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Japon ve inflacion por primera vez en 28 meses.

Economistas piensan que China le ganara a India en crecimiento.

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INDEX VALUE CHANGE % CHANGE TIME
NIKKEI 225 9,527.90 -34.15 -0.36% 21:40
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Crude Oil 100.60 0.37 100.23
Gold 1525.4 1.7 1523.7
DJ Industrials 12418 9 12409
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Copper May 26,21:39
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Change -0.0084 -0.20%
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Detractores de Chávez critican sus ayudas de emergencia como una artimaña política

Por Ezequiel Minaya
Dow Jones Newswires

CARACAS—El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, ordenó medidas de auxilio en respuesta a las recientes lluvias torrenciales en el país, que según sus detractores explotan la emergencia para socavar a un gobernador que es un posible candidato a desafiar al mandatario en las elecciones presidenciales de 2012.

Chávez designó a tres estados afectados severamente por una temprana temporada de lluvias como zonas de emergencia y seleccionó personalmente a personas leales a su gobierno para que pusieran en marcha equipos de rescate que actúen al margen de las autoridades locales. Uno de los estados es Miranda, que políticamente muy importante porque incluye parte de Caracas y porque su gobernador, Henrique Capriles Radonski, está considerado entre los favoritos para ser nominado por los partidos opositores venezolanos como candidato de la oposición a la presidencia.

Chávez enfrenta un declive de su popularidad desde que logró ser reelegido en 2006, a medida que se incrementa la preocupación de los venezolanos por la acelerada inflación, una aguda escasez de viviendas y un nivel creciente de inseguridad en la calle. Pero, los analistas todavía ven a Chávez como el candidato a derrotar el próximo año dada la firmeza de su control de las instituciones y la ayuda de los elevados precios del petróleo, que incrementan los ingresos del gobierno.

Un astuto estratega político, Chávez ha sido acusado antes de centralizar el poder en su despacho, disminuyendo la autoridad de los legisladores de oposición y controlando las transferencias presupuestarias a los gobiernos locales y estatales.

Es esta clase de tácticas, como hacer que la gente lo vea como un héroe e impedir que los rivales sean vistos como administradores competentes, las que han hecho que derrotar a Chávez en las urnas sea una tarea formidable, dice Aníbal Romero, profesor de ciencia política retirado de Caracas. "Chávez es un experto formidable en táctica y pienso que ya está en campaña", añade Romero.

Al anunciar una ayuda especial para Miranda, Chávez dio un espaldarazo al vicepresidente Elías Jaua para que ocupe el lugar de Capriles. "En mi cama, vi a Elias (Jaua) como gobernador de Miranda", dijo Chávez, que ha estado en reposo por una lesión de rodilla, durante una entrevista telefónica.

Chávez nombró a Jaua y al ministro de Deportes, Héctor Rodríguez, para encabezar el esfuerzo gubernamental de recuperación en Miranda. "Para nosotros, esto no es una campaña electoral, es una campaña por la vida", dijo Rodríguez en una aparente alusión a Capriles, de 38 años, que ya ha confirmado su intención de ser candidato presidencial. Chávez también anunció medidas de auxilio para los estados de Mérida y Táchira.

Capriles calificó la nueva zona de emergencia un acto de publicidad que duplica innecesariamente los esfuerzos gubernamentales. Capriles ha sido desde hace tiempo una espina para Chávez. Derrotó a uno de sus más cercanos aliados en 2008 para llegar a la gobernación, una victoria sorpresiva que fue seguida por la decisión del presidente de asumir el control de los hospitales de Miranda días después de que el gobernador asumiera su cargo.

Otros importantes posibles candidatos a la presidencia han sufrido choques similares. Antonio Ledezma, que también sorprendió a un poderoso candidato chavista para ganar la Alcaldía Mayor de Caracas en 2008, perdió la mayoría de sus competencias y de su presupuesto cuando Chávez estableció una autoridad paralela para la capital.

