, this teen life objective asked for permission to enter his thoughts.

Obviously, he was alone ... He lived in Park Avenue, but alone. NYC is the most lonely city in the planet if you do not decide to run the way the city wants. But, you may get tired if you decide to enter this whirl without being plenty convinced of it.

He got married, then he got divorced ... Very usual among Wall Street pals, no kids, no idea where his ex-wife went, although ... some common friends told him once she had moved to Rhode Island with an auto industry multimillionaire. No news about her, anyway.

His parents continued living in Texas, the friendly state. Right in the Dallas luxury suburbs, they enjoyed the huge mansion acquired during the golden years of the oil industry. They still had enough funds to finance his son career in Wharton College, to head up right in Wall Street top professionals arena. They were very proud of his unique son career.

But he was 30 years now. After 5 years in Manhattan, the change may become necessary, and he had thought from time to time about it. Obviously, it was late to become a renowned surfer, but he had all that is needed to at least, live the daily experiences of this race of sea riders. For him, all surfers meant a different human race with a different living code.

He was always told about Hawaii, but change needed something more radical, maybe ASIA ... he thought... And he booked an internet flight ticket offer to Phuket, right in the south coast of Thailand.

Cheap and peaceful were maybe the right words to define his early days in Thailand. Loneliness dissapeared, since the asian "liberal" girls killed this awful sentiment instantly.

Last time I received a mail from him, he was in BALI. I imagined his life the way I told all of you before. He was married, 2 kids, and he told me he had become owner of a surfer apparel shop.

When I asked him back about his return, I did not receive any answer. I still wait, but I firmly believe the question has no answer, and he went there to forget, to lose contact with our crazy world.

So, I do not wait any answer from him till I get to that address he wrote me in the first mail, accepting his invitation to visit him and his new family. My fears are now that maybe if I go there, I do not come back either.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

A social report: ID of a leading nation

2010-03-11T15:29:00.000-08:00

Nowadays, the world itself is debating who will lead it during the next decades.

China emerged 4 years ago as a clear competitor vs USA. Time goes by, and it seems that the menace is real , moreover when CHINA keeps its unstoppable pace towards the worldwide hegemony.

But, this ... I think you know it already, and obviously my idea is not being repetitive at all.

Nevertheless we must remark that investments, economic realities, big corporations expansion plans, the future of biotechnology or the space conquer depend on the next world leader, and ... I honestly think that the analysis of possible needs or influences on this becomes extremely essential.

Till this very moment, we can analyze what the ID of a leading nation, like in the case of the US, has been during the last years, and might be simplified and well resumed as it follows:

1- A place where reinventing is a routine.

2- A place where its cities tell you: Come on, move ... let's do it !!!

3- A place where being poor means defeat.

4- A place where to have 3 jobs at the same time is seen as something normal.

5- A place where people think 24 hours a day how to become rich or why they did not get it.

6- A place where if you do not make 10.000 $ / month, you have not achieved the level required.

7- A place where inventing is more popular than manufacturing.

8- A place where the owner of small businesses dreamt on franchising them worldwide.

9- Imperialism: A place where if you take a plane in which some US soldiers are travelling, people together decide to give them a strong applause or even letting them to sit down in FIRST CLASS.

10- A place where selling & marketing are the key of success.

Now, at this point, many people could discuss things such as the huge fiscal deficit, the rate of criminality, the corrupted politicians, the 11-S, the fall of Lehman, etc ...

Obviously, they would be all right if we look critically at these issues, but let me tell you that while we continue looking every day at WALL STREET stock indexes to predict next day worldwide movements, or waiting for the APPLE next gadget to be copied or illegally distributed, or even rushing into cinemas all around the world to see the last 3D american movie.

Once again, cold numbers will say in the near term that CHINA leads the world. But will it lead it really ??

Will we see kids in the streets of Europe, Africa or South America wearing chinese brands instead of NIKE, or LEVI STRAUSS, or the new TOMMY HILFIGER casual wear trends ??

Will we rush into the cinemas to see a chinese movie ???

Will the girls in the hood collect pictures of a famous chinese singer or actor ???

Will English be replaced as the social language worldwide ???

Will CNN let its position as world news leader to a chinese local broadcaster ???

etc, etc ...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

A place called HOLLYWOOD ...

2010-03-08T20:08:00.000-08:00

What makes an Armenian citizen, 33 years old, and with one little son, not abandon the city of LOS ANGELES after having closed his lucrative business due to the heavy crisis the world is going through ?

The answer is simple. HOPE.

Meanwhile, he has to drive a shuttle taxi service during the nights to sustain him and his son monthly expenses.

It will be maybe a question of feeling... that kind of things you do not really achieve to explain, but ... and after having visited more than 50 countries, and more than 150 cities, L.A. will always be the CITY of DREAMTS.

A city where people dream to change their lives forever, transforming this place in a crossroads platform, with an undefined mixture of life goals.

"Aqui se hace buena plata, amigo !!!! "....answers a mexican inmigrant to my enquiries of what are the reasons that made him cross the SONORA dessert illegally and run the risk of a lifetime to achive the city of ATLANTA, and then moving finally to L.A.

"Saldremos de esta ... seguro ...." says Juan, a mexican realtor covering the north part of the city, right in SAN FERNANDO valley.

California is at this time, one of the most devastated states in the union, mainly due to the heavy turmoil of the local economy and banks. Anyone in the city will tell you the same. But, they all decide to continue suffering and resisting with the hope that this place will win again.

By the way, would you invest 500 million dollars in a project that may never result ?

And if so, why would you do it ???

Only HOLLYWOOD can say that. In the worst economic year of recent history, a movie making required a cash display of more than 500 million dollars and achieved in less than 3 months a box office of more than 3 times the amount invested.

Additionally, only HOLLYWOOD can explain how the best movie in the history is beaten in the OSCARs ceremony by another film that suffered to get the financing aid and the budget to even get released in cinemas.

It is not only movie making, but it may mean a good example of reinventing constantly an industry.

For sure, we must look at HOLLYWOOD industry to obtain good answers of how to leave the crisis apart.

Year 2009 was the best box office year in the last decade .... That says it all.

Having JEFF BRIDGES or MICKEY ROURKE in front of me, I can only think that reinventing is the key of success.

As well as ROBERT DOWNEY JR., SEAN PENN, or KIM BASINGER, or even ALEC BALDWIN ...

A city where the governor is ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER becomes a different place for sure, a different world... a place where people is suffering a lot, but where people keep Hope.

The hope of the dreamts come true.

The dreamts of a governor that left a little town called GRAF ( Austria ), with a hard to pronounce surname, and became history of the movie industry, and finally governor of the place that gave him the opportunity to get their dreamts into real stuff.

This is what makes me think that maybe the US still has an opportunity versus the increasing power of China.

SILICON VALLEY or HOLLYWOOD are good examples of intangible assets that CHINA cannot manufacture with mecanic machines.

It is something called CREATIVITY. The power of ideas.

Let's learn a bit about this outer space called Hollywood, inside L.A., the city of dreamts.

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow, the first female to win an Oscar for the best motion picture and directing of THE HURT LOCKER.

Beating AVATAR, her ex-husband's 500 million dollars movie.

Do you understand now what I mean ?

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
http://www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com/

2010-03-08T19:25:00.000-08:00

What makes an Armenian citizen, 33 years old, and with one little son, not abandon the city of LOS ANGELES after having closed his lucrative business due to the heavy crisis the world is going through ?

The answer is simple. HOPE.

Meanwhile, he has to drive a shuttle taxi service during the nights to sustain him and his son monthly expenses.

It will be maybe a question of feeling... that kind of things you do not really achieve to explain, but ... and after having visited more than 50 countries, and more than 150 cities, L.A. will always be the CITY of DREAMTS. A city where people dream to change their lives forever, transforming this place in a crossroads platform, with an undefined mixture of life goals.

"Aqui se hace buena plata, amigo !!!! "....
answers a mexican inmigrant to my enquiries of what are the reasons that made him cross the SONORA dessert illegally and run the risk of a lifetime to achive the city of ATLANTA, and then moving finally to L.A.

California is at this time one of the most devastated states in the union, due to the heavy turmoil of the local economy and banks. Anyone in the city will tell you the same. But, they all decide to continue suffering and resisting with the hope that this place will win again.

Would you invest 500 million dollars in a project that may never result ?

And if so, why would you do it ???

Only HOLLYWOOD can say that. In the worst economic year of recent history, a movie making required a cash display of more than 500 million dollars and achieved in less than 3 months a box office of more than 3 times the amount invested.

Additionally, only HOLLYWOOD can explain how the best movie in the history is beaten in the OSCARs ceremony by another film that suffered to get the financing aid and the budget to even get released in cinemas.

It is not only movie making, but it may mean a good example of reinventing constantly an industry. For sure, we must look at HOLLYWOOD industry to obtain good answers of how to leave the crisis apart.

Year 2009 was the best box office year in the last decade .... That says it all.

Having JEFF BRIDGES or MICKEY ROURKE in front of me, I can only think that reinventing is the key of success.

As well as ROBERT DOWNEY JR., SEAN PENN, or KIM BASINGER, or even ALEC BALDWIN ...

A city where the governor is ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER becomes a different place for sure, a different world... a place where people is suffering a lot, but where people keep Hope. The hope of the dreamts come true.

The dreamts of a governor that left GRAF ( Austria ), with an unpronounced surname, and became history of the movie industry, and finally governor of the place that gave him the opportunity to get their dreamts into real stuff.

This is what makes me think that maybe the US still has an opportunity versus the increasing power of China.

SILICON VALLEY or HOLLYWOOD are good assets examples that CHINA cannot manufacture with mecanic machines. It is something called CREATIVITY.

Let's learn a bit about this outer space called Hollywood, inside L.A., the city of dreamts.

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow, the first female to win an Oscar for the best motion picture and directing of THE HURT LOCKER.

Beating AVATAR, her ex-husband's 500 million dollars movie.

Do you agree now with all I told you before ?

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

TURBULENCE

2010-02-25T02:28:00.000-08:00

Year 2009 finished with some kind of crazy levels in financial markets.

After the huge drop during the first months of the year, quotations recovered from ashes and began an incredible stock rally never seen in recent history.

Real economy could not explain this rise, since all macro indicators showed dramatic evidences:

- Unemployment record levels.
- Fiscal Decifit.
- Lack of inflation.

Classic economy books, recipes and doctrines had to be released from dusty shelves to try to find an answer to this devastating cocktail. Nevertheless, the only action apparently efficient was to reduce rates at 0%, and begin supplying cheap money to financial institutions worldwide.

" To get rid of fire with more fuel ??? "... Many classic economists asked themselves this same question.

But, obviously, what else could be done ???

Banking deficit holes were like volcanos in action so it seemed that the fire extinguishers were only possible through capital injections.

Ok, now we are in year 2010, february 2010. Markets plummeted almost 20% in all geographic areas since the beginning of the year, two months ago. Exit strategies from governments ( to stop reducing the cheap money flow from governments to banking institutions ) appear in the horizon, and although, Mr Bernanke foresaw yesterday a still long period of low rates, market turbulence seems unstoppable since uncertainty is the food of markets insanity.

For sure, economies are not ready yet to sustain by themselves.

So, governments must keep their free financing lines, with the risk of debt defaults by country or new born inflationary risks in the future.

So, PIIGS seem to be at risk to pay their national debt.

Portugal, Italy or Greece look like the most vulnerable countries to get additional financing to sustain their recoveries, although and in general terms, even the US has a record deficit level.

So, we passed from the risk of banking and financial institutions bankruptcies to the risk of bankruptcies in Countries. A systemic risk that may contaminate the whole system since the major purchasers of debt ( China, Japan or Germany ) may now be losing the confidence in their own assets.

As always said, then, history shows us that nothing lasts forever and everything flours again. Ok, but if this omen changes also ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

A GREED TALE

2010-02-11T02:20:00.000-08:00

Nobody expected ever the transformation markets are living now.

10 years ago, I began working for a derivatives forex company. I was hired as junior trader and my main responsabilities were to buy and sell options over forex spot quotations.

At that time, potential investors feared about this kind of products, and even, hedge funds were demoned as ilegal players. The managing director of my company was even jailed since a group of customers demanded him under the charge of fraud because of the losses generated by derivatives trading.

Stocks were the only instrument that individual investors or even the new-born investment funds bought and sold. Options and futures enjoyed a ridiculous volume, with market makers doing a great effort to sustain their trading. Futures over gold, platinum, or even the now-so-famous- CDSs were like unidentified trading objects.

CFDs, ETFs seemed not to have any future around the investor community. Although main financial arenas like London, Hong Kong or even Wall Street worked restless to promote these instruments, completely sure they were going to be very successful trading them in the near future.

So, and in a 10 years time frame, these instruments became the daily volume generators around
the investors community. Obviously, the individual investor had died.

Adding up the huge volume traded by the traditional investment funds, plus a leverage ratio of more than 100 times in average to drive their investments, the potential effects would be devastating. And I think that the last part of the history,.... you know it already ...

Newspapers decided to headline the role of hedge and sovereign funds in our new economic order. 500 billion dollars investment vehicles trading every day around the planet. As you can imagine, the manipulation of the quotations was an easy play with that amount of leveraged dollars put in place.

Now, economists say that capitalism failed. They say that Keynes was right, the public sector must interfere and regulate the economy. But the truth is that CAPITALISM did not fail, REGULATION did it.

The development of complex and sophisticated trading tools, as well as, the lack of regulation over hedge funds and big investment corporations, did the rest...

Can you explain me, why during the last week, the trading volume on CDSs was even bigger than the sovereign debt of the affected countries themselves ???

How can you explain that a CDS ( some kind of insurance in case sovereign governments cannot pay their issued debt ) negociation traded more volume that the debt itself ???

Pure speculation ??? ...
Lack of regulation to put a limit on investment for these leveraged players ??? ...

Some kind of greed carried on to irrational levels ??? ...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

EQUITY TRADER new profile: Psychologists wanted

2010-02-10T10:59:00.000-08:00

Alan Greenspan mentioned it along his authorised memories: " Everything changed after 11-s attack "

Obviously, he was referring to the way the world would look from that moment into the political, economic and social events.

The globality has been redescribed many times. I know for sure that any of you is conscious about this issue, but no one seems capable of implementing it 100% in their daily routine activities.

Even TRADERs, EQUITY traders, the daily "eyes" of the turbulences in the financial arena, do not take decisions fully conscious of this key aspect. Although they say they do it, they do not.

Of course, they talk about diversified portfolios, about risk calculating methods, about accurate emerging economies discrimination by macro ratios, ... but none of them would prevent you or your money from a non expected crash.

Why ? ... They will answer always the same. We cannot control all. It is almost impossible to prevent any episode affecting the whole world in one single second of time.

But, let me ask you the following:

How was the economic situation before 11-s attacks ?? ... Recent history shows us that always behind a bad economic scenario, there is a non expected event. Most of the times, a war.

Why a war ?? ... because war means public spending, means to divert the public attention to other forums, means a break point, a new starting point.

Lehman crash ... was it expected ???
Of course, it was expected. Maybe we did not know the name of the victim, but for sure, the system was really ill.

Moreover, when stock indexes were up during 6 consecutive years, with the credit limits highly surpassed, with alleys full of branch offices from different banking institutions trying to offer you the best credit lines, with interesta rates at 0%, .... weren´t they enough reasons to start thinking something might happen ???

But, of course. Everybody tried to convince us that crisis surprised us all.... Come on !!! ... Do not be ridiculous !!!....

Has anyone seen ever an unlimited expansion of the credit ??? ... an unlimited bullish trend ??? ...an unlimited pricing growth in Real Estate ???...

So, and since economists seem not to be able to develop accurate prediction tools, I think it is time now to look for a new TRADER profile: Psychologists !!!!!!!!

I firmly believe that PSYCHOLOGY is the key lethal weapon to beat market turbulences.
After checking that mathematical series, data rows, complex econometric models or even risk calculating tools are not enough to prevent crashes with a determined time margin, let´s trust our prediction models to psychologists.

At the end, the human being is behind all these moments, the greed is behind speculation, and only a human character model may predict the limits of this behaviour.

Let me ask you the following question:

A bad unemployment data is released today. Markets react rising quotations. Why ???...

Because some decide that the data was obviously negative, but we may soon reach the bottom of unemployment soon.

But if markets plummet, some would say that it has been a long time and nothing has been done about unemployment.

Pure psychology.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc.
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Why GEKKO wouldn´t beat the Dow nowadays ?

2010-01-30T01:26:00.000-08:00

Gordon Gekko is out of prison. After more than 20 years, Gekko is out in a world he does not understand anymore.

His mobile is out of fashion, his money clip has no money in it, and the limousine is not there because of him, but because of a rap star released from prison that same day.

This is the new script of WALL STREET 2 motion picture, MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, directed by Oliver Stone and starred by the Oscar winner Michael Douglas.

To be released worldwide next April, WS 2 emerges as a tale of the new times inside the finance world. Mainly filmed on Wall Street, this film tries once again to show us the changing rooms of the finance titans.

"Someone reminded me that I once said that greed was good, now it seems that greed is legal ".... This is one of the lines that Mr Gekko want to inmortalise as a declaration of the new times come after Lehman falldown.

Why don´t you start calling me Gordon ???

Oliver Stone is clear about the idea that a man like Gekko would have no chance to beat the markets nowadays, since now this is all a play for major banks and big hedged funds.

No individual investor would be ready now to enrich himself at the point Mr Gekko did it. The major banking forces wouldn´t allow him to do it.

For Oliver, this is the big change of these new times around Battery Park, right in front of the fixed view of the statue of liberty.

And it is completely true. Markets changed forever after Lehman fall. Insider trading is not accesible by individuals anymore, since major market forces would decide if something has to rise or fall, depending on the private interests of these banking conglomerates, governments and central banks.

The best insider trading may fall apart because it simply does not have any interest from the big players.

Since this insider info came mainly for mid caps, these companies do not interest any more the big investment offices since the volume neccesary to achieve big returns is much higher that even their floating capital.

Even, the short positions may not be allowed for these mid caps. So, the information is no longer that profitable.

And, obviously, it becomes tougher to achieve good insider info from big companies.

So, only investment banks, big consulting firms, governments and central banks can play now this game !!!

Sorry, Gordon. But let´s see what you can do in this new world order. The audience will be listening.

You were the mirror for many generations, even your character was named one of the most influent fiction character in the history of Hollywood, but I regret that your power has found its kryptonite.

At least, your famous sentence is still valid nowadays:

" If you need a friend, buy yourself a pet "

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares,Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

ANTI-TRUST

2010-01-20T02:12:00.000-08:00

Google is suffering now, the same SUCCESS effects that Microsoft suffered not that long ago.

Microsoft was involved in a worldwide crusade from the ANTI-TRUST authorities to stop its incredible emerging power all around the world. 95% of the computers in this planet were run with MS software.

Now, GOOGLE, the most famous search engine in the net, is suffering the same process as its giant rival. GOOGLE evolved 4 years ago from a simple searcher to a conglomerate of net companies that made it become a real player in the tech world. Challenging even MS power with a new operative system to be launched worldwide, GOOGLE entered also heavily into the mobile phones software market, the wi-fi, and even the APPLE reign might be put in risk in terms of the PC gadgets design.

Anti - trust authorities began then to put a brake on this huge expansion and accumulation of power. But, why does the authority have to brake a great company management and its expansion plans ???

GOOGLE was not born because of a government help. GOOGLE was not a federal monopoly that went into a privatisation. GOOGLE was a company created from a little room by 2 teenagers.

Its management team has made possible such a huge success because of its own effort, strategies, and developers ... in a non precisely easy competitive market.

Regulation says that , and to protect the pure competition and the interests of consumers, it has to act by analysing and avoiding an excessive power concentration of these companies. But, do you really think is fair to put a brake to the good management ???

If other companies weren´t able to follow GOOGLE, that was because GOOGLE strategy was much better, because its management team was more agile, because it was more aggressive and assumed risks, ... So, is it fair to stop these initiatives ???

Obviously, there will be many opinions, but for sure, GOOGLE is going to see how its well doing is interfered by outsiders that influence artificially the good market intrinsic rules.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

OBAMA vs WALL St

2010-01-18T02:58:00.000-08:00

Obama launched the warning last week.
The bonus payments in Wall Street banks must be stopped, moreover when these banks are still alive because of the money from the US citizens taxes.

Ok, everything looks very intelligent.

But, Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan have been the main fundraisers for the US presidential campaigns for the last 2 centuries....

Wall St was said to be the cause of the JFK murder ....

I really do not understand why in the US, where a historic national healthcare reform is due to be approved, where the deficit grows almost every day, where GUANTANAMO is said to be closed down soon, and now, where the president attacks Wall St practices ... nothing happens !!!

Thanks god, it seems that change is possible without danger. But is it really so ???

The healthcare reform is really a reform or another smoke curtain from Mr Obama advisers ??
The close down of Guantanamo, is it going to be effective or not ???
The attack to Wall St bonuses, is it real or it is going to be really not that important for the "big fundraisers", splitting it among many different banks ???

The only thing we know for sure is that Obama received the Nobel Peace PRIZE and sent later 10.000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

And when he picked up his prize, he just said to the swedish audience something like "wars may be necessary to achieve peace".....

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
WWShares, Inc
Chairman & CEO
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

CLIMATE Change effects on economy

2010-01-16T04:25:00.000-08:00

HAITI earthquake.
MIAMI last week 2ºC temperatures. No seen in 55 years.

Strong Snowfalls in London. No seen in 45 years. All major airports closed for almost one entire week.

-25º C in Oslo ( Norway ).

Strong adverse weather conditions seem not to impact global leaders.

Copenhagen last environmental meeting was a complete mess and no serious compromise agreement emerged from it.

While worried about the banks solvency, the unemployment rates, the economy trends, ... it looks like NEWS as those from Haiti are pushed into a second term. In 3 days, no media corporation will dedicate more than a simple recall on this country.

Is there any brent in Haiti ?? No, sir.
Is there any natural resources in Haiti ?? No, sir.
Is there any gold mines or platinum reserves inside this land ?? No, sir.

Then, in 3-4 days Haiti earthquake will be completely forgotten. No media, no existence.

Maybe only for those statistics that geologists like to contemplate from time to time, ... but Haiti will not be remembered any longer... life will continue the same way in this half island.

Of course, the aid to Haiti is granted. US army sent troops, Spain and France also. The government huge domestic debt has been eliminated, but Haiti will continue the same way in some weeks time.

The tsunami experience in Thailand some years ago, now this huge earthquake, the rains in Central America last summer, the extreme cold and hot temperatures around the planet. the increase of allergic and respiratory diseases, the blood pressure disorders in most of our global population, etc... They do not matter !!!...., Let´s focus on the next data to be released by the Fed, or the ECB.

GREENPEACE activists are portrayed as insane people, clean terrorists, out-of-the-system individuals with too dramatic points of views.

But, and at the same time, we welcome in our economic and political rooms, the so called GREEN ENERGIES.

Let´s develop the green energies, let´s concentrate on the fuel possible substitutes ... Do you really believe this as something more than a nice and highly profitable political motto ??

How long will it take the world to assume a NON-FUEL life ???
Will the INSIDE powers that control the economy decide to forget about the BLACK GOLD ???

Will the ROCKEFELLER family begin to install wind mills in their backyard garden ???

Will the US retire their fuel reserves and assume the risk that maybe CHINA or RUSIA increase theirs ???

I really do not think so, but meanwhile let´s say that investors have to focus on the green companies, on the green utilities, ... Do they earn money now, do they have positive EPS ??? ... Not at all, but .... let´s continue with the expectations game.

Governments dedicate maybe 10 minutes along their public speeches to remember the importance of a clean and green planet, but then ... they continue increasing their brent reserves when they find a good opp to do it.

The electric car ??? ...

