Black Art Beverage, Inc. - Trading Symbol: BLVI

Black Art Beverage, Inc. - Trading Symbol: BLVI

We'll discuss why we like this
company so much in just a moment. But first....take a look at this chart! We
haven't seen a stock as OVERSOLD as
this one in quite some time. Pay close attention to....

1) A stochastics that has been deeply oversold but
is beginning to show strength and emerge from levels of extreme pessimism.

2) A breakout from the recent consolidation

3) Upside volume spikes returning to the stock
suggesting accumulation

4) MACD downside momentum waning and poised to turn
positive

5) A stochastics that has been deeply oversold that
is beginning to show strength and emerge from levels of extreme pessimism.

Click
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With an 80% decline in the shares
in just a few days, one would think something terrible was going on with
this company. Right? Wrong!

This stock went up nearly 250% in a
virtually uninterrupted run that lasted nearly 12 trading days. On the final day
of the run, the stock put in a major "exhaustive gap" higher on huge volume
(historically a sign of a near-term top). When the move higher eventually
ended, sellers filled the gap signaling it was time to take these huge
gains off the table.

After a few weeks of consolidating
near (what we believe to be) the bottom, the stock is beginning to breakout
again and head higher. Just how high will it go this time? Well - no one
knows for sure, but the stock is at roughly the same price
level it was at near the beginning of its massive 250% move higher.

Not only that, but our research
suggests that the fundamentals are only getting better for
this company. Consider
this....

· BLVI'sBlack Art
Beer is brewed and bottled in Germany
by the company known as Braustolz GmbH. Germany is known worldwide
for their outstanding beer.

· BLVIcurrently
imports 2 different types of beer, "Black
Art" and "Black Art
Gold"

· BLVI had an
EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL launch of their brand awareness campaignat the Beres Hammond
concert held at
the James L Knight Center in Miami, Florida over the 4thof July
weekend.

Could
BLVIbe
the next Heineken? Given its RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTSof expansion into
the Southeastern United States, the Midwestern United States, the Caribbean region
and Canada(which was just announced
yesterday)...we think it's certain possible.

We strongly suggest you take a look
at their brand new website, where you'll find more useful information!
Check it out: http://www.blackartbeer.com [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102654754951&s=16861&e=001PW0bHTyyhQVT4B3aqbfzsJiWvnEl9WB8-CnpNGILaTR_vSsTzT1X1HSwwGwp1bSKRZ-kiiL2i4cSWLbd9RQAi6csHHxDRVsRY2ML91aKo9gRdfNb5bVOBw==]

Take a close look at this Company.
It seems to be showing some very Bullish signs, and with their longevity
and expertise, BLVIcould prove to be
a big winner! We personally think that there is a lot of short term
potential here, as well as long term vision!
Remember to always use the appropriate stop losses, trailing stop losses
and anything else you can think of in order to protect your investment
should you decide to trade in this stock!

Remember - "Knowledge
is Power" and as always here at StockPreacher.com, we strive to
give you all the best information available!

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Wealthy investors still shy about investing, survey shows

While most wealthy investors agree that opportunities exist in the current market, they are not taking advantage, due to the risk of further price declines, according to a report released today by Barclays Wealth.


The survey of more than 2,100 high-net-worth individuals around the world, which was conducted in April and May, found that 88% of respondents said that opportunities exist in the market, but 68% said they are staying away from those opportunities because they believe the risk of further price declines is too high, the report said.

According to the survey, due diligence is becoming more important to wealthy investors. Fully 46% of respondents said they plan to spend more time investigating investments before committing themselves. Also, 35% of advisers said that transparency of information from investment providers is becoming more important, up from 25% in a similar survey taken a year ago.

The survey was conducted for New York-based Barclays Wealth, a division of London-based Barclays Bank PLC, by the Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. of London.

All respondents had at least $750,000 in investible assets and 40% had between $1.5 million and $15 million.

Activity of Investment Advice Needs Regulation

As Congress prepares to tighten financial regulation to correct weaknesses revealed by the mortgage collapse, the debate over who should regulate those who give in-vestment advice, including financial planners, has entered a new phase.
In the latest development, as reported in InvestmentNews last week, the Washington-based Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc., the Denver-based Financial Planning Association and the Arlington Heights, Ill.-based National Association of Professional Financial Advisors, have formed the Financial Planning Coalition to help shape regulatory-reform legislation.

The groups want to dissuade Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission from putting financial planning activities, as distinct from investment advisory activities, under the regulatory oversight of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. of New York and Washington, which now regulates brokers. The coalition wants to place the supervision of financial planning activities under the CFP Board, acting as a professional regulatory organization, much in the way bar associations govern the activities of attorneys.

We know the debate over financial regulatory reform will become more heated when congressional hearings on the issue begin. And the fine points of adviser versus planner regulation could too easily be pushed into the background as various parties try to protect their turf.

If we can put politics aside, however, all stakeholders involved in this debate, especially members of Congress, should keep in mind the single most important question: What is best for investors?

We believe the best solution for assuring that investors receive sound advice is for a new regulatory organization to be created to oversee anyone offering financial planning advice and for Finra to oversee anyone giving investment advice, whether that person is a financial planner, investment adviser or -broker.

