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LATIN AMERICA News, Aug 23, 2011


NEC expects Latin America sales to reach $5bn
Financial Times
“Brazilians always want the latest thing,” said Mr Yamamuro. He said consumers in Mexico, NEC's second biggest market in Latin America, are much more conservative. The company has also just concluded a trial in partnership with the Japanese and ...
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Are Foreign Criminal Gangs Driving Honduras Land Conflict?
InSight Crime
Land conflicts in other parts of Latin America, driven by the accumulation of land to grow monocrops such as palm oil, have tended to feature organized criminal groups on the side of big landowners, rather than on the side of the peasants. ...
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ESPN 2011 US Open TV Schedule
TVbytheNumbers
ESPN International will offer over 170 hours of live coverage throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. In Latin America, coverage will be available in high definition. Coverage to Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America will ...
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Cupid's arrow aims for boys - and girls - from Brazil
Scotsman
By PETER RANSCOMBE CUPID, the Edinburgh-based online dating website operator, is pointing its arrow at South America after snapping up a group of Brazilian operators. In the latest step of its international expansion plan, the firm has bought several ...
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Forbes' highest paid celebs list out
Hindustan Times
Almost $45 of the 76 million came from Gisele's earnings, after a highly successful year, with endorsements with H&M, Pantene's South America division and HOPE Lingerie. According to the Boston Herald, Gisele, who is well on the way to becoming the ...
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Latin America Withstands Crisis
Latin Business Chronicle
According to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC), the GDP growth rates of some of the Latin American countries in 2010 were: Argentina (9.2 percent), Brazil (7.5 percent), Paraguay (15.0 percent) and Uruguay (8.5 percent) ...
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Brazil's Hypermarcas: Homespun Success
Latin Business Chronicle
With its roots firmly planted in Latin America 's booming -- and biggest -- economy, Hypermarcas is reaping the rewards of that decision. Analysts at Citi, for example, consider the firm “one of the most direct plays on the growth of the middle class ...
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Why George Soros Is Selling Gold and Buying Farmland (DBA, SLV, GLD)
ETF Daily News (blog)
Foreign direct investment in the economies of the region increased almost 20% during2010 compared to the same period a year ago. The region's economy expanded 6% in2010 and according to ECLAC´s latest report; South America will grow 5.1% in 2011....
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ETF Daily News (blog)
World's biggest rodent found in California
The New York Irish Emgirant
The giant South American capybara, weighing at least 100 lbs, has since disappeared into the brush. "If you think a giant guinea pig is cute, then you probably would like it,” said Todd Tognazzini, a lieutenant with the California Department of Fish ...
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The Morning Leverage: Terra Firma Back On The Market
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Advent International's latest Latin American deal is for Argentine pharmaceutical company Laboratorio LKM SA . . . Beijing-based Hony Capital has launched its latest dollar-denominated fund with a $2 billion target. Terra Firma Capital Partners is ...
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Telefonica Outperforms Wireless Index
Latin Business Chronicle
For the second quarter in a row, Telefonica is the leader of the Latin Wireless Index. BY LBC STAFF Spain-based Telefonica leads the way in revenue growth among Latin America 's top wireless carriers, according to the latest Latin Wireless Index from ...
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Brazil's slowdown gets even slower
Financial Times (blog)
Over the past few weeks, analysts have been furiously downgrading their GDP forecasts for the Latin American country in light of the fresh crisis in global markets. Morgan Stanley became the latest to slash its numbers on Monday, reducing this year's ...
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Financial Times (blog)
Outlook: Central Asian economies
DAWN.com
GDP grew at a robust rate of about seven per cent in 2007 before contracting to about –6.5 in 2009. Growth in 2010 reached around 4.5 and prospects for 2011 and 2012 are only slightly better, as compared to over 5.5 in Latin America and about nine per ...
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DAWN.com
Tuesday's news and tips
Investors Chronicle
South America-focused copper miner Antofagasta posted a sharp rise in profits for the six months to 30 June as prices for the red metal soared and said its ability to keep costs down leaves it well placed to come with recent commodity price volatility. ...
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Regional rig activity at highe...
Business News Americas
By James Fowler / Business News Americas Rig activity across Latin America is currently at its highest level in 26 years, according to statistics from US oil field service company Baker Hughes (NYSE: BHI). Rig numbers across the region have stood at ...
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Chilean winter of discontent: are protests here to stay?
The Guatemala Times
As public opinion surveys such as the 'Centro de Estudios Públicos' (CEP) and the 'Latin AmericanPublic Opinion Project' (LAPOP) show, Chileans are not against democracy as a regime. In 2010, 78% declared that democracy is preferable to any other form ...
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Chilean Traders See Rate Cut Two Weeks After Economists Forecast Increase
Bloomberg
The region's economies will expand 3.6 percent next year from a previous forecast of 4.6 percent, Morgan Stanley's chief Latin America economist, Gray Newman, said in an e-mailed report. Chile was the only country for which he didn't cut his growth ...
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TD Power Systems coming with a public issue to raise Rs 227 crore; The issue ...
Power Engineering Magazine
In 2007, the Company granted a limited license to General Electric Company, USA to manufacture generators using its design for the Brazilian market, and if on a co-manufacturing basis, to other countries in Central and South America. ...
