Viernes 21/10/11 Esperando soluciones en Europa

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Tomorrow’s Tape: Acme Earnings

By Mark Gongloff

Economics:

Nothing of note
FedSpeak:

1:00 p.m. ET: Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota speaks.
3:00 p.m.: Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen speaks.
Earnings: Before the bell, we get results from:

Schlumberger
Air Products & Chemicals
General Electric
Honeywell
McDonald’s
SunTrust
Verizon
Dover
Harman International

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Las agencias de ratins dicen que paises como Francia, Espana, Italia, Ireland y Portugal recibirian un downgrade si el bloque cae en otra recesion.

S&P Downgrades 'Likely' in Recession
Ratings firm says France, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Portugal could be downgraded if bloc falls into another recession.

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El fondo de rescate, ese que nadie parece estar de acuerdo en como crearlo, de que tamanio debe ser y como se debe usar, podria ser de $1.3 trillones. Merkel y Sarkozy no estan de acuerdo en ningun punto, no habra solucion para el Domingo.

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El ECB insinuo que podria otorgar mas prestamos para la banca Europea.

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Japon gastara $52 billones para ayudar a la economia a superar la fortaleza del yen.

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MSFT demostro que todavia vende y es relevante.

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Operación de Freeport en Perú, reducida por huelga y falla
jueves 20 de octubre de 2011 15:21 GYT
Imprimir[-] Texto [+] LIMA (Reuters) - La planta concentradora en la mina de cobre de Freeport en Perú fue paralizada en la víspera por una falla técnica, dijeron trabajadores el jueves, mientras que la empresa reconoció que sus labores de extracción de mineral han sido reducidas por una huelga de más de 20 días.
Asimismo, un diálogo clave entre los trabajadores y la minera Cerro Verde, controlada por Freeport, concluyó sin un acuerdo el jueves, prolongando la medida de fuerza en el yacimiento que produce el 2 por ciento del cobre del mundo.

"Las tasas de extracción promedian aproximadamente 200.000 toneladas métricas por día (que es aproximadamente dos tercios de las tasas normales)", dijo a Reuters el portavoz de Freeport Eric Kinneberg en un correo electrónico.

Kinneberg agregó que las operaciones se han centrado en suministrar mineral a la plataforma de lixiviación y a la planta concentradora, por lo que la producción de cobre y molibdeno no se ha visto materialmente afectada.

Sin embargo, trabajadores que se encuentran en la mina dijeron a Reuters que la planta concentradora, con una capacidad de procesamiento cercana a las 120.000 toneladas por día, está paralizada desde el miércoles por una falla técnica que sería reparada en unos tres a cuatro días.

"Ha habido un problema con la chancadora primaria, han caído unos cóncavos (piezas), la parada es de 60 horas y comenzó ayer (miércoles)", dijo un trabajador que labora en la planta concentradora.

La falla en la chancadora primaria llevó a la paralización de toda la planta concentradora, dijo el trabajador que se encuentra en la mina como "personal indispensable".

"Hay otra parada programada en el chancado secundario para arreglar los equipos que están un poco afectados por esto de la huelga", afirmó en una conversación telefónica.

(Reporte de Patricia Vélez y Teresa Céspedes. Editado por Marco Aquino)

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Metales rebotando

Copper October 20,21:19
Bid/Ask 3.1405 - 3.1432
Change +0.0764 +2.49%
Low/High 3.0641 - 3.1514
Charts

Nickel October 20,21:18
Bid/Ask 8.2217 - 8.2439
Change +0.0685 +0.84%
Low/High 8.1323 - 8.2552
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Aluminum October 20,21:18
Bid/Ask 0.9439 - 0.9454
Change +0.0126 +1.35%
Low/High 0.9295 - 0.9454
Charts

Zinc October 20,21:18
Bid/Ask 0.7992 - 0.8016
Change +0.0218 +2.80%
Low/High 0.7774 - 0.8018
Charts

Lead October 20,21:19
Bid/Ask 0.8140 - 0.8176
Change +0.0139 +1.74%
Low/High 0.7999 - 0.8176

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Treasurys Price Chg Yield %
2-Year Note* 1/32 0.270
10-Year Note* -9/32 2.194
* at close

8:51 p.m. EDT 10/20/11Futures Last Change Settle
Crude Oil 85.98 -0.13 85.30
Gold 1617.8 4.9 1612.9
E-mini Dow 11479 7 11472
E-mini S&P 500 1210.75 0.75 1210.00

9:01 p.m. EDT 10/20/11Currencies Last (bid) Prior Day †
Japanese Yen (USD/JPY) 76.77 76.79
Euro (EUR/USD) 1.3785 1.3781
† Late Thursday in New York.

