Jueves 12/08/10 Solicitudes de Seguro de desempleo

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Eventos economicos

Jueves
Solicitudes de seguro de desempleo
Precios de los importadores y exportadores.
Subasta de bonos
Balance del Fed
Money Supply
Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Import and Export Prices
8:30 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

3-Month Bill Announcement
11:00 AM ET

6-Month Bill Announcement
11:00 AM ET

30-Yr Bond Auction
1:00 PM ET

Fed Balance Sheet
4:30 PM ET

Money Supply
4:30 PM ET
 

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Korea -1.27%, el Hang Seng -1.15%, el Nikkei -2.03%, Korea -1.23%, El Shanghai C. -0.69%, Australia -1.43%

Los futures del Dow Jones 47 puntos a la baja.

Euro up 1.2871

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El ID para la clase es 747-407-481

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Copper August 11,22:07
Bid/Ask 3.2482 - 3.2527
Change -0.0045 -0.14%
Low/High 3.2368 - 3.2572
Charts

Nickel August 11,21:58
Bid/Ask 9.6237 - 9.6691
Change -0.1293 -1.33%
Low/High 9.6010 - 9.8052
Charts

Aluminum August 11,21:59
Bid/Ask 0.9476 - 0.9522
Change -0.0023 -0.24%
Low/High 0.9454 - 0.9544
Charts

Zinc August 11,22:11
Bid/Ask 0.9122 - 0.9167
Change +0.0023 +0.25%
Low/High 0.9099 - 0.9235
Charts

Lead August 11,21:47
Bid/Ask 0.9216 - 0.9262
Change +0.0000 +0.00%
Low/High 0.9216 - 0.9284

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Las ganancias de Cisco se disparan 79%
Por John Kell

Cisco Systems Inc. informó que su ganancia neta de su cuarto trimestre fiscal creció un 79% gracias a un repunte en los ingresos, si bien los márgenes retrocedieron por segundo trimestre consecutivo.

Las acciones de Cisco descendían el 4,4% a US$22,68 en las negociaciones posteriores al cierre del mercado debido a que los ingresos ascendían, que estuvieron en línea con las metas de la compañía emitidas en mayo, fueron inferiores a las expectativas de los analistas.

.En el trimestre concluido el 31 de julio, la mayor fabricante de equipos de redes de Internet en el mundo registró una ganancia neta de US$1.940 millones, o 33 centavos por acción, lo que se compara con el beneficio de US$1.080 millones, o 19 centavos por acción, del mismo período del año anterior.

Si se excluyen costos por compensación basada en acciones y otras partidas, la ganancia de Cisco aumentó a 43 centavos frente a los 31 centavos en igual período de hace un año.

Los ingresos de la compañía ascendieron el 27% a US$10.840 millones. En mayo la compañía estimó que las ventas crecerían entre el 25% y el 28%, por encima de la proyecciones de los analistas en aquel entonces.

Los analistas encuestado por Thomson Reuters proyectaban una ganancia de 34 centavos sobre ingresos de US$10.880 millones.

El margen bruto se redujo del 64% al 62,7%.

Las ventas del segmento de productos, responsables de una gran parte de los ingresos de la compañía, aumentaron un 31% mientras que las ventas de servicios crecieron un 12%.

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BP usaría sus ingresos petroleros en EE.UU para financiar el fondo de compensación

Por Jared A. Favole y Siobhan Hughes

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--BP PLC. podría respaldar un fondo de US$20.000 millones para compensar a las víctimas del derrame de petróleo en el Golfo de México con pagos procedentes de la producción de gas y petróleo de la compañía en Estados Unidos, según una copia de un acuerdo divulgado por la Casa Blanca.

BP ya ha colocado US$3.000 millones en el fondo y acordó contribuir con otros US$2.000 millones para finales del año y posteriormente destinar otros US$5.000 millones al año hasta el 2013, según una copia del acuerdo divulgada el miércoles por la tarde por la Casa Blanca.