Nice, but ... don´t you think there are much more aspects where in the short term governments may influence to stop the destruction of our planet ??? ... But, obviously, this needs not to have a big impact on unemployment, big corporations earnings, Wall Street quotations, ....

More disasters to come !!! ... No responsability at all !!! ...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Why BILL GATES, SPIELBERG or JORDAN were born in AMERICA ?

2010-01-08T02:03:00.000-08:00

An answer to this question may solve many doubts about why the US may still have an opportunity to restore its global supremacy, right in front of the every day increasing chinese menace.

What are the ingredients of the american society that makes it so profilic in terms of innovation ?
Is it maybe the agile legislation to set up new businesses ?
Is it maybe the non stop development of a climate for entrepeneurs ?
Is it maybe the education system ?

Or is it maybe the culture itself ???

Asians were always said to be good manufacturers in terms of copied products. China is said to be the most productive industry in the world. But, are the chinese creative ?? ... Do they have a global domain aim ?? ... Not yet.

Let´s go to a good asian example to take a further analysis on this. Japan, one single island in the middle of the pacific ocean, transformed itself into one of the main economies in the world, owning the car industry supremacy around the globe, the videogames industry, or even the HOLLYWOOD estudios with the purchase of COLUMBIA pictures by SONY some time ago.

Is it maybe Japan a good example of how CHINA will evolve in the near term ?? ... Will CHINA transform itself from a cheap and productive manufacturer into a value added designer ?? ...

Obviously, the answer to this point would require some kind of perspective, since CHINA is now in the middle of an explosive growth that nobody yet knows really good how or where it will finish up ...

Nevertheless, CHINA has still many legislative restrictions that brake this creativity birth. Students may be highly prepared to do so, but they find huge law barricades to do it. Entrepeneurship is not yet assumed inside the real economy and inside the chinese society, and we will have to wait for future reforms and openness to see the real power of China.

Till date, CHINA is doing great, protecting its core industry, with a fixed yuan, enriching itself by exporting ( CHINA recently surpassed GERMANY as the main exporter in the world ) goods worldwide and by being strictly productive in reducing costs.

But the future is still ahead, and I really think that CHINA must undergo severe transformations to seed an entrepeneur environment around its society and culture. But once again, we arrive to the same point all over again, CHINA is a market of 1,3 billion people, where almost any product sold there is worth billions of dollars as potential sales.

Will the US put in practice its creativity to conquer CHINA ?? ... Or maybe CHINA ( knowing this issue perfectly ... ) will protect even more its domestic market till they find they are ready to compete equally with the US extreme creativity for it ??? ...

Add this article as an another point of view of the clear change we are living now in the 21st century for the achievement of the world hegemony.

The MBA master classes are, from time to time, out of the classrooms, just simply observing the reality around us.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
WWShares, Inc
Chairman & CEO
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

WALL STREET, 20 years later

2009-12-25T04:05:00.000-08:00

Year 1987
Reagan was the US president at that moment. OCTOBER´s BLACK MONDAY makes WALL St fall 508 points in one single session.

20% drop in one day. What happened ?? ... Alan GREENSPAN is the FED responsible, and therefore, the key person in the country due to give some kind of explanations to the world.

Greenspan doesn´t know what to say. The main aim of his speech must be CALM, restore CONFIDENCE, and obviously PLANS, IDEAS, ...

The reason of this situation was not other than the decision of increase interest rates, without taking much notice of the effects from this decision in the, at that time, bubbled finacial markets. But there is never one single cause,... the main bonds collector in the country gets into bankruptcy, mainly due to this increase in interest rates that made current bonds lose value.

So, GREENSPAN was guilty ??
Obviously, he ´d just arrived into his FED position. But also obvious is that he was supposed to bring some kind of "outdoor" experience in markets, stock exchange, brokers and bankers.
So, yes, GREENSPAN did a bad calculation of risks when deciding to raise rates and ignored factors that derived into a complete hell.

The RESTRICTED handbook for complex situations had to be released from the shelves of the FED library. And acting as a cook recipe book, only 3 dramatic options were recommended:

1- To close the markets. To interrupt the daily shares transactions.
2- To deliver all the FED credit lines and cash into the banks and brokers to restore credit flows and restore confidence.

3- To artificially enter into the markets buying shares to sustain the indexes.

All these 3 measures were considered as an interferation of the state into the free markets. All an interest declaration in the middle of the capitalism paradigm country, the United States of America.

Some time later, nobody explained yet how... but suddenly, the next day, and in only half an hour, major banks began buying futures to restore shares quotations. Many experts said it was some kind of a together action between the government and the private banks. Others say that banks decided to do so because they had the TOP SECRET support of the government, just in case, all went wrong again.

Year 2008
President W.BUSH is in charge. Lehman brothers fall down. The financial system breaks up completely.

Ben BERNANKE had substituted GREENSPAN not that long ago. A long period of 0% interest rates is inherited by BEN, and obviously a new bubbled Wall St is also present. But a new bubble is also there, the REAL ESTATE market.

The securitisation of SUBPRIME bonds attached to this REAL ESTATE bubble makes everything explode.

The difference with year 87 crisis is maybe, that BERNANKE did not decide to raise the rates before everything collapsed. But only for that, since all other is very similar:

1- Instead of a bonds company collapse, we have LEHMAN BROTHERS fall because of the subprime loans.
2- In both cases we have a new FED responsible in charge.
3- The system collapsed and the "between banks" loans stopped in a sudden way, collapsing the credit flow.

4- Markets also dropped heavily, creating a complete negative sentiment.

But in this case, it was not the next day, and with all major banks buying futures, the ones that healed the situation.
It has been a FED strategy, right from the heart of Wall Street, buying shares, nationalising banks, and supporting artificially the Stock Exchanges during the last 10 months. This strategy has not spent half an hour, it has spent more than 12 months and it still continues...

1- 0% interest rates policy.
2- Banks nationalised through the entrance of the government in their shareholding composition.
3- Interbank credit flows restored through vast amounts of public money.
4- Shares quotations support directly from the FED treasury departments and operators.

And we still continue, some say that maybe till june 2010, others fear about the consequences of the end of this aid.

Some say that our current crisis is similar to that in year 1929, the great depression, but its similarities with the chaos of year 1987 are also remarkable, mainly in terms of the banking collapse.

This crisis has left the Wall Street operators screens and has jumped into the real world, that after such a long period of wealth financed by GREENSPAN low interest rates policies, crashed into a REAL ESTATE and CONSUMER bubble that made credit institutions collapse.

And all this came without previous forecast ???... Where is regulation, where is the banking system control ???

So, did GREENSPAN get wrong again ??? ...

Meanwhile, investors all around the globe look voiceless how bad macro data ( huge unemployment, public deficit, real estate dramatic statistics ... ) mix with a rally in Wall Street.

Every single day a bad figure is released, markets respond with gains. Creating once again a Stock bubble with only 3 - 4 key companies rising the indexes, while the remaining companies struggle to survive.

Markets cannot fall. Markets must be the indicator of positiveness, confidence, that " we are in the right road to recovery", but macro data do not say that yet.

Is the FED once again manipulating the markets ??? ... Till when ??? ... And when this manipulation finishes, what is going to happen ??? ....

We have to wait till june 2010 to see the effects, or maybe more ???

What kind of investors took profit of this unusual rally ?? ... Obviously, not the experienced ones, obviously not the old ones, ... But those that one day got up, and while having breakfast before taking the car to get into his public office or "anti crisis business" saw that CITIGROUP shares were at 0,5 dollars per share, and told his wife, ... Honey !!!, tell the bank branch clerk today to put our savings into CITIGROUP shares that are extremely cheap !!!!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

HUMMER, VOLVO ... Chinese brands ?

2009-12-23T12:05:00.000-08:00

Ford announced today the sale of VOLVO unit to GEELY manufacturer.

GEELY manufacturer is chinese.

If this was the first of a news row maybe we should not put much interest on it. Nevertheless, some months ago, HUMMER brand, the US famous manufacturer, announced they were sold to another chinese conglomerate ...

CHINA decided one year ago to change its economic strategy. With the YUAN fixed change, and accumulating huge amounts of dollars because of this, decided that its overexposure to US dollars and mainly to the US T-Bond, was not really healthy for its inminent future and growth.

Therefore, they decided to begin buying companies into the US main industries network. I do not have to mention that Japan already did this not that long ago, with SONY buying COLUMBIA pictures studios, with TOYOTA beating the US car manufacturers inside their own territory, or even PLAYSTATION ( A SONY brand ) dominating the world videogames industry.

Now, it seems that CHINA is ready to cover the same route. But, in this case, damages for the US could be even worse since we are talking about a giant of more than 1,3 billion people producing and working restless almost 20 hours a day. And mainly due to this unstoppable trade surplus within the US, the dollars accumulation may be now reinvested by acquiring US companies.

Is it an economic conquer ???

HU JINTAO, chinese prime minister, does not show his dog or pets on prime time tv. We do not know if he attends chinese schools for christmas, or even if he has a wife or kids ... But this is the CHINESE WAY:

- Non stop
- Silentious
- Calm
- Without paying much attention to others

Will it be possible for the US to stop this " ECONOMIC UNSTOPPABLE MACHINE" ??

I do not know yet, but signs show that it is not going to be that easy !!!

2010 is the year of the TIGER according to the chinese calendar, are we then maybe competing against "the eye of the TIGER" ??

Merry Christmas and happy 2010 for everyone !!!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

CALIFORNIA: The "golden" bankruptcy

2009-12-19T01:55:00.000-08:00

For ages, California was the golden state.

For many farmers inside the "deep AMERICA", CALIFORNIA was the main destination of their daughters and sons... It was the main destination for those who were looking for something more than a 13 boring hours ranch work in Dakota, Kansas or Wyoming...though having to leave their traditional families.

With a GDP ranked among the first positions even inside the world countries list, CALIFORNIA enjoyed a good economic status mainly due to OIL, HOLLYWOOD, TECHNOLOGY, VINEYARDS and AGRICULTURE.

L.A. became the city of dreamts, the "wheel of fortune", the place where maybe I have the chance to live in person all that I have seen only on tv.

A place where it was possible to live also a life full of exciting episodes only achievable by the so called "celebrities".

L.A. is said to be the city of "casting cars", people inside their cars moving from one casting to another. The city of "waitress - celebrities ", meaning that working as a waitress may finace my stay in L.A. for continuing playing the daily "wheel of fortune" casting rows.

SAN FRANCISCO is the home of SILICON VALLEY, the main tech revolution place in the world.
A place where teenagers can become billionaires only by doing what they like most, that is, playing with computers.

Where the ID card is not taken into account to become CEO or even FOUNDER of the main revolutionary internet companies around the globe.

SF is also the door to ASIA. The main entrance harbour for ASIANs coming into the "promised land", the land of opportunities...

The biggest ASIAN community inside the US, the biggest CHINATOWN in America.

All along the west coast from L.A. to SF, you really find out the roots of this wealth...the OIL platforms along the shore line appear as aliens emerging from the deep seas. Inside the coast, the huge orange and vineyards plantations look as if they divide the land in a so ordered division that seems as perfectly planned.

FALCON CREST ranch types also aligned, looking always from up down and into the horizon.

Yes !!! , this is CALIFORNIA !!! ...
Yes !!! , this was CALIFORNIA !!! ...

What made this "golden " state come into bankruptcy ???

The answer is simple: PURE ESPECULATION.

Obviously, CALIFORNIA offered many things but this fact made it become a REAL ESTATE bubble that mixed together with a soft CREDIT LINE allowances made that when economy cycle turned down recently, all crashed out.

As in DUBAI ( main OIL country ) or EUROPE where things do not go much better, everything looked as damaged forever.

Now, it is time to talk about solutions and future. And obviously, in the case of CALIFORNIA, recovery will be nearer than in other places, although the damages will last for a long time.

But CREATIVITY, industry and hi-tech efficiency will restore the dreamts. And there is plenty of this in CALIFORNIA.

Let´s trust CALIFORNIA. Let´s trust DREAMTS. Let´s build again the DREAMTS STATE.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

COMPETITIVE

2009-12-13T00:39:00.000-08:00

“To be competitive is to work the same for less money, or to work more for the same money …”

This may be a simple definition, but at the end, this is what is all about. There are many examples that nowadays can explain the real effect of this simple definition.

Depressions were periods where people realised they had to work the same for less, or even much more for almost nothing. Much better than being simply unemployed.

Salaries in CIUDAD JUAREZ ( girls working as “Maquiladoras”, as said in spanish ) are no more than 200 dollars per month.
CHINESE manufacturing sites do not pay more than 150 dollars per month. Even INDONESIA or INDIA may be well beyond those dramatic salary levels.

Obviously, COMPETITIVENESS must not be misunderstood as SLAVERY.

Nevertheless, main factories around the world decided to move the production to those places, to those slavery levels. Why ??? …. CEO s explain it as: “ Global competitiveness requires it.”

JAPAN began some time ago being a cheap producer of copied products. It got evolved to a new level of value added products, and finally it became an expensive manufacturer with a solid quality perception by consumers, what made their products really admired worldwide …. TOYOTA, SONY, MITSUBISHI, YAMAHA, HONDA, etc…. are good examples of the Japanese success, but now these companies decided to move their factories to those “cheap” working places.

I think everybody knows now, how the Japanese working system is ensembled …
It consists on people living in little appts working almost 16 hours per day, highly involved in their reputated corporations where private life and work get confused. Children assisting to the corporations paid schools, social relations not leaving the company limits shaping a system where getting fired is a synonym of suicide.

The US car industry has suffered the effects of “this” COMPETITIVENESS.

Labor unions have created some kind of “liquid metal wall” to fight against what COMPETITIVENESS really should mean. And the effects of this unefficiency produced by unions, have driven to a complete industry bankruptcy.

Unions in GERMANY have also a strong presence. Therefore, GERMANY has suffered heavily the same effects as in the US.
Industries could not stop a strong unemployment growth and factories began to move to ASIA.

The question then, becomes obvious:

- Who is going to be the next “cheap” working force ??
- Is people in some developed parts of the globe ready to earn 200 dollars per month and compete against ASIA or MEXICO to avoid losing their jobs ???

- Are the countries ready to reform the labor markets to be really competitive ???
- Are Unions ready to really acknowledge the future of the manufacturing industry ???
- Are “the grapes of wrath” from John Steinbeck a true picture of the current situation ???

CHINA will follow the same steps as JAPAN. It has begun as a simple, cheap producer of copied products, but for sure, it will soon evolve to a quality products manufacturer in the medium term.

I can assure this, because even now, CHINA is deploying some internal production rates into AFRICA, the next “cheap” player. You can imagine the salary levels in AFRICA…

But, after AFRICA, who will be next ??? … Maybe some strong ETs from other undeveloped planets to be discovered soon ???

Therefore, the world is evolving really fast. Technology has eliminated many intermediary positions, many production processes have been simplified, and obviously, this technology upgrade has changed the world forever.

Now, people must adapt to the new economy order, where INTERNET, WIFI technologies, robotics, etc …. are due to reshape global competitiveness but, … do not forget this:

“UNEMPLOYMENT will be more present than ever “. This will be the cost of evolution. Can you understand it ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

DUBAI, the myth of the dessert

2009-12-08T05:20:00.000-08:00

I still remember when I was waiting for my flight to DUBAI, right in Atatürk airport.

Atatürk airport, main aerodrome of Istambul city, is a modern, renovated complex, well linked to city centre through its modern subway-tram.

Obviously, all this infraestructure comes from the EU financing programmes to those new EU members.

While in the luxury waiting lounge, I wondered what kind of people I would find travelling from Istambul to Dubai, apart obviously from those, that like me, went through a flight scale in Turkey.

Long leg 20-year-old women mainly alone, tanned old couples, lonely sportsmen, no groups of people. Only lonely travellers.

My next thinking was to try to guess the purpose of their trip for each of them.

Maybe business ?? ... Maybe some luxury vacations for the old couples ??...Maybe some private "haima" parties for the long leg girls ??? ... Maybe some bike or formula 1 training for the lonely sportsmen ??? ...

Who knows ?? ... But, for sure, it was not a coming-back-home for any of them.

Nevertheless, maybe some others with a less sophisticated aspect had as purpose a business trip to sell items or to reach commerce agreements between U.A.E. and Turkey due to the low pricing textile or jewellery import-export activities. But you never know ...

The time came, we got boarded, and the plane left to our final destination.

The first thing you feel when you get off right in DUBAI airport is GOLD, ... Yes, everything looks like gold bathed, even the corridor bars, the escalators or even the floor.

The second aspect you get impressed with, is the way people dress, you do not expect border officials to be dressed with a long white glamorous and typically arabian suit and without any visible gun or weapon surrounding them.

The third one is obviously the "real- escale FORMULA 1" FERRARI right in the middle of the access to the outdoor exits.

It is clear that you have not arrived to a common place, to a simple destination. Not at all, everything looks so genuine, different and glamorous...

Once you catch a taxi to get into the hotel, you find out that highways, roads, bridges, etc ... are like recently painted or built, as if everything had only 2 days of history. Maybe it is so, but the impression is even higher when you get closer to DUBAI city. Moreover, when you see how the pillars of the new outdoor skyscraper surrounding tram are being built right now !!! ... So, you finally think that you have just arrived to a huge HOLLYWOOD studio set that is being displayed right now, for the next scene.

2 days in DUBAI is enough if you do not know anyone there, if you have not been invited to any offical reception or even if you do not have a real estate purpose on your trip. But 2 days are also enough to find out what is behind this megaproject. People coming from Pakistan or India are hired full day to work in the development of all the real estate projects, marinas, and highways, suffering +45 degree temperatures and receiving not more of 200 euros per month.

Living along "favelas" built for them, with almost no contact with their families for years, they are the other face of the glamour revolution, the other face of the myth, the other face of the arab empire.

Now, 3 years after my visit to U.A.E., DUBAI is in troubles to refinance its huge debt and to continue its megaproject, its impossible dreamt. ABU DHABI, the U.A.E. main administrative city, is now required to help its "brother" from bankruptcy. Obviously, ABU DHABI is not ready to do so, unless DUBAI recognises its excentricities and begins forgetting about its dessert dreamt.

Many investors, mainly russian, europeans or even american "celebrities" got inmersed into a crazy acquisition fever that made them invest big amounts of money only in promises, since the projects were not even begun. Artificial islands along the sea, fancy hotel rooms with prices up to 20.000 euros per night. All symbols of the wealth excentricity, all symbols of the "I-DO-NOT-KNOW-WHAT-TO-DO-WITH-ALL -MY-MONEY" culture.

Obviously the passengers of my 747 boeing flight from Istambul were not included in this cultural group, but they came to DUBAI with the single aim of taking profit out of the collateral effects of this wealth oasis.

It is completely truth that mankind does not forecast excesses till they happen. Some kind of let´s enjoy life because tomorrow maybe we are not here. If DUBAI is the place, let´s invest in DUBAI, no matter if during 6 months per year you cannot even walk out of your hotel room because of the high temperatures, no matter if you need to have powerful contacts to have fun in the private parties, no matter if this is not a good place to bring your wife and your 3 kids for a 2 weeks vacations.

DUBAI, the myth of the dessert. The power of money and the reality of life. The dreamt of some, the effort of others, all bathed with gold ... but real one ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
http://www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com/

ROLEX, FERRARI & PLAYSTATIONS

2009-12-06T01:45:00.000-08:00

It has been many times that I decided to think on the real values of progress, wealth and growth. Nevertheless, and mainly due to be inmersed into a full bucket of data and anlysis, I was never conscious that CREATIVITY was the key item.

My analysis finished by assuring that CHINA will lead the world in not a long time. To be convinced about this I only had economic data and series trends, as well as, demographic and social aspects. But I was forgetting about the real issue... I was forgetting about something like ... WHAT IS REALLY COOL !!!

SONY bought COLUMBIA PICTURES some time ago. SONY is a Japanese company, and nevertheless, no one now thinks that SONY would force COLUMBIA to produce and distribute films made in Japan, and dubbed in Japanese.

TOYOTA is a Japanese automaker brand. But also, no one would think now that LEXUS was not an adaptation to the US luxury standards of the car users, to avoid being “TOO JAPANESE” on its car models.

SONY is the owner of PLAYSTATION multimedia platform. Nevertheless, PLAYSTATION is an English word, and the format or the image of this platform would not be considered as pure asian, but all the way around, it is perfectly fit to the modern occidental standards.

CHINA Sovereign funds bought HUMMER brand to the US some months ago. Does anyone think that this purchase will mean the end of the HUMMER brand image ??? … Not at all, it doesn´t have to do with being owned by CHINA, the global image will not be altered, since this is the essence of the brand.

The question then is, if CHINA is seen to be hegemonic some time soon...:

-When are we going to ask for products with CHINESE names ??
-When are we going to be keen on CHINA way of living, just the same way as we do now with the SOUTH CALIFORNIA SURFERS ??
-When are we going to demand a CHINESE named car instead of a FERRARI or a MERCEDES-BENZ ???
-When are we going to demand a CHINESE watch instead of a ROLEX, TAG HEUER, or BREITLING ???

-When are we going to see how the Chinese president buys a dog to his kids, and put this into prime time TV??

In fact, this is creativity, media power and marketing ... And CHINA seems to be still far away from these trends.

Japan got some attention among kids with MANGA, SAMURAIs and JAPANESE movies. Many occidental teens wanted to live and test this way of life. This was some kind of beginning. But with CHINA it seems too early to sell trends to the outer world. But, with CHINA, you never know... Let´s be vigilant.

Now hegemony wars are not conducted in the battlefields, they are conducted through the internet wiring, the viral marketing, the youth trends, the media power,...only WHAT IS COOL gets the real success and penetration.

When are we going to have a Chinese student inventing FACEBOOK and developing all around the globe ???

Will the chinese universities become the young genius barn that the US has been for ages ???

Will the occidental teens move to China to study in their new created universities ???

Economically and socially maybe CHINA gets soon the world supremacy, but only with rough economic data in hand, but will it be a real social hegemony ???

Will the CHINESE – MANDARIN replace the English as the international commerce language ??
Will HOLLYWOOD move into the HONG KONG hills ??

Rough questions, unexpected answers.

But for sure, FULL HEGEMONY requires CREATIVITY and now, this creativity only lives in HOLLYWOOD, SILICON VALLEY, SEATTLE and SAN FRANCISCO.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

INDIA

2009-11-26T12:14:00.000-08:00

"INDIA´s TOUGHEST DECISION" was the main title I chose once,to publish a previous post talking about the important role that INDIA must play in the short and medium term world order.

My thinking wasn´t other than INDIA must now accomplish the most important internal reforms ever. Not only economic, but social and cultural.

With one of the most dynamic economies in the middle part of the globe, within a geographic situation, critical for US interests, INDIA becomes, at the same time, the rich neighbor of ASIA.

Young INDIAN generations speak english maybe because of the hard times lived under the british empire. They enjoy one of the most dynamic financial centres in the world, MUMBAI. And , along the last years, it has become the main OUTSOURCER of the technological world...

But what makes this country really important is once again the POPULATION increase: With more than 1 billion people INDIA positions itself as the second most populated country in the world, right after CHINA.

The US has nothing to win with CHINA, since they are just like 2 tennis players that know each other really good and do not let the other play the winning game.

Therefore, INDIA has also been invited to the party. Last days visit to "OBAMAs free receptions" ( 2 people crashed into without further invitation and took pictures with smiling Biden and Ehmanuel, just cheating all internal security controls ), makes me think that I was completely right with my particular forecast.

US hegemony in the current world order will be only possible by joining forces with the big INDIA. The goal: To brake the unstoppable advance of CHINA, or at least, try to compete equally !!!

PAKISTAN may be the official issue, but it is not the real issue.

My old post finished by saying that it may be really interesting to watch how INDIA decides among its 3 main options:

a) To continue performing independently, developing its internal work force and continuing with its huge expansion plans attending either CHINA and the US without especific partnerships.

b) To become an US ally, economically and politically. The same way as Japan did some time ago.

c) Attend the huge market in the world: CHINA.
Get their focus on the development of the asian area, without paying much attention to Europe or the US internal alliances.

