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Producción industrial de EEUU repunta en septiembre
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - La producción industrial en Estados Unidos aumentó en septiembre debido a que los efectos de los huracanes Harvey e Irma comenzaron a ceder y a que la construcción y los servicios repuntaron, dijo el martes la Reserva Federal.

Imagen de archivo. Botellas de aceite de motor son vistas en una refinería de Bradford, Pennylvania, Estados Unidos, 6 de octubre de 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
La producción industrial general creció 0,3 por ciento el mes pasado, luego de un declive revisado de 0,7 por ciento en agosto. No obstante, la producción de julio fue revisada a una caída de 0,1 por ciento desde un reporte previo de un avance de 0,4 por ciento.

El dato de agosto se había visto fuertemente afectado por los huracanes, que interrumpieron temporalmente la actividad en plantas químicas, petroleras y gasíferas.

Economistas encuestados en un sondeo de Reuters habían estimado un incremento de la producción industrial de 0,3 por ciento para septiembre.

Reporte de Lindsay

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Morgan Stanley supera estimaciones de ganancias gracias a su negocio de gestión patrimonial
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(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley reportó el martes una ganancia trimestral mucho más alta de lo esperado, ya que ingresos récord de su negocio de gestión patrimonial ayudaron a compensar el golpe provocado por una caída en las intermediaciones.

Imagen de archivo. El logo de Morgan Stanley, visto en la bolsa de comercio de Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 19 de abril de 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Los ingresos del negocio de gestión patrimonial del banco subieron un 8,7 por ciento a 4.220 millones de dólares y generaron un margen antes de impuestos de 26,5 por ciento, por encima del rango objetivo buscado por el presidente ejecutivo James Gorman de entre 23 y 25 por ciento.

Las acciones de Morgan Stanley subían un 1,4 por ciento en las operaciones previas a la apertura del mercado.

El rendimiento de capital fue del 9,6 por ciento para el trimestre, dentro del objetivo de Gorman del 9 por ciento al 11 por ciento para fines de año.

Sin embargo, los ingresos del prestamista por intermediación de bonos cayeron un 20 por ciento a 1.200 millones de dólares, reflejando las disminuciones en todo el sector.

Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co y Bank of America Corp reportaron abruptas caídas en la actividades de intermediación de renta fija debido a una menor volatilidad.

Los ingresos por intermediación de acciones, un negocio en el que Morgan Stanley suele ser fuerte, se mantenían estables en 1.900 millones de dólares.

Las ganancias netas aumentaron un 11 por ciento a 1.690 millones de dólares, mientras que las utilidades por acción subieron de 81 a 93 centavos.

Los ingresos, en tanto, aumentaron un 3 por ciento a 9.200 millones de dólares con respecto al mismo periodo del año anterior, frente a la estimación promedio de 9.000 millones de dólares, de acuerdo con Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

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Dow hits 23,000 for the first time as UnitedHealth rises on earnings
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Oil down 51.25

Au down 1,286

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Acciones chilena SQM caen con fuerza tras fracaso conciliación con gobierno por pertenencias mineras
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Las acciones de la chilena SQM caían con fuerza en los primeros negocios del martes en la bolsa de Santiago, luego de que la empresa no consiguió un acuerdo de conciliación con una agencia gubernamental en una disputa sobre regalías y pertenencias mineras.

La sede de la Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago, sep 25, 2017. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
Los títulos serie B de SQM lideraban las bajas en la plaza con un descenso del 3,88 por ciento, a 36.400 pesos.

La agencia Corfo dijo en la víspera que no llegó a acuerdo con SQM, por lo que continúa la demanda contra la minera por incumplimientos al contrato de concesión del Salar de Atacama, en un caso que pone presión al futuro negocio de litio de la compañía.

