Martes 02/01/11, ventas autos, ISM,inversion en construccion

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Se espera un aumento de inventarios de petroleo

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MBI +5.14%

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Au up 1,340

Euro up 1.3823

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Mario cual es tu punto de vista respecto al SP 500 y el Dow.

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Las ventas de GM subieron 23%, las de Ford 13%, Nissan 15% up


January Sales Rose 23% For GM, Chrysler; Ford Up 13%

By SHARON TERLEP And JOHN KELL
Auto makers were on track to report about a 15% rise in U.S. new-vehicle sales in January, led by increased purchasing by consumers, a healthy sign for the industry's recovery.

General Motors Co. on Tuesday reported its sales of cars and light trucks rose 23% in January compared to the same month in 2010, while Ford Motor Co. said its sales climbed 13% and Chrysler Group LLC reported a rise of 23%.

GM estimated that new-vehicle sales industrywide would total about 800,000 cars and trucks for the month, a roughly 15% jump from the depressed total of 698,346 in January 2010, when sales were hurt by the recession.

An exact industry total wasn't available Tuesday afternoon because some car makers still hadn't reported their numbers.

While January marked an improvement for car makers, it ranked as a poor showing by historical standards. Except for January 2009, last month was the weakest January since 1993.

"Generally, it was a very tough month," said Mickey Anderson, who runs Performance Automotive Group in Omaha, Neb., which sells Toyota, Honda, Ford, VW, Mercedes-Benz and Chrysler vehicle. "We did see year-over-year improvement with our domestic lines, but that was off of a terrible month last year. But we saw a huge drop-off from December. I think a fair amount of that had to do with weather."

The bright spot was higher "retail" sales of cars and trucks to individual customers at dealerships, as opposed to sales to corporate and car-rental fleets. Retail sales typically are more profitable than fleet sales and considered a truer gauge of a car maker's performance in the market.

GM reported it sold 178,896 vehicles in January, up from 146,825 a year ago. It said 77% of these vehicles went to consumers, and that its total retail sales—139,129 vehicles—rose 36% from a year ago. GM's fleet sales were down 7% compared to a year ago.

Ford sold 127,317 cars and trucks, up from 112,400 a year ago. It said its retail sales were up 27%.

Don Johnson, GM's vice president for U.S. sales, said in a conference call that GM's increase in retail sales reflects "more pull" from customers at dealerships. "The consumer is driving much of the [sales] gains in the industry," he said.

Still, GM was helped by offering higher buyer incentives last month. Car shopping site Edmunds.com said GM incentives rose by an average of $507 per vehicle to $3,762, the industry's highest. Mr. Johnson acknowledged a "modest" increase in incentives but declined to disclose GM's internal figures as the auto maker has done in the past.

"We're going to continue to be very judicious with incentives," Mr. Johnson said. "We've spent the last year getting disciplined around inventory and incentive management and we think we've got that under control."

Industrywide, the sales rate on a seasonally adjusted basis dipped slightly from December to about 12.6 million vehicles, according to GM's estimate. During the industry's boom time before the recession annual U.S. sales often topped 16 million.

Joblessness among consumers continues to weigh heavily on the industry, said GM's Mr. Johnson.

Among the four GM brands, Buick and GMC reported sales jumped 32% and 30%, respectively. Sales of the higher-volume Chevrolet climbed 19%, and surged 49% at Cadillac.

GM's U.S. sales climbed 23% in January due to continued strong demand for crossover vehicles and pickup trucks. Above, a Chevy Silverado truck at a Flint, Mich., assembly plant.
.Total sales of GM passenger cars climbed 15%, led by higher demand for the Chevrolet Cruze, Buick Regal and Cadillac CTS Coupe. Sales of crossover vehicles—SUVs built on car underpinnings—increased 31%, while full-size pickup truck sales rose 28%.

Ford's sales were boosted by a 30% jump in F-Series pickup trucks, and a 73% rise in sales of its recently redesigned Explorer SUV.

Meantime, Nissan Motor Co. of Japan said its U.S. sales rose 15% in January to 71,847 vehicles. And Kia Motors Corp. of Korea said its U.S. sales last month rose 26% from a year earlier to a record 27,789 vehicles.

January had 24 selling days, the same as last year.

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Obama le pide a Mubarak que no presente su candidatura a la presidencia nuevamente.

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Oil down 91.10

Yields up 3.42%

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[Victor VE]

Un aliado menos para EEUU.

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Ese es el peligro, que entre un gobierno terrorista que lo primero que haga es volarse a Israel, alli si que las bolsas se desploman.

US tiene que tener mucho cuidado de no cometer el error que cometio con Iran apoyo la revolucion y el nuevo lider fue mil veces peor que el anterior.

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Mubarak se dirigira a la nacion en breve. Parece que se va. Ojala.

[Victor VE]

Ya se huele hace rato. Otra revolución en vivo por Internet.

[Victor VE]

In Jordan, the King Decides It's the Right Time to Clean House

Know what's contagious? Fear is contagious. On the day more than 1 million Egyptians took to the streets demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the monarch governing a desert kingdom right next door saw fit to dismiss his Prime Minister and appoint ... a new government.

