UPDATE 3-Campbell Soup beats Street estimate raises outlook

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mon May 20, 2013 9:50am EDT By Martinne Geller May 20 (Reuters) - Campbell Soup Co reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings and raised its full-year forecast on Monday as strong soup sales more than offset falling drink sales. The robust results were a sign that a turnaround plan led by Chief Executive Denise Morrison was working. The plan includes revamping Campbell's offerings with ...

Kimco Realty Completes the Sale of a Nine-Property Mexican Shopping Center Portfolio

General Sources - Monday 20th May, 2013

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kimco Realty Corp. ( ) today announced it has closed on the sale of a nine-property Mexican shopping center portfolio to a local real estate operator for a gross sales price of 3.35 billion Mexican pesos (US$274 million), including 573 million Mexican pesos (US$47 million) of mortgage debt. Kimco held a 47.6 percent interest in this portfolio ...

Week two of Cannes film festival gets off to explosive start

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mon May 20, 2013 9:14am EDT * Cop-assassin action movie marks festival's halfway point * Twenty films competing for top Cannes prize on Sunday * Polanski, Soderbergh films set to premiere this week By Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 20 (Reuters) - Japanese director Takashi Miike got the final week of the Cannes film festival off to an explosive start on Monday, with big budget cop thriller ...

RPT-Fitch U.S. CREL CDO Delinquencies Remain in Holding Pattern

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mon May 20, 2013 9:03am EDT May 20 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency) U.S. CREL CDO late-pays remained flat in the month of April at 13.2%, according to the latest index results from Fitch Ratings. Only one new delinquency was reported in the month. This newly matured balloon B-note is secured by a full service hotel located in Los Cabos, Mexico. Further, ...

Oscars Very Mexican Food getting ready to re-open Sacramento location

Business Journal - Monday 20th May, 2013

Oscar's Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. Oscars Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. The restaurant closed its Sacramento location in November as it did a complete renovation of the small stand into a restaurant. During the renovation, the kitchen crew has ...

GDP growth in 1Q13 tops expectations in Mexico

FXstreet - Monday 20th May, 2013

GDP growth in Mexico in the first quarter came out above our expectations, but still registered a 2.2% YoY growth rate, the lowest since 2009. Meanwhile, in Colombia, March manufacturing and retail numbers produced a mixed picture, although we expect a decisive recovery in April. Today all eyes will be on 1Q13 growth in Chile, expected to show a slowdown in domestic ...

STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-Go with the flow dont fight the market - CIMB

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Singapore's quarterly corporate results season shows that earnings downgrades are coming from most of the externally exposed sectors, CIMB said, and cut its ratings on commodities and transport sectors back to 'underweight', while raising ...

Tijuana Where the world’s migrants wait

General Sources - Monday 20th May, 2013

The Rev. Saul Montiel, a U.S. - Mexico border missionary, distributes health kits at the Plaza el Bordo in Tijuana on May 7. UMNS photos by Kathleen ...

Concacaf Football - Cruz Azul to meet America in Mexican final

General Sources - Monday 20th May, 2013

Cruz Azul beat nine-man Santos Laguna 2-1 with two goals from striker Javier Orozco, setting up a Mexican Clausura championship final against ...

Mexico Guatemala collaborate to strengthen border security

People's Daily - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mexican President Felipe Calderon (L) and his Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom arrive at a joint press conference at the official residence Los Pinos, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on July 27, 2011. (Xinhua/David de la ...

Mexicos most active volcano continues to emit smoke rocks

Global Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mexico's most active volcano Popocatepetl Sunday registered 24 low-intensity eruptions and glowing rocks were seen on the rim of the crater, official sources said. The National Disaster Prevention Center (Cenapred) said on its website that the volcano, located to the south of Mexico City, caused a series of strong tremors starting from 2:37 am local time (0837 GMT) until almost 7 am (1300 ...

Mexican revolution left mark on El Paso diocese

General Sources - Monday 20th May, 2013

The years from 1910 to 1940 were a period of revolution and war in Mexico, which left an indelible mark on the Catholic Church in El Paso. As many as 1 million Mexicans migrated to the United States during this time to escape the violence, economic dislocation, and religious persecution of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Constitution of 1917 outlawed parochial schools, closed all ...

Mexican drug cartel member jailed in US

General Sources - Monday 20th May, 2013

A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel chief has been jailed for 35 years for plotting to smuggle vast quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States.Aurelio Cano Flores, described by the Justice Department as a senior member of the Gulf Cartel, was convicted of conspiring to import 'multi-tonne' shipments of drugs into the US following a trial in February.The 40-year-old was ...

Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City still rumbling spitting ash

India Today - Monday 20th May, 2013

The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early on Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks.The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ago.Mexican authorities raised the alert ...

STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-Index up SingTel Keppel strong

Reuters - Monday 20th May, 2013

Singapore shares edged slightly up, with Singapore Telecommunications rising to its highest since January 2008 and Keppel Corporation hitting a one-month high. The Straits Times Index edged up 0.1 percent to an intra-day high of 3,458.04, its ...

Letters At the U.S.-Mexico Border Prosperity and Pollution

International Herald Tribune - Sunday 19th May, 2013

To the Editor: ...

Human brains are wired to make music-color connections

General Sources - Sunday 19th May, 2013

When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ...

Mexico Creating Missing People Force To Focus On Those Who Have Disappeared

Huffington Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

There are at least 26,121 people who went missing in the past six years in Mexico, according to President Enrique Pea Nieto's government, and now they are going to do something about it. Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine ...

Mexico has faith in Asian-Pacific future

Global Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Mexico is in a great moment. Macroeconomic stability and a low debt rate are part of our strengths as one of the top 15 economies in the world. We are an economy with a broad social perspective fully inserted into international trade, with an exchange of goods and services that amounts more than $700 billion each year. We offer a secure and trustworthy environment for foreign investment. Our ...