Reporte de Felipe Iturrieta. Editad

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George Soros Transfers $18 Billion to His Foundation, Creating an Instant Giant

The pioneer of hedge-fund investing has transferred the bulk of his wealth to Open Society Foundations

Anupreeta Das Oct. 17, 2017 11:08 a.m. ET
George Soros.
George Soros. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

George Soros, who built one of the world’s largest fortunes through a famous series of trades, has turned over nearly $18 billion to Open Society Foundations, according to foundation officials, a move that transforms both the philanthropy he founded and the investment firm supplying its wealth.

Now holding the bulk of Mr. Soros’s fortune, Open Society has vaulted to the top ranks of philanthropic organizations, appearing to become the second largest in the U.S. by assets after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, based on 2014 figures from the National Philanthropic Trust.

Soros Fund Management LLC’s 87-year-old founder now shares influence over the firm’s strategy with an investment committee of Open Society. Mr. Soros set up the committee and is its chairman, but it is meant to survive him, people familiar with it said.

A new chief investment officer at the Soros firm is less a trader than an allocator of capital to various internal and external asset managers. Unlike past investment chiefs, the official, Dawn Fitzpatrick, doesn’t report to Mr. Soros or others at his firm but to the philanthropy’s investment committee.

Mr. Soros doesn’t plan to trade the billions that now belong to Open Society, according to the people familiar with the situation. Mr. Soros was trading his own money, held separately within the Soros firm, as recently as last year, when he bet—wrongly, it turned out—that stocks would slump after Donald Trump was elected president.

“It’s an ongoing process of migration from a hedge fund toward a pool of capital deployed to support a foundation over the long term,” said Bill Ford, a committee member and the chief executive of General Atlantic LLC, a firm that invests in growth-stage companies.

Though the $26 billion Soros Fund Management was a pioneering hedge fund, it returned outside investors’ money several years ago and became a family office—a type of structure, largely free of regulation, that is increasingly popular with wealthy clans.

Mr. Soros began his giving in 1979 and stepped it up to fight communism across Eastern Europe. In 1984, he set up a foundation in Hungary, the country of his birth, that distributed photocopiers to universities and libraries to break the government’s hold on information.

Having lived under both communism and a Nazi occupation in Hungary, Mr. Soros hoped to foster “open societies” in places where authoritarian governments held power. He named his foundation after a book by the philosopher Karl Popper, one of his teachers, that defended liberal democracies.

Open Society today has a broad mandate driven largely by its founder’s values. It operates through a network of more than 40 foundations and offices in countries from Afghanistan to South Africa. It has funded refugee relief, public-health efforts and programs including a mobile court for gender crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The philanthropy also advocates for rights of the Roma, one of Europe’s largest ethnic minorities.

Advocating for the Roma ethnic group is one of Open Society’s projects. Here, a Roma child awaits an enrollment exam at a school in the Czech Republic.
Advocating for the Roma ethnic group is one of Open Society’s projects. Here, a Roma child awaits an enrollment exam at a school in the Czech Republic. Photo: Bjoern Steinz/Panos for the Open Society Foundations

Open Society’s activism has sometimes angered nationalist governments, such as the current one in Hungary, which targeted a university Mr. Soros founded and which has run poster campaigns singling him out for his support of refugees. Mr. Soros has urged developed countries in Europe and elsewhere to share the burden of increased migration from conflict-ridden countries. Anti-Soros politicians in Macedonia, Poland and some other European countries have attacked foreign-funded groups, including Open Society, for what they see as outside interference in their affairs.

In the U.S., where Mr. Soros is a major contributor to liberal and Democratic causes, he is a lightning rod for conservatives. Open Society has supported efforts to overhaul immigration policies and the criminal-justice system, including prisons, and funded mentoring programs for black and Latino young men. It has supported activists working on issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Mr. Soros funded Latino get-out-the-vote efforts last year and donated to largely Democratic district-attorney candidates around the country. A Hillary Clinton supporter, he was an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump, whose campaign cited Mr. Soros in a closing ad as part of a “global power structure” the ad said disadvantaged the working class. After the election, Open Society said it would spend $10 million to fight hate crimes, a problem Mr. Soros said had been inflamed by the Trump campaign.

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