Jueves 06/05/2010 Productividad y costos

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El Hang Seng -0.74%, el Shanghai -0.93%, Australia -1.9%, el Nikkei 3.12%, Korea -0.88%. Como era de esperar el Asia respondiendo negativamente a lo ocurrido hoy dia en Europa y Wall Street.

Felizmente los futures del Dow Jones estan 21 puntos al alza a esta hora.

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Los metales al alza

Copper May 05,21:57
Bid/Ask 3.1959 - 3.2005
Change +0.0499 +1.59%
Low/High 3.1392 - 3.2050
Charts

Nickel May 05,21:53
Bid/Ask 10.2587 - 10.3041
Change +0.2585 +2.59%
Low/High 9.8755 - 10.3223
Charts

Aluminum May 05,21:35
Bid/Ask 0.9408 - 0.9454
Change +0.0091 +0.97%
Low/High 0.9295 - 0.9454
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Zinc May 05,21:55
Bid/Ask 0.9755 - 0.9801
Change +0.0272 +2.87%
Low/High 0.9483 - 0.9823
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Lead May 05,21:53
Bid/Ask 0.8977 - 0.9023
Change +0.0181 +2.06%
Low/High 0.8773 - 0.9045

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Vale reporto ultilidades de $1.6 billones.

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Oil up 80.25, au down 1,173.70

Euro up 1.2832

Yields down 3.56%

Yen up 93.81

El Hang Seng -0.6%

[Arnold]

05 de mayo de 2010, 16:25

Microsoft libera versión experimental de Internet Explorer 9

El grupo informático Microsoft anunció este miércoles el lanzamiento experimental de la próxima versión de su navegador, Internet Explorer 9, mientras que sufre una neta baja de mercado de este segmento.

Los programadores tienen acceso desde este miércoles a la "IE9 Platform Preview", encargada de explotar lo mejor posible las posibilidades del estándar HTML5 para un acceso más rápido a los sitios internet.

Microsoft prepara Internet Explorer 9 en momentos que su parte del mercado entre los navegadores de internet se encuentra debajo del 60%, cuando hace dos años se encontraba por encima del 75%, según la consultora de marketing Net Applications.

La porción de mercado de Internet Explorer 9 está evaluada en 59,95%, muy por delante de Firefox, de la fundación Mozilla (24,59%).

El navegador Chrome, lanzado por Google a fines de 2008, cuenta con un 6,73% de acceso a internet, por encima del navegador Safari de Apple (4,72%) y el noruego Opera (2,30%).


AFP

[Arnold]

Internet Explorer pierde terreno


Las últimas cifras indican que Internet Explorer (IE), el navegador de Microsoft, actualmente controla menos de 60% del mercado, en comparación con el 95% en su auge en 2003.

Cuota de mercado de navegadores / Fuente: Net Applications

Explorer - 59.9%

Firefox - 24.5%

Chrome - 6.7%

Safari - 4.7%

Opera - 2.3%

Opera Mini - 0.7%

Netscape - 0.46%

Mozilla - 0.16%

Flock - 0.06%

Lunascape - 0.04%

Las mediciones más recientes de la empresa NetApplications señalan que IE sólo tiene el 59,9% del mercado, mientras Firefox avanzó hacia el 24,5%.
Si bien Chrome, el navegador de Google, tiene una reducida participación de 6,7%, su cuota en el mercado ha subido vertiginosamente ya que hace un año la cifra era de 1,7%.

David Cuen, el blogger de tecnología de BBC Mundo, ya había vaticinado en 2008 una fiera competencia contra el Internet Explorer tras el lanzamiento de Chrome.

"A nivel de mercado, claro está, la competencia es bienvenida sobre todo cuando un jugador (Microsoft) es tan dominante y el resto (Firefox, Safari, Opera) tiene que luchar por arrebatarles presencia. El riesgo, sin embargo, está en que se reemplace a un dominador por otro", dijo Cuen.

Problemas de seguridad

Algunos expertos consideran que Microsoft ha estado retrocediendo debido a problemas de seguridad.

Las empresas dedicadas a la medición del mercado concuerdan que IE empieza a perder terreno.

