30 millions in profits obtained Sonda during 2013 first quarter

Net profits for USD $ 30.5 millions obtained Sonda during the first quarter of the current year, growing 17.4% compared with the same period of the last year, according to the information presented by the company to the chilean Securities and Insurance Supervisor Organism - SVS.

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Until 2015: Embonor is going to invest USD$ 105 millions

After a shareholders' meeting, Coca Cola Embonor's general manager, Cristian Holdberg, inform that the company will invest USD$105 millions during 2013 to increase it's production capacity and to strenght the bottling structure and market presence of the company.

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Latin American and Caribbean Growth Will Be 3.5% in 2013

Latin American and Caribbean countries will grow by 3.5% in 2013, thanks to buoyant internal demand and the improved performance of Argentina and Brazil compared with 2012, according to the new projections presented today by ECLAC ("Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean") on it's "Updated economic overview of Latin America and the Caribbean 2012".

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First Quarter 2013: Concha y Toro increases in 2.2% it's sales

Viña Concha y Toro S.A. informed today its preliminary sales for the first quarter 2013. Consolidated sales totaled CLP $ 88,416 million, showing a 2.2 percent increase as compared to the same quarter last year. Related to this, it is important to consider that export market volumes were affected by the port strike in Chile during March; where around 1,485 thousand liters couldn’t be shipped, acording to the same company.

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IMF: Good projections for the chilean economy

4.9 percent will grow the chilean economy in 2012, acording to the World Economic Outlook report, published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) analyzing global and regional situations.  In the same report, the organism projects a 4.6 percent in 2014 in the same indicator for our country, giving a positive perspective in the evolution of this macroeconomic indicator for the next two years.

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Copper price fell down

Copper price fell 5.19% today, closing at US$ 3.2298 per pound in the London Metal Stock Exchange (LSE), acording to the information released by Cochilco (Comisión Chilena del Cobre).

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2012 GeoPark Results: another year of overall growth

GeoPark Holdings Limited ("GeoPark") announced yesterdary it's results for the year ended on december 31st, 2012, registering it's seventh consecutive year of overall growth. Acording to the corporate action presented to the SVS, during last year the company continued to execute it's business plan and grow it's key performance measures of oil and gas production, revenues, EBITDA and net income.

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Chilean Central Bank maintains the interest rate

In it's monthly monetary policy meeting, the Board of the Central Bank of Chile decided to maintain the monetary policy interest rate at 5% (annual).

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Dollar closes at CLP $ 467

The dollar is still maintaining it's trend to going down, closing today at CLP $467.20, CLP $ 1.9 down from the price reached last Friday.

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CPI reached a 0.4% variation during last march

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded a monthly rise of 0.4%, accumulating 0.7% this year and 1.5% in twelve months, according to figures released today by the chilean National Statistics Institute (INE).

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Entel acquires Nextel Perú

USD$ 400 million will pay ENTEL to acquire Nextel Peru's operations from the  hands of NII Holdings. With this transaction, the Chilean telecommunications company can position itself as a telecommunications operator in the neighboring country, where it participates in markets such as data transmission, fixed services, IT and call center.

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December 2012: Improved results of Farmacias Ahumada

A 167% grew Farmacias Ahumada's profits in the period ended December 31, 2012. According to the information sent by the company to the SVS, the consolidated result achieved a profit of $ 23,429,466, compared to $ 8,772,793 earned in 2011.

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ANAC: Sales of light vehicles are grown

This Friday, the National Automobile Association (ANAC) released a report indicating that light vehicle sales in March rose 9% over the same month last year. This means that during the third month of 2013 were sold 28,577 units, which contributed to the first half closed with a growth of 17%.

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