La utilización de los ingresos petroleros como colateral podría dar ambas partes un incentivo para continuar la producción petrolera en el Golfo, área en la que el gobierno del presidente Barack Obama impuso una moratoria a las perforaciones luego del derrame petrolero.

Los detalles sobre cómo BP respaldaría el fondo han sido foco de atención ahora que el pozo de 1.500 metros de profundidad en las costa de Louisiana ha sido sellado permanentemente. El grupo de defensa del interés público Public Citizen dijo que la utilización de los ingresos procedentes de la producción de gas y petróleo de BP en el Golfo de México sería una "mala idea".

"Asegura que BP mantenga una presencia sólida en las perforaciones fuera de las costas a pesar de los indicios de que la mala gestión de BP en tales operaciones pusieron en riesgo a los trabajadores y al medio ambiente", afirmó Tyson Slocum, director del programa de energía del grupo, en carta el presidente Barack Obama.

Las acciones de BP cerraron con un descenso de casi el 3,3% a US$38,79.

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GM consigue crédito, inscribirá oferta acciones viernes: fuentes
miércoles 11 de agosto de 2010 20:27 GYT
Imprimir[-] Texto [+] NUEVA YORK (Reuters) - La automotriz General Motors Co ha conseguido una línea de crédito por 5.000 millones de dólares y planea inscribir una oferta pública inicial de acciones (OPI) el viernes, dijeron fuentes cercanas al asunto.
Los principales bancos estadounidenses, entre ellos Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan y Morgan Stanley, se comprometieron con líneas de créditos en el entorno de 500 millones de dólares, dijo una de las tres fuentes.

El total de la OPI de GM supone al menos un cuarto del capital de la empresa, dijo una de las fuentes.

Cuando GM esté lista comenzará tratando de colocar unos 10.000 millones de dólares en acciones, para de ahí seguir avanzando, dijo la fuente.

El debut de las acciones será probablemente antes de la fiesta de Acción de Gracias y no depende de las elecciones legislativas en Estados Unidos, añadió.

Todas las fuentes pidieron que no se mencionara sus nombres porque no estaban autorizadas a hablar en público.

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Uno de cada 12 ninios nacidos en US es ilegal

Los indocumentados son el 4% de la poblacion adulta. Sin emabrgo sus bebes representaron el 8% de todos los nacimientos en US.

Illegals Estimated to Account for 1 in 12 U.S. Births

By MIRIAM JORDAN
One in 12 babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship.

Dozens of U.S.-born children and their undocumented parents traveled to Washington last month to demonstrate against deportations of illegal immigrant parents.
.Undocumented immigrants make up slightly more than 4% of the U.S. adult population. However, their babies represented twice that share, or 8%, of all births on U.S. soil in 2008, according to the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center's report.

"Unauthorized immigrants are younger than the rest of the population, are more likely to be married and have higher fertility rates than the rest of the population," said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at Pew in Washington, D.C.

The report, based on Pew's analysis of the Census Bureau's March 2009 Current Population Survey, also found that the lion's share, or 79%, of the 5.1 million children of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. in 2009 were born in the country and are therefore citizens.

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Question of the Day: Should "birthright citizenship" be denied to children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants?
.In total, about 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the U.S. Latinos account for 75% of undocumented U.S. immigrants and about 85% of the births among that population.

A spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a national group that lobbies for curbing immigration, said Wednesday its studies have yielded numbers similar to those estimated by Pew.

Amid a heated national debate over illegal immigration, some Republican politicians have been calling for changes to the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," in order to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to unlawful residents.

Late last month, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham announced his support for reconsidering automatic U.S. citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants. He said the status quo enticed people to enter the country illegally and have children to qualify for U.S. benefits.

Under U.S. law, children have to wait until they reach the age of 21 before they can petition for permanent legal residency for their parents.

Recently, Mr. Graham's idea has been embraced by several other lawmakers, including Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, where state legislators passed a controversial law to quash illegal immigration. A federal judge stayed major portions of the law on July 28; the case has been appealed.

