Beef may be a prime target for Chinese buyers, said Rabobank analyst Chenjun Pan.
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China Construction Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui are among those considering buying Rabobank's Indonesian subsidiary.
Rabobank is less enamored of livestock, but said of all the animal markets, beef may do best.
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The bank's decision was a blow to the Rabobank cycling team, according to its general manager, Harold Knebel.
Rabobank plans to expand lending to China's food producers and processors, both in yuan and in foreign currencies.
Rabobank said they see lower average prices across the board for agricultural commodities.
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Rabobank said it had previously seen elite cycling as a good fit with the company, its clients and its employees.
In its latest deal, unveiled Tuesday, Orix will pay Rabobank in cash and its own stock for a 90.01% stake of Robeco.
Rabobank, the Dutch company who had sponsored a cycling team for 17 years, pulled out of the sport after the Usada report.
"It is with pain in our heart, but for the bank this is an inevitable decision, " said Bert Bruggink of Rabobank's managing board.
According to Bloomberg, Rabobank analyst Hans Slob asserted that there is a 30% chance that a deal between the two companies will happen.
"As more production is consumed domestically, it leaves less for exports, supporting international prices, " says Keith Flury, a soft-commodity analyst at Rabobank in London.
"On paper, this approach appears to be far more aggressive than the BoE's current objective, " said Jane Foley, a senior currency strategist from Rabobank.
"Japan is clearly participating in the global rebound, and its Asian neighbours in particular are lending a helping hand, " said Adrian Foster at Rabobank.
Impact-driven smallholder agricultural lenders such as Root Capital, Oikocredit, Triodos, and Rabobank have played a catalytic role in driving financing into this market.
He draws a parallel with the regional agricultural banks in the Netherlands that established Rabobank, a co-operative big enough to create products that local banks then distributed.
In January, the European Commission blocked, on competition grounds, a plan by three other Dutch banks, ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank, to help SNS with a capital investment.
But Dutch bank Rabobank was not awaiting any further review.
Compatriot Michael Matthew of the Rabobank team won the stage.
For Utrecht-based Rabobank, the sale is the latest move in its plan to streamline its overseas business and exit markets where it lacks scale, and focus on agriculture and food-related businesses.
Last Friday, Bayerische Landesbank and Rabobank both pulled out.
"The statement from the G20 last night may have taken the edge off the current bitter market sentiment, but the reassurances from the finance ministers lack substance, " said Jane Foley at Rabobank.
The third stage involved tackling a hilly 21km (13-mile) circuit three times and Cavendish, a 15-time stage winner in the Tour de France, trailed in 12 minutes behind winner Rabobank's Michael Matthews of Australia.
The nationalisation comes after the European Commission blocked an earlier plan that would have seen the country's other large banks, Rabobank, ING and ABN Amro, contribute capital to a so-called "bad bank" to house SNS Reaal's distressed property assets.
And late in 2012, major Dutch bank Rabobank announced it would terminate the 17-year sponsorship of its professional team because it was "no longer convinced that the international professional world of cycling can make this a clean and fair sport".
The Moody's comments added to fears "that contagion could extend to the Spanish bond market" said Rabobank analyst Jane Foley, though she added the report did "not enlighten the market much further with respect to the underlying issues with respect to Spain".
Good news emerged before the stage when it was confirmed that Rabobank's Spanish rider Pedro Horrillo Munoz had come out of an induced coma after a crash on Saturday which saw him flung off his bike and down the side of a ravine.
More recently he has struck co-operation agreements with Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, and Bank of China. (In the interim, an attempt to buy Sarasin, a private Swiss bank owned by Rabobank of the Netherlands, came to nothing.) The aim is to have 50% of his business in emerging markets by 2015.
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