"Actualmente existen alternativas más viables. Google ha hecho mucha publicidad y hay más gente usando al Safari de Mac y Apple. Sencillamente hay más conciencia de que existen alternativas", según Jeffrey Mann, analista de la firma Gartner.

Los usuarios de la versión 6 de IE recientemente fueron advertidos de que deberán buscar alternativas debido a problemas de seguridad.


BBC Mundo

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Google introduce cambios en el diseño de su motor de búsqueda

Google anunció este miércoles algunos cambios en el aspecto de su buscador de internet, que incluirán un nuevo menú lateral y retoques en el diseño de su logotipo.

La modificación más visible es un menú de navegación que aparecerá a la izquierda de la mayoría de las páginas de resultados de búsqueda y cuyo contenido dependerá del término que el usuario esté buscando.

Si se busca, por ejemplo, el nombre de la serie de televisión Lost, aparecerá un menú con diferentes categorías como imágenes, vídeos o libros que al hacer click en ellos mostrarán contenidos relacionados con la serie.

Pero si buscamos una palabra relacionada con una noticia de actualidad, el menú ofrecerá enlaces a blogs, media online o mensajes en Twitter sobre el tema.

Al final del menú habrá otra categoría llamada "Algo diferente" que llevará a enlaces relacionados con el término. Si, por ejemplo, buscamos información turística sobre una isla caribeña, esta categoría nos dirigirá a otros destinos turísticos en la zona.

La mayoría de los cambios están disponibles para los usuarios a partir de este mismo miércoles, señaló Google.

Google ha retocado también ligeramente su mundialmente conocido logotipo, que ahora tiene colores un poco más brillantes y contornos más definidos.


AFP

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Los futures del Dow Jones 21 puntos al alza.

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Datos de la productividad, Ventas de tiendas en Abril, reporta Kraft.

Reportan Dr. Pepper Snapple, Sara Lee y Kraft.

Se espera que las solicitudes de los seguros de desempleo bajen 8,000.

Se espera que la productividad suba 2.6%

On Deck Thursday: Productivity Data, April Store Sales, Kraft

By Matt Phillips
Associated PressSome of the Earnings Action:

Before the open — Dr. Pepper Snapple is expected to report 38 cents on $1.28 billion in revenue.
Before the open — Sara Lee is expected to report 21 cents of EPS on $2.71 billion in revenue.
After the close — Kraft is expected to report 45 cents in EPS on $10.95 billion in revenue.
Economics:

8:30 a.m. ET — Jobless claims are expected to have been 440,000 for the week of May 1, down 8,000 from the previous week, but still stubbornly above that 400,000 rule of thumb that is thought to mark clear economic expansion.
8:30 a.m. ET — First quarter productivity is expected to have increased 2.6% according to Dow Jones polling of economists.
Throughout the day — Chain store sales numbers for April. Watch the consumer discretionary stocks.

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Freddie pide mas ayuda esta vez $10.6 billones, entre las dos ya han recibido $136.5 billones.

En el ultimo trimestre reportaron $6.7 billones de perdidas, el anio pasado perdieron $9.8 billones.

Freddie ha perdido $82 billones en los 10 trimestre de los ultimos 11 trimestre o casi dos veces las ganancias que tuvieron en los ultimos 30 anios. Horror de horrores!!


Freddie has lost $82 billion over 10 of the past 11 quarters, or nearly twice the amount it earned in the previous 30 years.


Freddie Asks for $10.6 Billion

By NICK TIMIRAOS
Freddie Mac says it will need an injection of $10.6 billion from the U.S. Treasury after posting a $6.7 billion loss for the first quarter, as the weak housing market continued to burn a hole in the company's balance sheet.

Freddie, which had a loss of $9.8 billion a year earlier, said that the brunt of its losses resulted from accounting changes that took effect Jan. 1 and brought some $1.5 trillion in mortgage guarantees onto its balance sheet.

Freddie Mac and its larger sibling, Fannie Mae, were taken over by the government in 2008 through a legal process known as conservatorship. The government has said it would put unlimited amounts of capital into the companies to keep them afloat over the next three years. Freddie's request for more aid, its first in three quarters, will bring the government's tab for both companies to $136.5 billion.

