Archive for July 25th, 2008

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Firme demanda de alimentos

Posted by Dave
July 25, 2008

lanacion.com
Este crecimiento económico trae aparejado un aumento del poder adquisitivo de la población y una sustancial mejora del ingreso per cápita, lo que produce en forma inmediata una mayor demanda de alimentos con mayor valor agregado y mejor poder calórico y nutricional.
El consumo de carnes rojas y blancas en importantes franjas de la población de [...]

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Brazilian Real Strengthens to Nine-Year High on Yield Advantage

Posted by Dave
July 25, 2008

Bloomberg.com: Latin America
Brazil’s real strengthened to a nine-year high for a second consecutive day as rising interest rates lure investors to the nation’s fixed income securities.
The real advanced 0.4 percent to 1.5716 per dollar at 9:12 a.m. New York time, from 1.5781 yesterday. The currency touched 1.57, the strongest since January 1999. The real has [...]

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Oil Below $120 Will Reverse `BR-IC’ Fortunes:

Posted by Dave
July 25, 2008

Bloomberg.com: Opinion
If the price of oil goes below $120 a barrel (from about $126 yesterday), if China’s annual inflation rate slows to 5 percent (from 7.1 percent last month), and if the U.S. banking crisis comes to an end, then the sagging fortunes of equity markets in the two Asian countries may reverse in relation [...]

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Map depicting Oil Economics

Posted by Dave
July 25, 2008

Energy Bulletin

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Cars vs. Bus vs. Bikes

Posted by Dave
July 25, 2008

Something for the urban planners, if they find a voice in decision making, in megacities like Mumbai and Sao Paulo to keep in mind.Core77 / design magazine
A poster in the city of Meunster’s Planning Office shows the amount of space taken up by cars, a bus, and bicycles used to transport the same number [...]

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World maps denoting ’solar-richness’

Posted by Dave
July 25, 2008

Vividly demonstrating why companies and entrepreneurs in India and Latin America, especially Mexico and Brazil, should do surya namasakar or sun salutations together, metaphorically speaking; in the real world, collaborate on developing and commercializing low-cost solar energy technologies.

Amount of solar energy in hours, received each day on an optimally tilted surface during [...]