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Time Warner compraría el canal de TV del presidente chileno
Por Carolina Pica

SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--El gigante estadounidense de medios de comunicación Time Warner Inc. anunciaría el martes que comprará el canal de televisión Chilevisión -propiedad del presidente de Chile, Sebastián Piñera- por cerca de US$140 millones, informaron el martes los periódicos chilenos El Mercurio y La Tercera.

El canal de televisión es el último activo importante que le queda por vender al multimillonario presidente.

Ambos diarios, citando a fuentes no identificadas cercanas a la operación, señalaron que la compra se anunciaría más tarde el martes.

Piñera, el primer presidente conservador elegido democráticamente en Chile en más de 50 años, prometió como parte de su campaña electoral vender sus activos, incluidos el canal de televisión y el operador LAN Airlines SA, antes de asumir el mando de la nación.

La Tercera informó que Time Warner posiblemente empleará el canal chileno de televisión para producir contenido local.

Ni representantes de Chilevisión ni de Time Warner estuvieron inmediatamente disponibles para confirmar los informes.

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En China un embotellamiento de trafico de 62 millas demorara hasta Setiembre para descongestionarse. Hasta mediados de Setiembre.

Ya son 10 dias que no se mueven.

Nos estan tomando el pelo, eso puede ser posible?

Alguien hizo el siguiente comentario:

Bienvenido al primer mundo China! es donde se paga los impuestos del primer mundo, donde pierdes tu trabajo por culpa de algun pais del tercer mundo y te quedas estancado en el trafico del primer mundo.


China Traffic Jam Could Last Weeks
By SHAI OSTER
BEIJING—A 62-mile traffic jam near the Chinese capital that officials say could last until mid-September has become a symbol of the dark side of China's love affair with the automobile.

A jammed section of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway in Huailai
.Officials say traffic has been snarled along the outskirts of Beijing and is stretching toward the border of Inner Mongolia ever since roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway started Aug. 13. The following week, parts of a major road circling Beijing were closed, further tightening overburdened roadways.

As the jam on the highway, also known as National Highway 110, passed the 10-day mark Tuesday, local authorities dispatched hundreds of police to keep order and to reroute cars and trucks carrying essential supplies, such as food or flammables, around the main bottleneck. There, vehicles were inching along little more than a third of a mile a day. Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office, said in a telephone interview he didn't expect the situation to return to normal until around Sept. 17 when road construction is scheduled to be finished and traffic lanes will open up.

Villagers along Highway 110 took advantage of the jam, selling drivers packets of instant noodles from roadside stands and, when traffic was at a standstill, moving between trucks and cars to hawk their wares.

Truck drivers, when they weren't complaining about the vendors overcharging for the food, kept busy playing card blacklisted_site. Their trucks, for the most part, are basic, blue-colored vehicles with no features added to help pamper drivers through long hauls.

Truck driver Long Jie said his usual trip from the coal boomtown of Baotou in Inner Mongolia to Beijing, which normally takes three days, was now taking him a week or more. The delay, he said, meant he would have to raise his rates above the usual 12,000 yuan, about $1,765, for a 30-ton truck full of cargo.

Sounding frazzled and tired, Mr. Long, a driver for Baotou Zengcai Shipping Co., said in a telephone interview that the traffic got a little better once he finally made it off the highway.

Though triggered by construction, the root cause for the congestion is chronic overcrowding on key national arteries. Automobile sales in China whizzed past the U.S. for the first time last year, as Chinese bought 13.6 million vehicles.

China is racing to build new roads to ease the congestion, but that very construction is making traffic problems worse—at least temporarily.

In addition, China's roads suffer from extra wear and tear from illegally overloaded trucks, especially along key coal routes. Supplies move from Mongolia through the outskirts of the capital on their way to humming factories. There are few rail lines to handle the extra load.

Though the current massive gridlock is unusual, thousands of trucks line up along the main thoroughfares into Beijing even on the best days.

Beijing is particularly prone to traffic jams because it is a bottleneck point. Drivers from the northwest must navigate its rings of concentric circular highways to get to coastal ports or to head south. The sixth-ring road is the biggest, and until a new beltway is finished in the next few years, there is no alternative route around the capital.

Also entering the mix is the swell of passenger cars into the city from residents who have had to move further from the capital to find affordable homes.

Other cities around the world face similar congestion headaches. The worst are in developing countries where the sudden rise of a car-buying middle class outpaces highway construction—unlike in the U.S., which had decades to develop transportation infrastructure to keep up with auto buyers.

A recent study by IBM suggested some of the worst commutes are in Moscow, where drivers reported 2½-hour delays, on average, when asked about the worst traffic jam they faced in three years.

