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Alemania +1.05%

El S&P 500 +1.94%

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Japon tambien estuvo cerrado.

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9:51 a.m. EDT 10/10/11Major Stock Indexes
  Last Change % Chg
DJIA 11323.59 220.47 1.99
Nasdaq 2529.89 50.54 2.04
S&P 500 1181.38 25.92 2.24
DJ Total Stock Market 12290.55 270.09 2.25
Russell 2000 669.06 12.85 1.96
Global Dow 1788.57 31.64 1.80
Japan: Nikkei Average* 8605.62 83.60 0.98
Stoxx Europe 600 233.60 1.61 0.69
UK: FTSE 100 5378.68 75.28 1.42
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5:24 p.m. EDT 10/07/11Treasurys
    Price Chg Yield %
2-Year Note*   -2/32 0.296
10-Year Note*   -23/32 2.068
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9:42 a.m. EDT 10/10/11Futures
  Last Change Settle
Crude Oil 85.23 2.25 82.98
Gold 1667.9 32.1 1635.8
E-mini Dow 11250 184 11046
E-mini S&P 500 1175.50 20.50 1157.50
9:51 a.m. EDT 10/10/11Currencies
  Last (bid) Prior Day †
Japanese Yen (USD/JPY) 76.73 76.77
Euro (EUR/USD) 1.3623 1.3377
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  Last Change % Chg
DJIA 11339.78 236.66 2.13
Nasdaq 2542.42 63.07 2.54
S&P 500 1183.40 27.94 2.42
DJ Total Stock Market 12316.31 295.85 2.46
Russell 2000 670.62 14.41 2.20

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ERX 10%

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SCCO. +4.25%

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MMR +8.29%

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10:22 a.m. EDT 10/10/11Major Stock Indexes
  Last Change % Chg
DJIA 11375.73 272.61 2.46
Nasdaq 2555.17 75.82 3.06
S&P 500 1188.39 32.93 2.85
DJ Total Stock Market 12372.46 352.00 2.93
Russell 2000 673.45 17.24 2.63
Global Dow 1797.71 40.78 2.32

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Lima aún apática, hay temor de los retails y mientras los capitales foráneos no reingresen, los institucionales no se van a animar a participar.

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El S&P 500 2.92% al alza.

El Nasdaq 3.09% up

Au up 1,666

Euro up 1.3659

Oil up 85.81

+277.99

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VIX down 34.20

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GE a la defensiva, teme que su marca se danie.

El problema de GE es su relacion con Obama y sus ventures de negocios en China. GE se ha convertido en el blanco de los conservadores que atacan a la compania por representar todo lo que esta mal con el crony capitalismo y los subsidiso y ayuda del gobierno a las corporaciones.

Como se sabe, GE una de las corporaciones mas grandes del pais no pago un solo dolar en impuestos y esta llevandose los empleos a China donde fabricara aviones con tecnologia Americana con el gobierno de China, eso es inaudito, por no decir mas. Es decir que la tecnologia Americana va a pasar a China, gracias a Inmelt, el CEO de GE quien es el designado por Obama para crear mas empleos en el pais. Ven la controversia y la ironia. Increible.

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Tea-Party Attacks Put GE on Defense

By KATE LINEBAUGH

GE chief Jeff Immelt, left, heads President Obama's council on jobs.
.General Electric Co., where Ronald Reagan honed his communication skills as a company spokesman, is struggling to fend off attacks from conservatives over its relationship with the Obama administration and ventures in China, raising concerns inside GE that the controversy could damage its brand.

Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last month slammed GE for being "the poster child of corporate welfare and crony capitalism." Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich used GE as an applause line during the Republican debate sponsored by the tea party in September. And Fox News television personality Bill O'Reilly has derided the conglomerate and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt almost weekly.

The company's critics will get another opening this week. Mr. Immelt is to appear with President Barack Obama at a meeting of the president's jobs council in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, the same day that the Republican presidential contenders square off in a debate at Dartmouth College.

The tea party and its allies are taking aim at GE for a number of alleged sins, including the company's paltry 2010 federal tax payment, an aviation joint-venture in China, moving jobs overseas and taking federal stimulus dollars for green-energy projects.

It hasn't helped that Mr. Immelt's position as head of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an advisory panel of executives, makes him one of the country's closest executives to Mr. Obama. The White House didn't respond to a request for comment.

"We've had concerns that Immelt uses the government rather than the marketplace to drive GE's philosophy on how to do business," said Wayne T. Brough, chief economist at Freedomworks, a national tea-party group that has protested at GE shareholder meetings. "It feeds into a crony capitalist kind of mentality that isn't actually the best way to generate economic growth."

GE said the charges are inaccurate and are based on false information. But the constant attacks are raising worries inside the company, where top communications executives have become involved in answering critics and some executives have said privately that they would like Mr. Immelt to step down from the council.

"I am leading the jobs council because I thought it was the right thing to do," Mr. Immelt said in an August interview. "In the U.S., it is controversial.…It's the times we live in."

The chief executive, a Republican, comes from conservative stock. He said that his parents watch five hours a day of Fox News, which has several conservative talk-show hosts. He said that when he told his mother that Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Immelt to lead the jobs council, she responded, "You're not going to take it, are you?"

The president's request also sparked a "spirited discussion" among some GE directors, who debated whether he should join the council and the potential political fallout, a person familiar with the matter said. In the end, Mr. Immelt said he joined the council of 27 CEOs because he felt he needed to respond to a president's request.

GE has fired back at its critics. "We are not receiving special treatment; we compete for business just like every other company," the Fairfield, Conn., conglomerate said recently on its website.

