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Las ventas por Internet subieron 24.3% el Black Friday

BUSINESSNOVEMBER 26, 2011, 11:57 A.M. ET
Online Sales Jumped on Black Friday
By DANA MATTIOLI

Online sales jumped 24.3% this Black Friday, according to data from International Business Machines Corp. data unit Coremetrics, reflecting heavy investment by mainline retailers to get more traction on the Web.

The results, based on real-time sales data from the websites of more than 500 U.S. retailers, follows a 39.3% increase in online sales Thanksgiving Day, showing how e-commerce is expanding its role in what has long been one of traditional retailers' biggest days of the year.

Mobile commerce was also a larger part of the Black Friday weekend, as consumers used devices to compare prices and place orders. Orders placed from mobile devices accounted for 9.8% of online sales, up from 3.2% a year earlier.

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Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad were a big source of online activity, accounting for more than 10% of overall online retail traffic, Coremetrics said. Shoppers visiting websites from their iPads were the most likely to complete a purchase, with conversion rates of 4.6% compared with 2.8% for all mobile devices.

A little more than half a percent of sales were referred from social networking sites, primarily Facebook.


Consumers made their way to kick off the holiday season, giving retailers some hope for a cheery season, Ann Zimmerman reports on Markets Hub. Plus, Occupy Wall Street protesters take aim on the busiest shopping day of the year. Photo: AFP / Getty Images.

The gains in online traffic follow a renewed push by brick-and-mortar retailers to keep up with online rivals like Amazon.com Inc. Department stores saw the biggest jump in traffic, according to Coremetrics, with online sales up 59% over last year.

They were followed by a 48.8% gain in home goods and a 47.2% increase in apparel sales. Health and beauty sales increased 34.2%.

Department stores like Macy's Inc., Kohl's Corp., J.C. Penney Co. and Nordstrom Inc. have been investing heavily to improve their online platforms.

Department store Belk Inc. saw its online sales more than double this Black Friday over last year, contributing to the chain's best Black Friday yet, said President Kathryn Bufano. Online sales Thanksgiving Day doubled, she said. The department store chain has 303 stores in the U.S.

Best sellers online tracked those in stores, she said. They included Rampage boots and other women's boots, and flat-screen televisions, which Belk sold on Black Friday for the first time for $129 as a traffic driver. They sold out in 10 minutes.

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Mas del 10% de esas ventas fueron de AAPL (iPhone and iPads)

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Ventas de Viernes Negro en EEUU subieron 6,6 pct: ShopperTrak
sábado 26 de noviembre de 2011 18:22 GYT Imprimir
(Reuters) - Las ventas minoristas en Estados Unidos subieron alrededor de un 6,6 por ciento a un récord de 11.400 millones de dólares en el Viernes Negro, el principal día de compras del año para los estadounidenses, mientras que el tránsito en las tiendas subió un 5,1 por ciento, dijo ShopperTrak.

El crecimiento de las ventas de ese día fue la mayor alza porcentual desde el 2007, cuando se elevaron un 8,3 por ciento en la jornada posterior al Día de Acción de Gracias, dijo Ed Marcheselli, gerente de marketing de ShopperTrak, que monitorea las transacciones minoristas.

Como suele ocurrir en Viernes Negro, los minoristas aplicaron grandes descuentos a artículos populares, como juguetes y televisores, para atraer clientes en el comienzo de la temporada de compras de las fiestas de fin de año.

Algunos comenzaron las ventas en la noche del Día de Acción de Gracias para aventajar a sus rivales.

Pese a que el alza en el Viernes Negro fue un "indicador positivo para la temporada de fiestas", Marcheselli advirtió que se trata sólo de un día.

ShopperTrak ha estimado que las ventas minoristas por todo noviembre y diciembre en Estados Unidos subirán entre un 3 y un 3,3 por ciento.

La Federación Nacional Minorista, un grupo comercial de la industria, espera que 152 millones de personas vayan a las tiendas de Estados Unidos este fin de semana, un 10,1 por ciento más que el año pasado.

Sin embargo, la entidad prevé que las ventas totales de noviembre-diciembre subirán sólo un 2,8 por ciento, mucho menos que el incremento del 5,2 por ciento en el 2010.

El año pasado, las ventas en Viernes Negro se elevaron sólo un 0,3 por ciento, mientras que el tránsito en las tiendas avanzó un 2,2 por ciento, según ShopperTrak.

COMPRAS POR INTERNET

Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc y otras minoristas de internet tuvieron un buen Viernes Negro.

