Con la finalidad de analizar al detalle el modelo económico de la agrupación política Gana Perú (GP), con particular énfasis con los sectores minero y energético, el Movimiento Nacional de Profesionales (MNP) efectuará el próximo miércoles 11 un foro abierto con participación de reconocidas personalidades políticas y académicas de nuestro medio.

Han asegurado su participación el catedrático y expresidente del Banco de la Nación, Kurt Burneo, quien tratará el tema ‘El modelo económico de Gana Perú y su impacto en el sector minero-energético’; por su parte el economista y exjefe de la Sunat, Luis Arias Minaya, expondrá acerca de ‘Reformas tributarias y su impacto en el sector minero-energético: El impuesto a las sobreganancias mineras’.

De igual modo, también intervendrán con sus importantes aportes el exministro de Energía y Minas Carlos Herrera Descalzi, quien hablará sobre ‘Política energética y su impacto en el desarrollo del país: El caso Camisea’, el Dr. Alejandro Narváez Liceras, expresidente de Petroperú y exjefe de Foncodes, por su parte, hará una amplia exposición sobre ‘La gestión eficiente de empresas públicas estratégicas: el caso de Petroperú’.

El foro económico es de carácter abierto y permitirá la intervención del público presente. Se desarrollará en las amplias instalaciones de la Cámara de Comercio de Lima ubicada en el Jr. Gregorio Escobedo 396, Jesús María, en el horario de 6.30 a 9 p.m. La asistencia es completamente libre.

Si Ud. desea asegurar su participación, puede llamar a los teléfonos 422-0750; 99625-0180 y 99783-3606. También puede inscribirse en: info@mnp-profesionales.org y www.mnp-profesionales.org.

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LIMA (Dow Jones)–The signing of a new trade pact between Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru is a move toward creating one of the biggest trading blocks in the region, said Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

“We are creating the start of a commercial zone that will be the biggest in Latin America,” said Calderon, during a televised speech in Lima on Thursday.

Calderon said the trade accord would generate jobs, investment and new markets. He estimated the joint trade between the four countries could be worth up to $9 billion.

According to Peru’s tax agency, Sunat, trade between the four in 2010 totaled almost $6 billion.

Separately, in an interview with Peruvian newspaper El Comercio published on Thursday, Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos said the deeper economic integration will make all four countries more attractive to investors.

Later Thursday, Calderon and Santos will join Peru’s President Alan Garcia and Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera for the official signing of the trade pact, known as the Pacific Accord.

In his interview, Santos said that together Peru, Chile, Colombia and Mexico represented a “market bigger than Brazil,” the region’s giant. He also said the four nations had much in common, both politically and economically, and that the union would make all four “more relevant” and “stronger” internationally.

Santos said the Pacific Accord was “in a certain form … a more interesting alternative” to the current Andean trade and development pact known as the Andean Community of Nations, or CAN.

Santos said the CAN pact, which still includes Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, had been “wounded” by Venezuela’s exit, which began in 2006.

Santos stressed that “all countries that wanted to join” the new Pacific trade pact would be welcome, particularly mentioning Panama and Ecuador.

-By Sophie Kevany, Dow Jones Newswires; +51-989 038 043; sophie.kevany@dowjones.com

* Pacific Alliance is alternative to Brazil for investors

* Colombia, Chile, Peru also integrating stock markets

LIMA, April 28 (Reuters) – Leaders of Latin America’s most aggressive free traders — Peru, Chile, Colombia and Mexico — agreed on Thursday to deepen their existing commercial ties and further open doors to lucrative Asian markets.

The so-called Pacific Alliance, which Panama could also join, creates a framework for “deep integration” that will eventually allow for the freer movement of goods, people and services.

It would help the bloc negotiate as a group with fast-growing Asian countries and offer an alternative platform for global firms who tend to look first to Brazil’s vast but relatively more closed economy when they come to Latin America to invest.

“This is a historic step for our continent,” Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who leaves office in July, said of what has become his signature foreign policy project.

The initiative, which would supplant a bevy of bilateral pacts the four countries already share, represents a greater emphasis on so-called south-south integration among booming emerging markets in Latin America and Asia.