But GE, which had nearly $150 billion in revenue last year, has had little luck quieting the criticism. Experts have said it might have to just weather the assault. "If GE comes back and starts complaining and whining, all they are doing is demonstrating weakness. They would be simply making the tea party out to be a bigger force," said Robbie Vorhaus, a corporate-communications consultant. "And what they would be really saying is, It hurts us."

Gary Sheffer, GE's communications chief, said he answers letters personally from shareholders. "We certainly don't have the reach of some of our critics," he said.

GE has a history as a media company, having owned NBC Universal until this year. That paved the road for GE to become a punching bag for Republican debaters. Former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann got into a media war several years ago with Mr. O'Reilly of Fox News, a fight that some people have pointed to as the start of friction between conservative pundits and GE. Fox News is owned by News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

That animosity then took root among tea-party Republicans who champion small-business owners and deride the relationship between big corporations and Washington lobbyists.

The problem for GE is that its rebuttals have failed to even reach some critics. Norman Pallot, an 88-year-old retired attorney and registered Republican in Weeki Wachee, Fla., wrote a letter to his local paper excoriating GE for moving its X-ray business to China. In fact, GE transferred four executives to Beijing as it relocated the unit's headquarters from Wisconsin. Mr. Pallot said he thought GE was moving all X-ray production.

GE has created more jobs overseas in the last decade than it did at home. GE employs more people outside the U.S. than within the country. Its U.S. employment dropped by 16% over the previous decade to 133,000 jobs at the end of last year while overseas employment fell by 2,000 jobs to 152,000. The company moved some of its avionics business, which develops electronic systems that run airplanes, into a joint venture with a Chinese company that has its headquarters in Shanghai.

GE said it has been growing in the U.S., creating 8,000 new jobs since 2009, and has invested $70 billion in its U.S. plants over the last decade. The company by year-end will announce where in the U.S. it will build a solar plant and a software facility.

Regarding accusations that the company paid no federal taxes last year, GE acknowledged that its 2010 federal tax bill was low. But the company said that was because $32 billion of losses at its lending arm during the financial crisis were used to offset profit. GE said it paid a combined $1 billion in federal, state and local taxes in the U.S., with a small part of that going to the U.S. Treasury.

The company said it isn't cozy with Washington. The company has received $127 million in contracts, grants and loans from the $787 billion federal stimulus package, according to Recovery.gov. That placed GE well out of the top 20, which received more than $400 million each. GE's sales to the federal government accounted for 4%, equivalent to about $6 billion, of the company's total revenue last year.

It is unlikely that GE will be able to break free from tea-party complaints as long as Mr. Immelt continues to associate with Mr. Obama.

When the president addressed a joint session of Congress last month to call for new legislation and spending to create jobs, Mr. Immelt sat with the first lady in the Capitol, an appearance that provoked tea-party Republicans and sparked a new round of criticism.

GE wouldn't seem to be a company that would run afoul of the right. From 1954 to 1962, Mr. Reagan was a spokesman for the industrial giant, hosting the Sunday evening General Electric Theater on TV and traveling the country to deliver speeches at GE plants.

GE last year became a sponsor for a two-year celebration of Mr. Reagan's centennial and on the company's website has detailed GE's ties to the conservative icon. Mr. Immelt has a statue of Mr. Reagan in his office.

Meanwhile, the CEO appears to be tiring of Washington's polarized politics. At a conference last week, Mr. Immelt expressed frustration at the summer's debt-ceiling standoff.

"Congress just doing one bipartisan thing, however small, would be conducive to the market," he said.

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No es el iPhone 5, pero igual bate records.

Las pre ordenes del iPhones 4S exceden el millon en un dia. Ningun otro producto de AAPl se ha vendido tanto en su lanzamiento. Ninguno.




Apple iPhone 4S Preorders Top One Million in Single Day

A Wall Street Journal Roundup
Preorders for Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day preorder record of 600,000 set by the iPhone 4.

"The first day preorders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do," said Philip Schiller, senior vice president of world-wide product marketing.

Online and telephone preorders for the iPhone 4S began in the predawn hours Friday, marking Apple's first major product launch since Chief Executive Tim Cook took the company's reins. This time around, the iPhone will be available from three U.S. carriers, including, for the first time, Sprint Nextel Corp.

AT&T Inc. said it had "more than 200,000 preorders in the first 12 hours alone" making the iPhone 4S "the most successful iPhone launch we've ever had."

A Verizon Wireless spokesman said that executives were "pleased with the sales and the ordering process."

U.S. Apple retail stores will start selling the iPhone 4S at 8 a.m. local time Friday. It will roll out to 22 more countries by the end of the month.

Reaction to the 4S is critical for Apple, because it is an indication of whether the company can continue to generate desire for its devices.

Smartphones are Apple's single-largest product category by revenue. Consumer demand for the iPhone 4S could be shaped by an outpouring of emotion surrounding last week's death of former CEO Steve Jobs.

Analysts had a more muted reaction to the phone after Apple introduced it Tuesday, with some predicting the company lost potential customers by not changing the external design of the phone or calling it an iPhone 5.

The newest iPhone has a similar look to its predecessor, but sports a faster microprocessor and new voice-activated software.

Apple is the world's single-largest maker of smartphones, but faces increased competition from companies that supply phones running on Google Inc.'s Android software.

With the smartphone market expanding rapidly, analysts said any company's leadership could easily ebb and flow based on new partnerships, breakthrough technologies and consumers' preferences.

Nokia Corp. is working on new handsets that run Microsoft Corp. software, while Google is preparing to release an update to its Android software.
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