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Bob Moran on the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi – cartoon
The Guardian
Then the BBC had an interview from his Holidaying in South America with Mr Robert Halfon, Conservative MP for Harlow. He described his links being with Libya via his paternal Grandfather, a Libyan Jewish emigrate. Now I see what else lay behind the ...
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Politicians are centre stage in this latest act of the financial crisis
Telegraph.co.uk
Michael O'Keefe, the tennis pro at the South Beach Racquet Club on Hilton Head island, South Carolina, surveyed his neat and tidy courts last Friday. By Damian Reece He was wondering if the next two weeks would be business as usual, in the run-up to ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Debt crisis: as it happened - August 22, 2011
Telegraph.co.uk
Nelson Merentes, president of the Central Bank of Venezuela, plans to load (not personally) 211 tons - worth an estimated $11 billion - onto aircraft and transport it back to the South American nation. About 80pc of those reserves are currently held at ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
The Board proposed an interim dividend of HK4.3 cents per share
TodayIR.com (press release)
Mainland China is the major market of the Group's products with over 95% of the sausage casings manufactured by the Group are sold to the sausage manufacturers in the PRC, while the remaining products are mainly exported to South America, ...
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Utilities IT Upgrades Offer OEM Opportunities
EBN
Similar investments are being undertaken by utilities in North and South America, China, Japan, and other parts of Asia. In Eastern Europe especially the utilities need to bring their IT operations up to latest standards as the countries integrate ...
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INDUSTRY MOVES: People in the news
Hydrocarbon Processing
As chief commercial officer, Haller's tasks will include serving as the lead representative for Dow Corning and Dow Kokam, while also overseeing the company's presence in Latin America and the Asia Pacific. Jim McIlvenny, senior vice president of the ...
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Wellcall a viable option to rubber gloves
The Edge Malaysia
Chew said Wellcall is expanding its customer base in places such as Africa, Russia and Latin America. It is worth noting that Wellcall's revenue of RM99.6 million for 9MFY11 has already equalised its FY10 annual revenue of RM96.6 million. ...
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The Edge Malaysia
LG Optimus Sol Touted As Most Affordable 1GHz AMOLED Android Smartphone
Social Barrel
Image: LGEPR / Flickr (CC) In a recent announcement, LG said that the LG Optimus Sol will be released first in Europe by mid-September with the release of the smartphone in Central and South America soon after its Europe launch. ...
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Social Barrel
Wind power in Brazil: Elecnor wins new wind energy plant
REVE
The new wind farm will be incorporated within Elecnor's wind complex in Osorio, which became operational in 2006 and is considered the largest of its kind in Latin America. The total investment for this new wind farm –equipped with 14 wind turbines–, ...
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Auckland Airport sees profits increase
guide2.co.nz
In addition, the Minister of Transport, the Hon Steven Joyce, has asked the Ministry of Transport to begin reviewing air services agreements with China, Brazil and up to eight other countries in East Asia and South America, with a view to removing ...
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This Week in Small Business: Watching Armageddon From an Armchair
New York Times (blog)
The US endowment of unconventional oil is more than 2 trillion barrels, with another 2.4 trillion in Canada and 2 trillion-plus in South America — compared with conventional Middle Eastern and North African oil resources of 1.2 trillion. ...
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PhishMe Wins 3rd Annual 2011 Golden Bridge Awards for Anti-Phishing Training ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, ...
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Gold: good for Mali and Papua New Guinea
Financial Times (blog)
Kinross is already established in South America and West Africa is the next step. A few days ago, the company reported a record adjusted net income $226.5 million in second quarter, compared with $111.4 million in second quarter of 2010. ...
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Financial Times (blog)
Literary adventure heroes the movies mangled
Den Of Geek
In the movie version, Matt Helm must stop a cartoony South American revolutionary with an army of young women in khaki miniskirts from launching a flying saucer armed with a super duper laser beam. Mike Myers has cited Martin's (and not Hamilton's) ...
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Den Of Geek
From poverty to pro for powerful Palhares
ESPN
It's the UFC's first event on South American soil since 1998, and Palhares is one of the country's best representatives of the national grappling art to appear on the card. Originally slated to face former teammate Alexandre Ferreira, Palhares will ...
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ESPN
Here is the latest California sports news from The Associated Press
FOX11AZ.com
The 28-year-old Weaver leads the American League with a 2.10 ERA and is 14-6 this season. He started the All-Star game for the American League. SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Huntington Beach, Calif., pounded out 12 hits, Hagen Danner and Nick Pratto ...
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A tandem tour
Marshall Independent
Angelique said they plan to travel to San Francisco, then go to South America. Ultimately, they intend to travel through Africa, Asia, and Australia as well. This has been a big week for them. Theirlatest blog post titled "From the Mall of America to ...
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20 Current World Football Stars Who Could End Up in Major League Soccer
Bleacher Report
Claiming once again that he wants to be closer to his family, Tevez was thinking of leaving Manchester City to go play in South America. Tevez could play a little further north in MLS, but the inconsistency of whether he would want to be there instead ...
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Bleacher Report
Fox Business - Latest News - NEC Expects Latin America Sales To ...
TO) expects net revenue in Latin America to to double from $500 million last year to $1 billion by 2012 and to reach $5 billion by 2017, boosted by demand ...
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