We will see what happens, but INDIA has, for sure, the key of the hegemony in the next world order.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

AFROCHINESE

2009-11-19T02:30:00.000-08:00

China´s ties with AFRICA keep moving at good pace.
AFRICA seemed to be the lost continent, the poor member of the family.

Nevertheless, China seems to look at AFRICA the other way around.

The natural resources demand is key for the next decades, and China cannot allow its growth without this supply fully guaranteed. AFRICA was always described as the war continent, with many civil wars spread all over its territory. This is clearly true, but it is also legible to state that AFRICA will become the barn of the world for many raw materials demands.

China is therefore getting ready to lead the world in a few years. For this mission, it needs an ally in terms of a natural resources supplier.

In previous posts, I mentioned that AFRICA was THE LAST PLAYER. This was due to the fact that AFRICA is the only virgin continent together with the vast territories of AUSTRALIA.
Nevertheless, AUSTRALIA enjoys some kind of european status and civilization, with a strong political order and a clear owner of its wealth.

AFRICA is nevertheless ready to be conquered.

The country that moves first towards this conquer, wins. There is much to win, nothing to lose.

China seems to have understood this point perfectly. 5 years ago, it decided to strenghten its maritime links with key ports such as MOZAMBIQUE or SOUTH AFRICA as the main turning point from boats coming from Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Commerce is coming that direction, and China must assure these routes. At the same time, China must also guarantee commercial partners for the exchange of exported goods. Raw materials become then a good "change coin".

Obama visited Asia this week, conclusions will be seen ahead. But for sure, this visit was seen by the whole world order as a two regional leaders meeting. It was not seen as the US supremacy over China, it was seen as a CHINA-US bipolar world summit.

This is for us the main scenario for the next years, till China becomes the most powerful economy in the world.

The US has a strong work ahead. Their car industry is dominated by Japan´s TOYOTA. The bike´s market domain is under YAMAHA and HONDA, also japanese.

The enterntainment industry is under the reign of SONY ( Playstation, Columbia pictures, etc... )

Japanese companies that won America not that long ago. Will the next ones be chinese ?...

HUMMER manufacturer now belongs to China. Is it the beginning ??

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
WWShares, Inc
Chairman & CEO
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

FED´S 400 Traders

2009-11-12T12:02:00.000-08:00

In previous posts I mentioned the market rally we experienced during the last 8 months was not a natural offer-demand result.

I mentioned that the ADAM SMITH "invisible hand" is a true concept, but not exactly the way he thought ...

The invisible hand now is called MANIPULATION.

Friday, the 6th November 2009:
The unemployment data is released. A 10,2% unemployment rate, the worst figure in 26 years of recent history. Worst than expected by the analysts and experts. Markets plummeted and ... What happened ??

Mr Barack Obama has to rush into prime time to calm the markets announcing that the aid to unemployed people will last 20 months more. The paradigm of the capitalist world, the paradigm of the free markets has to calm markets announcing a populist measure, more proper of a communist country.

But, obviously, the efforts of the last 8 months could not evaporate in a few seconds ... something needed to be done !!!

Today, I read that the FED has on the 23rd floor of the Liberty building, right into the heart of the Wall Street district, 400 traders working actively and daily, to control, "manipulate" markets, performing as a legion of market controllers to avoid "surprises" !!!

My goodness... !!!

I used to repeat along my posts in this blog about my market sentiment that the governments and central banks were controlling the markets to give a false image of recovery right with the stock exchange upward trends !!!...

"More unemployment and markets rising ???" used to be my motto. But I must recognise that never, never, never, ... I could imagine a building floor full of traders controlling all the transactions to sustain the markets artificially.

Now, my doubts grow considerably and I cannot value the real depth of the crisis we are suffering.

Meanwhile, CHINA creates artificial snow by shooting rockets into the clouds because of the draught hitting the north territories. As a result of this, Beijing woke up today with the hardest snowfall ever !!!

So, we must only conclude that:

The "invisible hand" is the FED. "God" is CHINA.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

PLANET Update 2009

2009-11-07T00:19:00.000-08:00

1- We are inmersed in the worst economic crisis of our recent history.

2- Unemployment in the US ( main economy in the world, and paradigm of the full employment and capitalism ) is at 10,2 %, its highest level in 26 years.

3- Banking sector was completely moved into a bankruptcy situation, creating some kind of chain reaction, affecting businesses, jobs, and families. The cause of this might be the lack of regulation of these banking institutions and the cheap money policies established for a long period of time. This created a huge endebtment in families and businesses that made banks collapse afterwards, due to these loans that became bad loans when people could not pay them back.

4- USA decided to have the first black race president of its history, the first one since its foundation. Some kind of CHANGE sentiment, mainly due to 8 years of erratic policies, was decisive to vote for such a historical election.

5- The only active war is located in the Middle East, Afghanistan. Although mini-revolutionary local wars continue in AFRICA, terrorism attacks continue spread away around FARC in Colombia or NARCO dealers in MEXICO, and Muslims crusade terrorist movements around the arab world hit ISRAEL.

6- Nothing to do with the World War I & II, or the cruel split war of Jugoslavia, or even the war against IRAK, VIETNAM, etc…

7- USSR used to be the second most powerful nation in the world. But the USSR was dismantled, split in 5 different independent countries. Now CHINA emerges as the real counterpart of the US hegemony.

8- According to stats, CHINA will become the main economy of the world in the very short term, maybe in 5 years.

9- CHINA is the most populated country with 1,3 billion inhabitants.

10- INDIA is the second one with 1,1 billion people.

11- CHINA has grown economically thanks to its trade surplus with the US. Cheap products mainly due to the chinese low labour costs are being highly exported during the last 20 years to collapse the trade balance between the 2 giants.

12- US cannot compete in work efficiency and labour costs with CHINA. Therefore, main facilities from US multinationals are being moved to CHINA, creating millions of jobs for the Chinese.

13- So, it is a vicious circle where CHINA is the major winner.

14- Other countries, some time ago immersed into the poorest countries list of the world, such as Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile or even some African territories, are now, and mainly due to the huge raw materials demand from CHINA, seeing how their copper, oil, manganese, etc… stocks price soared in the main financial markets around the world. This is being leveraged by their respective governments to improve life standards in these places, attracting foreign investments and wealth to their nations.

15- The future is seen as a change in the hegemonic power: CHINA will replace the US as the main economy in the world. Due to its low labour costs and life philosophy, the western world is in clear disadvantage because of language, culture, work habits, etc… We do not see RUSIA leading again as when the USSR was established, and INDIA becomes the great doubt, since it may decide the role it wants to play in favour of CHINA or the US.

16- The US dollar, for ages the world reference currency, is now at risk since main emerging countries are betting for a new world reference unit, due to this lack of hegemony from the main economy of the world.

17- Telecoms development has been the main milestone of our evolution as humans. Since the irruption of INTERNET and the WIFI coms around the planet, this has made possible that all countries got connected and linked, almost LIVE, changing traditional business models, industries, life habits, tastes, etc… INTERNET is therefore, the main invention of the last 2 – 3 centuries. And the main tool for the connection of all nations in the globe.

18- Life expectancy has grown substantially, and it is now fixed at 85 years in average. This growth has been possible thanks to new medicine advances, as well as, new therapies or even due to the improve in the I+D investments from main pharma companies. Nevertheless, CANCER and AIDS continue being our major challenges.

19- POLLUTION and CLIMATE CHANGE appear in the horizon as future major issues. Nevertheless, few people realise yet the potential impact of these effects. Some kind of political orientation from major countries in terms of green and clean energies seem to be taking place, but they are still far away from the current oil, coal and nuclear stations consumption rates.

20- No ALIENS or E.T.s still found. At least, not in WALL STREET.

Editorial
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

BERNANKE decision: More BUBBLE !!!

2009-11-06T01:54:00.000-08:00

Ben Bernanke, the best FED chairman ever, according to many economists around the world, decided 2 days ago to tell the world:

" Our economy gets stronger each day, BUT LET´S KEEP MONEY RATES at 0% still for a LONG TIME "

Classic economists should not understand what this statement really means. If the economic indicators are running that good, that healthy, why do we keep rates at 0% and warn about a still long period of low rates ??

Nowadays, Politics and Economy seem to have adapted a new reinvention period. The new politics and economic lessons seem to have abandoned the basic fundamentals we were taught in the university not that long ago.

If you keep low rates, inflation becomes a fear. If inflation does not rise, that means we are into a stagflation period ... which is even worse since economy is not reacting to these stimulus measures in the right direction.

But, OK... It comes mr Bernanke and tries to explain that these economy fundamentals do not work this way any more. LET´S REINVENT THE ECONOMY !!!

We have reinvented the POLITICS !!!
We have reinvented the way the government controls BANKS !!!

Why do not we reinvent Economy !!!!

In fact, we are in the middle of a huge CHANGE period. A new era in our planet !!! ...

Come on, folks !!! .... Pls, TELL US THE TRUTH !!!

A 10% unemployment rate is not something you can hide.
A Banking bankruptcy chain is not something you can hide either.

Obviously, POLITICS is HOW TO ADMINISTRATE THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO THE TIMES.

But, we are inside a huge risky period, we ask you for the real truth.

Democrats lost in Virginia, New York and New Jersey. That same day, BERNANKE was due to tell the nation how healthy it is in terms of the economy recovery pace. Nevertheless, some analysts forecasted that BERNANKE would be very clear and radical this time.

You guessed it, RATES WILL KEEP LOW for a LONG TIME.

Nice sentence, very inappropiate for a FED chairman that is used to speak only in a very short term. But obviously, Obama defeat in those 3 states deserved some kind of contundence.

The show cannot fall down just now. If we kept the show, through government aid, for the last 7 months... How are we going to leave the show go down now !!!... No way !!!

Market BUBBLE breathed deep and strong !!! ... The Markets BUBBLE survival was guaranteed for a few months more !!!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management -
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

And Now..., FACEBOOK !!!

2009-11-03T10:58:00.000-08:00

Ladies and gentlemen, Let me introduce our next guest right to you !!!

Its name is...KEEP SILENCE, PLS, ... , ... The new kid on the block !!!, the new revolutionary man !!! ... FACEBOOK !!! ( A huge applause all over the internet world is highly welcome !!! )

Hotmail
Yahoo!
Google - Gmail
Youtube
FACEBOOK

What is next ??

Another 25 year old teen, right into the walls of Harvard University, offers us the FACEBOOK extreme power !!

With a strong blond hair almost covering his boyish face, Chris Hughes is now a new FORBES member. A new Colleague for Jerry Yang, Sergey Brin, etc... presents himself as the new internet network guru.

If someone is not registered yet at FACEBOOK, it simply does not exist.

Some time ago, mobiles were only illusions, wifi was unthinkable, internet was a secret CIA weapon, and these honorable new FORBES member were not even born.

I remember once, in an interview to Bill Gates, right after his microsoft public explosion, he was asked about the secret of his success...He answered that the recipe was simple:
" To be born in the right era, and obviously with the stars aligned right in your determined direction ... "

Some would say that he was offering some kind of a false modest tone within these statements, but in my view, he was completely right !!!

What would have happened to Bill Gates bright brain, specially adapted for techs, if he would have been born in the Middle Age... Would he have launched the MICROSOFT software for PCs right into the knights era ??? ... Or would it have been a simple carpenter in a small village with great dreamts ahead but impossible to take into effect ??? ...

Do you imagine King Arthur sending mails to his highly respected knights, or even chatting with them through the " messenger " ??

We will never know if you adapt your brain intelligence to your contemporary environment, or you just lose the opportunity to show the world who you really are if you are not born in the era adapted to your inborn knowledge or capacities.

What would be the influence of GALILEO GALILEI today with all the investigation behind us, and all the theories that have been treated along the years after his death ??? ... Let me tell you that maybe GG contributed more to the world at his time, that he would do now ... or maybe not ??? ... Who knows ??

For sure, we can say now that a new era of young entrepeneurs, with a high ability for imagining things we never even thought about has been coming right into our lives during the last 10 years to show the world that talent is not a question of age, money invested in high respected universities, or even life experience !!

Let´s welcome our new KIDS ON THE BLOCK !!!

My question now is: What is still ahead ??

Time will determine this point. But for sure, new teen surprises are still to come. Meanwhile, maybe we do not want our kids to be football or baseball players anymore, maybe we have to buy them a PC first, instead of a cap and a baseball ball.

But, of course, we are losing them... We are losing them in the world of the internet... That world that is right up the stairs and well beyond their room doors.

As investors we could only take a look at our kids through the little space of an almost open-closed room door to see if maybe they are developing the new FACEBOOK fundamentals !!!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

UNSTOPPABLE

2009-11-03T02:34:00.000-08:00

I have offered you several articles about the inminent emerging power from China.
China GDP growth of more than a 9% this year makes me readjust the mention to this country by mentioning that Chinese EMERGING machinery power is now UNSTOPPABLE.

The main damaged nation because of this growth is obviously the United States of America, that in less than maybe 5 years will let the throne of the economic world to a new player, CHINA.

HUMMER, the main manufacturer of US war transportation is now a chinese brand.

The conquer of the US companies by the chinese is a question of time.
Mainly due to the trade surplus between the 2 nations, China collects a huge amount of US dollars, that nowadays mean a great risk for China future evolution. In a time where dollar hegemony is in doubt, CHINA may now decide to change dollars for US corporations stakes.

Is a great move, since it is always better to have a stake in main US conglomerates than a pillar of US dollars with less value almost every minute.

The trade surplus will continue till China gets the internal consumption growth needed to avoid the dependance of external sales. Till that day, China will now amount more US dollars every day, but ready to launch a new attack on US companies that are at risk of bankruptcy or closing.

Their way of acting, very simple. The chinese way: silentious, but fast and non-stop.

No HALLOWEEN party in Beijing !!!
No HU JINTAO receiving chinese kids to celebrate on prime time HALLOWEEN at the presidential palace !!!

No Marketing and TV campaigns to reinforce the public image !!!

No wars !!!

No discrimination !!!

But, hard work, silence, non-stop activity, efficiency ...

What is the recipe against this formula ?
Just pray.

The occidental world will be highly affected by this fact, since the era of huge salaries, bonuses, golf sessions, etc... is being changed and challenged by a world of hard work and efficiency.

It is not that far away, maybe in 5 years I will have to write my articles in chinese.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Do you LOBBY ?

2009-10-29T04:15:00.000-07:00

It is a long time that everybody should have wondered who is really driving our destinies.

Therefore, I always ask myself:

- Is there still someone fully convinced that the US president or even the chinese president are the most powerful men on earth ?

- Is there still someone fully convinced that decisions are taken only by politicians ?

- Is there still someone fully convinced that wars just occur because of religion or race differences ?

And obviously, I hope that nowadays, no one thinks that journalism is free.

In fact, MEDIA is the main vehicle for lobbying. It is the most powerful lever to manipulate, extorsionate and force unilateral decisions.

-Who really manages the public financed broadcasters ?

-With what degree of certainty can you split media groups according to their political orientation ?

-How many TV hours are consumed by Chavez or Castro, direct or undirectly ??

If I mention now: CNN, ABC, NY Times or maybe WSJ, everybody should be capable of telling me wether Democrats or Republicans are behind the main daily headlines tone.

If we dive deeper, we can even determine journalists that clearly, and without any consideration, favour the LOBBY they are supporting.

If media is the tool for lobbying. WHAT ARE ACTUALLY the LOBBIES ?

According to an academic decription, LOBBY is a pressure group mainly identified within an industrial sector, with the power enough to benefit from political decisions. Better said, with enough pressure power to influence on political decisions.

Any government in the world is now influenced by some determined lobbies, that at the same time, are based on "THINK TANKS" groups, that assure future generations continuity.

Lobbies support presidential campaigns.
Lobbies care for the presidents "sweet" retirements.
Lobbies select future political and industrial leaders.

Definitively, lobbies domain the world.

Hollywood main producers/distributors perform as a lobby.
Big corporation owners create lobbies.
Wall Street main bankers join lobbies.
Oil magnates consolidate lobbies.

MEDIA is their tool, and POWER is their aim.

But, Where are they born ?
Higly respected UNIVERSITIES are considered the barn, the "kindergarten" of future personalities. The new generations remplacement to assure the survival of these societies.

In fact, all becomes a "generations factory" inside a "LOCKED GROUP" where everybody knows each other, but where the mass audience has no access at all. Unless, internal members decide that an "OUTSIDER"accomplishes the necessary requirements to join the "group".

PRINCETON, STANFORD, COLUMBIA or even HARVARD are clearly identified by different standards, based on their main "THINK TANKS", a long time away established.

Or, maybe you do not still know that CONDOLEEZA RICE was GEORGE W. BUSH private teacher to assess him for the presidential race. She was taken directly from the university to assess the future US president !!!

Obviously, OBAMA is neither a bad example of how to rely on ex-professors as personal advisers and main societies introductory members.

But, overall, this is an investment blog... So, what is the link between this LOBBY article and our investments strategies ?

From an investment perspective, the identification of these groups, as well as the network around them, must be our final aim as wise investors to try to acknowledge future trends and access vital info to avoid erratic investment decisions.

Today, and mainly due to the markets being mainly electronic, we cannot play with the quotations running along the screen, or even with the technical analysis based on charts ... We must go beyond that, we must anticipate what is really happening behind those quotations. We must forecast future events, not analyze them once they have happened.

How to enter these networks of influence ? ... Next articles will indeed focus on this aspect.

Markets are obviously driven by an "invisible" hand, but not exactly the way classic economists thought ...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WW Shares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
http://www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com/

BROKERS, COWBOYS & SAILORS

2009-10-16T15:25:00.000-07:00

Maybe it is by tasting a capuccino in LA RECOLETA.
Maybe it is by watching a slow motion sunset in PUNTA NIZUC.

Or maybe it is by looking into the unended horizon in SERENGETTI. Nevertheless, some may still prefer to stop for a long lunch in SAUSALITO, or even sailing within ROATAN bay.

A horse ride along ALICE SPRINGS dry plains, or some scuba diving in ZANZIBAR, or even taking a guavaberry sitting down at 6 p.m. at MALECON are not bad options either.

Trekking MACHU-PICCHU or PERITO MORENO are mystic initiatives highly expected by many adventurers.

I still remember that tale about a poor looking fisherman lost in a paradise island, that suddenly encounters an american tourist who gets surprised with the abundancy of pieces collected by that man in few time. Asked about why he did not set up his own business and become rich by selling canned seafood. The fisherman runs through no doubt answering that... What for ???

The tourist replies by saying that becoming rich would allow him to become free and enjoy life all the remaining days of his life.

The fisherman answers why he should set up all that business stuff to achieve living just the same way he is living now.

When the closing bell rings, and quotations stop running along the screens, world seems to end for many Wall Streeters, weekends appear as wasted time periods till Monday next market opening.

What for ??? ... That was the fisherman´s question. And that must be also our final aim. Do we enjoy earning money? or... do we earn money to enjoy life ?

Each one must find his own answer. But many street placards tell us along our way back home after a tough day at office, that the MARLBORO cowboy is there, or the TAG-HEUER sailor, or maybe the RON CACIQUE dominican street dancer... telling us what freedom might mean.

Why so luxury brands are advertised through stereotypes so distanced from their customer target ??

Are not the MARLBORO cigarettes the brand of urban and sophisticated smokers ???...

Are not the TAG-HEUER or ROLEX watches mainly focused on company owners or CEO s, or multibillionaire workcoholics ???...

Why the most premium brands have not any broker, trader, or company owner inserted in their ads ???

The question is simple:

Would you sell your NYC UPPER EAST SIDE appartment valued at 3 million dollars, to :

- Buy a 1,1 million dollars huge ranch in LA PAMPA.
- Buy a nice looking condo in PUNTA NIZUC for no more than 300.000 dollars.
- Or deciding to go into a SAFARI once a year for no more than 3.000 dollars each time.

- Or even acquiring a spacious sailing boat for maybe 300.000 dollars.

Maybe a 2 million dollars investment.

Therefore, 1 million dollars would still be saved from your NYC appartment sale.

Are you ready to do this life change ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
WWShares, Inc
Chairman & CEO
- Global Wealth Management -
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

LULAS & OBAMAS

2009-10-06T04:14:00.001-07:00

8,20 a.m., Copenhagen, the AIR FORCE ONE is ready to land.
Mr Obama is arriving to host the CHICAGO 2016 OLYMPIC candidature.

2012 Olympic games will be celebrated in the city of London. So, and mainly due to the continents change in terms of the cities awarded to host games, CHICAGO has great possibilities to be awarded. Nevertheless, there is another american city, better said, another south american city, Rio de Janeiro.

But, of course, the extreme image power of Mr Obama will be enough to decide the comittee decision.

Lula Da Silva, the brazilian president, arrived 3 days before, and assisted to all preliminary events and cocktails to gain the voters simpathy. Better said, to explain them why Rio de Janeiro should be elected.

Brazil has become the symbol of the emerging economies. Based on the raw materials strength, the country has been able in the last 10 years to overcome the global crisis and emerge as a winner economy.

Many international corporations look already to Brazil as the country to invest.

Lula reinforced this point during his candidature speech, showing that for the first time in history a south american country should host the Olympic games.
He talked about economy, about development, about illusion and hard work.

The Obamas spoke about sentiments, dead relatives, courage and american dreamt. Arguments maybe valid to win an US election campaign, not to be awarded with the Olympic games.

But what else can they say, even more, when a comittee member asks the CHICAGO 2016 team about the rigid inmigration rules to get into the US borders. Do you imagine an Iranian sportsman with a denied visa ??... Or maybe a Palestinian ???... Or even a Cuban ???

That question killed the candidature.

Obama tried to rescue it, but without a written text in front of him, he could only say that the games in Chicago will help precisely for this purpose, to eliminate barriers and frontiers between the US and the rest of the world. Bad try, barry !!!... This is not Illinois. This is Copenhagen.

This is not an election campaign. These are the Olympic games.

Mr Obama power fades. Most citizens in Chicago celebrated the defeat, the games meant more debt for a highly endebted city, and people know really good who pay the games...

11,20 a.m., Copenhagen, the AIR FORCE ONE takes off.

Neither Michelle, or Barack, or even the mayor of Chicago attended the votations.

Chicago was the first candidate city to be eliminated. Rio de Janeiro won.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

The FED SHOP BOYS

2009-09-19T11:41:00.000-07:00

They are not the PET SHOP BOYS, the famous band of the 80s... They are the FED SHOP BOYS... the new generation of politicians and economists !!

a) Public Deficit ... it does not matter at all when we are in the middle of a huge crisis !!
b) Taxes increase ... Yeah, but explained as an ecological tax increase, ... or as a temporary help to those needed...

c) Inflation... What is inflation when we are inmersed in a critical economic period ???

But, ... Who puts the money to finance the "party" ?... The answer is simple: Call the FED and ask them for money !!!

Wall Street bankers seemed to be abandoned and out of fashion after Lehman crack-down, but ... not at all !!!... bonuses will be paid this year too... and the public help will be returned back to the central banks or governments... How nice they are !!!... BUT, IS the FED going to continue with its 0% RATE policy ???...

If so, what happens if they give back the funds received, since they are going to continue enjoying the money "maná" at 0% rate from the FED.

But, ok, it sounds great to the public opinion...: " Banks are giving back our TAX money"... but nothing heard about the 0% money rates and its real impact on the household economies...

The recent rally in world markets has been completely fueled by public money, that instead of going into the families, little businesses, etc... has gone directly into the capital markets to create another artificial BUBBLE that may explode after the next announced EXIT STRATEGY takes place, maybe in year 2010.

EXIT STRATEGY means simply that governments will decide when to retire the public help officially, braking the liquidity flow poured into the system during the last 2 years. Many analysts forecast another crash once this EXIT STRATEGY gets into effect...since the real economy indicators continue really weak !!!