Legislation to amend birthright citizenship stalled when it was introduced in the past decade in the House. It would require a vote of two-thirds of the House and Senate, and would have to be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures.

Proponents of amending the 14th Amendment, which was enacted in 1868, say it was intended to guarantee citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War, not the offspring of illegal immigrants. Their proposals are expected to appeal to conservative Republican voters as immigration emerges as a central issue in November's elections.

GOP opponents of repealing birthright citizenship say it undermines the party's electoral prospects among Hispanics, the nation's largest minority and fastest-growing group. Generally, Democrats are strongly opposed to repeal.

Mr. Passel said that the Pew analysis found that more than 80% of the undocumented immigrant mothers who gave birth in the U.S. had been in the country at least a year, and that many had been here about a decade.

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Cuando ese ninios sean adultos van a votar por los democratas. Que horror.

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Grim Voter Mood Turns Grimmer
El pesimismo aumenta entre los Americanos por la economia y la guerra, malos resultados para ambos partidos: democratas y republicanos.

Casi las dos terceras partes de los Americanos piensan que la economia va a empeorar.

Pessimism Rises on Economy and War; Bad Reviews for Both Democrats and GOP

By PETER WALLSTEN And ELIZA GRAY
Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and the war in Afghanistan, and are losing faith that Democrats have better solutions than Republicans, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

.Underpinning the gloom: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the economy has yet to hit bottom, a sharply higher percentage than the 53% who felt that way in January.

The sour national mood appears all-encompassing and is dragging down ratings for the GOP too, suggesting voters above all are disenchanted with the political establishment in Washington. Just 24% express positive feelings about the Republican Party, a new low in the 21-year history of the Journal's survey. Democrats are only slightly more popular, but also near an all-time low.

The results likely foreshadow a poor showing in November's mid-term for Democrats, whose leaders had hoped the public would grow more optimistic about the economy and, as a result, more supportive of the party agenda. Now, despite the weak Republican numbers, the survey shows frustrated voters on the left are less interested than impassioned voters on the right to in the election.

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."Even with Republicans having low numbers, they are the opposition party and are going to benefit from people saying, 'We're ticked off and we want a change,"' said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart. "The way you vote your discontent is to say you're going to vote Republican."

Mr. Hart said the 2010 contest is being pulled by the sentiment associated with the JetBlue flight attendant who fled his plane via the emergency chute after an altercation with a passenger. Calling it the "JetBlue election," Mr. Hart said: "Everyone's hurling invective and they're all taking the emergency exit."

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.As in recent polls, Americans are split on President Barack Obama's job performance, with 47% approving and 48% disapproving. But a majority disapproves of his performance on the economy. And six in 10, including 83% of independents and a quarter of Democrats, say they are only somewhat or not at all confident that Mr. Obama has the right policies to improve it.

The survey suggests that Democrats should expect little if any appreciation from voters for legislative achievements such as overhauling the health care and financial systems. Six in 10 Americans rated Congress' performance this year as below average or one of the worst. And the economy is dominating voters' worries. Among those who believe the economy will get worse over the next year, 67% want a GOP-led Congress.

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."Several months ago I was very hopeful" said Fort Worth, Texas, public-schools administrator Susan Stitt, 63 years old, an independent who leans Republican. "But in May or so, about three months ago, I just started hearing more and more little things on the news that would chip away at my confidence."

Denis Goulet, 59 years old, a contract manager for Verizon from Calvert County, Md., and a Democratic-leaning independent, said the economy made him "feel like Charlie Brown kicking the football."

"Every time things start looking better, they start looking bad again" he said. Mr. Goulet said he has always voted for Democrats, but doesn't know how to vote this year. "I have gotten as wrapped up as anyone else just trying to stay afloat."

On the Afghanistan war, which had been an area of strength for the president since he revamped his military strategy, 68% of Americans now feel less confident the war will come to a successful conclusion. Just 44% approve of the president's job on Afghanistan, down from a majority who approved in March, the last time the poll addressed the topic.