Freddie has lost $82 billion over 10 of the past 11 quarters, or nearly twice the amount it earned in the previous 30 years.

But there are some early signs that a more stable economy could stanch losses. The number of loans that were 90 days or more delinquent at the end of March fell to 4.13% from 4.20% in February, the first monthly decline in over three years.

"Though more needs to be done, we are seeing some signs of stabilization in the housing market, including house prices and sales in some key geographic areas," said Freddie Mac Chief Executive Charles E. Haldeman Jr.

The ongoing effort by the federal government to help troubled borrowers modify their mortgages has slowed down the foreclosure process, and analysts say that has made it harder to judge whether the worst has passed for the housing-finance giants.

The earnings report came as Republicans introduced a measure that would end within two years the government conservatorship of the companies, placing them into receivership, a form of bankruptcy restructuring, if they weren't viable. While the amendment would appear to face an uphill battle, it could force Democrats to take a politically dicey vote.

Introduced by Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) as an amendment to the financial-regulatory bill before the Senate, the measure would sharply reduce the companies' mortgage holdings over the next three years. It would also repeal expanded limits that have allowed the firms to buy larger loans in high-cost markets and would set new down-payment standards for loans the companies can buy.

Republicans have increasingly argued that the financial-regulatory bill isn't addressing one of the key contributors to the housing collapse, but the Obama administration says it would rather deal separately with Fannie and Freddie next year once housing markets are more stable.

Analysts have warned that the longer the companies are used to provide mortgage credit, the harder it will become to wean the country from those subsidies and to revamp the firms. "We need to reform them," says Christopher Mayer, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School. "But if we were to just pull them out ... that would be really dangerous. Swaths of the country would get hammered because there's no credit for housing."

The current financial-regulatory bill "is already fiendishly complicated," says Karen Shaw Petrou, an analyst at Federal Financial Analytics. "There's no denying that Fannie and Freddie need ultimate resolution ... but because markets are so fragile, one needs to be really, really careful."

[Victor VE]

05 de mayo de 2010, 16:25

Microsoft libera versión experimental de Internet Explorer 9

El grupo informático Microsoft anunció este miércoles el lanzamiento experimental de la próxima versión de su navegador, Internet Explorer 9, mientras que sufre una neta baja de mercado de este segmento.

Los programadores tienen acceso desde este miércoles a la "IE9 Platform Preview", encargada de explotar lo mejor posible las posibilidades del estándar HTML5 para un acceso más rápido a los sitios internet.

Microsoft prepara Internet Explorer 9 en momentos que su parte del mercado entre los navegadores de internet se encuentra debajo del 60%, cuando hace dos años se encontraba por encima del 75%, según la consultora de marketing Net Applications.

La porción de mercado de Internet Explorer 9 está evaluada en 59,95%, muy por delante de Firefox, de la fundación Mozilla (24,59%).

El navegador Chrome, lanzado por Google a fines de 2008, cuenta con un 6,73% de acceso a internet, por encima del navegador Safari de Apple (4,72%) y el noruego Opera (2,30%).


AFP

Para lo único que sirve el Internet Explorer es para descargar el Firefox o el Chrome. Es un desperdicio de megas en el disco duro.

[Victor VE]

Internet Explorer pierde terreno

Y seguirá perdiendo terreno. Internet Explorer es una coladera de virus, troyanos, gusanos y demas. Tienen que probar otras opciones.

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Los democratas tienen miedo que se reforme a Freddie y Fannie

Un signo de que la reforma financiera que proponen los democratas es menos potende de lo que la publicitan es que no atenta reformar a las dos companias en el corazon de la mania de la compra de casas y el panico, Fannie y Freddie. Por eso estamos contentos que los republicanos John McCain, Richard Shelby y Judd Gregg introduzcan la enmienda que reforma a las dos gigantes y que mostrara si los democratas realmente son serios cuando predican el reducir el riesgo de los contribuyentes y la cautela al otorgar creditos irresponsables.