Alan GREENSPAN took rates at 0%, creating a BUBBLE. Now, BEN BERNANKE does the same, ... Let´s see what happens, but now major risks appear in the horizon : CHINA, DOLLAR weakness, OIL prices, ...

Meanwhile, the FED SHOP BOYS will continue riding their way to reputation, recognition, re-elections, or even NOBEL prizes... with no worries on the secondary effects !!!

Smart investors have decided to watch the game from the upper row: "GOLD is at 1028 dollars per ounce"... Nothing else needs to be said.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

KEEP OFF: New BUBBLE in progress

2009-09-17T02:04:00.000-07:00

Not that long ago, some analysts wondered if the recent rally in the stock markets would have a sudden brake.

After 6 months of "full and crazy" recovery in main worldwide indexes, the answer may be NOT yet.

After supplying more than 700 billion dollars into the system, extreme liquidity made that a strong rally took minimums away forever... forever ??

I like analysts that 3 months ago warned of another BUBBLE in the markets, and now, with the same methodology as then, explain in detail why the markets are going to keep rising.

I like analysts that 3 months ago warned not to invest in the banking sector, and now, after a recovery of more than 70% in average in this sector, they explain in detail why NOW is maybe the best option.

When you ask them why of this opinion change, they all answer: "...the perspectives have changed..."...la,la,la,la...

Once the correction comes, a strong correction according to my view, I know their explanation for it: "... It had rised so much, that a correction is even healthy ..."

With mixed macroeconomics data being released almost every day ( GDP, Payrolls, Industrial output, mortgages data, etc... ) ones up, others down,... but always "BETTER THAN EXPECTED"... What a nice expression !!!!...

I look at the mirror every day, and my face turns dumber when I keep my position in cash, and markets rally... I say to myself: " Do you really wanna play this game ?? "

The answer is NO. I have to be consistent with my thinking and execution methods,... but obviously I am not an analyst, I do not have to look at my customers every day to tell them what to do...

Another BUBBLE has been created by the strong liquidity that came into the system through the financial aid supported by governments and central banks, these funds went into the stock markets fueling the strongest recovery rally ever remembered in Wall Street history... Banks had to clean their balance sheet full of compromised stock and derivatives positions. The best way to do it: Let´s raise the markets again to start the sell off afterwards...

This way they killed the same bird twice: 1) Receiving public money at 0% rate and, 2) Raising the markets to clean difficult short pressure positions.

Therefore, my warning is not other than:

KEEP OFF: New BUBBLE in progress and ready to explode

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

The 3 questions AMERICA ask

2009-09-14T11:18:00.000-07:00

One year after Lehman crack down, Barack incides that maybe the same mistakes of before are still hurting future recovery.

Banks are receiving almost every day funds from the governments at 0% rate, while loans are being given at 10-12%, with a considerable increase of guarantees needed to access them.

1) What was the depth of the hole of these institutions, that after one year receiving money every day, did not yet fill it up...??

China announces a trade war with USA, after USA signaled that maybe, some tariffs would be imposed to chinese imports. 2) A trade war with China ( dollar future ??...) ??

Obama´s popularity reaches the 50% level, after a coming-into-house of more than 70%.

Is the approval of the national health insurance his last bullet not to fall into the abyss of unpopularity...??

Difficult times, Barry ...

Difficulties that do not get solved with a nice speech, or criticising others ...

Congress approved you a 700 billion dollar package, the public deficit emerged to unforeseen levels, and now you want to implement a National Health Insurance ??...

You are not thinking on America´s future, you are thinking on your future and your CNN polls...

I hope that every single day we go on, people may realise that these are not AMERICA foundations.

Good luck, Barry !!!

By the way, we had better delay our analysis of the foreign policy of your government for better occasion...do not you think so ?

Editorial
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

2009-2019: A new WORLD order

2009-09-08T12:03:00.000-07:00

CHINA and RUSSIA now get into a heavy crusade for a new worldwide reference currency.

CHINA is the main owner of the american dollar, mainly due to its trade surplus with the US. Nevertheless, step by step, the way chinese use to develop plans, slowly but non stop, CHINA goes spreading its influence as major international player to finish with the dollar as the transaction reference currency in the world.

IMF and UNO are beginning to consider this fact, something historic in our current economies... The just consideration is an incredible step further for a dollar tumble in the near term.

The CHINESE exposure to US dollar is so dramatic and dangerous for its economy that quick advances must be undertaken in the very short term, to avoid a complete brake in its economy internal development.

Investments must now divert to other assets and currencies to obtain a higher diversified portfolio of chinese sovereign funds.

I have posted several articles in the past with regards the topic " CHINA ", analysing this aspect:

" Is CHINA ready to lead ??"

" First attack on the US dollar "

" US dollar tumbles"

Since my major challenge now as an investor is to clarify if CHINA emerge is consistent, and SHANGHAI is going to become the next "WALL STREET" of the future, I manage 2 possible scenarios:

This one, with CHINA leading independently the new finance world, and a second one with A BIPOLAR WORLD, with 2 countries leading the world, each one in different parts of the globe, but with a joint influence in the remaining countries.

My doubt will be solved when INDIA decides what role wants to play in this new world order ...

Another post published in this blog " INDIA´s toughest decision" told about how INDIA must now design its future strategy as a global country and inside the current world structure... With one billion people living in the indian territories, the decision is critical for the world.

... Will INDIA support the USA in its recovery path?
... Will INDIA support CHINA development plans ??
... Will INDIA play an independent role ???

These 3 questions remain critical for the very short term. INDIA´s decision is also a key factor for indians internally, since they must now decide towards which final goal they want to reconduct their emerging economy... which industries they want to develop the most... what economic model they want to adopt...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

LIARS !!!

2009-09-04T12:00:00.002-07:00

US unemployment data = 9,7%. ( released today, corresponding to Aug )
216.000 employments destroyed in one month.
15.000.000 americans are unemployed.

Wall Street is up 1%.
Europe indexes cheer up this data with heavy gains.

If you take a look at CAC-40 or DAX XETRA daily chart for today, the movements are exact, 100% coincident. A light loss when the figure is released and a "magic" rally during the last hours of session.

Someone talked once about the "invisible hand" that regulates markets. Adam, let me tell you, you were right !!!... That hand exists !!!... It is called MANIPULATION.

Huge STIMULUS PLANS put into the system with our tax money, huge banks rescued but still rewarding their executives with high bonuses. Quarterly banking results made up with big markets gains due to derivatives operations... something heard about the REAL ECONOMY recovery ???...

Not at all.

I posted last week an article called: " ARE YOU UNEMPLOYED ???...CHEER UP !!! WALL STREET is UP 60% "... Now I continue my description of reality with this " LIARS".

My aim is to publish anyhow something different to those comments of "free and objective" journalists and columnists that show today that UNEMPLOYMENT DATA was BETTER THAN EXPECTED...

Please, what does it mean BETTER THAN EXPECTED ???

In July, + 185.000 employments destroyed.
In August, +216.000 additional employments destroyed.
TOTAL: 15.000.000 AMERICANS unemployed.

Of course, one day we won´t lose any,...but you know why ???... Because if 100 people work, and in 6 months 99 lost their job, next month only 1 will lose it... Let´s cheer up !!!... RECESSION is over...What a nice figure of UNEMPLOYMENT !!!...RECOVERY is near !!!...we touched the BOTTOM of the crisis !!!

LIARS!!!...

My only doubt now is:

Till when are you going to be able to keep this BIG LIE ??
Are you sure you know what you are doing ???... Or maybe, we are going into a further collapse... I know the answer:

A QUESTION OF TIME. YOU ARE PLAYING AGAINST TIME. YOU THINK THAT OBVIOUSLY ONE DAY, THINGS WILL IMPROVE... WHEN ??? you have no idea, but your hope is that it will be soon.

Let´s hope then ...

By the way, "YOU" means CENTRAL BANKS, GOVERNMENTS, STIMULUS PLANS, FEDs, ...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

LIARS !!!

2009-09-04T12:00:00.001-07:00

LIARS !!!

2009-09-04T12:00:00.000-07:00

The killing MEDIA

2009-09-03T04:34:00.001-07:00

MEDIA is the new servant of power.

In fact, maybe it has been serving the power for many ages, but now, it has become really unsustainable.

Depending on what newspaper, radio station, or tv broadcaster you pay attention to, you will receive different outputs on the same item.

Even, the key news for some of them becaome ridiculous for the others, so you may find front pages in some and little foot press notes in the others.

Murdoch, NEWS CORP "capo", announced last week that from now on, all their media platforms in internet will not be free anymore. Paying for reading in the net ???... No way, Mr Murdoch... Let´s preserve INTERNET as the last oasis of freedom, anti-capitalism and clearance in our recent history.

Maybe if you do that, Mr Murdoch, bloggers will arise even stronger as they did till now. That would be good news for everybody.

I am not going to pay for reading your politicised news, your opinions censured, or your interpretations of real truth.

Media needs to reconvert, bloggers may be the solution.

INTERNET is the only way to find the real truth inside those political platforms called "independent journalism".

Editorial
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

1929 - 2008: From GREAT DEPRESSION to GREAT DECEPTION

2009-08-30T03:08:00.000-07:00

History tells us the bigger the financial crisis are, the deeper the political, social and cultural changes become.

80 years after the so called GREAT DEPRESSION, we are immersed into the GREAT DECEPTION.

Mankind has not learnt anything in 80 years of history. GREED continues being the global leader of the world.

Several and intense changes have occured during this time frame, but the basic stone of civilizations have not changed that much.

Severe economic crisis provoked wars, the big wars, nazismus, radicalism, ... and obviously, populism movements.

Now, we have a black president in the WHITE HOUSE. Unbelievebable 2 years ago. Nevertheless, the worst modern financial downturn together with 8 years of erratic political decisions have made it possible.

Bill Clinton was the last president trying to implement an universal health care sytem. He did not get it. Barack might. In the middle of the current situation, everything is possible.

USA, the empire of capitalism, has now banks nationalised, insurance companies controlled, stimulus plans of more than 700 B dollars put in place, and now, maybe, a nationalised health system.

BIG CRISIS, BIG CHANGES. No doubt about it.

TAX HAVENS have been existing for ages. Even, 2 world wars have not been able to demolish them. Now, their pillars tumble. Bank secrecy may be over for these tax evaders paradises.

I published some time ago here in this blog, a post called THE RESTRUCTURATOR. I wanted to share with you the idea that there is nothing worst than someone come into power with the idea of making history.

MAKING HISTORY is not a wish, is a consequence of some actions taken without further planning. If a politician wants to make history... then praying is the only thing left to do.

DEFICITS seem not to matter. Public and external deficits of trillions do not matter at all.

" I have to stay here 4 years, maybe 8... so I want to be remembered forever as the president of change ...". Bad way, folks !!!

Fundamentals have worked properly during 80 years, these have made the US the most powerful country in the world. The american dreamt, the wild capitalism, the hard work, ...

Very simple: FUNDAMENTALS have not failed, the greed of human kind failed.

This greed got feeded with a lack of regulation for new financial products, some kind of corruption inside the institutions, etc... but NOT the pure FUNDAMENTALS of american economy.

The GREAT DEPRESSION of 1929 takes now to the GREAT DECEPTION in year 2008-09.

Let´s take gain of this situation to revolution the world. NO !!!... Let´s take gain of this situation to save the fundamentals that work and have worked for ages ... do not demolish them.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

The richer you become, the

ARE YOU UNEMPLOYED ??... CHEER UP!!! WALL STREET IS UP 60%

2009-08-25T03:38:00.000-07:00

POLITICIANS HAVE DECIDED THAT MARKETS DO NOT HAVE TO FALL.

ANOTHER PANIC MONTH IN WALL STREET MIGHT TAKE OBAMA´S STIMULUS PLAN BACK INTO BIG DOUBTS.

WHILE INDICATORS SHOW MIXED TRENDS, MARKET INDEXES HAVE NO DOUBT AT ALL. UP,UP, UP ....

BEN BERNANKE HAS DECIDED THAT THE BEST WAY TO TELL PEOPLE: " EVERYTHING IS OK, NOW ... WE ARE IN THE PATH TO RECOVERY !!! " IS BY PUTTING THE STOCK MARKETS WELL INTO A BUBBLE AGAIN.

NO PANIC !!!... THE BUBBLE WILL EXPLODE AGAIN !!!... BUT AT THAT TIME, WE HOPEFULLY WILL HAVE BETTER REAL ECONOMY NEWS. THEN, IT WON´T MATTER IF "SPECULATORS" SUFFER A LITTLE BIT.

BUT THESE "SPECULATORS" ARE RIGHT NOW YOURSELF, CENTRAL BANKS, AND GOVERNMENTS ... DO NOT FORGET THIS POINT !!!, BUT YOU PLAY WITH MARKED CARDS, SINCE YOU HAVE THE REAL INFO...

OUR ADVICE FROM WWSHARES, INC IS TO BE VERY CAUTIOUS WITH THIS RALLY, SINCE IN MANY CASES WE ARE BREAKING AGAIN THE FAIR VALUE OF ASSETS, AND LOSSES IN THE NET ARE DRIVING TOWARDS MINI-RALLIES IN THE QUOTATIONS.

I MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS POSTS, THAT MANY "BERNARD MADOFFS" WILL ARISE IN THE FUTURE. DO NOT FORGET THIS COMMENT, PLEASE !!!

AND DO NOT FORGET EITHER, THAT OLD TRADERS ALWAYS SAY: " WHEN EVERYBODY IS INSIDE, THEN THE CAGE LOCKS UP "

THE RULES OF THE MARKETS.

WWSHARES, INC
-GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT-
WWW.WORLDWIDESHARES.BLOGSPOT.COM

Yes, CHINA can !!!

2009-08-19T04:32:00.000-07:00

In previous posts, I mentioned the following question:

Is CHINA ready to lead ??

The answer is yes. With the main economy in terms of consumption sumerged in a chaos, CHINA together with Hong Kong shows growth rates of more than 3% in their GDP.

Of course, CHINA lives of its exports. But, what would happen if 1,3 billion people started step by step to consume internally ???

US supremacy would be over forever, not only for their imports but also for their exports !!!

But this scenario has a huge risk: What will be the real demand of RAW MATERIALS, OIL, etc.. to support this consumption growth ???

How many pollution rates will be considered to test 1,3 billion additional vehicles in the world ???

Many questions, but one certainty: CHINA is ready to lead.

The consequences of this, inimaginable now ...

Editorial
WWShares, INC

WARREN BUFFET also plays DERIVATIVES

2009-08-17T04:45:00.000-07:00

Mr Buffet said once that DERIVATIVES were massive destruction weapons.
He appointed again, that DERIVATIVES were the main cause of current financial collapse.

Mr Buffet said once he believed in the LONG TERM investments, in the Fair value of the assets, in the intrinsic business management...

Mr Buffet is said to have been investing heavily in DERIVATIVES, selling them in the short term, and without considering whether he invested in APPLES or in PEARS...

So, Mr BUFFET .... Welcome to the club !!!
Bye, bye to your credibility... to your independence... to your fundamentals...

Maybe it is caused by the age. Once you get elder, you have less time to win, and if you are losing considerably, the best and fastest way to recover is the same you criticised many times.

Bye, bye, ... Mr Buffet....

Now, I feel bad ... not because of you, but because of the money I spent buying your books, and the time spent reading them...

I will buy now the BERNARD MADOFF´s new one, relating his memories. At least, this will not be full with more lies or dressed truths...

In some cases, TRUTH stays where the LIES are known.

Mr BUFFET, this is not a good ending session for your incredible investments record. But, people do not know that your father was politician, that he was already a trader... and at that time, with a father politician and trader,... everything is easier....

I prefer Mr Soros history, or even Bernard Madoff´s one... where reality is more visible.

BM is a villain of Wall Street because of a question of timing... because he was a hero for many years, and nobody noticed... better said, nobody asked...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Never was so easy TO BECOME MILLIONAIRE

2009-08-14T03:40:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I received a call from a friend I hadn´t had any contact with in years...
At the time we had more frequent meetings, he was only a modest clerk in a multinational corporation... good and stable salary, low responsabilities, good quality of life.

He told me he had found my phone number in an old notebook, and he had decided to call me to know about my current life and family.

We were talking about the old times, about common friends, ... But, inevitably, we ended up talking about the current crisis situation, the credit crunch, and how I had survived to the markets strong fall...

Once we continued getting in depth into these issues, I was realising that he was using technical words, and that he managed terms in a very accurate manner, overall, with regards to new products such as CFDs, ETFs, LEVERAGED operations, etc...

My surprise began when he asked me:

Won´t you continue with your prehistoric way of investment ??
Long term, dividends, 0 credit lines ?????

I answered that obviously this was my way of investing, has been my way of investing for many years, and has reported me good profits ... so I told him I had not found the reason to change it yet.

He continued explaining me the reason of such direct questions, telling me the following:

" 2 months ago, I was looking a fixed income deposit to invest a sum of money coming from the sale of my mother´s house ( 300.000 euros ), and I realised that a 0,35% annual interest rate was not a good alternative to put that money inside public debt.

Therefore, I asked about investment funds ( "variable - mix" with a 35% variable portion investment in equity ), but I found out that returns were well below the own market indexes trends. So, I decided to talk to a good friend of mine working in Capital Markets to get some professional advice.

He told me that a "new era of investing had come to town"... and he began explaining me that leaving 200.000 euros safe with almost no return, but putting 100.000 euros into a credit leveraged operation method, I could earn for a 10% return in the asset, 100% my money invested ( 100.000 euros ).

He told me that investing 100.000 euros, I would be really moving 1.000.000 euros in the market. So a 10% return over 1M euros would be 100.000 euros, that is my money invested, so I get a 100% with a 10% profit in the asset"

This is a good example of what is happening now !!!
These complex operatives are now being offered to the low profile investors that not that long ago, used to invest only in fixed deposits.

If you tell someone, that with a 300.000 euros NET base, he will be able to invest as with 3.000.000 euros WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY EVEN an INTEREST RATE for this "INCREDIBLE LOAN", people will decide to be at least TRADERS for one day, AND BECOME MULTIMILLIONAIRE with a net base of 10 times less money.

Now, it is even narrower the line that crosses RICH and POOR territories.

My question now is: Am I millionaire if I have 1.000.000 dollars or more, or only with 100.000 euros but leveraged 10 times ??? ... A good question for FORBES next WEALTH survey.

The potential damages of all this, I think is over known for everybody...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, INC
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

WORDING

2009-08-07T12:20:00.000-07:00

8,30 A.M. : " U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPS "

Therefore, markets are up more than 1,6%.
Rate stays at 9,4%, while the expected data was 9,5% or higher. What a big success !!!

The real thing: 237.000 PEOPLE LOST THEIR JOB. Analysts forecasted more than 370.000, but 237.000 additional jobs have been lost !!!!!!

Is this a success ???

Obviously, while we go destroying employments, less employed people will be ready to lose it.

I really get crazy when I hear the markets cheering up that we destroyed less employment than the previously forecasted. But, don´t you understand that while less people remains employed, less destruction will come up ??

The good news will be when we begin creating new jobs to drive back the situation to previous levels before the recession.

"The beginning of the end"
" The toughest part of the recession is over "

Obviously !!!!, otherwise everything would have dissapeared, but now the question is:

How long will it take the recovery ???
How long will it take to create jobs to reduce a 9,4% unemployment rate ???
When will the banks begin to give loans at a reasonable rate again ???

"The most important part of a hurricane is not the 2 days it attacks, but the rebuilding of the damages"

Mr Obama´s stimulus plan ... When will we see the real impact of this plan on the real economy ??

I acknowledge it is still very soon to say this. But obviously, although the toughest part is over, we must be conscious that the toughest part is TIME.

How long will the recovery take ???

And it is here where Mr Obama must be evaluated. Till now, everybody with a stimulus plan of more than 700.000 millions dollars would have had the same effect on economy, but is this effect real ???

Every single employment destroyed means a family in danger, a medical insurance not paid, a house to be auctioned... so, do not cheer up for destroying less than forecasted !!!... Let´s be rational.

I hope my words won´t let me out of a beer invitation in the White House, Mr Obama ...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman& CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Are you LEVERAGED ?

2009-08-07T12:02:00.000-07:00

Warren Buffet stated once that these NEW financial instruments were massive destruction weapons.

Nevertheless, the proliferation of these “NEW ERA-TechTEENs” investment vehicles have achieved a TRADING VOLUME superior to the one managed with common shares.

DERIVATIVES enlist many different products:

- Options
- Futures
- Warrants
- CFDs
- Short SELLERs ( Loans of shares )
- Etc…

OPTIONS and WARRANTS are similar products in terms of execution. You invest only a small amount of money buying the right over a determined number of shares, or gold deposits, or oil deposits, etc… meaning that with few money you really win or lose money over a bigger amount of invested money. Risk is only limited to the few money you invested, but obviously this money may be lost in one single day of trading if the product you invested gets into a different market trend that you previously forecasted. Nevertheless, with OPTIONS and WARRANTS you have an investment time period of maximum 3 months, but taking into consideration, that every day the market may go opposite to your forecast, you are losing the difference of your strike price and the quoted price, and you are losing also a time component because of the time loss of 1 day among this 3 months period.

FUTURES require to deposit a guarantee to trade.
Clearing is daily, so every day you may be losing the guarantee deposited and therefore you have to restablish it. The quotation product is a future, not the index, or the currency itself, and this future has also a time frame of 3 months.

The risk is constant since everyday you may be losing your guarantee, while with OPTIONS and WARRANTS, you can follow up the quotation of your purchased “right”, that will be cleared after 3 months. In the 3 months time frame, your “right” may be in profit, in loss, or neutral, losing everyday the time component only.

CFDs get into the market as a new product, mix between FUTURES and OPTIONS-WARRANTS.
You also have to deposit a guarantee to trade, but the positive or negative difference with the product you decide to invest ( currencies, indexes, common shares, oil, gold, etc… ) has not a time component and it has not a 3 month time frame either.
Clearing is also daily, but the time component disappears.

The quotation product is not a future, it is the product itself in spot.

Finally, exists also the so called “SHORT SELLERS with loan in shares”. Investors decide to ask for shares temporarily to someone that owns these shares. The owner of these shares receive a fixed income rate for the time period he is letting them.

Once the investor receives these shares from the owner, he sells them into the market with the goal to purchase them back at a lower price, to return them to the owner. The owner does not win or lose, and he receives a fixed rate income for the time period of the lease. No risk for the owner of the shares, but a huge risk for the one that gets leased, mainly because the investor risks that the shares get up and then has to buy them back at a higher price to return them to the owner, losing the difference.

So, without having the shares in property, but leased, the investor decides to play SHORT and buy back them to return the titles to the owner.

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So, What is the problem behind the operative with DERIVATIVES ???

The problem emerges when you invest 10.000 dollars in OPTIONS CALL ( meaning the financial product has to go up to win, PUT means you forecast a drop in the price ), moving a real investment in the market of 1.000.000 dollars in the determined asset.
THAT MEANS A 100 TIMES LEVERAGE OPERATION !!!

Or when an investor decides to invest in CFDs depositing only a 10.000 dollars guarantee, but trading an asset worth 2.000.000 dollars.

In general terms, the risk gets increased heavily, and if we imagine a market where every single investor, hedge funds, investment funds, investment companies, banks, etc decide to leave their investments in common shares and assets apart, and begin, all of them, trading leveraged… the potential losses will result in a …

BIG BANKING and INSTITUTIONS DEFAULT … CREDIT CRUNCH … BANKRUPTCY, SAVINGS LOSS, etc…

Yes, you are right. You are a plumber or the owner of a convenience store that asks for a loan in a bank to develop your business and therefore to create jobs in the real economy, and the bank denies you the loan because their situation is critical due to be playing DERIVATIVES and LEVERAGED TRADING with the deposits of its own customers.