Voters appear evenly split on which party they hope will control Congress after November. But Republicans retain an advantage among those more likely to turn out. Among those most interested in the election, half favor GOP control and 39% support the Democrats. One positive movement for Democrats: That 11-point gap is down from 21 points in June.

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Republicans, meantime, are gaining ground on a number of issues that have traditionally been advantages for Democrats. More Americans now think the GOP would do a better job on the economy—an advantage the party last held briefly in 2004 but has not enjoyed consistently since the mid-1990s. On one of the Democrats' core issues, Social Security, just 30% now think the party would do a better job than the GOP, compared to 26% who favor the Republicans. That margin was 28 points in 2006.

"The Republicans don't have a message as to why people should vote for them, but it's pretty clear why you shouldn't vote for the Democrats," said poll respondent Tim Krsak, 33, a lawyer from Indianapolis and independent who has been unemployed since January. "So by default, you have to vote for the other guy."

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On Deck Thursday: Retail Earnings, Jobless Claims

Earnings: Some interesting retailers are on the docket for Thursday.

Nordstrom
Kohl’s
NVIDIA Corp.
Sara Lee
The Estée Lauder Co.
Economics: Weak sauce.

8:30 a.m. — Jobless claims are expected to be down 14,000 to 465,000. Last week, the Labor Department said initial unemployment claims climbed by 19,000 to 479,000 in the week ended July 31. The last time claims were that high was the week of April 10.

8:30 a.m. — The import price index is expected to show a 0.4% increase for July.

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Se espera que las solicitudes de seguro de desempleo bajen 14,000 y los precios del PPI suban 0.4%

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Los futures indican que extienden las perdidas

Cisco desalento a los mercados y esta poniendo presion en el sector tecnologia.

A la espera de los datos de las solicitudes de seguro de desempleo.

Stocks Poised to Extend Losses

By POLYA LESOVA
Stock futures fell on Thursday, extending losses after the previous session's rout, as a disappointing revenue outlook from Cisco Systems Inc. weighed on the technology sector.

More than two hours before the start of trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were four points lower at 10333. The S&P 500 futures slipped 0.9 to 1084.1, and Nasdaq 100 futures lost five points to 1832.75. Changes in futures do not always accurately predict early market moves after the opening bell.

.The Dow tumbled 265.42 points, or 2.5%, on Wednesday, posting its biggest one-day point drop since June 29. So far this year, the Dow is now down 0.5%.

The aftermath of the Federal Reserve's meeting earlier this week is continuing pressure on equities, said Mads Koefoed, market strategist at Saxo Bank.

"Despite a brief respite in early trade, markets will likely see a continuation of Wednesday's weakness as investors limp on ahead of retail sales and inflation figures Friday," said David Jones, a market strategist at IG Index in London.

Traders on Thursday are awaiting data on U.S. weekly jobless claims and July import prices at 8:30 a.m.

Among stocks to watch, Cisco reported late Wednesday quarterly revenue that was slightly below market expectations and its outlook also disappointed investors. Shares of Cisco dropped 7.1% in premarket trading. Also in the sector, shares of SanDisk and ASML Holding both dropped 2.5% before the bell.

European equities were mixed, with the Stoxx Europe 600 index little changed in intraday trading. Most Asian shares ended lower, with the Shanghai Composite index dropping 1.2%.

In foreign-exchange markets, the Bank of Japan's threat of intervention briefly gave the dollar a boost, but the U.S. currency soon resumed its slide.

All eyes were on what the Bank of Japan will do now that the move into safe havens has succeeded in pushing the dollar down to a 15-year low under ¥85.

Crude-oil futures remained under selling pressure once again, with the September contract falling 85 cents to $77.17 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Write to Polya Lesova at polya.lesova@dowjones.com

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General Motors reporta $1.3 billones de ganancias.

Prudential de UK reporto utilidades

Japon ingresa a territorio bear.