April 24, 2008  
BANCO INDUSTRIAL: Moody's Rates Tier 1 Capital Notes at Ba3
Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Ba3 foreign currency 
subordinated debt rating to Banco Industrial S.A.'s non-
cumulative fixed/floating rate step up Tier 1 capital notes with 
a final bullet maturity of 2068.  Both principal and interest on...
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BANCO ITAU: Expects AFAP UnionCapital Buy to Get Regulators' OK
Banco Itau Uruguay S.A.'s Deputy General Manager Carlos Ham told 
Business News Americas that the bank expects regulators to 
approve its purchase of private pension fund manager AFAP 
UnionCapital in no more than 90 days...
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CA LA ELECTRICIDAD: Fitch Upgrades Foreign and Local IDR to BB-
Fitch Ratings has upgraded both the foreign currency and local 
currency issuer default ratings for C.A. La Electricidad de 
Caracas to 'BB-' from 'B+.'  In addition, Fitch has assigned a 
'BB-' rating to the proposed issuance of up to US$650 million...
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GERDAU SA: Quanex Shareholders Okay US$1.67 Billion Purchase
Quanex Corp. told the Associated Press that its shareholders 
have authorized Gerdau SA to purchase the firm for 
US$1.67 billion...
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MILLICOM INT'L: Posts US$158MM Net Income in Qtr. Ended March 31
Millicom International Cellular S.A. reported net income of 
US$158.1 million on net revenues of US$800.7 million for the 
three months ended March 31, 2008, compared to net income of 
US$345.2 million on net revenues of US$562.7 million for the 
same...
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PETROLEOS DE VENEZUELA: Gov't Approves Oil Sudden-Gains Tax
Venuzuela's lawmakers have given their final nods to a new tax 
on windfall profits of Petroleos de Venezuela SA and other oil 
companies, Dow Jones Newwires reports...
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TELEFONICA DE ARGENTINA: Amends Stock Purchase Pact w/ Datacorp
Telefonica de Argentina SA has amended its stock purchase 
agreement with Telefonica Datacorp S.A., in which Datacorp will 
sell to TASA the 14,948 Additional Shares representing 1.8578% 
of Telefonica Data Argentina S.A.’s stock capital, to be 
acquired...
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XL CAPITAL: Posts Net Realized Loss on Investments of US$102.3MM
XL Capital Ltd reported net income available to ordinary 
shareholders for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, of 
US$211.9 million, or US$1.20 per ordinary share, compared with 
US$549.7 million, or US$3.06 per ordinary share, for the quarter 
ended March...
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