Do you understand now what happened to our lives recently ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, INC
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Tools for TEEN MILLIONAIRES

2009-08-04T04:02:00.000-07:00

In year 2000, it was the INTERNET break up the one that made smart teens become multimillionaire with very diverse companies working or making business through the net.

Many of them, sold their new companies before the INTERNET PARTY was over and the market began to select the number of profitable companies and bring them to a reduced and limited number.

Students with no more than 25 years of age appeared on FORBES as the new era businessmen. Challenging the traditional way of doing money, they found out that the NET did not ask for the ID to become important and respected in the business world.

SILICON VALLEY incubators were the main example of this revolution, with the creation of new companies almost every day.

Now, what do we have ??

These multimillionaire teens suddenly fed up of fresh money, and began to get some interest in Financial Markets, playing with NEW instruments like DERIVATIVES, AUTOMATIC TRADING, LEVERAGED OPERATIONS, STOCK OPTIONS ...

Yeahhhhhhhhh..., they changed the screen of the laptop...., instead of an integrated circuit image, now they have stock quotations running through it...

What a fun to be the owner of a 5% of BoA, with no more than 10 million dollars...
What a fun to create charts and advanced statistical methods or processes to guess the market future trends...

Many of them stopped thinking about how to develop the NET, and began playing TRADING games.

Old and experienced TRADERS were therefore substitued by young and smart TECH-TEENS capable of moving faster in this new computer era, applied now into the Financial Markets.

The final result: A crazy market full of youngsters playing through HEDGE FUNDS and LEVERAGED funds a new game: How to become MORE MILLIONAIRE without leaving the laptop apart.

How to earn money without standing up from the bed, or without taking the car to go into the office...

A single internet access, an open account in a major financial institution, and ready to play MARKET games.

God save us !!!...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, INC
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

BUBBLING the BUBBLE

2009-07-31T23:00:00.000-07:00

Markets run again behind the TRADING profits...
GREEN ROOTS feed the BULLS, and let the BEARS starving...

DEUTSCHE BANK announced a 64% increase in profits, but... the same day of the announcement, shares declined 12%... Why ??? ... because for a moment, rationality domained the DAX XETRA. Of course, DB earned that money, but playing with the markets again !!!

The same as GOLDMAN SACHS or JP MORGAN. How good were their results in COMMERCIAL BANKING ???... Yes, you guessed it, severe losses in the COMMERCIAL BANKING divisions.

Are the banks earning money the same way as before the CREDIT CRUNCH ?
Are they playing the same games that drove us to Hell ??

Are they investing a free money from the government in new speculative trading operations to bolster profits ???

Is this money going into the so necessary loans for the small and medium business, for the independent professional or the faculty students ???... I fear the answer is NO.

It seemed for a moment that DAX XETRA with that punch on DB showed the world some reality or truth on what is happening now ...

Of course, it was necessary to lift the banks but, not once again, playing games !!!

World Markets Indexes are up 60% from minimums, only in 6 months !!!
The worst crisis in recent history is over in 2 years ??...

No, Mr OBAMA says we are at "the beginning of the end", or he also says we have to be "cautiously optimistic "... Sometimes, I think I should go to HARVARD to understand Mr OBAMA´s words...

10% UNEMPLOYMENT in the US. This is a round figure.

Meanwhile, bonuses are back in Wall Street... But, NO news about how JOE THE PLUMBER will be back to revenues in the near term.

Sorry Bernard, but you should have waited a bit more to confess the world... Because, maybe, instead of being in jail, you would be OBAMA´s financial advisor.

Sometimes, we must wait the right moment to do things.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

21st CENTURY

2009-07-30T04:02:00.000-07:00

1- Internet and the wireless revolution domain the world.

2- New York City "twin towers" down.
3- ENRON down.
4- LEHMAN BROTHERS down. The whole worldwide financial system tumbles.

5- OBAMA era begins = A black president in the White House.

5- Google up = GOOGLISATION of the world ( CHROME OS launch )
6- Microsoft down. Front attack from GOOGLE.

7- BERNARD MADOFF, the new VILLAIN of WALL STREET. 25 years of fraud, nobody took notice.

8- CNN continues broadcasting the news before it happens. Only MICHAEL JACKSON´s death was broadcasted before by HOLLYWOOD TV.

9- CHINA consolidates its power. Now, its dollar reserves amount for billions.

10- And... Finally .... Oliver Stone starts shooting WALL STREET 2 ... GORDON GEKKO is back !!!

Editorial
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

10% UNEMPLOYMENT = BULLISH Market ??

2009-07-24T03:55:00.001-07:00

The Us is nearly achieving the 10% average unemployment rate figure.
States such as Ohio, Indiana or California surpass this index slightly ... Dramatic for a country without a national social security system, without compensation for being unemployed, highly endebted, ... But :

Markets are up 60% from minimums recorded six months ago !!!

S&P 500 index broke yesterday the psichological barrier of 900 points, and it is up more than a 57% from minimums.

According to the analysts, this is due to the 2nd quarter results, mainly lifted by the banking corporations. But, did you really look good into these figures ???

Goldman Sachs achieved good results once again thnaks to the financial markets incredible evolution. JP Morgan, Citi or BoA suffered severe losses in the commercial banking area. The area where little business, companies, or independent professionals base their financial future.

Loans at 15%, while banks are receiving money from the admon at 0% !!!... Of course, they have to earn money !!!!

But are these results a good sign of hope for the unemployed, for the entrepeneurs, for the little commerce, for the independent professionals ... I really do not think so.

Once again this rally will leave many dead bodies on the ground. The big institutions are getting ready now for betting SHORT again. So they earned money with the rally, now they will earn money again with the correction, and the life goes on ...

My message is simple: " We are making the same mistakes than before, we are again playing with the financial markets, and forgetting about the real economy ".

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, INC
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

SCHWARZENEGGER riskiest performance

2009-07-21T04:09:00.000-07:00

California state is in bankruptcy.
Although THE GOBERNATOR achieved to negotiate the approval of the budget. Deficit is at riskiest level in ages.

California is the wealthiest state in the US. Alone might belong to the richest countries in the world.

Vineyards, Silicon Valley, Oil, Hollywood, Tourism, etc ... are the main industries of the sunny state.

What happened then ???
Since Hollywood continues with its heartbreaking and profitable movies. Wine is paid at its highest price, semiconductors and PC sales boosted, and oil, although at 61 dollars, it comes from the high 100s.

The problem is once again, the credit bubble. The so expensive cost of living. With an average home price of more than 500.000 dollars, and a credit rate of 1,5 the average salaries ... the explanation is clear.

Real Estate bubble in places such as Carmel, La jolla, San Jose, San Francisco or Santa Barbara ... people thought that credit levels resisted all economic attacks. And once again, bubble exploded.

California was born when someone found out the incredible weather conditions and quality of life with sea and mountains, Hollywood moved there to record the movies in the outside and not all the time into a metal box called studio. Silicon Valley decided to shelter all internet incubators, in a movement described as very smart and ambitious from the state of California.

But nothing is forever. Moreover, when the use of credit becomes irrational. You only had to walk through Orange County or LaJolla to acknowledge the situation was becoming really dangerous. But, as always, nothing happens till it happens.

Nice boats, fancy Ferraris, glamorous parties, chick restaurants and pubs, ... All this leisure financed by the bank credit. Credit over credit, Bank over bank,...

People use to say "the show must go on", moreover, in this place of the world... But in some extent, the show may be closed down if you do not even have money to pay the lighting or the stage rental...

Difficult situation for a state with a more than 10% unemployment rate, and with the added risk of:
"For those who once enjoyed a fancy way of life is tougher than for others to begin driving a 2.000 bucks auto, or eating a Big Mac ... "

Ohio, Indiana, California, ... is the situation so good as the 2nd quarter banking results show ???

Is it real the nets of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, BoA or Citi ???

If you dive into these results, you find out that money emerged again the same way, via arbitrage financial operations and derivatives trading.... Nothing heard about commercial banking yet.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
- Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

CITY BRANDING

2009-07-18T04:13:00.000-07:00

CHICAGO, TOKYO, RIO or MADRID are the applicant cities for 2016 Olympic games. An event supposed to be followed by more than 4.000 million people around the planet.

Obviously, and since the games are being broadcasted by all TV channels, this event is supposed to feed the most aggressive marketing campaigns for most consumer brands and what is more important, positions the host city in a privileged place in terms of international exposure and knowledge, extremely beneficial for tourism and Real Estate developments.

Formula 1 world series championship tours every year around places such as SINGAPORE, MONACO, SAO PAULO, BARCELONA, ISTAMBUL or KUALA LUMPUR. The TV audience is incredibly remarkable, mainly in the Asian territories, while the assistance to the circuits does not matter that much in terms of cash income, this event positions each of these cities as glamorous destinations, and therefore they become extremely profitable for touristic and Real Estate purposes.

MONACO is more known in Asia by the yearly MONACO GRAND PRIX than for being a very wealthy and glamorous country-city place in the south of France.

KUALA LUMPUR was introduced to the world in a wide basis through the image rights of the PETRONAS TOWERS appearing in this championship merchandising.

ABU DABHI is for this year 2009 the new city that hosts a Formula 1 race, and together with Bahrein mean that 2 cities in the Middle East have decided to focus their City Branding strategy through this competition.

Tennis events, through the currently called TENNIS 1000 MASTERS SERIES, are trying to emulate F1 world tour effects, by joining cities such as DUBAI, SHANGHAI, TORONTO and the traditional MIAMI – KEY BISCAYNE or INDIAN WELLS championships.

Soccer European leagues such as the PREMIER LEAGUE in England or LA LIGA in Spain found out that becoming global was a great solution to increase the number of fans mainly in Asia and Latin America. Therefore, sponsors began to pay huge amounts of money to place an ad in the break time of a match, or even to sponsor the own teams through world tours. This has been translated into huge salaries for players and agents, and an incredible return in image rights for the soccer teams.
MANCHESTER UNITED is actually the world´s most famous and valuable team, followed by REAL MADRID, MILAN, LIVERPOOL or FC BARCELONA.

In Madrid, Spain, the REAL MADRID FC Stadium guided visit enjoys during some monthly periods more affluence of visitors than even the PRADO museum.

What would be the recognition of LIVERPOOL or MANCHESTER as worldwide cities without their soccer teams ?? ( Apart obviously, in the case of LIVERPOOL, for being the place where THE BEATLES phenomenon was born )

How can we measure the real economic impact for these ?... It is extremely difficult to validate since the tourism income, the assistance to local restaurants, pubs, or the sale of merchandising and souvenirs is very disaggregated. But, what becomes undoubtful, is the development of the worldwide image of these cities projected through these events.

“City branding” strategies are also focused on huge and notorious Real Estate developments.

Dubai is famous around the globe for being the city with more cranes in the skyline, including the building of the tallest tower in the world- BURJ DUBAI-, the most expensive hotel –BURJ AL ARAB-, the artificial islands on the water, or the ATLANTIS Condo extra glamorous inauguration.

Also important to identify the city worldwide, are the key political and social personalities or celebrities that decide to move or spend vacations in these locations.

Dubai is famous to be the vacation home of tennis legends such as Roger Federer or Boris Becker and F-1 seven times champion Michael Schumacher.

Costa Rica has added to its nature attractions the fact that this is the place where Mel Gibson spends his holidays, or the Dominican Republic is being repositioned as a luxury destination mainly due to the international singer Julio Iglesias moving from MIAMI to PUNTA CANA to drive his investments in condo developments and golf areas. The monthly stays of Tennis champion Rafael Nadal during their relax periods also help to expand the Dominican image as a luxury tourist destination.

If we get into the official surveys, the annual issue of the WORLD´S BEST CITIES TO LIVE outcomes the following list of places:

1- VIENNA
2- ZURICH
3- BERN
4- GENEVA
5- VANCOUVER

Obviously, the indicators to survey these places outline the public services quality, environmental issues, health facilities, air quality, pollution, and the dynamism or the cosmopolitan mixture of the people living in the cities.

I consider myself a worldwide traveller. I have been travelling around the globe for a long time, and therefore, I have my own list of cities also classified under criteria such as the most cosmopolitan, trendy or dynamic…:

1- SAN FRANCISCO
2- SIDNEY
3- MIAMI
4- TORONTO
5- VANCOUVER

If we dive further in my list, anyone can find certain common aspects:

- The first three enjoy an incredible warm and sunny weather along all the year.
- The five cities enjoy an incredible mixture of nationalities, cultures and religions living together under the same atmosphere.
- Gay, racial and religion communities allow them to develop a special lifestyle, quality of leisure services, and dynamism. As well as a continuous renovation spirit.
- They are all placed in incredibly beautiful landscape environments.

Obviously the prices for the properties listed in each of these cities reflect perfectly the personal characteristics mentioned.

SAN FRANCISCO is the second most expensive area in the US, behind MANHATTAN in NYC.
A 67 M2 apartment in a fancy community surrounded by the famous bay views is worth more than 1,5 million euros.

SIDNEY harbour properties, close to the famous OPERA house, may be at prices around 2 million euros, for a 100 M2 condo apartment.

Finally, MIAMI SOUTH BEACH luxury resorts, with private yacht marina, and amenities such as tennis courts, gym facilities or social clubs, may be fixing their quote at 1 M dollars for a 90 m2 property.

VANCOUVER was selected by the HONG KONG millionaires as their living place after the Chinese break up in the famous S.A.R. They decided to leave HK afraid of the communist Chinese future impact, and transformed VANCOUVER from a lonely place into a dynamic and trendy location.
Properties in gated communities outside downtown start at 1,5 M dollars.

In terms of investment, it is clear that the business opportunities are on forecasting the future renaissance of a place before it becomes a hot destination.
Therefore, this is a very difficult task since it depends on the government investments decision or the movements of celebrities from one vacation destination to another.

Was it easy to forecast that DUBAI was due to become what it means today ?

How can an average investor identify opportunities such as VANCOUVER before the Chinese Break up in HONG KONG ?

To identify some opportunities, I would add in our current worldwide financial situation the following:

- MIAMI DOWNTOWN: The new developments to be projected in Brickell area, now stopped due to the credit crunch in the US.
- MEXICO DF downtown area, heavily impacted by the PESO devaluation of more than a 50% in one year.
- RIVIERA MAYA condo resorts, with the option to rent the units for those months not occupied, and therefore very useful to pay the mortgage associated without any cash outflow.
- PANAMA – Av BALBOA AREA luxury lofts with a little pre-payment, and complete cash outflow at the end of the construction, with the option to rent the unit at a 12% rate per year.
- RUMANIA, TURKEY or even MOZAMBIQUE in AFRICA will become hot opportunities in a 5 year timeframe, mainly for the vacational investment, but obviously with an added risk because of the government stability and specific property owning conditions.

I would finish this article mentioning that the current credit crunch is creating huge opportunities almost every day in the Real Estate investments around the world.

It is only a question of cash disposal to make extraordinary deals !!!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management –
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

REAL ESTATE: from DUBAI to SAN FRANCISCO

2009-07-17T04:24:00.000-07:00

Real Estate industry has shown to be the main pillar of economies during the last decade.
Countries like Spain, Rumania, Bulgaria, Dubai etc have based their IRR on this industry cash flow generation.

Dubai is said to be the city in the world with more cranes in the skyline.

Rumania, Bulgaria and other eastern european countries decided to bet on Real Estate, mainly due to their entrance in the european union, through the euro convergence programme.

The Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, Natal in Brazil, or even the RIVIERA MAYA in Mexico were other examples of Real Estate developments, more focused on these cases, together with the tourism industry or the vacational potential customer.

According to the last surveys, the best cities to live are: Vienna, Geneva, Zürich, Bern, and Vancouver. From this list, 4 main cities are central european.
From those, 3 are located in Switzerland.

Why then is the RE development focusing in these other countries ???

The answer is simple: Government decided to launch macro "city marketing projects" to leverage their image worldwide.

DUBAI: The tallest tower in the world, artificial islands on the water, Atlantis hotel inauguration, fancy airport, ...

RUMANIA, BULGARIA : low cost residents in the so called "the swiss of the balcans".

SPAIN: "The best lifestyle in the world"...

I have been travelling around the world during almost all my life. I have to be firm on my appreciations and therefore I would say the best place to live in the world ( mainly because of weather conditions, peaceful places, ... ) is CALIFORNIA, mainly in places like SANTA BARBARA or CARMEL ( near SAN FRANCISCO ).

The most dynamic and attractive cities in the world would be:

1- SAN FRANCISCO.
2- SYDNEY ( Australia ).
3- MIAMI.
4- TORONTO ( Canada ).
5- VANCOUVER ( Canada ).

But, obviously, these cities become also a very expensive cost of living. And therefore, we must focus on other areas in the world... that and although are less attractive, become fancy with a good marketing strategy.

WWShares, Inc
Editorial
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

POLITICS or POLL-ITICS

2009-07-13T07:41:00.000-07:00

Polls are the barometer of politicians.
It seems like they only look at the polls to take real decisions.

Latest polls showed an underperforming in Obama´s economic policies, and therefore we have breakfast today with "CHENEY and the secret CIA files".

But, ... are we talking about economy or about Mr Cheney ???
Are we talking about saving the US of a deep economic hole or are we trying to remember again Bush admon practices ???

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have voted for a change. Let´s look into the future and solve current problems. Stop looking back and blaming others. Concentrate please on the real issues affecting us now !!!

Ohio unemployment rate is at 10,8%, together with Indiana, the highest since the 80s.
700 billion dollar stimulus plan is not reacting in a quick manner, and some analysts wonder if a new one is coming ...
We are running out of time, since that huge amount of money put into the system, is not to be having effect in 4 years time. It is a shock plan to react now !!!... At least, that is what mr Obama said to the congress to be approved not that long time ago.

Are we again playing media games to tell people..." Maybe I am not that good predicting economy holes, but look how I try to close GUANTANAMO or how I blame Cheney for those past terms ".

Mr Obama, you received thousands of new democrat votes to do 2 things:

- Improve the economic chaos we are in now.
- Improve our international relations with arabs, russia and China.

Well, till now. You get a C- in all your semester marks.

Let´s hope you receive B or A+ in the next months. But concentrate please on real issues, not in POLLS that make you nervous and make you become as those you criticised so much during your campaign.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

GOOGLISATION

2009-07-10T01:40:00.000-07:00

The war is on.
It began some time ago, but now it is more evident than ever. CHROME OS emerges to fight against WINDOWS long hegemony.

90% of the computers around the planet use MICROSOFT WINDOWS. So, there is a lot to lose, and almost nothing to win for the Seattle giant.

The diversification towards the video games industry ( X-BOX ) has made that the Bill Gates company allocate resources to an area where SONY is the main owner. Although very lucrative, it is a very cost intensive strategy in a very cost intensive market. A market that needs continuous innovation and creativity. It is not like launching a software and lie on the bed while the bank account picks up the huge returns.

MS tried to launch a takeover bid on YAHOO!, to compete with GOOGLE wide portfolio: GOOGLE search engine,GMAIL, YOUTUBE, and now CHROME OS.

We should not forget that GOOGLE was a simple search engine, that following a purchase and I+D strategy achieved to control the internet area. Now, it decides to confront directly the WINDOWS power in a battle that seems to become really thrilling.

Analysts have been for a long time warning of a certain slow motion in the WINDOWS giant. It was not an agile company anymore. Looking back to APPLE great performance, struggling to compete with SONY videogames and platforms, and getting frightened with GOOGLE aggresive movements.

It is time to wake up !!!
The power of a distribution channel with more than 90% of the computers software in the world cannot be wasted and must be the starting point to take decisions in a really quick manner.

Media awarded Bill Gates as the god of the new era a long time ago... Now he has to show to the world that it was not all an oportunist and marketing operation...

Come on Bill !!!.... It is very good to be a philantropy manager, but do not let your followers down and take again the command of your space shuttle and start competing again !!!

Show the world you were not someone that copied McIntosh idea to become multimillionaire.

The American dreamt ... remember !!! ... but the real one !!!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

1st ATTACK to the US DOLLAR

2009-07-01T03:04:00.000-07:00

CHINA and BRAZIL announced yesterday that from now on, their trade relations will be held not in dollars, but in their respective currencies, according previously a fair change rate.

YUAN first appearance in an international trade agreement seems not to scare US dollar.

Nevertheless, this fact has, according to my view, an incredible psychological impact on the future trends....

BRAZIL is the main latinamerican economy. CHINA is the main economy in ASIA, together with JAPAN.

Then, two of the main economies in the world are ready to trade without the arbitrage of US Dollars.

The ALBA ( the populism movement in South America ) leaded by Chavez, Venezuela president, is ready to do the same with oil and other raw materials exports.

Once again, the future impact will depend on the capacity of CHINA economy to reduce exports to the US and begin serving its domestic demand. Analysts say this won´t happen till 2015.

This BRAZIL-CHINA movement is the 1st attack to the DOLLAR hegemony as a reference currency and therefore, as an arbitrage currency for foreign commercial agreements.

CHINA has to go planning the YUAN international show up to the world.
But, as usual, CHINA manages things their way, just like Frank Sinatra... CHINA will begin trading with those countries key for its economy, and step by step, it will be going out of its yuan fixed rate by billateral compromises.

In the middle of a global economic downturn, this is not good news for US Dollar. Since, and although americans want a weak dollar to begin exporting again,... we must not forget that the US is moreover an importing country.

If CHINA goes reducing its exposure to US exports, the US will have problems to stabilise its currency.

EURO seems to be absent from this battle, but obviously EURO has nothing to offer to the world, since EUROPE remains as a dead continent, only healed some times by Germany auto and heavy manufacturers, Italian fashion and car industries, and France, or Spain touristic acceptance.

I forecast a volatile currency market for the next 6-12 months, and a huge risk on US dollar stability. Therefore, my advice for EURO holders resides on keeping the EURO exposure vs USDollar and wait for future events.

Nevertheless, something with stronger impact seems to go rooting in the horizon. And it is not obviously green ...

The huge Public spending of OBAMA policies, the forecasted high inflation rates for the next 2 years will not help a lot.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

The RESTRUCTURATOR

2009-06-26T04:16:00.000-07:00

It may be the most pronounced word at this time. Restructuring, to restructure,...new fundamentals, new regulations,... etc, etc...

Lehman break down caused the panic in the markets, and polititians decided to reinvent capitalism.

Once again, I say: CAPITALISM has not failed, it has been the lack of regulation over certain new designed financial products and practices.

To get a political profit out of it, emerges the figure of the RESTRUCTURATOR.

A wise way to spend time while the proper nature of things get solved. Better said, the proper nature of markets, the only ones that never fail, because they are based on a so simple idea such as OFFER and DEMAND.

Barack Obama decided to get into the RESTRUCTURING auto, what else may we expect ???

Elected with an aggressive majority, drawing a new image in all history books, what else can we expect from someone that represent such a huge change ???

Yes, you guessed it. Let´s tell the world that everything is old, antique, badly built. That all the foundations that made America the hegemony power are out of fashion. A new era is coming ...

I really get frightened when I hear people that support this kind of revolutionary practices. This people is almost in all the cases, people with less than 10 years living in the US. Medical insurance, higher taxes for the accomodated social classes, more public expense, etc... In fact, all the things that are against the American dreamt.

When minorities get together and their vote decide the change of a lifetime, problems may be around the corner.

Democracy is vigorous, but we do not have to give our vote to someone just because he is black or white, or just because he is young or old, or just because he is funny or plays the trumpet...

I hope that once again, the crazy restructuring ideas may be only political air balloons to gain time and confidence and to stay in power 8 years. I hope these do not get so deep in the american society.

If so, we must say bye bye to our dreamt.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

KHADIJAH WILLIAMS

2009-06-24T04:23:00.000-07:00

Imagine one of those interview rooms inside the prestigious Harvard campus faculty buildings.

Then, imagine the prototype of Harvard admissions interviewer, sitting on his leather antique chair, with both arms behind his head, looking like thinking on a divine world just over him.