Las adquisiciones vía internet treparon un 24,3 por ciento el Viernes Negro frente al mismo lapso del año anterior, dijo el sábado IBM Benchmark, que sigue las transacciones online de 500 minoristas.

IBM esperaba un alza de alrededor de un 15 por ciento. Las compras por internet mayores a lo esperado fueron lideradas en parte por un alza en el uso de dispositivos móviles, dijo.

Algunas de las minoristas de mejor desempeño hicieron un buen trabajo informando a los consumidores sobre sus promociones antes del esperado día de ventas, dijo John Squire, jefe de la oficina de estrategias de IBM Smarter Commerce.

Las minoristas esperan un muy buen "Cyber Monday", que este año cae 28 de noviembre y que es el primer día laboral después de Acción de Gracias, cuando los trabajadores compran por internet desde sus oficinas. El año pasado, se gastaron más de 1.000 millones de dólares en ese día, un hito en las compras por internet, según ComScore.

(Reporte de Jessica Wohl en Chicago. Con el reporte adicional de Alistair Barr. Editado en español por Patricio Abusleme y Mónica Vargas)

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Mas noticias de Europa, ahora hacia una Europa unificada, con una sola politica fiscal no solo monetaria.

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La zona euro esta considerando un plan para acelerar la integracion de la politica fiscal. Quieren convencer a los inversionistas de que pueden resolver la crisis de la region y mantener el euro.


EUROPE BUSINESS NEWSNOVEMBER 26, 2011, 6:17 P.M. ET.Euro Zone Weighs Plan to Speed Fiscal Integration

By MARCUS WALKER
BERLIN—Euro-zone countries are weighing a new plan to accelerate the integration of their fiscal policies, people familiar with the matter said, as Europe's leaders race to convince investors they can resolve the region's debt crisis and keep the currency area from fracturing.

Under the proposed plan, national governments would seal bilateral agreements that wouldn't take as long as a cumbersome change to European Union treaties, according to people familiar with the matter. Some German and French officials fear that an EU treaty change could take far too long. That has prompted the search for a faster option.

The plan, which hasn't been finalized, would allow the euro zone to announce a speedy change to its governance. European authorities would gain tough new powers to enforce fiscal discipline in the 17 countries that make up the euro zone, the people said. EU treaty changes could then follow at a later stage.

The precedent that euro-zone governments are considering is the Schengen agreement, under which a subset of EU countries scrapped passport controls at their mutual borders. The EU treaty allows countries to engage in "enhanced cooperation" if at least nine countries agree, circumventing the need for a unanimous treaty change among all 27 EU members.

The pact that euro members are considering could be announced before the EU summit on Dec. 9, according to the people familiar with the matter. However, no final decision has been taken, these people say. Nor is it clear that stricter enforcement of budget rules would be enough, at this late stage, to stem the crisis of confidence in the euro zone.

Some euro-zone officials hope that the announcement of a new fiscal regime would encourage the European Central Bank to step up its intervention in government bond markets, which are suffering from a spreading investor exodus. But it's unclear whether the ECB, which has so far resisted such calls, would acquiesce. Some members of the ECB's governing council worry that deeper intervention by the central bank would amount to a breach of its charter and do irreparable harm to its credibility.

The need for greater budget discipline and enacting growth-friendly structural reforms is only one of investors' concerns about the euro zone. Another big problem is the lack of ECB support for government bond prices, which makes bond markets vulnerable to a vicious circle of investor flight.

While the ECB has so far said that it won't beef up its limited bond buying, a growing number of governments are lobbying it to change its stance. A green light from Berlin for a bigger ECB role is seen by many euro-zone policy makers as a political necessity if the ECB is to act. Although the bank is politically independent, it has also paid close attention to the debate in Germany, where the government has so far rejected a bigger role for the central bank.

A new, binding fiscal regime would not be enough to justify the creation of collective euro-zone bonds, German officials say. But it might be enough to justify ECB action to stabilize bond markets that policy makers view as increasingly dysfunctional, some in Berlin say.

Other German officials remain skeptical about a greater ECB role—including Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, who sits on the ECB's governing council. Germany's central bankers have been outvoted by the ECB majority before, however, including this August, when Mr. Weidmann opposed the decision to make limited purchases of Italian and Spanish bonds.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said last week that she wants EU treaty changes to make the bloc's fiscal rules legally enforceable by European authorities, in the same way that EU antitrust rules are.