Al poner en marcha un comité paralelo de ayuda para Miranda, Chávez está otra vez desviando fondos hacia una agencia que controla, dice Robert Bottome, un fuerte detractor del presidente y editor de VenEconomía, una publicación de negocios local. "Le saca dinero a Capriles. Le deja al gobernador menos con lo que funcionar", agregó.

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Perú eleva a 3 pct pronóstico inflación para 2011
jueves 26 de mayo de 2011 12:10 GYT
Imprimir[-] Texto [+] LIMA (Reuters) - Perú elevó a un 3 por ciento su pronóstico de inflación para este año, desde el 2 por ciento anterior, en momentos en que el crecimiento de la economía se ha desacelerado un poco producto de la incertidumbre electoral, dijo el jueves el Ministerio de Economía.
El nuevo cálculo de la variación de precios se ubica en el techo del rango meta del Banco Central de un alza del 1 a un 3 por ciento.

Según cifras oficiales, la inflación en los últimos 12 meses fue de un 3,34 por ciento, debido principalmente al alza de los valores de los alimentos y la energía.

Para el próximo año, el país sudamericano prevé que la inflación se desacelere a un 2,4 por ciento.

El ministerio, que publicó su marco de proyecciones oficiales para el período 2011-2014, también elevó a un 6 por ciento su estimación para el crecimiento económico del próximo año, desde el 5,5 por ciento previsto anteriormente.

Además, reiteró que la economía crecería un 6,5 por ciento este año, como había dicho esta semana a Reuters el jefe de la cartera económica, Ismael Benavides.

La nueva estimación de crecimiento es menor a proyecciones anteriores del ministro Benavides, debido a una caída en las inversiones provocada por la incertidumbre que ha generado la elección presidencial del 5 de junio.

El ministerio proyectó también un déficit de cuenta corriente de un 2,8 por ciento del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) al cierre del año, mayor al estimado anteriormente del 1,6 por ciento del PIB.

Para el próximo año, el Gobierno calculó que el déficit de cuenta corriente aumentará a un 3,5 por ciento.

Respecto al resultado fiscal, el ministerio estimó un déficit de un 0,2 por ciento del PIB para el 2011, mayor al 1 por ciento calculado anteriormente. Para el próximo año, vislumbró un déficit fiscal del 1 por ciento.

(Reporte de Patricia Vélez y Marco Aquino)

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La verdad es que el jefe del IMF no es la primera vez que acosa a las mujeres, ya lo hizo antes en Francia, pero nadie dijo nada, una verguenza que en ese pais, donde se creen tan sofisticados, tan educados y tan cultos, el respeto por la mujer no es importante. Verguenza. Me alegro tanto que este hombre este entrre rejas y los franceses estan furiosos, ellos no pueden entender que a una mujer hay que respetarla, asi sea una mucama de un hotel.

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The Strauss-Kahn Standard
Why the IMF overlooked DSK's sexual marauding, and the vindication of Paul Wolfowitz

So now we know what a real scandal atop a leading international organization looks like.

Whatever becomes of the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, DNA evidence and all, it is now clear that the former head of the International Monetary Fund treated the organization as his sexual fiefdom. "Despite my long professional life, I was unprepared for the advances of the managing director of the IMF," wrote Piroska Nagy, an IMF staff economist whom Mr. Strauss-Kahn pursued until she agreed to a brief affair in 2008. "I did not know how to handle this," she added in a letter to a law firm investigating the affair. "I felt, 'I was damned if I did and damned if I didn't.'"

Ms. Nagy's letter—which added that Mr. Strauss-Kahn was "a man with a problem that may make him ill-equipped to lead an institution where women work under his command"—has received considerable media attention in recent weeks, and rightly so. But perhaps its real interest lies in the way none of Ms. Nagy's points seem to have found their way into the firm's October 2008 report to the IMF Executive Board.

On the contrary, the report, conducted by three lawyers at the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, concluded that "there is no evidence that the MD [managing director], either expressly or implicitly, threatened the female staff member in any way to induce her to engage in the affair or to keep it confidential." The IMF board gave Mr. Strauss-Kahn merely a wrist slap for a "serious error of judgment," along with board assurances that the episode would "in no way affect the effectiveness of the Managing Director in the very challenging and difficult period ahead."