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Euro up 1.3785, yen up 76.77

Korea +1.11%, el Nikkei +0.13% Australia +0.30%

Oil up 86.49

Au up 1,624.09

Ag up 30.59

Los futures del Dow Jones sin cambio.

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El Fed esta preparandose el caso para mas politicas monetarias de ayuda a la economia.

El Fed podria comenzar un programa de compra de instrumentos financieros garantizados por hipotecas para ayudar a la economia, aunque todo parece indicar que no sera facil implementarlo.

De esta manera el Fed quiere apoyar el sector mas perjudicado por la crisis: el de vivienda, el mercado de casas e hipotecas, para lograrlo estan empujando los intereses de las hipotecas mas y mas a la baja.

Los bajos intereses a las hipotecas, podrian atraer a mas compradores de casas y mas refinanciaciones (cuando el duenio de casa consigue rebajar el interes de su hipoteca), y ayudar a la economia consiguiendo que el consumidor tenga mas dinero en el bolsillo para gastar en otros productos o servicios. Los intereses de las hipotecas ya estan muy bajos, pero algunos miembros del Fed piensan que los programas implementados en el pasado ayudaron a levantar el precio del stock market al impulsar a los inversionistas a tomar mas riesgo.

Hay reunion del Fed el 1 y 2 de Noviembre.

El terco desempleo que se mantiene en 9.1% esta motivando a los miembros del Fed a tomar mas acciones.

OCTOBER 20, 2011, 9:20 P.M. ET.Fed Is Poised for More Easing

By JON HILSENRATH
Federal Reserve officials are starting to build a case for a new program of buying mortgage-backed securities to boost the ailing economy, though they appear unlikely to move swiftly.

The idea would be to target any new efforts by the central bank at the parts of the economy that are most severely impeding a recovery—the housing and mortgage markets—by working to push down mortgage rates.

Lower mortgage rates, in turn, could encourage more home buying and mortgage-refinancing, and help the economy by freeing up cash for consumers to spend on other goods and services. Mortgage rates are already very low, but some Fed officials believe they might be pushed lower. Moreover, Fed officials believe their past purchase programs helped to lift stock markets, by driving investors from low-risk investments toward riskier investments.

WSJ's Nick Timiraos has details of a proposed plan that would give mortgage-holders who are underwater access to refinancing assistance. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
.The Fed discussions occur amid broader efforts in the government to find ways to revive housing markets and stir refinancing.

"I believe we should move back up toward the top of the list of options the large-scale purchase of additional mortgage-backed securities," Federal Reserve governor Dan Tarullo said in a speech Thursday at Columbia University.

A new Fed mortgage-bond-buying program isn't a certainty. If inflation doesn't recede as many officials expect, or if the economy picks up with surprising vigor on its own, such a program might not win broad support inside the Fed.

The most recent economic data have looked a touch stronger. In a report Thursday, for instance, the Labor Department said the number of people filing claims for unemployment insurance edged down last week.

The Fed next meets on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. Any step toward mortgage purchases would surely face fierce opposition internally from Fed officials who believe the central bank has done all it can to revive the economy and should avoid new measures.

Three officials—Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser—dissented from central bank decisions on the two most recent easing steps, in part because of worries the measures could ultimately create too much inflation.

The Fed also faces political opposition—notably among Republicans—to more securities purchases, known by many as "quantitative easing." Texas Gov. Rick Perry in August said more Fed money-pumping before the election would be "almost…treasonous."

But supporters of mortgage-bond purchases are emerging ahead of the November meeting to state their case.

In his speech Thursday, Mr. Tarullo argued that there was a need and "ample room" for additional measures by the Fed to spur more spending and investment, and that the risk of inflation is limited. And he said housing was where the Fed should direct its attention.

"Housing continues to hang like an albatross around the necks of homeowners and the economy as a whole, with millions of underwater mortgages, a staggering inventory of foreclosed homes, and depressed levels of sales," he said.

Mr. Tarullo's comments are notable in part because he doesn't typically venture into discussions of the economy. Mr. Tarullo is a lawyer and has focused mostly on bank regulation in his tenure as one of five governors on the Fed's Washington based board, which he joined in early 2009 after being appointed by President Barack Obama. He has worked closely with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke bank regulatory issues, but this was his first major policy address on the economy and it put him firmly in a camp of activists at the central bank who want the Fed to do more to spur growth.

