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  1. phil

    Good morning!  

    Don't forget, Dow 17,750 is a good shorting spot (/YM) ahead of XOM and CVX earnings this morning.

    Nothing too exciting going on on the last trading day of the month:

    I've been contemplating China's 2-child policy and thinking there's about 400M people between 20-40 in China so assume all couples is 200M and at least 10% likely to take advantage, maybe 15% in the first year (because they won't know if the policy will last) so we're looking at 20-30M new Chinese babies over the next 12 months – that's pretty intense!  That's 10 years of US population growth in one year…

    Of course, it's silly that some baby-related stocks have already taken off – they have 9 months to wait for the first customers to be born.  On the whole though, in the US, there are about 30M couples between 20-40 and they have about 4M babies and figure about the same in Europe so this China number is EXTREMELY SIGNIFICANT for baby companies.  The trick is figuring out which ones are actually being used in China.

    Here's some of the businesses that have already taken baby steps up the stock indexes.

    • Japanese baby bottle maker Pigeon jumped more than 10 percent on Friday to its highest level since the end of August.
    • Tokyo-listed toiletry goods maker Kao, whose Merries diapers are popular in China, rose 3.7 percent to its highest level since mid-August.
    • Unicharm, which makes diapers, saw its shares in Japan jump 5 percent.
    • In Hong Kong, shares of baby stroller maker Goodbaby Internationaland diaper maker HengAn International jumped 8.9 percent and 3.3 percent respectively.
    • Skin care products maker China Child Care, formerly Prince Frog, gained 17.3 percent.
    • Chinese shares of infant formula maker Biostime International rose 11.8 percent, milk powder maker Yashili International surged 9.6 percent and dairy products maker China Mengniu Dairy also climbed 6.7 percent.

    However one Asian company has failed to rise to the occasion.Shares in Japanese condom-makerOkamoto Industries have fallen 5 percent during Tokyo trading Friday after China scrapped the decades-long policy.

    LOL, bad for condoms – I didn't think of that one!  

    MNJ and JNJ are two companies we can invest in that sell baby items to China.  



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