One could argue that a separate regulatory authority for planners and advisers overseeing both planning and investment advice would be the simplest and best solution. After all, planners and advisers are on the same page regarding fiduciary responsibility. But granting the CFP Board such authority poses problems. The board does not have Finra's level of staffing. Monitoring almost 60,000 certified financial planners and the estimated 300,000 others who call themselves planners and provide investment advice (and currently are regulated directly by the SEC) would stretch resources beyond current capacity. The board would have to build the necessary staff from scratch, and some means of paying that staff would have to be determined.

The Financial Planning Coalition should focus on gaining self-regulatory authority to set and enforce standards for anyone offering, or purporting to offer, financial planning advice.

It also should work to ensure that reform legislation requires that anyone who gives investment advice be held to a fiduciary standard.

On the investment side, there is a strong case to be made for taking oversight of investment advisory activities away from direct supervision of the overburdened SEC. It failed to detect Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme even though the agency was tipped off to something fishy almost a decade earlier. Likewise, several other fraudulent schemes have come to light recently that the SEC failed to detect.

As for Finra, the agency is the logical body to assume responsibility for regulating investment advisers and the investment advice activities of financial planners because it has an existing enforcement structure and staff to implement and monitor its regulations.

It is not the perfect candidate, however. Finra's experience largely has involved regulating commission-related brokerage activities and enforcing a suitability standard. If given the regulatory authority over the investment advice of planners and advisers, Finra would have to step up examiner training to detect breaches of fiduciary responsibility. It also would have to add investment advisers to its board to provide the necessary insights. And it would have to make a commitment to changing its broker- oriented culture.

Under any new regulatory scheme covering investment advice, however, one principle must remain crystal clear: Any provider of investment advice, even a broker giving advice incidental to a transaction, must be held to a fiduciary standard.

Realty's big, but not the foundation for wealth biz

If Hollywood is the generator of wealth in Los Angeles, and oil and gas are the gushers in Dallas, then real estate is the wealth machine of Phoenix. But unlike Los Angeles and Dallas, where wealth managers count entertainment moguls and oil tycoons as their clients, wealth managers in Phoenix say that real estate developers tend to keep their money in property rather than handing it over to wealth managers.
Retirees and other transplants to the Valley of the Sun, it turns out, are a much more dependable source of wealth management clients.

"Individuals who have concentrated positions in real estate receive higher rates of return on real estate than owning equities," said Randy Oldenburg, a certified financial planner and owner of Camden Financial Management, a Scottsdale, Ariz., firm that manages $120 million in assets.

"I don't have a single client with investments in real estate," he said. "Real estate people put their money in real estate."

"They don't listen to us," said Thomas Connelly, a CFP and president and chief investment officer of Versant Capital Management Inc. in Phoenix. He manages $200 million in assets.

'HIGHLY LEVERAGED'

"They're highly leveraged, and they got rich in real estate, so they stay in real estate," Mr. Connelly said.
"Real estate developers in Phoenix lose sleep if they're not fully invested and leveraged to the hilt," said Michael Casey, financial principal in Scottsdale for Lowry Hill Private Asset Management of Minneapolis. "We've worked hard at calling them, but we're boring to them."

Ironically, the severe downturn in the commercial- and residential-real-estate market in Phoenix has only served to whet the appetite of developers for profits, according to wealth managers.

"When large developers look at the market now, they see values, and they're more determined than ever to stay in real estate," said Philip Stoker, a CFP and managing partner of Stoker Ostler Wealth Advisers in Scottsdale, which has $600 million in assets.

Timothy Rowland, chairman of Rowland Carmichael Advisors Inc., also in Scottsdale, which had $315 million in assets under management at the end of last year, said he knew developers who had been through at least five boom-and-bust cycles in Phoenix and were unfazed by the collapse in prices.


Jim MarshallTimothy Rowland: Some developers have been through many boom-and-bust cycles in Phoenix and are unfazed now. With real estate deals often yielding annualized returns of 30% or more, developers in Phoenix can become "addicted" to the business, he said.
Retirees and other transplants to the region, on the other hand, have been a lucrative source of business for wealth managers.

Wealth managers in Phoenix say that between one-third and two-thirds of their business comes from retirees.

But getting that business can be challenging, because retirees and other transplants usually have a relationship with a financial adviser from their hometown or previous residence.

"It usually takes a little while to localize them," said Mr. Rowland.

People who have a second home in the Phoenix area tend to maintain a relationship with their primary advisers, he said.

"But once they spend more time here and identity Phoenix as their home, they start to talk to neighbors, and local accountants and other centers of influence, and we start to get referrals," Mr. Rowland said.

"The longer people are here, the fewer ties they have to relationships back home," Mr. Casey said. "They eventually become more comfortable here, and once they officially change their residence, their tax advisers say they need to change everything."

DANGLING SERVICES

Many firms are making a point to offer services to attract the transplant market, all the more important in a difficult economic environment.
Rowland Carmichael provides advice as a value-added service to clients who are refinancing their homes or negotiating contracts for new homes, Mr. Rowland said.

Stoker Ostler analyzes portfolios and does cash flow modeling for potential clients for free, Mr. Stoker said.

"It allows them to ask questions and get comfortable with us," he said.

WealthTrust Arizona in Scottsdale works with Colby & Thornes PLLC, a Scottsdale law firm, to help clients deal with estate tax issues, said Paul Ahern, a CFP and principal with the advisory firm, which has $450 million in assets and is owned by WealthTrust LLC of Nashville, Tenn.

"They rent space in our building, and we pay them a retainer to provide advice on an as-needed basis for staff and clients, and they explain the benefits of becoming a state resident. It's been a good value-added service," Mr. Ahern said


By Charles Paikert