Peoples Bancorp To Expand Presence In Ohio With The Acquisition Of NB&T Financial Group, Inc.

MARIETTA, Ohio and WILMINGTON, Ohio, Aug. 4, 2014 -- Filed by Peoples Bancorp Inc. --- Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933 and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12  under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 --- Subject Company: NB&T Financial Group, Inc. --- Commission File No.: 23134

Peoples Bancorp Inc. ("Company") (PEBO), parent company of Peoples Bank, National Association (collectively with the Company, "Peoples"), and NB&T Financial Group, Inc. ("NBTF") (NBTF), the parent company of Wilmington, Ohio-based The National Bank and Trust Company ("NB&T"), jointly announced today the signing of a definitive merger agreement under which Peoples will acquire NBTF through a stock and cash merger.

Disruptive Discoveries Journal by Chris Berry

Charging Ahead

Last week, TSLA released its Q2 2014 earnings. As a proponent of disruptive business models and the raw materials necessary to enable the upheaval, I always listen with rapt attention. The earnings of $0.11 per share on net income of $16 million (non-GAAP), and a loss of $0.50 per share on net income of $62 million (GAAP) were enough to satisfy the market and after a brief dip in after hours trading, the share price rebounded strongly.

As is the case with many of the early-stage companies I follow, I’m more interested in production metrics, though revenue here is accelerating, indicating that TSLA is having no problem selling its cars. I’m willing to tolerate negative earnings and cash flow as long as the company is investing in future growth and increasing sales.

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By Rachel Fox: FoxonStocks.com

I was skimming the Twitter feed yesterday and read a tweet about Airbnb raising more venture capital funds recently and being valued at around $10 billion. Go Airbnb! About a year-and-a-half ago, I tweeted one of the founders of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia, asking him how they came up with their name and what it meant. He tweeted me back and sent me a link to a video explaining their name … how cool is that?

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By: Shonn Cambpell of TradingLife:OwnIt

Treating FX instruments like inventory

Managing inventory is not so much of a system as it is an ideology, a mind set. This state of mind can really be applied to any “trading system” as it has not set of rules except the same that apply to all retail businesses and that is simply: don’t put anything on your shelf you wont be able to get rid of at some future point in time for a profit. Whatever method you choose to make the decisions to put trades on your shelves is fine. Whatever. Just know that you have to move it later on, and you have to be able to finance your inventory while its on your shelves. That’s the other one I forgot to mention.

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