Still, Beijing beat out Mexico City, Johannesburg, Moscow and New Delhi to take top spot in the International Business Machines Corp. survey, which is based on a measure of the economic and emotional toll of commuting.

The mega-jam on the city outskirts comes as officials warn that downtown traffic in Beijing is steadily worsening.

State media on Tuesday reported that average driving speeds in the capital could drop below nine miles an hour if residents keep buying at current rates of 2,000 new cars a day.

Journal Communitydiscuss..“ Welcome to the First World, China! It's where you pay first world taxes, lose your job to third world people and sit in all the world's traffic.
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.—Michael Priestly.
At that pace, Beijing will have seven million vehicles by 2015, according to the head of the Beijing Transportation Research Center, and transportation will slow to what it was decades ago when China was known as the Bicycle Kingdom.

Beijing's roads now have enough capacity to handle 6.7 million vehicles—and that is assuming current restrictions stay in place, such as the one requiring private cars to keep off the road for one day a week.

Beijing's top ranking in the world for "commuter pain" comes even though it has half the number of cars of a comparably sized city, such as Tokyo.

The capital greatly expanded its bus lines and subway in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics, and work continues to open even more stations.

Still, public transport remains crowded and many who can afford it prefer to drive cars.

Longer term, city planners pin their hopes on expanded mass transit, adding subway, light rail and mode dedicated bus lanes.

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Y China ha remplazado a Japon como la segunda economia mas grande del mundo. Sin comentario.

Yields 2.50%

VIX up 27.43

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Oil down 71.78

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Candente Gold Corpotarion (CDG) se convirtió en la tercera minera junior en empezar a cotizar en la Bolsa de Valores de
Lima durante el 2010. Las mineras junior son empresas que están en etapas iniciales de exploración minera. Cabe anotar
que anteriormente Rio Cristal y Zincore Metals habían hecho su ingreso, con lo cual ya suman 11 mineras junior listadas
en la BVL.

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Hoy clase a las 9 p.m. hora de LIma via gotomeeting.com, estare poniendo el ID en el foro del dia.

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Viendo el gráfico de SCCO se está produciendo una confluencia de sus EMA de corto, mediano y largo plazo.

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Si yo compre RTP que ha bajado bastante y tambien estoy viendo a SCCO.

Las constructoras al alza a pesar de las cifras abismales de la vivienda. Parece que los inversionistas piensan que lo peor esta aca y es hora de comprar.

No todas las constructoras al alza.

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NR es un caso estuvo mas del 6% a la baja subio algo mas del 1% a la baja y ahora esta bajando de nuevo.

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Redujeron el estimado de consumo de petroleo por parte de China en el segundo trimestre.

Oil down 71.63

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Bolsas europeas cierran en mínimo de un mes por economía
martes 24 de agosto de 2010 13:13 GYT
Imprimir[-] Texto [+] Por Harpreet Bhal
LONDRES (Reuters) - Las acciones europeas cayeron el martes a un mínimo de un mes ante el retroceso mayor al esperado en las ventas de viviendas en Estados Unidos, que avivó las preocupaciones sobre el ritmo de recuperación de la mayor economía del mundo.

El índice FTSEurofirst 300 de las principales bolsas europeas cerró con una caída del 1,6 por ciento hasta los 1.019,52 puntos, su nivel más bajo desde finales de julio.

Datos mostraron que las ventas de viviendas usadas en Estados Unidos cayeron en julio mucho más de lo esperado, lo que sugiere que la recuperación de la economía del país puede estar perdiendo fuerza.

Las débiles cifras movieron a los inversores a refugiarse en bonos, lo que llevó al papel alemán a un nuevo máximo.

El volumen de negocios en el FTSEurofirst 300 fue de sólo el 70 por ciento de su promedio diario de 90 días, por la temporada de vacaciones en el hemisferio norte.

"Los mercados están reaccionando mucho más duramente de lo que se podría esperar dado el bajo volumen y porque la gente ha perdido la confianza. Hay una falta de fe en que la fortaleza que hemos visto en los primeros dos trimestres continuará durante los siguentes dos", dijo Lothar Mentelm, operador jefe de inversiones en Octopus Investments.

La preocupación por la economía lastró las acciones de construcción y materiales. La productora de asfalto irlandesa CRH, líder del sector en Estados Unidos, cayó un 16,6 por ciento, tras avisar de que sus resultados descenderán este año por la vacilante situación de la economía estadounidense.