La comision del Congreso critico a Bear Stearn y la pusieron como ejemplo de lo que no se debe hacer al usar el apalancamiento (deuda), pero FRE y FNM usan el doble de apalancamiento que Bear Stearn utilizo en sus tiempos.

Cuando FRE y FNM colapsaron en Setiembre del 2008 ellas garantizaban $5 trillones de hipotecas. Reformar el sistema financiero sin tocar a FRE y FNM es como declarar la guerra contra el terrorismo e ignorar a alQaeda.

A Fannie Mae Political Reckoning
Democrats fear a Senate measure to reform the failed mortgage giants

One sign that the White House financial reform is less potent than its advertising claims is that it doesn't even attempt to reform the two companies at the heart of the housing mania and panic, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. So we're glad to see that yesterday GOP Senators John McCain, Richard Shelby and Judd Gregg introduced a Fan and Fred reform amendment that will let Democrats show if they're serious about reducing reckless lending and taxpayer risk.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission spent yesterday focusing on financial "leverage," using Bear Stearns as an example. But Fannie and Freddie were twice as leveraged as Bear, and much larger as a share of the mortgage market. Fan and Fred owned or guaranteed $5 trillion in mortgages and mortgage-backed securities when they collapsed in September 2008. Reforming the financial system without fixing Fannie and Freddie is like declaring a war on terror and ignoring al Qaeda.

Unreformed, they are sure to kill taxpayers again. Only yesterday, Freddie said it lost $8 billion in the first quarter, requested another $10.6 billion from Uncle Sam, and warned that it would need more in the future. This comes on top of the $126.9 billion that Fan and Fred had already lost through the end of 2009. The duo are by far the biggest losers of the entire financial panic—bigger than AIG, Citigroup and the rest.

From the 2008 meltdown through 2020, the toxic twins will cost taxpayers close to $380 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office's cautious estimate. The Obama Administration won't even put the companies on budget for fear of the deficit impact, but it realizes the problem because last Christmas Eve it raised the $400 billion cap on their potential taxpayer losses to . . . infinity.

.Moreover, these taxpayer losses understate the financial destruction wrought by Fan and Fred. By concealing how much they were gambling on risky subprime and Alt-A mortgages, the companies sent bogus signals on the size of these markets and distorted decision-making throughout the system. Their implicit government guarantee also let them sell mortgage-backed securities around the world, attracting capital to U.S. housing and thus turbocharging the mania.

The virtue of Mr. McCain's amendment is that it will give Senators a chance to vote on the kind of reform that Congress blocked for so long, notably with Senator Barack Obama helping the blockade. The amendment mandates that the current government conservatorship of Fan and Fred will end within 30 months. In the meantime, the companies will have to reduce their mortgage portfolios by 10% each year. If the terrible twosome can't stand on their own after conservatorship, they would then go into receivership and be liquidated.

If they can survive on their own, they would have three years before the expiration of their federal charters, during which time they would have new operating restrictions. Messrs. McCain, Shelby and Gregg would repeal the affordable housing goals previously legislated for Fan and Fred and which contributed to their terrible mortgage bets, and the companies would have to reduce the mortgage assets held on their books by nearly 50% within two years and raise their capital standards.

Fannie and Freddie would also have to start paying state and local sales taxes, lose their exemption from full registration at the Securities and Exchange Commission when they issue securities, and start paying fees to repay the taxpayer for the value of federal guarantees. The $400 billion limit on taxpayer assistance would be reinstated, and for as long as they are in federal conservatorship or receivership, they would have to be included in the federal budget.

In short, the McCain amendment precisely targets the problems that caused the mortgage crisis: If the housing giants are no longer subsidized, they will become small enough to fail. That means they will stop lending money to people who cannot afford to pay them back, and in turn they will stop endangering taxpayers.

This is a genuine anti-bailout vote, and you would think Democrats would be more than happy to go along given their claims that they want to stop bailouts. Yet Republicans aren't even sure that Majority Leader Harry Reid will allow a vote on the McCain measure lest Democrats get pressure from the White House to oppose it. They would then reveal that their reform is less about reducing risk than about giving the political class more control over the financial status quo.