Changing the EU treaty is complicated. Some of the EU's 27 members are opposed, others would have to hold referendums, and others have their own wishlists of treaty changes—including the U.K., where many Conservative lawmakers would like to take powers back from Brussels to national level.

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Inglaterra toma medidas para garantizar los prestamos a los negocios pequenio y medianos en un afan para reducir el costo de los prestamos y estimularlos.

MARKETSNOVEMBER 27, 2011.U.K. to Guarantee Loans to Small, Midsize Businesses

By ALISTAIR MACDONALD
The U.K. Treasury will guarantee bank lending to small and midsize companies in a bid to reduce the costs of such debt and stimulate lending to a part of the British economy that has struggled to get new funds, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The government will use its balance sheet to guarantee banks' lending, giving them the benefit of Britain's triple-A credit rating, this person said. The savings in interest payments banks make—which the government estimates could be around one percent on borrowing—will be passed onto companies. Firms with revenue of up to £50 million, or about $78 million, will be allowed to apply for such a loan, in a plan dubbed credit easing.

The government will also co-invest in a fund that will lend to small- and midsize companies. A number of institutional investors have already set up such funds, which will only invest in debt.

Small- and midsize companies have struggled to get loans from banks, which are cautious given the weak economic recovery. Banks also say they have that coming changes in financial regulation will make lending more expensive. Deprived of new funding, companies haven't been investing, which in turn saps economic growth, something Prime Minister David Cameron's government hopes to turn around.

The last British government used a similar credit-guarantee program to kick-start lending in 2008 when the credit crisis had frozen up lending markets, underscoring the length of the economic slowdown.

Together, the new programs could provide over £10 billion of credit, according to the person familiar with the matter. Around 90% of this will come from the credit-guarantee program, which is set to start in the early new year. But as investors continue to question European government's ability to pay their way, the U.K. has to be careful that it doesn't add to its already large debt pile.

The credit-guarantee program won't be classified as government debt because it is the bank that takes the risk on the company's ability to pay back its loan. The government's credit only comes into play if the bank itself cannot afford to pay back that money, making the Treasury liable. The fund, though, is likely to be classified as debt.

The new measures will be announced by Treasury chief George Osborne in a budget statement next week. A number of other measures will be announced to help stimulate the U.K.'s flagging economic recovery

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El mercado de bonos de Italia es ell tercero en tamanio en el mundo. Su deuda es de 1.9 trillones de euros. Simplemente la zona euro no es tan grande ni poderosa como para rescatar a Italia.

Italia es la tercera economia de Europa y la octava del mundo.

Esta semana todos lo ojos estaran puestos en Italia, Belgina, Espana y Francia, subastaran el doble de bonos que la semana pasada o $25.36 billones. Hay que ver la demanda y los yields.

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MARKETSNOVEMBER 26, 2011.New Strains Hit Euro, Global Markets
Common Currency Falls After Italy's Borrowing Costs Soar; Coming Week Poses Key Test of Sentiment

By STACY MEICHTRY and JONATHAN CHENG
ROME—Uncertainty in financial markets deepened as Italy's borrowing costs soared to euro-era highs and Prime Minister Mario Monti said European leaders understood an Italian collapse would mean "the end of the euro."

Europe's troubles weighed on markets world-wide: Stocks in the U.S. had their worst Thanksgiving week since 1942, the year the U.S. officially set the holiday at its current date. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has shed 7.6% the past two weeks. The common currency showed its own signs of strain, ending the week down 2.1%, its lowest level in almost two months.

Monday will see a significant test of investor sentiment when Italy holds another debt auction. Belgium, Spain and France are also scheduled to sell new debt during the week. All told, five euro-zone governments are together expected to sell about €19 billion ($25.36 billion) in debt over the week, more than double the past week's amount.

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.Investors have dealt with an almost daily dose of bad news out of Europe, which is in the throes of a financial crisis that many fear could spark a global contagion with the potential to be more damaging than the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

The renewed rise in Italian bond yields is particularly worrisome. Italy has the world's third-biggest bond market, and if it were to lose access to funding, the rest of the euro zone would struggle to keep the country solvent. Many economists believe Italy's €1.9 trillion of debt is too big for even the euro-zone's stronger economies to bail out.

A statement issued by Mr. Monti's office Friday said French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had declared Italy the decisive battleground in the euro-zone crisis.

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.The French and German leaders "said they are aware that a collapse of Italy would inevitably lead to the end of the euro, causing the deadlock of the process of European integration and resulting in unforeseeable consequences," the statement said.