All this was dutifully reported by the press at the time as one of those nothing-to-see-here stories. It also made for a striking contrast to the media's overdrive when it came to trumpeting the unreal (in every sense) "scandal" that had brought down World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz the previous year. And one has to wonder why.

Remember that Mr. Wolfowitz's alleged sin was that he had arranged a job transfer, along with a substantial raise, for his companion Shaha Riza, a bank employee at the time Mr. Wolfowitz took the helm in 2005.

But any suggestion that favoritism had been involved quickly fell apart when it came to light that Mr. Wolfowitz had disclosed the relationship with the bank's board before taking the job; that he had sought to recuse himself from the matter; that the bank's ethics committee had forbidden him from recusing himself; and that the committee had also directed him to arrange a promotion and pay raise for Ms. Riza "on the basis of her qualifying record" and out of concern for the "potential disruption" to her career for a conflict of interest that was not of her own making.

That was it. Yet outside of these columns, few other news outlets could be bothered to report the facts. Was it because Mr. Wolfowitz, as one of the most prominent advocates for deposing Saddam Hussein, was such a convenient media villain? Or because the board and management of the bank were so resistant to Mr. Wolfowitz's aggressive anti-corruption agenda, and all too happy to leak selective and bogus information to suggestible journalists?

The answer was both. In the end, the bank board formally acquitted Mr. Wolfowitz of all charges of ethical misconduct, though it got what it most wanted, which was his resignation. Under successor Robert Zoellick the bank is out of the news and back to the business-as-usual of shoveling money out the door. How wonderful: Its annual claims on the American taxpayer now exceed $2 billion.

As for the IMF, his sexual pursuit of underlings forgiven, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was treated in the media as a hero for pushing vast sums on bankrupt economies like Greece. Even now, with the bailouts failing and their mastermind on bail, he is seen as a visionary brought low by his fatal flaw.

Yet what ought to be clear is that the reason Mr. Strauss-Kahn was so popular within the IMF (female company excepted) was that his own behavior was so in tune with the ethos of the institution. Here is a place where power can be exercised without electoral accountability, privileges can be enjoyed without scrutiny, salaries can be claimed without taxes, and other people's money can be spent with abandon.

He thrived because he enhanced the power of the IMF and did the political bidding of the same European countries that loathed Mr. Wolfowitz's independent streak. And—if the allegations against him prove to be true—no wonder DSK felt he could behave with impunity in the comfort of his $3,000-a-night New York City suite.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn will soon face his own reckoning, though we won't hold our breath for any changes in the culture or the mindset of the IMF he once led. As for Mr. Wolfowitz, he long ago proved his innocence. What he has won now—and what his erstwhile detractors should concede—is an additional measure of vindication.

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La verdad es que el jefe del IMF no es la primera vez que acosa a las mujeres, ya lo hizo antes en Francia, pero nadie dijo nada, una verguenza que en ese pais, donde se creen tan sofisticados, tan educados y tan cultos, el respeto por la mujer no es importante. Verguenza. Me alegro tanto que este hombre este entrre rejas y los franceses estan furiosos, ellos no pueden entender que a una mujer hay que respetarla, asi sea una mucama de un hotel.

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The Strauss-Kahn Standard
Why the IMF overlooked DSK's sexual marauding, and the vindication of Paul Wolfowitz

So now we know what a real scandal atop a leading international organization looks like.

Whatever becomes of the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, DNA evidence and all, it is now clear that the former head of the International Monetary Fund treated the organization as his sexual fiefdom. "Despite my long professional life, I was unprepared for the advances of the managing director of the IMF," wrote Piroska Nagy, an IMF staff economist whom Mr. Strauss-Kahn pursued until she agreed to a brief affair in 2008. "I did not know how to handle this," she added in a letter to a law firm investigating the affair. "I felt, 'I was damned if I did and damned if I didn't.'"