This group has become more vocal in recent months. Others have spoken out favorably about mortgage purchases recently. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren said mortgage purchases should be on the table if the Fed needs to act again. The risks to the economy, he added, "are still on the downside" and the economy might need more assistance from the Fed.

St. Louis Fed president James Bullard told reporters Thursday that the recent run of stronger-than-anticipated economic figures was "encouraging." But even though economic activity has picked up in the past several weeks, he added that a third round of quantitative easing is "still on the table" if conditions should worsen. Mr. Bullard hasn't always been a big supporter of easing moves.

Mr. Bernanke hasn't spoken out recently on mortgage purchases. In testimony to Congress earlier this month, he pointed to the housing sector as a driver of past recoveries that is missing this time. In August, he called broadly for "good, proactive" housing policies from the government.

From 2009 through March 2010, the Fed purchased $1.25 trillion worth of mortgage-backed securities in a program that Mr. Bernanke believes played an important role in healing distressed financial markets during the crisis. The Fed halted the program as it appeared the recovery was gathering steam.

At their meeting in September, Fed officials announced a modest shift in favor of mortgages. Until that meeting, the Fed had been trying to steer its overall $2.6 trillion securities portfolio away from mortgage debt and toward Treasury debt.

Some Fed officials believe the central bank shouldn't be favoring one sector of the economy—housing—over others, and thus shouldn't be in mortgage securities at all. In September, the Fed said it would halt its gradual move away from mortgages and instead would keep its holdings of mortgage-backed securities steady. The Fed holds $867 billion of mortgage backed securities and an additional $108 billion of the debt of government-owned mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which it is reinvesting in mortgage backed securities when it matures.

There are some practical reasons why a step toward mortgage purchases, if it happens, might not happen right away. In a parallel track to discussions about securities purchases, Mr. Bernanke is pushing the central bank toward more clearly and explicitly communicating to the public how the Fed reacts to changes in inflation and unemployment. It is a complicated debate that is unlikely to be resolved quickly. Officials might want to refrain from new bond-buying measures until that communication strategy is worked out.

But since their last meeting, many Fed officials have grown more alarmed about the persistence of high unemployment—9.1% in September—which Mr. Bernanke has termed a national emergency.

Fed Governor Betsy Duke and New York Fed officials have been focused on the troubles plaguing the mortgage market and looked for ways to make mortgage refinancing easier, particularly for the millions of "underwater" households whose debt is greater than the values of their homes.

Nearly 28 million outstanding mortgages have interest rates above 5.1% and are in theory ripe for refinancing, according to CoreLogic, a household-finance research firm. Many of them haven't been refinanced because of high fees and because homeowners have too little equity in their homes to qualify.

It is possible that lower rates would help only borrowers who already have good credit, and not underwater homeowners.

Behind the scenes, some Fed officials have been urging the Obama administration and the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to find ways to reduce fees and other impediments that might be holding back refinancing, particularly for borrowers with impaired credit and underwater mortgages.

The Fed has no control over such fees, but it can influence overall borrowing rates. Lower rates can help offset the fees, making refinancing worthwhile.

Mortgage rates haven't fallen as much as yields on U.S. government debt this year. Yields on 10-year Treasury notes have fallen from 3.34% at the beginning of the year to 2.16%, a 1.18 percentage point decline. Mortgage rates haven't fallen as much. Rates on 30-year mortgages, for example, have fallen from 4.77% to 4.11%, a 0.66 percentage point decline, according to Freddie Mac.

Other arguments in favor of the Fed holding mortgages could reemerge. When the Fed ramped up its mortgage program in 2009, for instance, some Fed officials preferred buying mortgages to buying Treasury debt because they wanted to avoid the perception that the central bank was helping the government fund large budget deficits. Moreover, some officials worry that the Fed already owns a large portfolio of Treasury securities—roughly $1.7 trillion—that it runs the risk of becoming too large a player in that broader market.

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Los MBAs muy solicitados nuevamente. Siguen tratando de ser los masters del universo.

Las contrataciones estan en los niveles mas altos despues de la crisis. Los bacnos hedge funds, investment managers, private equity y venture capital firms han contratado 39% de graduados de Harvard Business Schoool y Yale School of Management, 36% de Stanford Graduate School of Business y 51% de Columbia Business School.

(me pregunto cuantos Peruanos habran en ese grupo)



CAREERSOCTOBER 21, 2011.M.B.A.s Seek to Occupy Wall Street

By MELISSA KORN
Masters of business administration are still vying to become masters of the universe.

