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If you look at the trading of stock and options in Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (NYSE: BUD), you might think that a merger offer of some sort is going to be announced soon. This morning Reuters ran a piece about how Belgium's InBev is putting pressure on non-family shareholders to consider a $46 billion merger or risk being left in the cold in the global beer consolidation.

The article points to a $65.00 per share bid, although no formal offer has been made to the company, at least not publicly. The real winner here would be Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK/A, BRK/B) as his last holdings date shows Mr. Buffett holding more than 227 million shares with a current value of some $13 billion.

But if you look at trading over the last few hours, it seems that things are picking up on the bias of traders toward a deal being at least offered. The share volume is now almost 5 million shares, and the average daily volume is only 5.7 million shares.

If you want to read a quick on the fly options analysis, you can continue reading that full option analysis at Volume Spike (Vsinvestor.com). The volume spike was significant and impossible to ignore. Until word comes from either side, we'll chalk this up to speculation or rumors.