Ms. Nagy's letter—which added that Mr. Strauss-Kahn was "a man with a problem that may make him ill-equipped to lead an institution where women work under his command"—has received considerable media attention in recent weeks, and rightly so. But perhaps its real interest lies in the way none of Ms. Nagy's points seem to have found their way into the firm's October 2008 report to the IMF Executive Board.

On the contrary, the report, conducted by three lawyers at the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, concluded that "there is no evidence that the MD [managing director], either expressly or implicitly, threatened the female staff member in any way to induce her to engage in the affair or to keep it confidential." The IMF board gave Mr. Strauss-Kahn merely a wrist slap for a "serious error of judgment," along with board assurances that the episode would "in no way affect the effectiveness of the Managing Director in the very challenging and difficult period ahead."

All this was dutifully reported by the press at the time as one of those nothing-to-see-here stories. It also made for a striking contrast to the media's overdrive when it came to trumpeting the unreal (in every sense) "scandal" that had brought down World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz the previous year. And one has to wonder why.

Remember that Mr. Wolfowitz's alleged sin was that he had arranged a job transfer, along with a substantial raise, for his companion Shaha Riza, a bank employee at the time Mr. Wolfowitz took the helm in 2005.

But any suggestion that favoritism had been involved quickly fell apart when it came to light that Mr. Wolfowitz had disclosed the relationship with the bank's board before taking the job; that he had sought to recuse himself from the matter; that the bank's ethics committee had forbidden him from recusing himself; and that the committee had also directed him to arrange a promotion and pay raise for Ms. Riza "on the basis of her qualifying record" and out of concern for the "potential disruption" to her career for a conflict of interest that was not of her own making.

That was it. Yet outside of these columns, few other news outlets could be bothered to report the facts. Was it because Mr. Wolfowitz, as one of the most prominent advocates for deposing Saddam Hussein, was such a convenient media villain? Or because the board and management of the bank were so resistant to Mr. Wolfowitz's aggressive anti-corruption agenda, and all too happy to leak selective and bogus information to suggestible journalists?

The answer was both. In the end, the bank board formally acquitted Mr. Wolfowitz of all charges of ethical misconduct, though it got what it most wanted, which was his resignation. Under successor Robert Zoellick the bank is out of the news and back to the business-as-usual of shoveling money out the door. How wonderful: Its annual claims on the American taxpayer now exceed $2 billion.

As for the IMF, his sexual pursuit of underlings forgiven, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was treated in the media as a hero for pushing vast sums on bankrupt economies like Greece. Even now, with the bailouts failing and their mastermind on bail, he is seen as a visionary brought low by his fatal flaw.

Yet what ought to be clear is that the reason Mr. Strauss-Kahn was so popular within the IMF (female company excepted) was that his own behavior was so in tune with the ethos of the institution. Here is a place where power can be exercised without electoral accountability, privileges can be enjoyed without scrutiny, salaries can be claimed without taxes, and other people's money can be spent with abandon.

He thrived because he enhanced the power of the IMF and did the political bidding of the same European countries that loathed Mr. Wolfowitz's independent streak. And—if the allegations against him prove to be true—no wonder DSK felt he could behave with impunity in the comfort of his $3,000-a-night New York City suite.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn will soon face his own reckoning, though we won't hold our breath for any changes in the culture or the mindset of the IMF he once led. As for Mr. Wolfowitz, he long ago proved his innocence. What he has won now—and what his erstwhile detractors should concede—is an additional measure of vindication.

y todavia tienen el descaro de insinuar que es una trampa fabricada por sus adversarios para manchar su imagen.

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Vandalismo en Puno: Manifestantes atacan locales públicos y privados
26 de mayo de 2011 | 05:33 p.m.Antonio Manco - jmanco@epensa.com.pePuno - El descontrol vuelve a la ciudad de Puno. Un grupo de manifestantes destruyeron esta tarde varias instituciones públicas y privadas en la capital altiplánica provocando caos y saqueos en el marco de la protesta contra las concesiones mineras.