Financial-services industry hiring at the big Master of Business Administration programs hit a post financial-crisis high this year. Employers such as banks, hedge funds, investment managers, private equity and venture capital firms hired 39% of job-seeking 2011 graduates at Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management, 36% at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and 51% at Columbia Business School.

Even in an age of heavy layoffs, shrinking bonus pools and noisy antibank protests, it is no mystery why M.B.A. students keep entering the revolving door that is Wall Street. It pays well and carries considerable prestige.

Feyisayo Oshinkanlu, a second-year student at Northwestern University's Kellogg School, accepted an offer from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York after working in its sales and trading department there over the summer. Getting a job on the Street means "there's definitely a weight taken off my shoulders, definitely a little swagger in my step," said Mr. Oshinkanlu, who is due to start after his scheduled graduation in June 2012.

But those getting jobs in finance will be entering an industry undergoing a massive belt-tightening, as investors flee banks hammered by a weak economy, tumultuous markets and tightening regulation. The crunch could dim hiring prospects for the next wave of M.B.A. graduates—and crimp promotion opportunities down the road.

"You're vulnerable if you're in that five-, seven- or nine-year range," said Alan Johnson, managing director of compensation-consulting firm Johnson Associates Inc. "You're expensive and you don't have clients."

Investment bankers with about five years of experience can command compensation of close to $400,000, Mr. Johnson said. New hires from business schools can expect about one-third as much, he said.

That math helps to explain why banks and other big firms continue to hire even as they try to squeeze costs. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which this week reported its second quarterly loss in a dozen years, has said it may cut 1,000 jobs or more. Bank of America Corp. has said it plans 30,000 job cuts over the next few years. New York City's securities industry faces the loss of nearly 10,000 jobs by the end of 2012, New York state's comptroller has predicted, a blow to the area's economy and government budgets.

Trimming the existing work force doesn't preclude companies from hiring new talent, but some schools say they're seeing at least the beginnings of a pullback.

Jack Oakes, assistant dean for career development at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, said companies' intentions have become much less clear in recent weeks. This fall, investment-banking hiring "is clearly not as buoyant as it was last year," Mr. Oakes said.

Yale School of Management also is seeing a shift in investment-banking firms looking to hire this fall. "There's activity, but there's a palpable sense of uncertainty," said Ivan Kerbel, director of career services at the business school. While banks aren't saying outright that they're not hiring, he said, "There's a sense of conservatism among employers."

"We continue to hire top talent in areas of our business where we have identified growth opportunities and require additional staff to support customers and clients," said a representative from Bank of America. A Goldman Sachs spokesman said the company sees "similar" M.B.A. hiring for investment banking, and an increase in investment management.

Wall Street could pull back considerably and remain a major draw for those with an M.B.A. Even at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, where Wall Street hiring fell this year, "financial services was still our largest industry for placement," said Maryellen Lamb, the school's interim director of M.B.A. career management.

But career-services officers say students are gaining interest in a more diverse range of companies, including smaller outfits.

Jana Kierstead, managing director of M.B.A. career and professional development at Harvard Business School, said that students in the latest class, and even more so the class of 2012, have been attracted to boutique firms or start-ups and are less excited about attending presentations from large companies.

John Tough, a second-year student at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, interned at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers over the summer and said he plans to look for openings at other venture-capital companies. But Mr. Tough said he is seeing many of his friends aim for finance jobs in the corporate sector, rather than at Wall Street firms.

"In the finance market, you have so little control over what's going on," said Mr. Tough.

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REVIEW & OUTLOOKOCTOBER 21, 2011.After Gadhafi's Fall
CArreras politicas grotescas usualmente terminan grotescamente y Gadhafi no es la excepcion.

Aterrorizo a su gente por 42 anios. Solamente Osama bin Laden ha matado a mas no combatientes Americanos y Europeos en actos terroristas. Ninguno de los dos merece la pena de nadie por su muerte.

Los Libios se han ganado el derecho a celebrar.

The dictator's fate will echo in Damascus

Grotesque political careers usually end grotesquely, and Moammar Gadhafi's end proved to be no exception. Grainy cellphone images from Libya yesterday showed the bloody corpse of the self-proclaimed "eternal revolutionary" killed by a popular revolution.

