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<title><![CDATA[Banking - Peru - All loan segments increase in October, mortgage lending hits record high (source: BN Americas)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Peru's private sector banks saw an increase in all loan segments in both US dollar and sol-denominated credit in October, as mortgage lending hit historic highs, according to a report from banking ass... (source: BN Americas)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=1052102311650&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>RSS widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:17 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Electric Power - Ecuador - Termoesmeraldas calls off Shushufindi feasibility tender (source: BN Americas)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ecuadorian state generator Termoesmeraldas has declared void the bidding process to carry out feasibility studies for the 132MW Shushufindi thermo project.  The process was called off after no offer... (source: BN Americas)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023112745&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:32 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Water & Waste - Uruguay - Authorities drawing up plan to prevent floods, store rainwater (source: BN Americas)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uruguayan state-owned entities are working together on a plan to prevent floods and store rainwater to combat drought, an official from the country's public works and transport ministry (MTOP) told BN... (source: BN Americas)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023111771&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widget</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
<keywords>water waste uruguay authorities drawing prevent floods store rainwater</keywords>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:5 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Privatization - Brazil - Cargill-LDC to be awarded Santos terminal by month-end, says Codesp (source: BN Americas)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian branch of US agricultural giant Cargill and France's Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC) should be awarded the 25-year concession of Santos port bulk cargo terminal by month-end, a spokesper... (source: BN Americas)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=1052102311449&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>RSS widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:49:10 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Telecommunications - Regional - Latin America could see 22mn lines ported by 2014 - study (source: BN Americas)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Latin America could see 22mn lines ported by 2014, with Mexico and Brazil as the most dynamic countries in that regard, according to a report by Signals Telecoms Consulting.  Since 2008, four market... (source: BN Americas)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023117926&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:17 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Insurance - Brazil - BB committed to improving IRB, increasing share in PAC programs - VP (source: BN Americas)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Federally controlled Banco do Brasil (BB), Brazil's largest bank, will be committed to improving operations of reinsurer IRB-Brasil Re if it takes a controlling stake in the company, helping to guide ... (source: BN Americas)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=1052102311530&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:24:36 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Petrochemicals - Regional - Lanxess expects Brazil sales to grow at least 10% in 2010 (source: BN Americas)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[German chemical firm Lanxess expects to increase sales in Brazil in 2010 as a result of an improved environment in the country's chemical industry, Lanxess CEO in the South American country, Marcelo L... (source: BN Americas)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023117867&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:14:4 (GMT -0400)</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Peru and Brazil: Messing around with dams (source: Economist)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[First build a road, then flood itJOSE CHAVEZ, a farmer, is one of the few people in the Inambari area who welcomes a plan to build a huge hydroelectric dam where the departments of Madre de Dios, Cusco and Puno meet in Peru&#8217;s south-eastern jungle. He... (source: Economist)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023117053&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mexico's economy: A different kind of recession (source: Economist)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In some ways the pain is less bad than the statistics suggest. But recovery will be harder than in the past unless complacency gives way to reformTHE last time Mexico suffered an economic slump, in 1995, it turned to its northern neighbour for help. The Un... (source: Economist)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023117694&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cuba and the United States: Resistant to sticks and carrots (source: Economist)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The difficulty of pressing for change in a police stateTHOSE who hoped that the arrival in power of Barack Obama and Raul Castro would bring a thaw in the continuing 50-year cold war between the United States and Cuba so far have little to cheer. The Obama... (source: Economist)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023113462&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widget</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British Columbia's salmon: Socked (source: Economist)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Another inquiry into vanishing stocksA MYSTERIOUS decline in the numbers of spawning salmon has become one of the rites of autumn in British Columbia, bringing worries of financial and job losses, threats of extinction and a perplexing lack of answers. Thi... (source: Economist)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=1052102311685&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Recession hits Venezuela (source: FT)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As its neighbours recover, the country has posted a contraction in the third quarter of 4.5% year on year after a second quarter decline in economic activity of 2.4%. Inflation is forecast to exceed 26% (source: FT)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023111136&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feed widget</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deal nears to end 'banana wars' (source: FT)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[European and Latin American trade officials are close to a deal over bananas that would end the longest-running dispute in the history of the World Trade Organisation and could lead to lower prices for consumers (source: FT)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023114941&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transport hampers Brazil's booming farms (source: FT)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil has become the world's biggest exporter of a basket of foods, but analysts say output is reaching its limit and the investment needed for growth is falling short (source: FT)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023113873&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widget</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Muni bond sector thawing with a little help from BAB (source: FT)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Investors are responding to the Obama administration's Build America Bond programme, but concerns about the health of municipals and the market environment in general continue (source: FT)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023114260&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Presidential politics in Brazil: Her master's voice (source: Economist)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dilma Rousseff, Lula&#8217;s preferred successor, is a more interesting politician than she appears to be. But would she be different from her boss?WHEN Brazil&#8217;s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, identified Dilma Rousseff, his chief-of-staff, as ... (source: Economist)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023117118&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feed widget</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
<keywords>presidential politics brazil master voice</keywords>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:03:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gloomy Jamaica: Unfixable? (source: Economist)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The burden of debt and crimeJUST over two years ago when Bruce Golding&#8217;s Labour Party came to power in Jamaica, ending 18 years in opposition, there were modest hopes that it might make progress in tackling the island&#8217;s endemic problems of econ... (source: Economist)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023114710&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:03:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada's prime minister: Home thoughts from abroad (source: Economist)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper does foreign policyALTHOUGH he has been Canada&#8217;s prime minister for almost four years, Stephen Harper has devoted little time to foreign policy. Beyond the standard quick trips to summits, the inevitable ties with the United States and... (source: Economist)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023116805&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
<keywords>canada prime minister home thoughts abroad</keywords>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:03:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Geithner seeks to reassure on dollar (source: FT)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[US Treasury secretary tells reporters in Japan he believes in the need to maintain a strong dollar and that the US is determined to get its budget deficit down (source: FT)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023117700&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widget</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
<keywords>geithner seeks reassure dollar</keywords>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lula calls on leaders to attend climate talks (source: FT)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil's president has challenged other world leaders to attend next month's climate talks in Copenhagen to break the deadlock in negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions (source: FT)<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=10521023114509&cat=business&cat2=americas" width="1" height="1"> - <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
<keywords>lula calls leaders attend climate talks</keywords>
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<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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