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Futures Last Change Settle
Crude Oil 99.00 -0.59 99.59
Gold 1523.8 0.5 1523.3
DJ Industrials 12263 -64 12327
S&P 500 1307.10 -6.50 1313.60

9:32 p.m. EDT 05/24/11Currencies Last (bid) Prior Day †
Japanese Yen (USD/JPY) 82.01 81.92
Euro (EUR/USD) 1.4048 1.4110
† Late Tuesday in New York

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Metales al alza
Copper May 24,21:19
Bid/Ask 4.0231 - 4.0245
Change +0.0167 +0.42%
Low/High 4.0050 - 4.0259
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Nickel May 24,21:19
Bid/Ask 10.4094 - 10.4321
Change +0.0431 +0.42%
Low/High 10.3482 - 10.4548
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Aluminum May 24,21:14
Bid/Ask 1.1132 - 1.1155
Change +0.0005 +0.04%
Low/High 1.1127 - 1.1164
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Zinc May 24,21:19
Bid/Ask 0.9796 - 0.9808
Change +0.0025 +0.26%
Low/High 0.9754 - 0.9854
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Lead May 24,21:17
Bid/Ask 1.1278 - 1.1323
Change +0.0018 +0.16%
Low/High 1.1260 - 1.1364

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El Shanghai C. -0.44%, el Hang Seng -0.82%, Korea -0.90%, Australia -0.84%, el Nikkei -0.41%

Euro down 1.4048, yen down 82.01

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Japon tuvo un deficit comercial en el primer trimestre, agravado por el terremoto del 11 de Marzo. Fue de $5.7 billones en Abril.

AIG vendio $8.7 billones de acciones.

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Cuando leo cosas como estas, realmente es para sentirse mal, cuantas mentiras nos cuentan. Cuantas mentiras creemos. Es sinceramente escandaloso, todo el miedo que nos meten con lo del medio ambiente.

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El mercurio que produce el ser humano representa solo el 0.5% de todo el mercurio que la naturaleza produce. Es decir que asi se prohiba todo el mercurio que el hombre produce en sus actividades, el 99.5% seguiria en el ambiente, en el agua, plantas, tierra, etc.

Una planta de carbon emite entre 41-48 toneladas de mercurio en US, pero los arboles en US emiten 44 tons al anio, el cremar a los muertos produce otras 26 tons, las plantas Chinas emiten 400 tons, y los volcanos u otros emiten entre 9,000 y 10,000 tons al anio. Todas esas emisiones entran a nuestro sistema y forman parte del aire que respiramos.

The Myth of Killer Mercury
Panicking people about fish is no way to protect public health.

By WILLIE SOON
AND PAUL DRIESSEN
The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued 946 pages of new rules requiring that U.S. power plants sharply reduce their (already low) emissions of mercury and other air pollutants. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims that while the regulations will cost electricity producers $10.9 billion annually, they will save 17,000 lives and generate up to $140 billion in health benefits.

There is no factual basis for these assertions. To build its case against mercury, the EPA systematically ignored evidence and clinical studies that contradict its regulatory agenda, which is to punish hydrocarbon use.

Mercury has always existed naturally in Earth's environment. A 2009 study found mercury deposits in Antarctic ice across 650,000 years. Mercury is found in air, water, rocks, soil and trees, which absorb it from the environment. This is why our bodies evolved with proteins and antioxidants that help protect us from this and other potential contaminants.

Another defense comes from selenium, which is found in fish and animals. Its strong attraction to mercury molecules protects fish and people against buildups of methylmercury, mercury's biologically active and more toxic form. Even so, the 200,000,000 tons of mercury naturally present in seawater have never posed a danger to any living being.

How do America's coal-burning power plants fit into the picture? They emit an estimated 41-48 tons of mercury per year. But U.S. forest fires emit at least 44 tons per year; cremation of human remains discharges 26 tons; Chinese power plants eject 400 tons; and volcanoes, subsea vents, geysers and other sources spew out 9,000-10,000 additional tons per year.