For 42 years, Colonel Gadhafi's bizarre rule terrorized his people, who in February finally took inspiration from Tunisia and Egypt and demanded their freedom. For the better part of that era, Gadhafi was also a global menace. Only Osama bin Laden has killed more noncombatant Americans and Europeans through acts of terror. Neither man should be pitied for the manner of his death.

Libyans have earned their celebrations. After the regime turned its guns on peaceful protestors eight months ago, a rough and sometimes ready rebel army was organized and a broadly representative transition council set up in Benghazi. In their march toward Tripoli, which fell in August, fighters were welcome by a public that had every reason to despise Gadhafi and his sons.

President Obama, Britain's David Cameron, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and even the Arab League deserve credit as well. The Europeans pushed for an intervention to help the rebels, who by March were besieged in western Libya. An initially reluctant White House came around just in time to save Benghazi from a Gadhafi onslaught. The U.S. military led the targeted bombing that turned the tide. Thousands of innocent lives were saved. Gadhafi also wanted to derail the democratic transitions in Tunisia and Egypt, and had he crushed the rebellion he would have been a dangerous rogue.

There's a lesson here about America's global role. U.S. military leadership and stealth bombers, refueling tankers, drones and satellites were indispensable over Libya. But Mr. Obama's decision to keep a political low profile during the war—to "lead from behind"—hurt the cause. NATO was left without a political general, and at times it wobbled. The U.S. was late in recognizing the Benghazi government, and Mr. Obama's calculated reticence invited a backlash in Congress over war powers.

Yet the President was a statesman compared with some GOP pretenders to the Commander-in-Chief's chair. Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich opposed U.S. participation as a high-risk intervention, a claim that now looks strategically mistaken and politically opportunistic. John McCain, a Republican who never wavered on Libya, yesterday offered adult advice for the U.S. now "to deepen our support" for Libya's coming move from dictatorship to something new.

Libya opens this chapter with some advantages. It is a small country of 6.4 million that has oil, a relatively well-educated population and good infrastructure that has been damaged but not destroyed in eight months of fighting. Oil money can buy plenty of domestic good will as long as it is perceived to be shared fairly and overseen by a legitimate government.

On this score, Libyans have some models to draw on. Iraq has a federal system that, while imperfect, distributes power and wealth among Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. Something similar might work in Libya, whose fault lines are tribal and regional. It is more important to set up a good institutional structure than to rush into elections. The alternative to democracy in Libya—or Egypt or Tunisia—is a return to centralized authoritarian rule.

In the passion of the moment, calls for retribution are inevitable and are heard often in Libya. Yet successful transitions to democracy—in South Africa, the Philippines, Poland or Chile—have avoided revenge. Libya's interim leaders seem to get this. The head of the interim council, Mahmoud Jibril, said in his first speech after Tripoli fell in August that Libyans must show an "ability to forgive."

Skeptics in the West will note that Libya lacks the experience of a free society built on compromise, and that's true. The presence of Islamists on the interim ruling council is also worrying, and an insurgency can't be ruled out. However, Gadhafi's internal security apparat was less extensive than Saddam Hussein's, and most of the mercenaries will melt away. The months ahead will have drama and false turns, but Libyans have at least been given a chance to build a future free of tyranny.

Gadhafi's fate will also echo for Syria's Bashar Assad and Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh. Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled into a comfortable exile. Egypt's Hosni Mubarak held on longer and now sits in jail. Gadhafi declared war on his people and ended up dead. Mr. Assad has taken the Gadhafi route in response to Syria's popular uprising, and Mr. Saleh refuses to step aside and is moving that way.

The U.S. can't dictate events, but a superpower—and America remains the world's sole such power, no matter the current declinist vogue—can still shape events for the better. Libya's successful revolution is the latest proof that liberating the world of a dictator can serve America's strategic interests and its moral principles.

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Apple celebra a Steve Jobs en su memorial

Ejecutivos, advisers y empleados prometieron mantener el legado de Steve Jobs el Miercoles en la celebracion de la vida del co fundador despues de dos semanas de su muerte.

Decenas de miles de empleados asistieron al memorial privado de Steve Jobs en Cupertino, Calif. y tambien coordinaron la celebracion con las tiendas a nivel mundial.

Todas las tiendas se cerraron por una hora cubriendo con una cortina blanca las ventanas para participar del memorial en honor de Steve Jobs.

TECHNOLOGYOCTOBER 20, 2011, 9:25 A.M. ET

Apple Celebrates Steve Jobs at Memorial

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO And IAN SHERR
Apple Inc. executives and advisers rallied employees to maintain Steve Jobs's legacy on Wednesday, as the celebrations of the Apple co-founder's life continued two weeks after his death.