This was in Jordan, where the statement issued by the Palace of King Abdullah II made clear the first orders to the newly minted Premier, former general Marouf Bakhit: "to take practical, quick and tangible steps to launch true political reforms, enhance Jordan's democratic drive and ensure safe and decent living for all Jordanians."

And so the fever that began in Tunisia and ravaged mighty Egypt appeared to leap the Suez and blister the sands of the Sinai itself before seizing Amman, the well-scrubbed and courtly capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Where, to be sure, there is ample evidence of the ills driving populist revolts across the Arab crescent. On top of stubborn poverty and rising prices for staples like bread, the much vaunted privatizing of the kingdom's public companies swelled the wallets of insiders without reducing a towering public debt. (See the top 10 autocrats in trouble.)

But there are protests, and there are protests. On the streets of Cairo on Friday, Jan. 28, angry youths beat back riot police and set fire to armored trucks. At the same hour in Amman, "the security forces were handing out water and juice," says Joost Hiltermann, an International Crisis Group official who was visiting from Washington. "It was really tepid and friendly."

Consider: The Muslim Brotherhood, known in Jordan as the Islamic Action Front, is calling not for regime change but for "dialogue." It presented its priorities on Monday, Jan. 31; prominent among them were election of the Prime Minister, who, under the terms of the 1952 constitution, is appointed by His Highness. "Today everybody agrees that they do not want regime change. They want reforms," Zaki Bani Rashid told Agence France-Presse (AFP). "But our demands today could change tomorrow if the authorities do not act quickly."

That was Monday. The Prime Minister went the next day.

There was precedent for the housecleaning as well as fortuitous timing. "This happens frequently in Jordan [that the King dismisses the government]," says Michael Young, opinion-pages editor of Lebanon's Daily Star. "The government was perceived to be a corrupt government. It was made up of businessmen who profited from their positions. So the King probably, considering what is going on elsewhere, was trying to block similar events in Jordan. It was a pre-emptive move."(See photos of mass demonstrations in Egypt.)

"There is no comparison between Egypt and Jordan," an Islamic Action Front official told AFP. "The people there demand a regime change, but here we ask for political reforms and an elected government. We recognize and acknowledge the legitimacy of the Hashemites."

The law gives them little choice, of course. Direct criticism of the King is forbidden in Jordan, so the protesters who assembled outside the office of then Prime Minister Samir Rifai on Saturday did well to make their chants specific. "It is time for change. Our problem is Rifai," they chorused.

Independent observers judge that the respect for Jordan's royals is grounded in realpolitik. The Hashemite royal family hails from the Hejaz of what is now eastern Saudi Arabia and was given control of Jordan by the British mapmakers who (with the French) drew the borders of the modern Middle East. Once a collection of nomadic tribes in what was dubbed TransJordan, the modern kingdom is majority Palestinian, having absorbed a huge number of refugees from the land Jewish armies took over in 1948 to create Israel.

The current monarch's charismatic father, King Hussein, not only navigated the demographic landscape but proved so adept at accommodating assorted parties — including Washington — that he made himself seem indispensable. Abdullah II, who ascended to the throne in 1999, has garnered less glowing reviews. But he married a Palestinian, Queen Rania, and when protesters began gathering in Cairo, he had the wits to get out of the castle that is Amman and be seen inquiring as to the welfare of his subjects in the desert south of the capital. (Read why Egypt's Hosni Mubarak may be losing support.)

"If such visits had been undertaken" by Cabinet members, the Jordan Times tut-tutted in an editorial this week, "if the grievances of the population had been made known, it could be that we would not have seen demonstrations, like those that occurred of late, against high prices and the low standard of living of some Jordanians."

Time will tell whether changing Prime Ministers does the trick. Before he left, Rifai lowered the price of bread and raised the pay of civil servants. But of the Arab states that may be vulnerable to the fever for greater democracy, Hiltermann places the Hashemite Kingdom well down the list.

"While the sort of demands being voiced across the region are very similar — better governments, accountability, fighting corruption, political reform generally — the countries we're dealing with are very different," says Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group. "The way these demands are being processed is going to differ from country to country. In Jordan we have a situation where a monarchy has been accepted historically as an outsider bringing together different tribes and populations across Jordan, especially the Palestinians. The monarchy plays a very specific role and has been accepted because of it. I think in Jordan the Hashemite monarchy has a lot of good will."

Young of the Daily Star agrees. "Jordan is different from the region," he says. "There are problems. But the monarchy is not the same as a Mubarak. Mubarak may have behaved like a King, but he was a tyrant, and perceptions are different. No one is going to demand the removal of the Hashemite dynasty. Sure, they can demand that the government be changed, or the removal of parliament, but things in Jordan are a little more complicated than they are in Egypt."


Fuente: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ ... gle+Reader

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Y se va a ir contagiando por toda la region y despues en el resto del mundo. Bush tenia razon.

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TTM paso al azul

Oil down 90.63

[Victor VE]

Este, creo que ya di toda mi opinion sobre Bush. Asi que mejor no digo nada mas sobre ese señor.

Lo bueno es que espero que esto contagie a Venezuela y lo saquen a ese inutil del gobierno.