The three European leaders met behind closed doors in Strasbourg on Thursday. Italy is the euro zone's third-largest economy, behind Germany and France.

Mr. Monti's statement Friday is likely to ramp up pressure on Paris and Berlin to act more decisively in combating the crisis. The comments also show how the new leader is seeking to carve out a place for Italy at the currency's decision-making table, which has long been monopolized by leaders of France and Germany.

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Close.A spokesman for Mr. Sarkozy declined to comment on Mr. Monti's account. A spokesman for Ms. Merkel wasn't immediately reachable for comment.

Worries about slowing economies and rising debt levels spread beyond the euro zone. Moody's Investors Service downgraded Hungary to "junk" status, citing uncertainty about its ability to meet its debt-reduction goals and its heavy reliance on external investors, which raises the prospect of a flight of capital out of the country.

Also on Friday, Standard & Poor's downgraded Belgium's credit rating and a new report put France's consumer confidence in November at its lowest level since the last recession. And in Japan, government-bond yields rose after the International Monetary Fund warned about the country's ballooning budget deficit. Some signs emerged that foreign investors, particularly European banks, may be withdrawing money from the country.

In the U.S., stocks dropped only slightly on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 25.77 to 11231.78. The euro was down 0.8% to $1.3239.

But Italy faced the heaviest pressure. Investors demanded Italy pay interest of 6.5% on six-month debt at an auction on Friday, sharply up from the 3.5% rate it paid in October. The lackluster auction fueled a broader flight from Italian debt, driving yields for short- and long-term bonds well above 7%, a level that many economists consider unsustainable.

By comparison, the U.S. pays just 0.063% to borrow for a similar time period, and less than 2% to borrow for 10 years.

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."From a purely fundamental perspective, Italy can withstand higher borrowing costs and even a sustained period of lower growth, said Gustavo Bagattini, European economist at RBC Capital Markets. But "the problem is that a confidence issue cannot be solved by simple arithmetic."

The auction followed a similarly weak sale by Spain on Tuesday, in which the country paid 5.11% on three-month debt. Spain's 10-year debt yields about 6.67%, also close to the 7% level. It also came just days after even Germany—considered a safe-haven government-bond investment— had trouble selling government debt, underscoring how fears have moved closer to the center of the Continent.

Separately, a closely watched money-market indicator of dollar-funding costs rose Friday to its highest level in more than three years. The cost of swapping three-month euro funds into U.S. dollars rising to its highest level since October 2008, in the wake of Lehman's collapse.

The troubles come against a backdrop of a euro-zone economy that is showing signs of stalling and perhaps sliding into recession.Figures last week from the European Union show the region's economy barely grew in the third quarter as much of the bloc contracted.

The strains across the euro zone are adding further pressure to European leaders who have so far failed to quell investor concerns about the heavy debt loads and poor economic prospects of many nations. So far, the European Central Bank has resisted calls from investors and other political leaders and central bankers to step up purchases of bonds to help alleviate some of the stresses.

"There has to be an endgame, and the endgame is approaching," said Alan Zafran, partner of Luminous Capital, which manages $3.8 billion of assets in Menlo Park, Calif. He said he considers the euro zone as being "on the precipice of a much more pronounced problem."

Italy will offer up to €750 million of bonds Monday, followed a day later by up to €8 billion of debt. Spain, the bloc's fourth-largest economy, dropped its plans to launch a new three-year bond and will instead offer three existing bonds maturing in 2015, 2016 and 2017 for an estimated €3.5 billion on Thursday.

Belgium on Monday will sell up to €2 billion of bonds. Like others, its bond yields have been jumping, sparked by difficult budget negotiations, a lack of permanent government for almost a 1½ years and renewed jitters about Belgian banking stability. France plans on Thursday a sale of €3 billion to €4.5 billion of debt.

—Anusha Shrivastava, Emese Bartha and Mitsuru Obe contributed to this article.
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The headline on an earlier version of this article incorrectly said the euro had fallen to euro-era lows.

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prevBUSINESS WORLDNOVEMBER 26, 2011.Memo to Europe: Forget the War Has Germany realized there's no solution without sovereign default?

By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR

Interesting choice of words: "We won't make it a casus belli, but naturally we continue to think it would be the best way to bring stability to Europe," said the French finance minister, Francois Baroin, in a speech in Paris last week.

Casus belli means, roughly, a justification for war. Mr. Baroin was talking about a dispute between France and Germany over whether Europe's common institution, the European Central Bank, should be used to bail out the floundering European monetary system by bailing out indebted governments that can't finance themselves in private markets.