Tens of thousands of employees tuned into a private memorial for Mr. Jobs on Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus that was also streamed to offices and Apple retail store locations world-wide.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, who took over as CEO as Mr. Jobs's health worsened in August, got choked up as he discussed his friendship with Mr. Jobs and his desire for excellence, according to two employees who tuned in. Two Apple board members—former Vice President Al Gore and Bill Campbell, Mr. Jobs's longtime friend who is chairman of Intuit Inc.— also spoke, according to the people who attended.

Mr. Campbell shared a story about "Siri," the company's "intelligent" personal assistant that Apple recently shipped with its new iPhone 4S. Mr. Campbell said when the company began development of Siri, Mr. Jobs demanded he try the product, while another executive said the voice-recognition wasn't ready yet.

Mr. Jobs then asked Siri whether it was a man or a woman, according to Mr. Campbell, who said Siri responded that it hadn't been assigned a gender yet.

In other remarks, Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice president for industrial design, discussed some of Mr. Jobs's quirks, including his high standards for hotels and penchant for making them switch to nicer ones on road trips, according to one attendee. Mr. Ive, who described Mr. Jobs as his best friend, said that his boss had a habit of calling some potential product designs "dopey," according to one attendee. But when Mr. Jobs saw the iPhone, he was initially silent and then gave it the nod, Mr. Ive said.

Mr. Jobs died on Oct. 5 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died on Wednesday at age 56. Wall Street Journal managing editor Alan Murray and editors discuss Jobs's legacy, early reactions to his death and how his showmanship changed the retail and tech landscape.
.Wednesday's nearly hour-and-a-half long event also featured musical performances by Norah Jones and Coldplay, the attendees said. Both have performed at Apple product launches and join a bevy of artists who have participated in remembering Mr. Jobs.

Apple plans to close some of its retail stores for at least an hour Wednesday, a gesture that coincides with the company's planned celebration of co-founder Steve Jobs's life at its headquarters. Lauren Goode has details on The News Hub.
.Apple also played a version of its well-known "Think Different" commercial that was narrated by Mr. Jobs as a guide for the actor who eventually read the now iconic ad. Mr. Jobs at the time didn't want his voice used because he wanted the focus to be on Apple, not him, Mr. Cook said at Wednesday's event.

The gathering was the largest in a handful of services for Mr. Jobs, whose death has been mourned throughout Silicon Valley and by customers who have flooded Apple stores with flowers and post-it notes. As of September 2010, Apple said it had 46,600 full-time employees.

Apple also streamed Wednesday's memorial to employees in its retail stores, who watched via big monitors above Apple's customer service "Genius Bar." The stores were closed during the memorial, with white curtains concealing their glass exteriors for the duration of the service.

Customers tolerated the interruption. Sascha Meuer, a Lufthansa flight attendant from Germany, swung by an Apple store in San Francisco to get his iPad fixed during the closure. "It is a good thing" that they are closing the stores, said Mr. Meuer. "Steve Jobs was a genius. He invented so much."

On Wednesday, Apple also updated the Apple.com/stevejobs memorial page to feature a stream of remembrances emailed in from around the globe.
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Como les comente anteriormente estoy considerando iniciar un negocio de exportacion de productos Peruanos para US, una linea completamente diferente a la que existe hasta el momento. Mi idea es preparar aderezos y salsas de comida Peruana para restaurants (al por mayor) y al menor para las tiendas y bodegas. Estoy pensando hacerlo aca en US por que podria controlar el sabor, control de calidad, etc. personalmente a menos que encuentre una empresa en Peru, que veo que ya lo hacen que sea confiable y tenga buenos precios y que pueda encargarse de todos los permisos que hay obtener para la exportacion de esos productos a US.

La segunda linea es tambien de productos Peruanos pero de la linea organica y buena para la salud, como maca, kiwicha, quinua, cafe organico, chocolate organico, vino organico, etc. Ese mercado es un boom por aca y ya veo que hay firmas Americanas que lo estan haciendo, traen el producto al granel aca y lo envasan y distribuyen con nombre Americano, el precio es bastante alto. Pero es un mercado nuevo.

Les escribo esto, por que pienso que algunos de Uds. conoceran, trabajaran o pueden recomendarme a alguna firma que este relacionada con estos rubros. Mandanme un mensaje privado, email o Facebook.

Les voy a agradecer toda la informacion.

Tambien estoy pensando crear un foro acerca del asunto.

Saludos,

Aguila.