.All these emissions enter the global atmospheric system and become part of the U.S. air mass. Since our power plants account for less than 0.5% of all the mercury in the air we breathe, eliminating every milligram of it will do nothing about the other 99.5% in our atmosphere.

In the face of these minuscule risks, the EPA nevertheless demands that utility companies spend billions every year retrofitting coal-fired power plants that produce half of all U.S. electricity.

According to the Centers for Disease Control's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which actively monitors mercury exposure, blood mercury counts for U.S. women and children decreased steadily from 1999-2008, placing today's counts well below the already excessively safe level established by the EPA. A 17-year evaluation of mercury risk to babies and children by the Seychelles Children Development Study found "no measurable cognitive or behavioral effects" in children who eat several servings of ocean fish every week, much more than most Americans do.

The World Health Organization and U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry assessed these findings in setting mercury-risk standards that are two to three times less restrictive than the EPA's.

The EPA ignored these findings. Instead, the agency based its "safe" mercury criteria on a study of Faroe Islanders, whose diet is far removed from our own. They eat few fruits and vegetables, but they do feast on pilot-whale meat and blubber that is laced with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)—but very low in selenium. The study has limited relevance to U.S. populations.

As a result, the EPA's actions can be counted on to achieve only one thing—which is to further advance the Obama administration's oft-stated goal of penalizing hydrocarbon use and driving a transition to unreliable renewable energy.

The proposed standards will do nothing to reduce exaggerated threats from mercury and other air pollutants. Indeed, the rules will worsen America's health and well-being—especially for young children and women of child-bearing age. Not only will they raise heating, air conditioning and food costs, but they will scare people away from eating nutritious fish that should be in everyone's diet.

America needs affordable, reliable electricity. It needs better health and nutrition. It needs an EPA that focuses on real risks, instead of wasting hard-earned taxpayer and consumer dollars fabricating dangers and evidence.

Mr. Soon, a natural scientist at Harvard, is an expert on mercury and public health issues. Mr. Driessen is senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.

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Netanyahu, el PM de Israel le dijo al Congreso Americanos algunas cosas bastante fuertes, entre otras cosas dijo que Israel no es el problema en el medio oriente, dijo que de los 300,000 millones de habitantes solo el 1% creia en la democracia y la libertad y ese pais era Israel.

No se puede hablar de paz y negociar con Palestina, un pais que niega la existencia del estado de Israel, ellos no quieren la paz, ellos buscan la eliminacion de Israel. Como se puede hablar de paz, dijo.

Tambien dijo que se debe evitar que Iran consiga armarse nuclearmente.

US le da $4 billones al anio a Israel, casi $2 billones a Egipto, como otros $4 creo a Pakistan, etc, etc. A quien no le da dinero US. Y el pais esta quebrado.

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Los futures del Dow Jones 79 puntos a la baja.

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Las ordenes de bienes duraderos bajan 3.6%. Malas noticias.

Los futuers empeoran

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Euro down 1.407

El indice del dolar up 76.02 o 0.2%

Libor down 0.25%

Oil down 98.63

-23

Au up 1,525.2

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Copper May 25,08:19
Bid/Ask 4.0920 - 4.0935
Change +0.0856 +2.14%
Low/High 4.0050 - 4.1011
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Nickel May 25,08:19
Bid/Ask 10.6147 - 10.6305
Change +0.2483 +2.40%
Low/High 10.2969 - 10.7097
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Aluminum May 25,08:19
Bid/Ask 1.1319 - 1.1331
Change +0.0192 +1.72%
Low/High 1.1109 - 1.1358
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Zinc May 25,08:19
Bid/Ask 1.0020 - 1.0030
Change +0.0248 +2.54%
Low/High 0.9754 - 1.0086
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Lead May 25,08:19
Bid/Ask 1.1421 - 1.1435
Change +0.0161 +1.43%
Low/High 1.1260 - 1.1472

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Ag up 37.13

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Europa a la baja, el Asia cerro mixta.

Yen down 82.08

Metales al alza, petroleo y euro a la baja.

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Oil down 98.89