And finally, imagine the kind of questions shooted at the sweaty candidate in front of him, trying to assess him about the integrity, quality, reputation and prestige of the main US presidents university campus.

Well, now arrives Khadijah Williams, an indigent teen, directly come from Skid Row ( L.A. ), and sits in front of the above mentioned prototype interviewer.

At the question: Tell me Khadijah something that really dazzles me, so as I can recommend your admission in this prestigious, glamorous, .... ,.... la,la,la...

The black lady answers the real truth:
"I have been living along 20 cities in my 18 years of existence, living in shelter homes, surrounded by crack and heroin, with shooted people falling just besides me while studying my maths lesson for the next day exam at my district High School..."

"Suddenly I got a 99 at a state admission exam, and from that point, I realised that maybe Harvard could be my new shelter house "... What do you think about my story ??? "

The final result:
Khadijah Williams got the admission in Harvard. And today, all newspapers around the globe tell her story as another representation of the "American Dreamt"... one more,...

At the same time, in Teheran ( IRAN ) a beautiful young lady was shooted dead from a roof shooter at the demonstrations held in Iran during the last days.
Now, this lady is also in all the newspapers around the globe as a real heroin, and symbol of the freedom in IRAN, against the Ahmadineyad regime.

But the truth is she was simply someone that was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The difference between Khadijah and this young muslim lady is destiny, and not the US American Dreamt.

Khadijah could also be shooted dead in any of the violent districts where she lived, even in Skid Row, but she wasn´t. And now, she is in Harvard, ready to suceed.

Once again, life is not what it seems, it is what it really is.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, INC
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

TRUTH

2009-06-19T03:36:00.000-07:00

Let´s tell the only truth:

1. China is the main owner of the US, since it is the main debtor in US T-bonds and external debt.

2. Hedge funds and leveraged financial operations have been existing for a long time. It is nothing new that just arrived 2-3 years ago. Nick Leeson bankrupted BARINGS BANK 14 years ago playing with derivatives in Singapore Stock Exchange.
Georghe Soros became rich managing hedge funds focused on leveraged currency operations more than 20 years ago.

3. CAPITALISM has not failed, it has been the antique regulation vs. NEW and more complexed financial products ( options, futures, warrants, leveraged buy-outs, mergers, etc... )

4. Barack Obama is president of the US because of the worst performance ever of an US president (George W. Bush ),... But even with that, if the financial crisis does not explode 2 months before the election, B.O. would not have won it either.

5. B.O. was a complete unknown, but very useful to revitalize the image of the US in the world: youth, muslim relatives, black, elegant, the blackberry, ... the US lobbies have achieved their goal, and they have said to the world:

Look how robust is our democracy that we have elected a black president !!!...
Look how our relationship with the muslim world is going to change in a positive manner !!!...
Look how we are going to restructure the whole world !!!

Political Marketing, media and more dirty games ...

6. The US has finally understood that a war against "3 muslims hidden in a cave" was not a good idea, even more while China became more and more powerful, while the US became weaker with stupid wars.

7. Do not blame Wall Street !!!... Wall Street are not aliens living in a different world. They are only the representation of what America is. Wall Street has auto manufacturers, utilities, proud companies such as GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, and obviously it also has banks.
"Subprime loans" existed for a long time in the US, even since its colonisation.
The handling of these subprime loans is a different aspect, and it is precisely here where REGULATION failed.

8. ENRON case was not 2 years ago. Have we learned something since then ?...

9. Where is the "free journalism" ??... Let´s hope people will stop reading lobby newspapers and concentrate on real free bloggers.

10. INDIA has the key of the world hegemony. If it leans to the US, US will continue leading the world. If it leans to China, the US power is over.

11. What country will first realize that AFRICA has a lot to offer to the world ??... China is doing it already.

12. Why do I know that Obama has a dog called "Bo", and I do not know if HU JINTAO (China president ) has even kids ???

Please, let´s tell the truth to the world.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

Barry, are you sure YOU CAN ?

2009-06-12T03:43:00.000-07:00

Last week, 36 unique pictures were released in New York.
B.O. was portrayed in his early 20s, with a certain air of harlem street dancer.

"Afro" hair, while smoking some cigars, it was a great opportunity to review this very interesting image of our still-almost-unknown president.

It is said these pictures were taken in a rebel age. Everybody has gone through it some time in our lives,... but, of course, it resulted interesting to break this anti-bullet glass in front of the "world´s most mediatic human being in 21st century".

Life has always been amazing... Of course, more amazing for some than for others, but amazing at the end. My feeling about B.O. ( "Barry" for this time period mentioned ) life is that, ... nor he believes yet what happened with that skinny, smoking guy that had not still decided his future.

I imagine someone asking him at that time,...Hey!! Barry !!! ... it must be cool to become US president and fly inside the AIR FORCE ONE... For sure, this situation probably happened among neighborhood pals, but for sure,... B.O. considered it even more unrealistic than becoming an NBA basketball star, or a hollywood celebrity...

So, my question now is: Barry, are you sure YOU CAN ??

I am a wealth manager. I put my money in risk at every single moment I invest it. This is a global world. More global than ever... More changing than ever ... More mediatic than ever .... and at the end, More dangerous than ever ...

Since we elect our world leaders because of their carisma and reputation, I wonder if we have done right electing you...

Your moto was: YES, WE CAN... But are you sure YOU CAN ?

I have the following doubts:

- You had a strong fight with Hillary Clinton, putting in doubt all the values of the Clintons. Why is she now your secretary of Estate ?... Did not you accuse her of voting YES to Irak ??... Did not you launch severe accusations against her and her husband ???

- You promised to finish with the greed of Wall Streeters. Why are you trusting then Larry Summers ??

- You were completely against war strategies from Mr Bush. Why did not you fire Gates as chief of the CIA, and maximum responsible of all the strategies ?

- You made a decided bet for the clean energies, why do you approve now nuclear supply stations ??

- Why don´t you tell us your REAL plans about GM ?... Is it a bankruptcy or a nationalisation ?

- Why most of your advisors come from the Clinton era ??... Weren´t you so against his policies and attitudes ?

Finally, the "green roots" you have seen in the horizon, are you sure they are green ?... Are you sure they are roots ?... Have you seen them in Manhattan, maybe in Wall Street ??... Millions of reasons make me think you have seen them in Wall Street.

But, Barry, let me tell you one thing,... because maybe you do not know it, " in Wall Street the green turns red in seconds...".

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

LEHMAN down, GM down, Citi, Chrysler ... Is AMERICA really hurt ?

2009-06-02T01:22:00.000-07:00

PONTIAC, BUICK, CHEVROLET... the "American dreamt" brands, the symbol of an era in America.
The wish of many teenagers that then became great personalities around the globe.

But, this was a forecasted end. TOYOTA has been for many years, the real revolution in the american auto industry. Together with NISSAN, both japanese manufacturers, leaded the auto sales market for many years in a row.

Afterwards, came the korean cars... the asian conquer of the american auto corporations.

Is this the sign of an hegemony change ?... Is AMERICA really that hurt ?
Is competitiveness the key crack-down factor for this consequences ?

The US will always mean marketing, show, branding, globality, with its own values and essence. But, is this enough to keep US sovereignity in the planet ??

AMERICA has voted for a change. Barack Obama, the first black president, meant a new change era and a barn of hopes for many americans. But is it enough with a good carisma and beautiful words ??

USA is now playing a tough game. The game of competitiveness, the game of innovation, the new rules of capitalism...

Can AMERICA workers compete with the 24-hour turns of japanese or chinese workers ?
Can AMERICA export more than import ?
Can AMERICA reissue the huge external debt owned by CHINA now ?

Does anyone know that the main owner of the USA is CHINA ?

Yes, the main owners of US debt is CHINA. If CHINA decides to do it, US Dollar can dissapear.

Nowadays, CHINA has lived of US imports. Therefore, CHINA has accumulated vast deposits of T-bonds and US Dollars. This has been the reason for the dollar stability.
Once CHINA develops their internal consumer rates, or begin diversifying their exports, CHINA will be in position to change US dollars for other currencies. Then, US Dollar will be dead.

Is AMERICA ready for this era ?
Does Barack Obama has a real plan to put a brake on this dynamic ?

Huge challenges ahead. But, for sure, the only opportunity for AMERICA is not to lose their essence. The AMERICAN DREAMT must be on, but politicians and decisions makers must also help on this.

One advice for Mr Obama:
Capitalism has not failed, it has been the lack of regulation in the financial markets.

It is very important to keep this clear, because around this point, the US must build their next future generations.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman&CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
www.worldwideshares.blogspot.com

AFRICA, the next player

2009-05-30T03:30:00.000-07:00

The engines around the world are at full speed.
Demographic developments, as well as high pollution rates make some places in the world almost unlivingful.

We know a lot about ASIA, a lot about the US, much more about Europe... but what do we really know about AFRICA ?

AFRICA has been hitted by civil wars, poverty, hunger, dictatorships, ... almost an unforgotten land for many years. A place where big pharma corporations put in place drugs demos to test new I+D results, without any consideration to the population and its possible harmful effects.

Nevertheless, some movements have been occuring in the last decade. Mainly CHINA decided to move forward and stretch some commercial agreements in AFRICA, mainly in MOZAMBIQUE.

AFRICA is a barn of RAW materials. At the same time, it suffers a lack of infraestructuring investment, and finally it is full of british owned international business centers ( IBCs ). These aspects are really unknown for many people.

Even more, I do not disregard that in the near future, many international corporations move to set their bases in this continent. Are we going to live a new emerging movement in AFRICA ?

Not in the near future, since AFRICA will always be used by others.
Therefore, it is very complicated to observe a new emerge such as CHINA or KOREA.

But, for sure, it will become the barn and the factory of the world in a timeframe of no more than 10 years.

My advice is not other than begin taking a look, country by country, to know something more about this completely forgotten area.
MARRUECOS is emerging heavily during the last 5 years with high GDP rates.
MOZAMBIQUE is well receiving international investors in Real Estate and Industry.
The so called "black AFRICA" has always been a gold and precious metals field. CONGO, SIERRA LEONA, etc...have been heavily exploded by dictators and speculators, but for sure, these territories have become, for many years, the main RAW materials and metals suppliers in the world.

MOZAMBIQUE is my bet. I think some heavy investment funds from Europe and ASIA are moving now in that direction.
Its geographic position, looking directly into ASIA, makes this place very attractive to the MIDDLE EAST, INDIA and ASIA territories. Ships, cargoships, are not that far from main ports such as HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, etc... INDIA is close enough to establish some kind of key agreements in terms of trade.
A political stability is the only brake for this forgotten continent to move ahead. Let´s see if the new investors may have enough influence in this issue.

Additionally, it may become an estrategic move for ASIA, in its try to win the world supremacy to the US, once its labour costs and raw materials supply could become a problem for growth.

Let´s pay attention to AFRICA.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
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INDIA + CHINA = More than 2,4 billion people

2009-05-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

INDIA has its toughest decision ahead.
A huge impact decision on future events that will determine the next hegemony period in the globe.

The decision to take is very clear:

INDIA..., Are you going to join CHINA in your future developments , ... or are you going to lean on US as your ally,... or in a third place, you are going to decide to continue to run the race to world´s most powerful country, independently ???

A) Joining CHINA:

INDIA+CHINA would be the end of US power, not only as the biggest economy on earth, but militarily, socially, and politically.
USDollar would lose its status as the reference currency in worldwide markets, and a new ASIAN power would emerge.

Tight collaboration between INDIA and CHINA is not an easy task. Obviously, the beginning would be in economic terms, that is, to become the world biggest "outsourcing" area.

Second, and very obvious, the highest domestic market in terms of consumer rates, 2.4 billion people is a much bigger chunk than any other individual market in the world.

Big international corporations would be interested in playing their strategies there, and obviously, the jobless claims in these 2 countries would fall to minimums, allowing a much better domestic consumer performance, and the erradication of poverty and transition from countryside to cities, with almost no public spending from these 2 governments, would be a fact.

CHINA has made the first step in this idea, asking INDIA to share the prominent and lucrative OUTSOURCING market.

INDIA is the OUTSOURCER by excellence. Good engineer schools, meaning an incredible added value to big decentralized foreign corporations, depending on INDIA as its main OUTSOURCING supplier.

b) US as an ally:

US cannot lose this train.
USSR cold war is over, but a fiercest one is beginning. The battle to determine who is going to become the next most powerful nation during the next centuries.

This is a democratic battle. A social, political and economic battle, in a now bipolar world.

JAPAN will soon lose its position in the ranking, and CHINA, INDIA will be running behind US .

US will have to use PAKISTAN matter to get closer to INDIA. But, I think this will not be enough. There must be more joining agreements in terms of manufacture, defense, IT, and infraestructure projects.

US must use all its influence power to convince INDIA they must run this race together.

c) INDIA running independently:

INDIA has also the choice to continue developing its economy, serving either CHINA and US as main and preferred customers.
It can become the referee of the "2 big" match.

INDIA alone has 2,1 billion people. So, it is not a little market to feed. And it is not a little market either to focus on its domestic consumer rates future evolution.

INDIA has shown the world why BOLLYWOOD produces now more films than US HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS, it has also shown us the incredible MUMBAI development in terms of financial and industrial power, the high class ENGINEER SCHOOLS, the steel industry, the technology-edged IT companies born in the last 5 years, etc...

A good engineer work base, value added workers, and a political change in the horizon.

Farewell to the old politicians, let´s welcome the "blackberries" !!!. Rahul Gandhi, is the best example of this new generation of politicians, that in 5-6 years, will be ready to lead.
Till now, indian politicians have been well above 70 year old average, INDIA must change this issue to really launch itself into the race of the world hegemony.

INDIA needs young politicians, with global ideas and perspectives, people with foreign studies that have lived and worked in other countries or cities, have shared other religions and bureaucracies...

This is another big decision for INDIA. Maybe the critical one.

Tough decisions ahead for ... That for sure, will determine who will be the next emerging power.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Chairman & CEO
WWShares, Inc
-Global Wealth Management-
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Print more MONEY !!!

2009-05-13T05:18:00.000-07:00

39 banks rescued by the government in the US.
A manipulated "stress test" to avoid big impacts in the stock exchange.

Interest rates at 0%.
Larry Summers, ex-Wall Streeter, commanding the situation.

Dollar at its lowest against major currencies.
China, Rusia, and the Middle East countries claiming for a new world reference currency.

Obama trying to fear big US corporations not to evade taxes in key offshore financial centres.

China thinking about the possibility of converting all its T-bonds into other currencies investments, to avoid its dramatic exposure to US dollars. Driving therefore, in this likely scenario, to a huge drop in the US dollar quotation.

Tim Geithner protecting Citi and Bank of America from bankruptcy.

Has anyone thought about the huge US Public Deficit ?... My friends, taxes will for sure rise for the high incomers.So, where is JOE THE PLUMBER ?

Are we really that good ?
Does Mr Obama´s optimism draw the real situation ?
Are we playing media games again ?

According to the international markets evolution during the last two weeks, it seems the worst has passed by. Indexes around the globe have picked up the lost ground during the last 6 months.
The first quarter results I referred to in my previous article " BEARISH SEASON is over", seem to have kept this suspicious optimism.

But, my vision about it, as a private wealth manager, is resumed in one single question:
What´s next, folks ??

The financial recovery will seed the real economy future evolution ??... Or the real economy will continue suffering much longer ???

Since I have to give an answer to my customers almost everyday, I decided to begin buying partial stocks in key "rescued" banking institutions, reinforcing this strategy with defensive companies, such as pharma companies with some due "blockbusters" to be released, and some high yield utilities corporations.

Obviously, equity not accounting for more than a 15% of the total investments.

My worries now stand at the point if politicians, economists, experts, advisors, ... are not really doing the same that supposely created the current turmoil... that for some people, it is the worst financial crisis in history. That is:

1) Money at 0%. That means, pure savings are no longer an option again.

2) Improve consumer rates. That means, to come back again to the exhacerbated consumer feeling, helped by money at 0%.

3) Rescued banks. No penalty for their wrong doing.

4) To ease monthly payments to those with forclosures risk.

5) To provide a social insurance policy, to avoid huge monthly medical payments... So, the money till now invested in these insurances, will go directly into the consumption of other goods. This, together with the "cheap money", more inflation.

6) A huge Public Deficit.

Don´t you think that maybe we are saving the kids from dying into the river, by creating the conditions of a future tsunami ?

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WWShares, Inc
"When Wealthy means also Healthy"

Emilio Botin, the new BERNARD MADOFF

2009-05-12T01:10:00.000-07:00

"Highest cash dividend in the world banking sector"
This is the claim that for 4 times is shown in each of the branches around the globe from BANCO SANTANDER.

Yesterday, the bank announces that maybe it is better for the shareholders interests to receive this dividend in Santander shares, instead of cash. What are you trying to say to us ?????

"We are the unique bank in the world, ready to face this crisis period without raising funds"
Two weeks later, the bank announces a macro capital increase of a 25%, dropping the shares price from 8,5 euros to a minimum of 3,96.

Ttoday, the Santander shares are at 7,22 euros. What a huge profit from 3,96 € !!!... But what about the people that had their shares at 8,5 euros, and decided not to go to the capital increase option ??

Two years ago, the bank launched a macro convertible bond offering, the convert price is at 15 euros. Will our friend "Emilio" dissapoint these bondholders or once again, he will tell them what to do ??

Sovereign bank, NYC. Santander bouth a 25% stake at 23 dollars, some time later, it has the remaining 75% almost for free. The reason is clear, the bank went into bankruptcy... but, what happened with the 25% you bouth at 23 dollars, are you going to book a provision in your balance sheet ??

Along the United Kingdom, all ABBEY branches show a display highlighting " We are 4 now ". That means, SANTANDER+ABBEY+ A&L+B&B... Uuauuu !!! and the UK suffering the worst crisis in ages...with RBS increasing capital almost everyday and being partially, if not completely, nationalised.

First Quarter 2009, Santander announces only a 5% drop in Net profits, but declaring that at year end, net will keep in line with last year.

1) No subprime crisis effect ( moreover with a bankrupted Sovereign in portfolio ) ??
2) No financial turmoil with 4 banks in the UK ??
3) No Spanish Real Estate bubble impact in its accounts ??

Suddenly, we find out in the local press that SANTANDER has created a separate company from the bank that collects all the Real Estate properties from bad debts. So, no impact in balance sheet ???... and it announces that will begin selling these properties to the families of the bank employees with a 30% discount... It is crazy !!!!!

It has spent more than 4 billion euros repurchasing these properties, to sell them now at a 30% discount.

Botin has gone from BANKER to REALTOR !!!!

During the last six months, it has announced 3 macro debt securities releases... What people do not know is that Santander`s maturity payments for this year are up to 30 billion euros.

Definitively, "Emilio" is playing with the time... he thinks that crisis will be over in 1 year or so...and he will come up with the best bank in the world. Obviously, it is a bet, a strong bet... but let´s be conscious he is putting the whole financial system in danger.

In the future, we will say that SANTANDER is an example of how to manage a banking institution. But the truth is not other than very risky actions.

BERNARD MADOFF was not that long ago, the "magician" of finance, with huge returns to his participants,... but now, he is the biggest robber in world´s history.

Yes, I am a shareholder of BANCO SANTANDER. The reason: " I want to see in first person how this movie ends ...". Obviously, my stake in SANTANDER represents only a 2% of my total equity portfolio, while BBVA represents more than 6%.

More or less, the same ratio that was released last week in local press, where some major SANTANDER executives owned more BBVA shares than SANTANDER ones. Interesting, isn´t it ??

The new rules of capitalism.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WWShares, Inc

CHINA, ready to lead...?

2009-05-02T11:23:00.000-07:00

I have spent the last month travelling around ASIA to try to find an answer to this question. Just now, when we are in the middle of a global crisis, with almost all foundations of economy in danger, I wanted to answer myself about the role that each country is going to take to lead the world out of this recession period.

I travelled to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei and Seoul. I spent a certain time reading the local press, involving myself with their domestic issues, and watching and asking about the role of Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and South Korea in the future recovery process.

China latests are focused on the opening of Shanghai Stock exchange listings to foreign companies, but still with the limitation of doing it only with yuan currency, and still being not convertible.
Hong Kong, who belongs to China, but with a S.A.R. ( special administrative regime ) is deciding now its own future, since Shanghai and itself must now compete to become the financial centre of the "new" China.

Taipei celebrates that for the first time in six decades, a mainland company, China Mobile is due to acquire a 20% stake in a local communications carrier, breaking with this step, the so long disputes among these 2 asian states. Nevertheless, some old nationalists from Taiwan see into this movement from mainland, the challenge of a new adhesion process, similar to the one carried with Hong Kong.

And finally, Seoul is focused on recovery the way they best know. That is, working tough and smart to become again what two years ago it really was... an still unknown, but highly effective and productive capitalist economy.

So, the answer to my question was not easy, but I think I can clarify some things that really matters to a global economy world.

China strategy along the years has been to manufacture goods at a low work labour cost, and sell them mainly to the US and Europe. Now, with 1,3 billion people living in the mainland, they realise that their real market may be inside, may be domestic. But to go along with this change in the way exports are handled, is not an easy task... but you can see already some interesting movements, such as the recently signed collaboration with India, to get a chunk into the OUTSOURCING market, as well as, the already mentioned opening of Shanghai Stock index to foreign companies.
So the path seems to be built ahead, but still with critical issues such as if yuan will become the reference currency, if it will be flexible against other international currencies, or even maybe, if China and its allies decide to launch a takeover bid against dollar and euro world supremacy.

My opinion resides on the idea that in a not so long future, we will start looking at Shanghai index closings the same way we do it with Wall Street now.

If China converges into a more open performance, USA supremacy as the first economy in the world may be in danger.

China will try to joint Hong Kong current power and international presence, with Shanghai newest challenges. At the same time, it will break old and stupid disputes with Taiwan and even South Korea, to walk along a new asian world, capable of assuming the role of leading it.

India will have to decide if it goes alone in this new era, with its 1,1 billion people and therefore, their impressive economic and social potential... or decides to take part with the US or with CHINA. That decision is going to become critical for India in the very near future.

But, for sure, we do not expect China president to become a worldwide "prime time TV star" the same way the US does with its presidents. We will never know if China president has bought a dog called "Bob" to his daughters... we even won´t know if he has kids at home,... or if his wife is dating another men ...

We must expect a new role, focused on discretion, hard work, no discussions, but highly effective and consumer oriented strategies.

If the US unveils its secret CIA files, ... China will continue with its secrecy in domestic critical matters.
If the US continues fighting muslims in Afghanistan, China will stretch its ties in a peaceful way with its long time disputed neighbors, trying to consolidate its presence in Asia.
If the US continues with prime time interviews, China will present only specific topics of its politicians activities.

This does not mean OPEN economies vs CLOSED ones, but it means, to be focused on real issues and leave marketing or branding for others.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WW Shares, Inc

Y llego BOTIN ...

2009-04-30T04:16:00.000-07:00

El mundo se encontraba contra las cuerdas. Gripe porcina, dato del PIB americano nefasto, Bank of America y Citi necesitando mas fondos para seguir adelante... Y que paso ???

Pues que llego Don Emilio y los mercados se revolucionaron. Dice que casi no ha perdido nada en este primer trimestre, e incluso mejora el cuarto periodo del ano pasado. Presenta estos resultados y listo, todo arreglado. Donde esta la crisis ??

El Banco Popular, un 30% menos de beneficios, el Sabadell un 25% menos, el BBVA un 12% menos, y llega nuestro amigo BOTIN y dice que solo cae un 5%, pero que nadie se preocupe, que para el ultimo trimestre del ano va a ganar incluso mas que en el 2008.

Joder... Que tio mas grande !!!

Paga el dividendo en efectivo mas alto de toda la banca mundial. Tiene la red de oficinas mas grande del planeta. Es el banco que mas va a ganar este ano...