Casus belli has a certain ring to it in the context of French and German history. Mr. Baroin, we like to think, used the phrase deliberately, even mischievously, to draw German attention to just how far Europe has come in 65 years.

The world is an utterly different place from when hyperinflation paved the way for Hitler. For one thing, Europe today is militarily toothless as well as compulsively compliant. Wait for it: When it's everybody against the Germans over money-printing, the Germans will not merely cave but bustle officiously to the front of the parade for money-printing.

A month ago, as far as the eye could see, Germany was to be the last good credit in Europe, able to bail out all the others. Well, that illusion has liquidated itself in a hurry. Investors sent a message at Berlin's Wednesday bond sale, sitting on their hands for $3 billion being offered. The message: Markets are getting ready to punish Germany for the sin of its neighbors' overborrowing, unless Germany allows the sin of money-printing to paper over those sins in the short term.

Then what? Despite the overheated reaction, a six-page German memo that surfaced last week is a most promising document. It describes, if you look between the lines, a Europe that becomes safe for sovereign default. No bank runs. No precipitous withdrawals from the euro. Instead a generous, pro-reform receivership for bankrupt governments at the hands of fellow European governments.

The deadbeats would get debt relief at the expense of Europe's banks, which hold much of their debt. The deadbeat governments would get new funding from somebody (likely the European Central Bank), in return for welfare and labor-market reforms that would be democratically practical because they would be coupled with debt relief.

Herein resides the best possible solution to the European impasse: an outcome that restores growth, avoids self-defeating austerity, and allows the best possible recovery for bondholders, who would collect more pennies on the dollar than they would if debtor countries were pushed into depression in a futile effort to pay every centime. The only downside would be a modest appearance of subservience to Berlin.

OK, we've laid out the Panglossian scenario, but it's a solution (unlike other proposals) that doesn't magically dispense with the twin problems of democracy and sovereignty.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is right about one thing: ECB money-printing alone will not suffice. ECB money-printing alone would kick the panic up a notch as investors saw a collapse into total irresponsibility of lenders and creditors alike. In contrast, ECB money-printing accompanied with debt relief would let politicians in debtor countries allocate their scarce political capital to growth rather than austerity. It would let them focus on freeing up markets and flattening their tax codes rather than clawing income away from recalcitrant and powerful voting blocs.

Here we express faith in German thoroughness, planning and discipline, on the basis of a single, ambiguous leaked memo, for the alternative is not pleasant to contemplate. Our economy has sources of strength to survive a European shock, but our biggest, baddest banks probably don't. And you don't want to find out what revenges the politicians would have to exact to cover themselves for a second rescue of the financial system.

All along, the euro has had a curious relationship with historical memory. Helmut Kohl imagined the euro was needed to prevent a replay of Ypres. Today the world imagines Germany too paralyzed by Weimar memories to save the euro, and other European countries too fearful of appearing to surrender to Germany to adopt reforms in their own interest.

The French are good for something after all. Mr. Baroin, with his wisecrack, put the overblown historical resonances in context at

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Belgica aprobo su presupuesto y el recorte de su deficit despues del downgrade.

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Muy buenas las noticias del consumidor Americano, las ventas marcaron recod.

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Las ganancias de las companias en la industria China desaceleran, sus ganancias son del 25.3%

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Los empleos creados en US en el mes de Noviembre no fueron suficientes para cahar el desempleo.

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Ministra francesa ve nuevo pacto zona euro con sanciones reales
domingo 27 de noviembre de 2011 08:57 GYT
Imprimir[-] Texto [+] PARIS (Reuters) - La zona euro se está moviendo hacia un nuevo pacto de Gobierno con una regulación de gastos más estricta y sanciones reales para aquellos que no acatan las reglas, lo que ayudaría a restaurar la confianza en el bloque, dijo el domingo la ministra de Presupuesto francés.
Consultada sobre si Francia, Alemania e Italia estaban preparando una versión más severa del Pacto de Estabilidad en torno al reglamento presupuestario, Valerie Pecresse dijo que no se trataba de un tratado que pudiera aplicarse sólo a las tres mayores economías de la zona euro.

"Es un pacto de Gobierno para todos los miembros de la zona euro: liderazgo con reguladores y sanciones reales que verdaderamente brinde confianza (a los mercados financieros)", señaló Pecresse al Canal+.

