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Articles in Sept, 2005 issue of Latin Trade

• Top banks: ranked by assets as of December 31, 2004
• Top brokerage houses
• Top pension funds: ranked by assets under management as of December 31, 2004
• Rest of the world
• Perdigao Agroindustrial, a Brazilian agribusiness, agreed to buy for US$16 million control of Mary Loise Industria de Alimentos and Mary Loise Industria e Comercio de Racoes
• The International Finance Corporation, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank, announced a US$14.5 million loan to Centro Medico Puerta de Hierro, a new healthcare facility going up in the town of Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico
• Iberdrola, a Spanish power company, signed a US$67.7 million contract to build six transmission lines for Comision Federal de Electricidad
• The captain
  by Eduardo Coronado
• Creative Zen Vision: portable video player
• The Andean Development Corporation , a multilateral lending institution, approved US$174.7 million in loans for Colombia
• Fact check
  by Thomas Fern
• Chat line
• Space cowboys: Houston grows to become one of the busiest trading posts in the United States, thanks to geography
  by Jose Castillo
• Southbound
  by Rachel Hatzipanagos
• Banking & financial services: the trends, the issues, the solutions
• Embraer, a Brazilian aircraft maker, has agreed to sell for US$650 million 20 of its 190-model aircraft to GE Commercial Aviation Services, an airplane leasing company
• Colombia will invest US$25 million on various projects on the San Andres and Providencia archipelago through 2007
• International Finance Corporation, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank, approved a string of loans totaling US$115 million for GMAC Financiera, a Mexican housing finance company
• Stripped bare: a profit motive might be the best way to convince poor farmers to leave the trees alone
• Alexander
• Making change
• What's your poison: a Mexican lab hopes its anti-venoms take a bite out of hospital costs across the globe
  by Forrest Jones
• Events
• Sonae, a Portuguese retailer, said it will sell 10 of its Big brand of Brazilian supermarkets in Silo Paulo to Carrefour
• TV Azteca
• Cemex, a Mexican cement company, and Ready Mix USA, a U.S. cement company, have agreed to create a joint venture
• Cream of the crop: Colombian coffee growers turn the familiar Juan Valdez brand from an ad into a retailer
  by Andres F. Velazquez
• The World Bank, a multilateral lending institution, approved a US$658.3 million loan for Brazil
• Freedom's price
  by Greg Brown
• Mover and shaker
  by Forrest Jones
• Tungsten E2: handheld computer
• Banco Nacional De Desenvolvimento Economico, Brazil's state-owned development bank, approved US$61.6 million in financing for Tame, an Ecuadoran airline
• Grupo Bimbo, a Mexican bread company, said it will buy assets controlled by Empresas Chocolates La Corona, a Mexican confectioner, for US$43 million
• Alsea, a Mexican fast-food franchisee, has agreed to buy 100% of Grupo Mozarella, a franchise operator in Mexico City controlled by Dominos Pizza, a U.S. pizza retailer
• 2005 financial leaders: the top 100 banks, pension funds, insurers and brokerage houses
  by Forrest Jones
• Parrot Easydrive: hands-free cell phone kit
• The World Bank, a multilateral lending institution, approved a US$502.5 million loan for Brazil to support housing-sector reforms
• Rant and rave
  by Roberto Zuniga
• Hot stuff
  by Carlos Adese
• Keep on trucking: President Uribe pushes for Colombia's most ambitious highway plan ever
  by Darcy Crowe
• Flybe, a U.K. low-cost airline, agreed to buy 14 195-model aircraft from Embraer, a Brazilian airplane manufacturer for US$470 million
• Colombia will invest US$180 million exploring for oil through 2005
• Femsa
• The statesman
  by Greg Brown
• Outsourcing America
• Red card
• Loan ranger
  by Carlos Adese
• Privatizations
• Inbev, the global brewer born out of the merger of Brazil's AmBev and Belgium's Interbrew
• Harken Energy Corporation, a U.S. oil and gas company, said its unit Global Energy Development signed an agreement with Colombia to evaluate natural resources in Valle Lunar in eastern Colombia
• Gruma, a Mexican tortilla maker, bought three food plants from Cenex Harvest States, a U.S. food, grains and energy company
• Big chill: a gold mine might make engineering history in Chile and Argentina, but protestors are out to block it
  by Joshua Goodman
• Top insurers: ranked by premiums as of December 31, 2004
• The World Bank, a multilateral lending institution, approved a US$150 million loan for Argentina
• High seas
• Image makers: Brazil could chart its own course in the swiftly approaching age of digital television
  by Luciano Somenzari
• Bare essentials
• Bonds, big bonds
• Ultrapar Participacoes
• Grupo Televisa
• The International Finance Corporation, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank, will provide a US$10 million loan to Ransa Comercial, a Peruvian logistics company
• Boom towns: home financing in Mexico is on the rise as interest rates fall—driving deals among banks, too
  by Marisol Rueda
• Epson EMP-S3: multimedia projector
• Latin Trade index
• Winner's circle
  by Victoria Upegui M.
• Safe and sound—sort of
• Education for global executives: empowering organizations
  by Richard Westlund
• Honduras: growing pains
  by Rachel Hatzipanagos
• Shooting stars: French hotel group Accor bets on three-star hotels for Latin America's business travelers
  by Maria Elena Verdezoto
• Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil company, entered an agreement with Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and other Japanese institutions to finance projects in Brazil
• The Multilateral Investment Fund, a private-sector development arm of the Inter-American Development Bank, will provide US$1.1 million to hundreds of Central American artisans and integrate them into supply chains for home-decoration retailers in foreign
• Gamesa, a Spanish renewable-energy products company, said Mexico's environmental regulators have authorized construction of a wind farm in Oaxaca with a potential output of 200 megawatts
• Wired tribe
  by Carlos Adese
• Growth formula: foreign superbanks look for new opportunities as free trade kicks into high gear
  by Ricardo Castillo
• The Zahir
• Subsidiary shuffle
• Rivers of cash: Brazil's banks are bigger and more profitable but credit remains expensive and scarce
  by Margarida O. Pfeifer
• Charging ahead
  by Alexander Ragir
• Enrique V. Iglesias, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, a multilateral lending agency, announced his resignation effective Sept. 30
• Companhia Vale Do Rio Doce, a Brazilian metals and mining giant, and Itochu Corporation, a Japanese trading company, signed a memorandum of understanding

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