HAY QUE LLEVAR A BOTIN al Congreso de los Diputados, ya mismo, ... que nos explique a todos como se hacen las cosas ....

Sr Zapatero, lleve al Sr Botin a la sesion de control y dejese de pactos de estado !!!!

Con tres bancos en Inglaterra, un banco en EEUU, y una fuerte presencia en Latinoamerica... fijate lo que logra hacer con sus cuentas. De nuevo, donde esta la crisis ???

Yo siempre fui muy reticente a las formas de Don Emilio, pero si todo lo que dice es verdad, pues nada, a comprar acciones de SANTANDER ya mismo, da igual el precio al que esten.

Consejo para cualquiera que tenga algo de "dinerillo" ahorrado... compre Ud SANTANDER ahora mismo.

Eso si, esperemos que no hablemos dentro de algun tiempo de un Bernard Madoff espanol.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
Presidente
WWShares, Inc

Bulls, Bears, and now... Pigs and Porks

2009-04-27T23:49:00.000-07:00

Trouble never come alone.
Not enough with an unprecedented financial crisis, with huge unemployment rates around the planet, and companies going into bankruptcy almost every minute ... that now, we have a flu problem.

Not a normal flu healed with aspirines, but a pandemia. At least, that is what the media are telling us.

Shall we prepare as the so acclaimed Will Smith character in I AM LEGEND ??

Till last week, we were talking about BEARS and BULLS, now we have to talk about PIGS and PORKS.

As I mentioned in my previous article " Play it again, Sam", let's see if media, politicians, authorities etc... behave in a rational way, and do not create unproportioned alarm.

Stock exchanges are said to be down due to this flu, airlines stocks are tumbling, as well as leisure time companies... Nevertheless, GSK is up 6%, due to the vaccine is going to solve our problems with this porky flu.

GSK and NOVARTIS. Obviously, pharma companies ready to sell out all their stocks of TAMIFLU and other drugs. It is ok, no problem.
Experts say that if this flu becomes pandemic, the global turmoil will become worse and recovery will last even more than forecasted one week ago.

Nice day today to announce that Citi and Bank of America will need to raise funds again.

Stock exchanges in Europe are opening at this time, let's see what a rollercoaster session are we offered today...

Meanwhile Obama's planes flew over Manhattan frightening the NYC community thinking of another 11-S. My goodness !!! What a nice view of the world we have !!!!

CNN must be burning the engines in Atlanta with all these news, guauuu !!!!

Optimistics always say that if the worst has come, then we can only improve. Let's hope so, at least if this is the worst that may happen.

As an investor, I always say that even during the World Wars, people earned money, so let's go surfing today to see if we ride good pipes...

BBVA has announced better than expected Q1 2009 results, so let's surf again with banks, ... Or, the flu will also affect them somehow ???

DEUTSCHE BANK has also posted better than expected Net Profit, so it seems that some banks are going through the crisis better than the others.... So, what are we waiting for ???... Money burns !!!!

At the end, if WE ARE LEGEND... What does money matters ???

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WWShares, Inc

SPAIN = 17% Unemployment Rate

2009-04-26T19:45:00.000-07:00

Asi de contundente figura la situacion de Espana a nivel mundial.

Somos el pais que mas empleo destruye en la UE, y sin embargo, solo sabemos que el Real Madrid esta a 4 puntos del FC Barcelona. Veremos a ver que pasa en el "clasico" este sabado...

Un 17% de paro es una verdadera barbaridad. Mas si cabe, para un pais como Espana, que su industria se limita a una red de PYMES, que esta atravesando una situacion critica, critica. Sin financiacion para su circulante, y con una facturacion cada vez menor, la situacion se hace insostenible.

Zapatero dice que esta situacion no le hara cambiar su idea de no flexibilizar el mercado laboral o de reducir el gasto publico.

Entonces, sr Zapatero... Que hacemos ?? ... Seguimos esperando a que cada mes vayan saliendo las cifras de paro, a ver, como si de una lluvia tropical se tratara, algun dia pare de crecer ??

No se puede gobernar un pais asi !!!

Si sus medidas no estan dando los resultados previstos, cambielas ... pero no se quede pensando a ver si alguien o algo nos ayuda.

Voy a ver si le puedo ayudar a comprender lo siguiente:

- No somos ya competitivos en TURISMO. Hay bastantes medidas que se pueden focalizar aqui para volverlo a relanzar.

- El mercado inmobiliario no va a dar para mas, ni aunque nos recuperemos, porque tenemos muchas viviendas vacias y los precios llegaron a ser insostenibles. Por lo que vaya pensando donde mete a todos los trabajadores de este sector. Que le parece recolocarlos en otras actividades ???

- El I+D que ud quiere no se monta en 2 dias. Asi que vamos a concentrarnos en algo mas a corto plazo.

- En manufactura, claramente no podemos competir con Asia. Asi que lo mejor seria que se planteara alguna medida de reciclaje laboral tambien aqui.

- No se puede vivir de Nadal, Alonso, Penelope Cruz, Bardem, Almodovar, Amenabar, Alejandro Sanz, la seleccion espanola de futbol, etc... porque eso es muy bonito, y nos conocen en todo el mundo, pero no soluciona el tema.... A no ser que entre sus planes este el crear una industria como la de Hollywood o Bollywood aqui en Espana que nos de tanto beneficio como para sostener lo que se nos avecina. Por lo que, no pierda ud el tiempo con lo de las ayudas al cine, el ministerio de deportes, y esas cosas... Todo eso, cuando nos vaya un poco mejor.

- En fin, ayuda a PYMES, reciclaje de trabajadores, y descubrimiento de nuevas fuentes de ingrsos deben ser sus prioridades.

Y no me diga aquello de es que no quiero ayudarle ... o que soy un antipatriota por decir lo que he dicho... o que no tengo sensibilidad por el arte espanol....

No diga, y haga cosas.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero

Presidente

WWShares, INC

Play it again, Sam !!!

2009-04-26T18:43:00.000-07:00

If we remember the famous sentence that never was said during the so-acclaimed drama "CASABLANCA", Humphrey Bogart told his good friend-pianist Sam that, although that song reminded him many things, he needed to hear it again and again to go through all those cross feelings...

Right now, and with the world focused on MEXICO and its pork epidemia, we need to hear again and again the same song. That one, that although repeated during several times along history, nobody seems to do nothing to solve.

The world now is inside a global financial turmoil, inside a real economy crisis, and now with fears of a pork contamination spreading disease.

It is always said that the difficult situations do not come alone, but mankind does nothing to prevent, but a lot to create alarming situations.

The Financial crisis seems to be fallen from the skies...Now, the pork epidemia seems to appear from nowhere...

In both cases, I think we focus on a lack of regulation, both financial and sanitary.

It is not my idea now to compare both situations, but let's for one time in our lives, stop hearing the same song.

Let's prevent things, and not create alarm.

Once we have the problem inside, let's act... but let's also learn not to have the same situation some time later.

Politicians, regulators, health agencies, stock commissions, etc... please, let's learn from the past and not alarm ourselves when we have the problem in front.

I am right now in Australia, where all the flights to Mexico have been cancelled. My brother works in Mexico DF, but fortunately he is on vacations in Ecuador. Tomorrow, he returns to DF. I read the newspapers, and what do I see ?? ... alarm, confusion, chaos,... What should I tell my brother ???... That he must take a flight from ECUADOR direct into Spain, without landing in Mexico ??

This is the kind of feeling I refer to when I compare these "stories" along the years. We had many cases like this along the times. It is supposed we have better resources now to prevent these cases, is it really so ???

If not, is the entire world really so exposed to the destiny of the events ??

I really think so.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero

President

WW Shares, Inc

CUBA Embargo: OBAMA smoking a cuban cigar with FIDEL ?

2009-04-21T21:45:00.000-07:00

Last week we woke up with the news that OBAMA admon was ready to soften the so-year-long embargo and limitations to CUBA.

CUBA issue will never be understood, since it is a small island in the middle of the Caribbean sea, with almost no economic relevance.

Obviously, its geographic situation is other thing. It is so close to US borders that americans who have always been so cautious about having the enemy, although minimum, so near... are thinking about the possibility, now that Chavez and China and IRAN are becoming so good friends, that CUBA starts dangerous relationships with these "3 amigos".

GUANTANAMO closing as well as this embargo lift will place the first steps in a reconciliation highly expected for ones, but not for others.

Will "the CASTRO brothers" enter into the trap OBAMA admon is preparing for them ?

As previously said in my article "If OBAMA quoted in the stock exchange...", we are facing an era of high-tec war, an era of "diplomacy war", an era where you do not need Mr Cheney and his weapons, but OBAMA and his blackberries.

Chavez in Venezuela is different as Castro in Cuba. Venezuela has oil, oil that is being sold to the US, but that may also be sold to China at a lower price.

Venezuela has the power of oil, but till now, Chavez is only a big-mouth populist speaker whose intelligence is not at the height of mr HU JINTAO or AHMADINEYAD.

If the three of them become close friends, then the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER is there, at 81 kms from US borders.

For me, this is the real lecture of OBAMA admon lifting softly the ambargo to CUBA, as well as using MIAMI CUBAN POWER to recover CUBA as a good friend.

Let's hope CUBA does not become again in a battlefield, where the only damages are the pure cuban citizens.

Will OBAMA smoke cuban cigars together with FIDEL ?... Will we see that photo published on main newspapers ??

Do not have any doubt. If necessary, we will see it. OBAMA is programmed to that and much more.

Let's see what happens... But, TRUMP or HILTON must be ready to take profit out of this attempt to americanize Cuba again.

JOSE LUIS REVILLA ESCUDERO

President

WWShares, Inc

B.R.I.C.

2009-04-15T03:50:00.000-07:00

Brazil, Russia, India and China become the new conglomerate of countries ready to have a meaningful presence in the worlwide economies.

If we take into account only the ground square meters they occupy, we have most of the globe territories covered.
If we take into account only the population they represent, we have most of the people living in the planet.

But, an additional pro has been added to these countries, apart from the pure geographic and demographic presence... This is, the future consumer rates, as well as the untired hand work, or the unlimited raw materials such as gas, oil or grains for biodiesel purposes.

The question then, is:

We use to talk a lot about perspectives. We use to talk a lot about future promises, emerging countries... I remember it was some time ago, we were talking about the "ASIA TIGERS", including countries such as Malaysia and Singapore. Now, we talk about others.

Of course, we talk also about the 1.300 millions people in India, or the 1.100 millions in China.
Of course, we talk about their GDP figures... or about the new born cosmopolitan cities....

But how do we react as stock investors, or company owners, or even as worldwide development directors to these "possible" opportunities???

The answer is not easy. They are still very protectionist countries, where foreign investment is limited to strict rules or mafias. Corruption is well spread in most of them. Local infraestructures or even legal foundations are still very weak. A huge dependence from the current government is also a risk, since agressive anti-government movements may arise.

Our advice from WWShares, Inc is to look at these countries with the perspective of strong consolidated and robust companies that decide to move their production there, or even buy a local business, or even enter into joint venture agreements.

So, as an investor, I would recommend to examine western companies that can benefit from a certain presence or business related activity within these territories.

Banco SANTANDER has a great presence in Brazil ( through a major stake in BANCO REAL), so and if Lula continues in power, and continues with his well doing and political stability, SANTANDER will get a good profit out of Brazil.

BBVA has a joint venture agreement with the Chinese CITIC BANK. Then, ...ok !!, if China gets developed, its banking system evolves in the right direction, then BBVA will also benefit in the near future.

Many HIGH-TEC companies and telecoms have deployed their IT structure into India, benefiting from a low salary work base, as well as a high level of IT engineers coming from INDIA universities. Then, these companies will have a positive impact on their cost - structures and "know-how" thanks to this decision.

FAES FARMA (the spanish quoted pharma group ) recently signed an agreement with Merck-Serono INDIA for the commercial rights in India of its new developed antihistaminic BILASTINA. Well,... then FAES and Merck Serono will benefit from the wide population in India, that may be affected by allergic diseases. But entering into the market with an agreement with an international established company makes that investors that put their money into FAES may also obtain a good profit out of this country in a non risky way.

For sure, there are many other examples. But the conclusion is always the same:

"These countries are an opportunity, of course, but as an experienced investor, I cannot enter markets I do not control, ... Otherwise, you are running big risks... The solution to this, is not other than investing in those companies that can benefit from their presence there. "

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WWShares, Inc

BEARISH SEASON is over

2009-04-12T04:15:00.000-07:00

After 2 years of losses in the european stock indexes, and 3 years of losses in Wall Street... There is people now that begin thinking the "bearish season" is over.

After all, this is a question of confidence. If people believe the bearish season is over, then we have nothing to do with being bearish any more.

Let´s be bullish, then !!!...

But, today I wake up and read that the NEW FRONTIER BANK in COLORADO has gone into bankruptcy with 2.000 million dollars in assets. ...This is even to fear a wild BULL, isn´t it ??

Last week, a well known bank in Japan continued reporting huge losses and sank its quotation in the Nikkei.
Citigroup and Bank of America are due to report "good" results for the first quarter,... What does it mean "good" ???

Does it mean they are now solvent again ??
How much money have they received from the government to announce "good" results ??
When are they going to return this money to the contributors ??

Politicians obviously need to launch good news into the people. They need to restore confidence to improve the consumer rates. But, are they cheating us again ??

I am a private investor that put my money in risk every time I invest it. So, and since I am not going to receive money from the government if I lose it, I must be very, very careful.

It is clear that BNP PARIBAS, CITIGROUP, BBVA, SANTANDER, etc... have gained ground from their minimums, in some cases, even more than a 50%. Huge return for the agressive players that bought when the apocalypsis was announced everywhere, even in the NUTELLA bowls.

People use to say that "without risk, no gains"... Ok, I agree with that. But, I have to be careful with my and my customers investments, because they do not push me to earn a 50 % return on investment, but yes..., they push me hard NOT TO LOSE THEIR MONEY.

My advice then is not other than, if you feel hungry, go eating the cake little by little, chunk by chunk,...Otherwise you may end up with a digestive problem.
So in a portfolio of 1.000.000 dollars, I would now be in, with a 15% in stocks, buying long positions when fears arise again, now that we are in the results release time, and bad surprises may come.

If going down, buy every 5% drops... If going up above your highest purchase price, keep watching...

Do not be greedy, with drops of more than 90% in some companies, there is much ground to gain... when clouds firmly dissapear.

We cannot deny the first explosions of good news will come from the banks. So, I would recommend to be exposed into banking institutions, mainly those that announced "good" results, or those enough reinforced by government funds.

In a second phase, I would recomend "public concessions companies" that can benefit from the huge public expense in infraestructures to be approved and executed by all the governments.

In the case of Spain, obviously:

BANKS: BBVA, SANTANDER
CCs: FERROVIAL, ACS, ACCIONA, FCC

Finally, you must select some of the most deteriorated "slumdogs", but with the best hopes of a rebirth:
FAES FARMA, ZELTIA, AVANZIT, LA SEDA.

Let´s see if the BEAR hunters change their shotguns for a "capote y una espada" and begin bullfighting again. Let´s hope so.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WWShares, Inc

GARZONADAS

2009-04-11T07:14:00.000-07:00

Curiosamente si un francés pronunciara GARZON, sonaría fonéticamente como GARÇON, término que en el idioma vecino viene a significar algo así como "mozo", "camarero" o "chico de los recados"...

No es muy descabellado pensar que el juez GARZON se vaya a alejar mucho de estos significados. Y es que Baltasar siempre fue un instrumento muy útil para las iniciativas "estratégicas" de nuestro PSOE.

Oye, Baltasar... acusa a Bárcenas de corrupción. Y va Baltasar y lo hace.
Oye, Baltasar... saca a la luz las "escuchas" del PP. Y va Baltasar y lo hace.
Oye, Baltasar... remueve la "memoria histórica". Y va Baltasar y lo hace.

Luego se queda todo empantanado, pero bueno... el "ruido" social ya está hecho. La duda ya ha surgido, y el "salpicado" político ya se ha puesto en marcha.

Hay que aclarar, lo digo porque mucha gente a lo mejor no lo sabe, que la Audiencia Nacional tiene más jueces aparte de Garzón. Aunque muchas veces, ésto no es lo que parece...

Baltasar Garzón es el claro ejemplo del ser humano que ha cubierto sus necesidades más básicas: dinero, poder, seguridad... y aspira ahora a subir un peldaño más en esa "pirámide de MASLOW" maldita para muchos. Aquel peldaño en el que el hombre pierde sus orígenes y lo único que desea es convertirse en MITO.

Este hombre quiere ser notorio, famoso en el mundo entero, un referente, un mito cuando pasen los años...
Que si fue el juez que juzgó a Pinochet unos cuantos años más tarde de lo que debía... que si fue el único juez que se atrevió a tocar el tema de Guantanamo... que si fue el juez que revivió la memoria histórica... que si conferencias en Perú y México, que si un año en Georgetown, que si... , que si.... y mientras, su despacho en Madrid echando humo para sacar adelante todas las causas pendientes que abre pero que no cierra.

Obviamente, intentó ser político. Fue con el consentimiento de Felipe González. Salió mal la cosa.

Mire Ud por donde..., que como lo de político no salió, pues decidió ir a dar conferencias por toda Sudamérica para que le conocieran por allí, como si fuera un cantautor cualquiera ávido de conquistar nuevos mercados musicales.... Lo raro es que no tocase con Juanes o Miguel Bosé en el puente de la libertad !!!!!!, todavía me pregunto qué pasó...

No se preocupe, sr juez. Aunque su enfermedad tiene otros pacientes muy relevantes y algo incurables: Sarkozy, Chavez, Bush, Obama, ... o incluso Ana Obregón. Sí !!!... nuestra Anita !!!...ésta es como ud, pero con un grado de desarrollo de la enfermedad más avanzado. Todo tiene solución si pone algo de su parte.

Le digo, sr juez, que no desespere. Eso sí, chequeese a menudo para que no vaya a más...No me gustaría verle un día en SUPERVIVIENTES, con un taparrabos y comiendo cocos junto con otras "celebrities".

Eso sí, deje las "GARZONADAS" para otros, que al final, verá como ud. mismo se da cuenta que no surtieron el efecto deseado. Y luego estas cosas hay que contarselas a los nietos...

Por cierto, yo le diría, ya para acabar:

Si algún día pasa por delante de un banco, y da la casualidad que lo están robando...no salga detrás de ellos persiguiendolos como un héroe, y lo que es más importante, no les diga a los atracadores eso de: " les perseguiré hasta donde los límites de la justica me deje ...", porque viniendo de ud se lo pueden creer y alguno de ellos puede pensar que es su oportunidad para dejar los hurtos y acabar en GH, o en alguna entrevista de esas de 100.000 euros en LA NORIA. Y entonces la montamos. Se lo digo, sr juez, porque su enfermedad es altamente contagiosa.

Cuidado con estas cosas.

Editorial
WWShares, Inc

BERNARD MADOFF

2009-04-11T02:22:00.000-07:00

I really did not get that surprised with the expectation this man had on his judgment day, right in New York City.

He is really worth it. He has the honour to be the most important robber in World´s history.

BM is the proof of how greedy we are !!!... While he returned a 20% return on investment to his customers, nobody asked. Nobody realised it was impossible such a sustained return along so many years.

The markets going down, and I continue receiving from my "advisor" BM a 20% annual profit.

I can imagine the conversations among the rich people spread all over the golf fields along the US:
" Are you losing money ???... Come on Clark, let me tell you the person you must trust within your investments. Call this guy, his name is Bernard Madoff.

But, is he a trustwirthy person ???...- Of course, I have been his customer for 10 years, and he is a money making machine... ""

Even, along the hollywood studios, I can also imagine Steven Spielberg talking to his crew during a film shooting break, teling them how fortunate he was to find Mr Madoff advisory and management services. Steven would have been saying something like this:
" I do not know how he gets it,... he is a really smart investor and he has a good team behind... very professional. He has many customers and a long career in Wall Street. Very respected, very shy, he does not like the spotlight, like Buffet or Soros... He is a great person !!! " .

This is the world of CAPITALISM. The world that cannot fall because it is intrinsic to the human being condition. " If I can play golf with Bill Gates, why do I have to keep on living under the poverty doorway ???

I already told in a previous article that today, you do not need a long stock covering your face and robbing a 7-ELEVEN night shop to be a robber ... You only need a fancy suit and the promise of a high return on investmets. People will believe you and trust you if during some months you give them their profit money. They will never ask you how you get it.

It is incredible how we forget history.

Almost 20 years ago, Soros already played with HEDGE FUNDS located in TAX HAVENS. In fact, this was the source of his astonishing fortune.

Almost some time ago, we woke up with the ENRON scandal. The audit world crunched, but the only impact was to change the ARTHUR ANDERSEN brand to DELOITTE. The auditors continued being the same !!!

Almost 12 years ago, NICK LEESON, a young trader, bankrupted BARINGS BANK, playing with leveraged instruments in Singapore.

Now, politicians meet again during G-20 last week, and launch the following statement to the world:

" The lack of regulation, as well as, the hedge funds or the bank secrecy have been the main cause of this historic crisis, we are going to fight against them seriously".

Come on !!!... 20 years ago, we already knew that. Ask Mr SOROS about it.

I do not know if Mr MADOFF will spend the rest of his days in jail. But, for sure, he will write a book, someone will make a biopic movie ( I would like this movie project to be conducted by Steven Spielberg... maybe with the box-office he could regain the money he lost... ) , and obviously, Mr MADOFF case will be studied in Wharton and Harvard.

But, I am also sure, that in the next 15 years, another MADOFF will arise, and nobody will remember the original one.

You will see...

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WWShares, Inc

TAX HAVENS

2009-04-09T02:32:00.000-07:00

According to the pure meaning of the term, TAX HAVEN is a place where individuals and/or companies do not support a heavy load of taxation.
Better said, a place where the tax rate is much lower than in other jurisdictions.

To finish the definition this way, would let many people out of the real impact of these countries, islands or places into the global economies.

First of all, we must distinguish between TAX HAVEN and BANK SECRECY. TAX HAVEN is a place where you do not pay income taxes, or capital gains taxes or even company taxes,... but this does not mean that this place will have a BANK SECRECY...that is, the obligation to the local banks to inform about the statements of the customers registered on them.

In Switzerland, for instance, people pay taxes, but the country has on its legislation the fulfilling of the bank secrecy. This does not allow local banks to provide information to other countries about the statements of their customers.

So, what is the G-20 trying to do ???... Do they want to abolish TAX HAVENS or BANK SECRECY ??... If we look into "the list" displayed at the conclusion of the G-20 summit in London last week, this is not a list of TAX HAVENS only, but a list of countries with a strong BANK SECRECY.

With the economic turmoil ocurring at full speed around the world, many politicians found out that some hedge funds were located in these places, using the BANK SECRECY to hide their leveraged operations. Hedge funds are out of control, because they do not suffer any regulation and their investments are ilimited and may well hit companies, currencies or even raw materials.

How do you explain a BRENT price of 150 dollars per barrel, when the real production did not accomplish this price ???... The answer is simple: Especulation. With little money, but with a 100 times leverage, these hedge funds pushed hard to low or rise its quotation price.

The game is simple. If general sentiment is bear, I play short. If sentiment changes, I turn myself into a long position.

So, they always earn. That is the answer to the most commonly spread question of: Where is the money ???
A question that many people asked themselves today when the banks have begun to tumble.

So, I agree that the lack of regulation as well as the bank secrecy is really hurting the economies, to allow others to become multibillionaire.

But, my surprise is, that it seems we have discovered a new world with this idea.

20 years ago, a good friend of us, called Georghe Soros, already played with hedge funds located in the so called TAX HAVENS. Also I shall remember the BARINGS BANK case where a young trader called Nick Leeson bankrupted the most traditional banking house in England, by playing leveraged operations in Singapore... another country in the "list" that our "genius" politicians have now displayed.