"Alemania, Francia e Italia quieren ser los motores de una Europa que esté mucho mejor integrada, mucho más sólida y con una regulación virtuosa de sus mecanismos que no permitirá artimañas", afirmó la ministra.

(Reporte de Daniel Flynn)

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G.Bretaña desembolsará 20.000 mln libras para esquema créditos
domingo 27 de noviembre de 2011 07:02 GYT
Imprimir[-] Texto [+] LONDRES (Reuters) - Gran Bretaña liberará 20.000 millones de libras (31.000 millones de dólares) en un esquema de garantías para respaldar créditos a pequeñas y medianas empresas, a fin de reducir sus costos de endeudamiento e impulsar la economía, dijo el domingo el ministro de Finanzas.
"Dejaremos a disposición 20.000 millones de libras para el Esquema Nacional de Garantías de Préstamos, aunque están dentro de un monto que podría llegar a 40.000 millones de libras", afirmó el ministro George Osborne a la cadena BBC.

El funcionario anunció que firmó un acuerdo con fondos de pensiones para invertir en proyectos de infraestructura y que estaba confiado en que el Gobierno británico cumplirá con sus metas fiscales y de reducción de déficit.

Osborne hizo declaraciones de cara a la publicación de un reporte presupuestario de otoño boreal la semana próxima, cuando revelará detalles de los planes para apuntalar la estancada economía y evitar una nueva recesión, en medio de la crisis de deuda de la zona euro.

(1 dólar = 0,6458 libras esterlinas)

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Treasurys Price Chg Yield %
2-Year Note* -1/32 0.281
10-Year Note* -25/32 1.967
* at close

1:44 p.m. EST 11/25/11Futures Last Change Settle
Crude Oil 97.32 1.15 96.77
Gold 1683.7 -15.1 1688.5
E-mini Dow 11187 0 11187
E-mini S&P 500 1153.50 0.00 1153.50

5:17 p.m. EST 11/25/11Currencies Last (mid) Prior Day †
Japanese Yen (USD/JPY) 77.71 77.74
Euro (EUR/USD) 1.3243 1.3239
† Late Friday in New York.

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Ejecutivo entregará proyecto para mejorar distribución del canon
La iniciativa estará lista antes de fin de año para su posterior aprobación en el Congreso, informó el ministro de Economía

Sábado 26 de noviembre de 2011 - 05:39 pm
(Fotos: Archivo El Comercio)
El Gobierno tiene previsto presentar antes de fin de año el proyecto para mejorar la distribución de canon que pagan las mineras. De esta manera se busca acabar con las desigualdades existentes, según anunció hoy el ministro de Economía y Finanzas, Luis Miguel Castilla.

Según adelantó, no se quitará el canon de una región para entregarla a otra, sino que se propiciará un ordenamiento interno para que todos los municipios se beneficien y reciban un porcentaje.

“Hay una serie de distritos que están fuera de las provincias donde está la mina y que no reciben los recursos por concepto de canon. Por eso un primer concepto es trabajar para tener una mejor distribución del canon dentro de la propia región”, señaló en entrevista a Radio Programas.

En ese sentido, dijo que se trabaja intensamente en coordinación con la Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros una fórmula técnica que permita una repartición más equitativa y justa entre todas las municipalidades.

TAMBIÉN EN CARRETERAS
Asimismo, se planteará que los recursos del canon puedan ser utilizados en el mantenimiento de carreteras y no solo en obras de infraestructura.

“Este es un tema que se va presentar en las siguientes semanas, luego (el Congreso) entra en receso y se discutirá en el mes de marzo”, expresó.

Aclaró que para las regiones que no tienen canon se destinarán los recursos recaudados por el gravamen minero a efectos de financiar obras de infraestructura.

APOYO A GOBIERNOS LOCALES
Además informó que el MEF abrió oficinas descentralizadas en cuatro ciudades del país, con el objetivo de acompañar a los gobiernos regionales en el manejo presupuestal y mejorar la ejecución del canon.

Esta oficinas ya se crearon en Ica, Lambayeque, Piura y San Martín. Próximamente se abrirá una en Ayacucho.

ES POSIBLE
Castilla también consideró que es factible una convivencia armoniosa entre la actividad agrícola y la minera y para ello debe mejorarse la política hídrica en el país e impulsarse un ordenamiento territorial eminentemente técnico.

“Lo importante es no caer en radicalismos de izquierda ni de derecha, sino de desarrollar una armonía entre ambos objetivos, que es que se propicie la inversión que genera divisas y empleo y que no esté en contra de la población”, agregó.