Though the four countries have trade deals with the United States, it has lost its allure as a trade partner because of a sluggish economy. And Colombia has grown frustrated by a U.S. Congress reluctant to approve a bilateral agreement.

Mexico spent years sending roughly 80 percent of its exports to the United States, only to find itself thrown into recession during the global crisis when shipments north slumped.

In Asia, both Chile and Peru have trade pacts with China, among other markets. Peru, Chile and Mexico also belong to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation trade pact, a club of 21 economies that Colombia has long aspired to join.

Trade experts say the Pacific Alliance could progress more quickly than existing regional trade blocs such as Mercosur, which is led by Brazil and includes Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. It has been around for years but has made fewer advances breaking down trade barriers.

Brazil also balked at efforts to form the 34-nation Free-Trade Area of the Americas, backed by the United States.

“Of the many integration projects in Latin America, this agreement has a better chance of success,” said Carlos Aquino, director of the center for economic studies at Lima’s San Marcos University. “The four countries are stable democracies with open economies.”

STOCK MARKET INTEGRATION

In another integration effort, this month the stock exchanges of Colombia, Chile and Peru will formally launch an bourse known as MILA that cross-lists shares of the companies in all three countries.

MILA will trail only Brazil’s bourse in size, and Garcia on Thursday encouraged the Mexican stock market to join the group, though Mexican President Felipe Calderon did not openly support the idea.

At the end of December the Chilean, Peruvian and Colombian exchanges had a combined market cap of $718.8 billion.

Investors have worried Peru’s open economy and pro-investment stance will be threatened if left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala is elected president on June 5, and markets have fallen as a result.

The most recent polls give him a narrow lead over right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori.

Humala has in the past sounded skeptical about free trade but says he would work to boost exports and favors regional integration. (Reporting by Terry Wade and Caroline Stauffer; editing by Philip Barbara)

IBM, la mayor firma tecnológica del mundo por facturación, ha anunciado un beneficio neto de 2.863 millones de dólares en el primer trimestre de 2011 (alrededor de 1.997 millones de euros), un 10,1% más que durante el mismo periodo del año anterior.

La empresa estadounidense, que está a punto de cumplir 100 años de existencia, informó que entre enero y marzo de 2011 ganó 2,31 dólares por acción, comparado con los 1,97 dólares de 2010 y algo por encima de los 2,3 dólares por título que habían pronosticado los analistas.

“Este ha sido un sólido primer trimestre, con aumento en los ingresos en las áreas de hardware, software y servicios, al tiempo que hemos registrado incrementos de dos dígitos en más de 40 países”, dijo al publicarse estos resultados el presidente y consejero delegado de IBM, Samuel Palmisano, en un comunicado.

La facturación de la compañía se elevó durante los tres primeros meses de 2011 hasta los 24.607 millones de dólares, un 7,7 % más que el año precedente, lo que Palmisano adjudicó a un “excelente impulso” de iniciativas como la llamada “computación en la nube”, así como a los avances logrados en los países de rápido crecimiento económico como Brasil, Rusia, India y China (conocidos como los BRIC, por sus respectivas iniciales).

La empresa, con sede en Armonk (Nueva York) y fundada en junio de 1911, vio cómo sus ingresos en los países en desarrollo aumentó en su conjunto un 18 % este trimestre, mientras que tan solo en los BRIC se elevó un decidido 26 %.

Por áreas de actividad, la firma aumentó en cerca de un 10 % las ventas relacionadas con software y en un 19 % las relativas a productos de hardware, al tiempo que por servicios prestados ingresó un 6 % más.

Pese a esta mejora de los resultados, las cuentas difundidas hoy por el llamado “gigante azul” no fueron muy bien recibidas por los inversores, de forma que sus acciones, que ya durante la sesión regular en la Bolsa de Nueva York habían bajado un 0,33 %, descendían un 1,51 % adicional en las contrataciones electrónicas que se realizaban tras el cierre del parqué.

IBM también anunció hoy que en el conjunto del año podría llegar a ganar 13,15 dólares por acción -sin tener en cuenta costes extraordinarios-, lo que supone una revisión al alza de 15 centavos respecto a sus cálculos anteriores.