Most of these tax havens belong to the United Kingdom. They are islands like Bahamas, Cayman, Bermuda, Guernsey, etc... that for many years have been obtaining huge profits of these now considered "illegal" transactions. Most of the banks located in these places are british...Should they now give back all the money they have earned during all these years ???

Mr Brown, prime minister of the United Kingdom, with a thrill face expression, announced last week that the "era of bank secrecy" was over... Great!!! the question now is, when are you going to begin dismantling all the islands and countries under your sovereignity that have been doing this for ages ???

Is USA ready to change their laws in states such as Delaware or Nevada, where bank secrecy is also a reality ???

Why do they lie to us ??
Why do the politicians think we are idiots ???

These are the questions I always ask myself.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
CEO
WWShares, Inc

Zapatero, un "gran" Ministro de Deportes

2009-04-08T12:13:00.000-07:00

Me estoy empezando a preocupar un poco porque al sr. Zapatero ya no le salen bien ni los golpes de efecto. Aquellos que tan bien ha coordinado junto con su elfo "Pepiño" en anteriores ocasiones, ahora le empiezan a fallar. Mala cosa.

Despues del apretón de manos con Obama, tenía preparado el hombre su "bomba"informativa, la remodelación de su gabinate, y con ello apalancar un poco su maltrecha popularidad... Y como son las cosas, que le ha salido mal, mal ... ¿ se lo pueden creer ?

Y es que alguien se "chivó" a la prensa... ¿ Quién fue el que dejó KO la estrategia de mi amigo Jose Luis ?... ¿ Quién fue el que dejó pensativo, tras conocerse la filtración a la prensa, en la reunión de Estambul a nuestro querido presidente ?...

Ya sabe presidente, que las desgracias no vienen solas.

Pero bueno, vamos al lío, vamos a la noticia. Remodelación de gobierno, nuevos ánimos, y promesas cumplidas...

Zapatero prometió un trato preferencial al deporte en España, y ya sabemos que el sr Zapatero nunca incumple sus promesas... Ahora, eso sí, tampoco las ejecuta como el político corriente.

Por ello, va nuestro amigo y dice que se va hacer cargo él mismo del CSD, y por tanto, que asume la responsabilidad que en su día prometió a nuestros afamados deportistas.

No recuerdo nada igual desde que Bush nombró a Arnold Schwarzenegger asesor de deportes para los EEUU de América. Claro, que salvando las distancias, lo equiparable sería que el sr Obama saliera un día en prime time anunciando que se va a encargar personalmente de coordinar y ejecutar todas las estrategias de los deportistas norteamericanos.

Stay fit with Obama !!!... se le ocurriría a algún avispado productor de L.A. para un nuevo programa de parrilla "prime time". ¿ Se imaginan ??

La crisis económica destruyendo empleo a tope, el PIB en caída libre, el déficit comercial en pleno apogeo, y el presidente en forma, en forma total ...

Y me pregunto yo, si ha puesto a Angeles Gonzalez Sinde como ministra de cultura, ¿ por qué no ha puesto de ministro de deportes a Angel Nieto ??

Si el sr Jose Blanco, el elfo anteriormente comentado, se hace cargo de Fomento... ¿ Como es que no ha puesto de ministro de educación a "el lute"??...Por lo menos, tiene la carrera de Derecho acabada. Aunque como dice el tertuliano, otrora afamado escritor, Juan Manuel de Prada: " Tener un título universitario hoy en día en España más que un merito, es un demérito". Que razón tienes !!!

En fin, sus razones tendrá el presidente pero creo que no ha ido muy allá. Me ha defraudado un poco. Me hubiera gustado un poco mas de creatividad en los nombramientos...
¿ O es que alguien no esperaba a Chaves como vicepresidente ???...

... yo creo que todavía hoy, ni él mismo se lo cree.

Atentas las agencias inmobiliarias !!!!... El sr Chaves busca piso en Madrid.

De locos...

Editorial
WWShares, Inc

G-20: A summit of "celebrities"

2009-04-02T04:24:00.000-07:00

They are all in.
20 million euros of budget only for the event expenses.

And they are decided to solve the world economic downturn. Obama brings 500 people of staff, advisors, cookers, and even 2 people to taste his food. Yeah!, you heard ok !!... 2 people to taste his food before eating it.

I am imagining if he has to eat an ice-cream, is he going to eat the ice cream already tasted by others ???

I remember when we were kids, and we bought 1 ice cream for four people,...It must be a similar experience.

Michelle Obama changed her dresses three times in one day. Someone told her she was not going to the OSCARs ceremony??? Did any of the 500 advisors told her not to give a fancy impression in hard economic times ???

Mr Obama was so worried about the cameras that he decided to shake the hand with one of those british guards at the front door of Downing Street, whose mission is not to move. So he had to break the rules and shake his hand to mr Obama. Of course, ...

Hu Jintao, president of China, the main owner of the world, since we take into account that the US is the main debtor of this country, arrived to London, had dinner with the others, etc... but nobody saw him on television, or even his wife did not shake hands as if she were Miss "OSCAR best actress nominee".

Bets now show that only 10% of people believe firmly that any conclusion is going to be made during this 1 day and a half. But meanwhile, we have fun with our political "celebrities". Carla Bruni did not come,.. Sonsoles Espinosa then becomes the best dressed, but no, she did not come either !!!... Then, ok, Michelle Obama is pushing hard to have that mention...

The show must go on. Even when the world is suffering its hardest times in ages.

Demonstrations in the City financial district were the dark side of this glamorous meeting, but as the journalists always say: " there is always someone that fucks a good photo ..."

I am very happy..., because I think the world will continue the same way, that means that the APOCALYPSIS or the END OF THE WORLD is not coming with this crisis (sorry for those philosophers that only appear and leave their caves when something like this happens, only to reaffirm their theories..).

Rich people will simply continue being rich, and poor people will continue being poor, except from those poor people that begin accepting the game´s rules and begin to change the status they now suffer. Glamorous delinquency is permitted !!,...yeah!! if you steal money, do not do it in a 7 ELEVEN during the night, you have better going, buying a good suit, and start telling people you can give them a 15% return on their investments. But be careful, do not do it for many years, beacuse then, you will confuse yourself and maybe you start believing you are a legal guy.

The rules of CAPITALISM.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
CEO
WW Shares, Inc

NOS ESTAN ENGAÑANDO !!!

2009-03-30T02:11:00.000-07:00

CCM intervenida.
Con qué desvergüenza se atreve hoy el Sr Zapatero a salir a la calle ?

"Tenemos el sistema financiero más sólido del mundo", "ninguna institución bancaria en España requerirá intervención alguna"... Pero, Ud está loco o qué ??

Entendiendo que el gobierno tiene la información con una cierta anticipación al resto de los mortales, y entendiendo también que con más de 150 asesores, alguno le habrá comentado alguna vez la cruda realidad que se avecinaba, ¿ por qué nos miente ? ...

No llego a entender qué puede llevar al Sr Zapatero a cometer estos errores tan garrafales.

Claro que los economistas clásicos hablan de que la confianza en el consumidor es fundamental para salir antes de una crisis, o no caer tan profundamente en ella. Pero, tú no le puedes decir a un agricultor que no va a haber tormenta, cuando está todo el cielo negro ... para que plante su cosecha aceptando la confianza de tu pronóstico y luego la tenga que tirar toda ella, con la consiguiente pérdida económica y moral...

En otras circunstancas, o mejor dicho, en otro país que no fuera nuestra España querida, este hombre hubiera sido obligado a dimitir ya, y él obviamente lo hubiera aceptado inmediatamente.

Pero SPAIN IS DIFFERENT, que si las copitas, que si el fútbol, que si los pisos no bajan, que si la crisis se soluciona en 6 meses, ... ole!, ole!, ole!

"Pase lo que pase, no rebajaremos nuestros compromisos sociales"... pues como siga así la cosa, Sr Zapatero, y tenga que dar 9.000 millones de euros a cada entidad que tenga problemas, no vamos a tener ni para mantener la luz en las calles.

Mientras, continúe Ud con Kosovo, el aborto, la guerra civil española, su plan de ayuda a los parados con inversiones en infraestructuras tales como la tapia de un colegio, etc... que nos va a ir muy bien...

Espero que el 7-J, en las elecciones europeas, Ud obtenga el respaldo electoral que merece. Aunque tratandose de España, no me extrañaría nada que encima ganara las elecciones. Si ésto es así, pues cojonudo ... ¡ Que viva España !!

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
CEO
WWShares, Inc

BBVA vs SANTANDER

2009-03-27T05:15:00.000-07:00

Ya no se aguantan más. Uno porque intenta ir siempre por delante, el otro porque aunque quiere desligarse de la estrategia del primero, le cuesta no seguir sus pasos.

BBVA y SANTANDER, dos de los mayores bancos del mundo por capitalización, y curiosamente dos bancos españoles globales, llevan ya algún tiempo protagonizando una de las mayores rivalidades interempresariales que se conocen en territorio español.

Aunque su lucha es fuera de nuestras fronteras, su día a día se masca en sus diferentes sedes de Madrid.

Que yo compro el ABBEY inglés, yo el COMPASS texano. Pues entonces, yo el SOVEREIGN neoyorquino.
Que yo crezco en Brasil, yo me hago mas grande en Mexico. Pues ahora voy yo a Mexico, pues yo a Brasil...

En definitiva, una lucha estrategica por la mayor presencia mundial y que lleva ya varios años fraguandose.

A día de hoy, el BANCO SANTANDER es el banco más grande de España, por capitalización, por número de oficinas, por empleados, etc...
Sin embargo, el BBVA parece mejor gestionado para afrontar etapas de crisis como la que vivimos. No ha necesitado por el momento ninguna ampliación de capital, como así ha sido el caso de su colega, ni tampoco parece que vaya a necesitarla.

De cara a los accionistas, no les ha dado tantas sorpresas negativas como la entidad de nuestro gran amigo BOTIN. Y es que su impredecibilidad algunas veces asusta.

Sin embargo, la diferencia principal estriba en que mientras el sr. Francisco Gonzalez es un simple gestor del BBVA, el sr Botín heredó el banco de su familia.

Por lo que, uno es un asalariado y el otro es el "papá" de la criatura. Aspecto importante en los tiempos que corren.

Esto ha llevado a que el sr BOTIN tome decisiones estrategicas, mientras acaricia a sus perros en el jardín de su castillo de la bahía de Santander. Y sin consultar a nadie, se levante cada día decidiendo que banco va a comprar o cual va a vender.

El sr Gonzalez, sin embargo, se rodea a diario de un equipo amplio de analistas y asesores bien formados, que le presentan los diferentes escenarios a los que se enfrenta la entidad en cada decisión estratégica. Ésto le hace ser más lento, pero quizás más seguro.

CONCLUSION:
Uds son al final los que eligen como inversores. Quieren adrenalina, compren Botín... que quieren seriedad y rigor, compren BBVA.

El tiempo dará ó quitará la razón a estas dos formas de gestionar.

Pesará más el talento innato o el rigor del análisis bien ejecutado ?

Buen punto de partida para que las escuelas de negocio empiecen a estrujarse la cabeza con sus alumnos en algo que, por lo menos, resultaría curioso analizar con una cierta perspectiva de tiempo.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
CEO
WW Shares, Inc

Presidente busca curso de formación

2009-03-25T12:27:00.000-07:00

Muchos le catalogaban de ser un "bambi", con el objetivo de describirle como muy blandito y poco agresivo para la política.

Cinco años despues, algunos cambiaron su calificativo por el de "estratega genial", "visionario de nuevos tiempos ". En definitiva, acabaron calificandole como el creador de un nuevo movimiento socialdemócrata renovado y preparado para las nuevas generaciones.

Ahora, con una crisis económica galopante, empiezan a estar en entredicho esos últimos calificativos y se empieza a dudar de todo lo que le rodea.

El Sr Zapatero siempre fue y será el mismo.
Un hombre que de la noche a la mañana, y sin imaginarselo ni por un casual, se convirtió en presidente de gobierno.

Soltó esas famosas declaraciones de la calle Ferraz de Madrid, el día de su victoria electoral:
"Vamos a trabajar, que hay mucho que hacer", intentando que sus simpatizantes bajaran el tono de euforia que ni él mismo podía contener.

Todos los analistas políticos coinciden en que su victoria electoral se debió a que, unos días antes, un grupo de terroristas "aparentemente" musulmanes cometieron el atentado más grave de la historia de la democracia en España, y que este hecho se asoció a la presencia de España en la guerra de IRAK, decisión polémica del anterior gobierno del PP.

Sea por lo que fuere, el Sr Zapatero se vio en una situación que obviamente le venía muy grande.

Se rodeó de un equipo de trabajo, y empezó un gobierno, que hace pocos meses, revalidó por otros 4 años, lo que le asegura, al menos, gobernar ya dos legislaturas consecutivas. Consiguió movilizar a minorías tales como gays, lesbianas, inmigrantes, nacionalistas, ... mediante nuevas leyes polémicas y reavivó con ello, la hoguera de una transición y de una guerra civil acontecida muchos años atrás, y cuasienterrada en la mente de los ciudadanos, pero que reabrió con hechos tales como la ley de memoria histórica, la recuperación de cuerpos fallecidos en dicha guerra civil, e incluso lideró una negociación con la banda terrorista ETA para alcanzar un acuerdo de paz en el Pais Vasco.

Ésto le llevó a ganar por segunda vez las elecciones, y a que muchos vieran en él a un visionario.

Se rodeó de ministras, para dar la imagen de apoyo a la mujer. Apoyó a deportistas y cineastas. E incluso creó un foro de ideas de futuro en su partido, dirigido por su "amigo" Jesús Caldera.

Mientras tanto, el PP estaba completamente desconcertado, sin rumbo, y con una presión popular creciente en lo referente a la guerra de IRAK. Aspecto que aprovechó el PSOE para todavía hoy, arrojar más leña al fuego con BUSH, IRAK, USA ...

Así, aparecieron buenas excusas populares a rebatir:

Que la ministra de defensa retira tropas de Kosovo sin avisar a nadie y creando, con ello, un conflicto internacional. Pues va el presidente y reprocha al PP, de nuevo, la guerra de IRAK 6 años despues.

Que el ministro de economía predice malos augurios para la economía española. Pues va el presidente y dice que todo se lo debemos a la amistad de Aznar y Bush, al que culpa de toda la crisis financiera internacional.

Que deja malvender la principal eléctrica española ( ENDESA ) al gobierno italiano, tras negarsela a la alemana EON. Pues va el presidente y dice que la culpa es de Aznar que la privatizó y que por tanto, estas cosas pueden pasar.

Que confirma que ha interrumpido las negociaciones con la banda terrorista ETA, tras el atentado de BARAJAS en plena tregua teórica. Pues va el presidente y dice que no las había interrumpido pero que el PP en su día fue el que las inició.

Que va a salir un dato de desempleo demoledor. Pues filtra la noticia que los del PP se espían entre ellos.

Que sale el dato del PIB, en caída libre. Pues va la ministra de igualdad y dice que saca a aprobación la nueva ley del aborto.

Cortinas de humo mediáticas que intentan confundir al ciudadano.

El problema de esta estrategia es que cuando se acaban estas balas mediaticas y empieza una crisis económica sin parangón, todo cae como un castillo de naipes y nos encontramos, de la noche a la mañana, con un 12% de paro, un PIB descontrolado, unos presupuestos en los que nadie cree, ... En definitiva, una situación de caos total.

Pero no pasa nada, los demás tambien van mal.
Pero no pasa nada, EEUU está mal y es la economía mas poderosa, pues figurate...

Para el 2010, recuperación... Pero, por qué ??

Porque lo dice OBAMA y sus asesores...

Ya, pero... y que hacemos con la burbuja inmobiliaria que es propia de España, con nuestra falta de competitividad en la industria, con nuestro pálido I+D, con nuestro turismo amenazado por otros destinos más rentables, ...

Que hacemos Sr Zapatero ??

Is CHINA our enemy now ?

2009-03-25T05:37:00.000-07:00

It was last summer, while watching the presidential debates for the US elections, that I realised something was changing in the global strategy of countries.

After a certain follow-up of stadistics, polls, etc ... regarding the JOHN MCCAIN - BARACK OBAMA political battle, I considered more heavily my particular theory.

Diaries such as WSJ, FT, WASHINGTON POST... seemed all aligned towards the same direction: "BARACK OBAMA is the man we need ". Meanwhile, Sarah Palin ( John Mc Cain pick for the presidential race ) did many efforts in the wrong direction, appealing to the patriotism and the hero condition of Mr Mc Cain.
But the world needed Barack Obama. The US lobbies had already voted their candidate: Mr OBAMA.

Even, the most conservative diaries, broadcasts, magazines denied the last support to the national hero Mc Cain.

While enjoying my vacations, and behind a good book, I began to think about what this change in the US political strategy meant to the world.
It did not take me much to notice that Barack Hussein Obama, with unknown political godfathers in Washington, with no family records but a grandma in Hawaii and a muslim brother in Kenya, had something very useful for the new US strategy: " To put an end into the Middle east confrontations and bring peace to the muslim world " and focus on what really matters to keep the world supremacy for the next century: " CHINA".

Last week, all newspapers around the globe brunched this headline: " US sends warships to CHINA territories ".

Days later, CHINA appears as the major bondholder of US T-bonds in the world. Therefore, US becomes the main debtor of CHINA.
CHINA commercial strategy has been very simple during the last 12 years. Exporting goods with a "yuan" fixed rate, and investing all these reserves into the american T-bond.

Consequently, China and Singapore sovereign funds are now the owners of key banking institutions, corporations and even strategic western brands.

The question that someone, with a certain power in Washington, did to himself was:

What are we doing fighting against IRAK, wasting money and resources, while the world supremacy is being debated in the eastern territories ?

Let´s put an end and begin a new era of "dirty media games", "diplomacy dark strategies" and whatever necessary to show the world that our enemy now is CHINA.

Nevertheless, China has something very important counting favourable. That is: Patience, Protectionism and Control...

A good example of this, is reflected in today´s news: "China denies the access to YOUTUBE.COM in all the country because of the videos hanged into this net, referred to fishermen protestants in the sea of China."

US has a tough work ahead this time. This is not a fight against 5 radical muslims hidden behind a hill, this is a fight that will enter fields such as the SPACE RACE, the ECONOMY, the RAW MATERIALS supply, and at the end, the world´s supremacy.

It is going to be very interesting to see how the US uses its creativity to show the world an image of China that damages its potential supremacy around the globe.

This is not a war for Dick Cheney or ex-Vietnam heroes, this is a war for marketeers and Harvard polititians.

Let´s see what happens. The entire world is watching.

Comments ellaborated by WW Shares, Inc.

FAES FARMA

2009-03-24T12:34:00.000-07:00

Junto con ZARDOYA OTIS son los decanos del parquet madrileño.
FAES FARMA y ZARDOYA OTIS llevan tratando a sus accionistas como se merecen, y con su política anual de dividendos y ampliaciones gratuítas de capital, han llevado a muchos capitales a multiplicar por mas de 10 veces en los últimos 20 años. Todo ello, sobre una base sólida de resultados y fundamentales perfectamente justificados.

Sin embargo, y mas concretamente en el caso de FAES FARMA, su cotización bursátil ha sufrido un varapalo impresionante en los últimos dos años.

Su cotización llegó a superar los 20 euros por título, mientras que ahora mismo sus titulos se cambian por unos 2,68 euros ridículos.
¿ Qué ha ocurrido con esta compañía que tradicionalmente fue de las mas estables y rentables del parquet ??

Algunos dicen que son las posiciones cortas las que han dañado al valor. Otros argumentan que la propia dirección de la compañía la ha dejado caer a proposito para ahora enriquecerse de nuevo. En fin, opiniones para todos los gustos, pero sólo un damnificado, el accionista.

Aquel que tan bien ha sido tratado por la compañía durante años, sufre ahora una de las mayores caídas que se conocen en la bolsa.

Acaba de finalizar su ampliación de capital gratuíta, ha pagado su dividendo correspondiente, ha presentado su esperado dossier del nuevo fármaco estrella ( BILASTINA ), donde la compañía basa sus esperanzas de futuro, ... entonces ¿ qué ocurre ?

El IBEX-35 lleva 10 sesiones alcistas y muchos valores han resurgido de sus "cenizas". Mientras, Faes farma continua renqueante y pálida.

La duda que se nos presenta a algunos, es si estamos ante una oportunidad histórica de compra, o si por el contrario, pasa algo que no sabemos pero que otros ya sí conocen...

Si dentro de unos meses, FAES vuelve a ser FAES FARMA y recupera su valor, entonces la bolsa se habrá convertido en la mayor vergüenza regulatoria del mundo, permitiendo que algunos interesados, y en contra de los fundamentales de la compañía, hayan demolido el prestigio, buenhacer y trabajo duro de una empresa bandera de nuestro mercado.
La CNMV debería avergonzarse por ello, por su falta de control y trasparencia, por su falta de rigor, por su inutilidad y absentismo, por su descrédito como ente regulador.
En unos tiempos en que nos "rasgamos las vestiduras" hablando de que las causas de la actual crisis ha sido la falta de regulación y control, nos encontramos con casos sangrantes como el de este valor. No aprenderemos nunca.

Si por el contrario, FAES desilusiona a sus fieles seguidores, aquellos que lo han sido durante años, con alguna mala noticia encubierta que nos sorprenda algún día, entonces diré aquello que tanto me gusta decir y que, pese a los tiempos que corren, defiendo todavía hoy:

Señores, el mercado es soberano.

Aunque después de escuchar a la patronal de Banca, así como a otros comités de dirección de empresas cotizadas, sobre las posiciones bajistas apalancadas sobre ciertos valores, me entran muchas dudas de que estemos "jugando" limpiamente.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
President
WWShares, Inc

Why MEXICO ? ...

2009-03-24T05:29:00.000-07:00

MEXICO has been living as the backyard of the USA for ages.
In terms of economic dependence, it is clear that many US interests are focused across the mexican border.

Cheap labor costs, logistics, supremacy and control are the key issues behind this fact.

But, what do the mexicans have to say about this ???

Hollywood has shown us a MEXICO full of dirty streets, short men under big straw hats, long moustaches, pollution, dust, etc... Apart from, obviously, corruption, drug handling, delinquency, murder,...

In fact, nothing of this is unreal, but is it different from any of the suburbs of big US cities like L.A., Chicago or even MIAMI ?. Does it mean that MEXICO does not have a skyscraper downtown, fancy hotels, extra-luxury restaurants, ... ?

Then, how do you explain the continuous flights from US main cities to CANCUN, PUERTO VALLARTA, LOS CABOS ???... Do the rich americans want to spend their leisure time with dust, dirty streets, corruption and delinquency ???

Maybe, and this is my personal point of view, MEXICANS are lacking some branding and marketing wash-up. Let´s try to put this in words:

TELEVISA, CEMEX, CORONITA, GUILLERMO DEL TORO, ALFONSO CUARON, LUIS MIGUEL, PAULINA RUBIO, ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ, RBD, GUILLERMO ARRIAGA, ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ IÑARRITU, GAEL GARCIA BERNAL, SALMA HAYEK, ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS SLIM, EMILIO AZCARRAGA, BIMBO, MODELO, MARIA ASUNCION ARAMBURUZABALA, LORENZO ZAMBRANO, OMNILIFE, AMERICA MOVIL, HOTELES CAMINO REAL, ICA, CINEPOLIS, ESTADIO AZTECA, ...

International names, linked with reputation, welfare, distinction, in all fields: "movies, singers, retail, and a high elite of entrepeneurs of the so called 3rd generation driving multinational companies well beyond mexican borders".

Then, Why MEXICO ???

The answer is not easy, but for sure, it has something to do with culture, history and politics.

But only with creativity, effort, and hope can mexicans leave these stereotypes apart, and start washing-up their own image.

Let´s finish with the "mande señor !!!" and begin with the " Qué me dijiste ??".

I really think this would be a good beginning ...