En el mismo sector, las acciones de HeidelbergCement, Holcim y Wolseley perdieron entre un 1,3 y un 5,1 por ciento. Los papeles de la cementera Lafarge cedieron un 4,4 por ciento, luego de que la correduría BofA Merril Lynch bajó su recomendación a "desempeño inferior al promedio del mercado" desde "neutral".

La preocupación por la recuperación de la economía mundial también presionó a los precios del crudo, que cayeron a 72 dólares por barril, un mínimo desde comienzos de julio, que presionó a los títulos de empresas del sector.
El índice STOXX de petroleras y gasistas europeas perdió un 2,3 por ciento, mientras que los papeles de BP, Royal Dutch Shell y Total retrocedieron entre un 1 y un 3,4 por ciento.

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Maniana se espera que las ordenes de bienes duraderos suban 2.5% y las ventas de casas nuevas sean de 400,000. Tenemos tambien el indice de los precios de casas.

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La historia de todos los dias, se degeneral al cierre.

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Evasn del Fed: La economia "no ha salido de del bosque todavia"

La perdida de empleos y el desempleo esta causando mas danio que los prestasmo imprudentes.

La economia ha mostrado seniales de mejoria, pero la recuperacion no esta asegurada, dijo.

Me siento muy incomodo con la falta de mejoria en el mercado laboral, lamento Evans.

Bernanke habla el 27 (Viernes)

Fed's Evans Says U.S. Recovery Uncertain as Housing Not `Out of the Woods'
By Joshua Zumbrun - Aug 24, 2010 11:21 AM ET


Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said, “Job loss and unemployment are now causing more defaults than imprudent lending.” Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said that while the housing market and U.S. economy have shown signs of improvement, recovery isn’t yet assured.

“Although there are some signs of general economic recovery and some evidence of home-price stabilization, we are certainly not out of the woods,” Evans said today in a speech in Indianapolis. The recovery “seems to be extremely modest” and the central bank’s “accommodative policy is appropriate,” he said in reply to an audience question.

The Fed, aiming to invigorate a slowing recovery, decided Aug. 10 to keep its portfolio of bonds at $2.05 trillion by reinvesting maturing mortgage-backed securities. Unemployment will probably fall next year to the “low eights,” Evans said. The jobless rate last month was 9.5 percent.

“I am increasingly uncomfortable with the lack of noticeable improvement in the labor market,” Evans told reporters after the speech, adding that he supports the central bank’s decision to set a floor on its bond holdings. He predicted “a very modest recovery,” saying “I am probably marking down my 2010 forecast.”

The Commerce Department will report on Aug. 27 that the U.S. economy is growing more slowly than previously thought, expanding at a 1.4 percent pace in the second quarter, according to a Bloomberg News survey of economists. The Commerce Department’s initial estimate for the second quarter, released last month, said the economy was growing at a 2.4 percent pace.

Stocks Fall

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 1 percent to 1,056.23 at 11:08 a.m. in New York, while the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell 8 basis points to 2.51 percent.

Evans said that, while he doesn’t see a relapse into a recession as likely, the weak recovery is especially vulnerable to unexpected shocks.

“Whenever you’ve got a recovery that is at this stage and it’s very modest, if you were to get hit by a negative shock that could end up with a faltering economy,” Evans told reporters. “That is not my expectation. My expectation is that the recovery will continue.”

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke plans to speak Aug. 27 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on the economic outlook and the central bank’s policy response.

Evans said he will probably support more Fed accommodation “if we became more unsure of the sustainability of the recovery. If we thought the recovery wasn’t going to achieve escape velocity, that would be a concern.”

At Zero

The Chicago Fed reported yesterday that its national activity index, which draws on 85 economic indicators, was at zero in July after a reading of minus 0.7 in June. A reading below zero indicates below-average growth in the U.S. economy.

In housing, “projections suggest foreclosed units could reach as high as 3 million in 2010 with over a million lender repossessions,” Evans said at a community breakfast for the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership. “Job loss and unemployment are now causing more defaults than imprudent lending,” he said.

Sales of U.S. previously owned homes slumped more than forecast in July and the number of unsold houses swelled, evidence the market is depressed by foreclosures and limited job growth.

Purchases of existing homes plunged 27.2 percent to a 3.83 million annual rate, figures from the National Association of Realtors showed today in Washington. The pace compares with the median forecast of a 4.65 million rate, according to a Bloomberg survey.

“Inflation is under-running my objective of 2 percent sustainable inflation,” Evans said.

Evans, 52, joined the Chicago Fed as an economist in 1991 and became president in September 2007. He votes every other year on the interest-rate setting Federal Open Market Committee. He next votes in January 2011.

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