Según reportan nuestros corresponsales, hordas descontroladas de la Union de Comunidades Aimaras (UNCA) y reservistas ingresaron al jirón Lima, atacando algunas entidades como la Contraloría, SUNAT, Aduanas, una sede policial y una entidad bancaria, etc.

Otra institución afectada es el local de la Gobernación que fue tomada y se desconoce el paradero de su autoridad Víctor Urviola Garrido.

Los piquetes de huelguistas también destruyeron la fachada del local del Diario Correo en la ciudad altiplánica ubicada en el jirón Lima. "Hay rotura de vidrios, puertas, es la agresión más fuerte", dijo nuestro corresponsal Moisés Barriga.

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Euro up 1.4172, yen up 81.07

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Vandalismo en Puno: Manifestantes atacan locales públicos y privados
26 de mayo de 2011 | 05:33 p.m.Antonio Manco - jmanco@epensa.com.pePuno - El descontrol vuelve a la ciudad de Puno. Un grupo de manifestantes destruyeron esta tarde varias instituciones públicas y privadas en la capital altiplánica provocando caos y saqueos en el marco de la protesta contra las concesiones mineras.

Según reportan nuestros corresponsales, hordas descontroladas de la Union de Comunidades Aimaras (UNCA) y reservistas ingresaron al jirón Lima, atacando algunas entidades como la Contraloría, SUNAT, Aduanas, una sede policial y una entidad bancaria, etc.

Otra institución afectada es el local de la Gobernación que fue tomada y se desconoce el paradero de su autoridad Víctor Urviola Garrido.

Los piquetes de huelguistas también destruyeron la fachada del local del Diario Correo en la ciudad altiplánica ubicada en el jirón Lima. "Hay rotura de vidrios, puertas, es la agresión más fuerte", dijo nuestro corresponsal Moisés Barriga.

LO de Puno esta totalmente politizado, es la jugada de H (con apoyo de vecinos boliches) por patear el tablero pues las encuestas ya lo lapidaron (estamos en el % histórico de indecisos así que los resultados no cambiaran, salvo un imponderable por demás jalado de los pelos) si no se toma acción rápidamente se tornara en el caballito de batalla para un nuevo levantamiento (insurgencia popular como les gusta propugnar a los partidarios de H) y declarar como fraude las elecciones y afectar directamente la gobernabilidad.


Lo que no entiendo es como es posible que T haya tomado partido a favor de quien se levanto en su gobierno... francamente me termino de decepcionar...

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Treasurys Price Chg Yield %
2-Year Note -0/32 0.496
10-Year Note -6/32 3.079
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7:47 a.m. EDT 05/27/11Futures Last Change Settle
Crude Oil 100.67 0.44 100.23
Gold 1526.5 2.8 1523.7
DJ Industrials 12405 -4 12409
S&P 500 1328.40 1.90 1326.50

7:59 a.m. EDT 05/27/11Currencies Last (bid) Prior Day †
Japanese Yen (USD/JPY) 81.06 81.35
Euro (EUR/USD) 1.4234 1.4137
† Late Thursday in New York.

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Global Dow 2145.43 15.80 0.74
Japan: Nikkei Average* 9521.94 -40.11 -0.42
Stoxx Europe 600 278.75 1.61 0.58
UK: FTSE 100 5931.36 50.37 0.86
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Copper May 27,07:39
Bid/Ask 4.1445 - 4.1457
Change +0.0339 +0.82%
Low/High 4.0958 - 4.1643
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Nickel May 27,07:39
Bid/Ask 10.5030 - 10.5139
Change +0.0794 +0.76%
Low/High 10.3556 - 10.6046
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Aluminum May 27,07:38
Bid/Ask 1.1485 - 1.1493
Change +0.0076 +0.67%
Low/High 1.1392 - 1.1580
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Zinc May 27,07:39
Bid/Ask 1.0159 - 1.0170
Change -0.0005 -0.04%
Low/High 1.0073 - 1.0238
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Lead May 27,07:39
Bid/Ask 1.1456 - 1.1476
Change +0.0060 +0.53%
Low/High 1.1356 - 1.1587