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Brown-Forman tops estimates, raises forecast

Brown-Forman Corp , the maker of Jack Daniel's whiskey, posted a stronger-than-expected 30 percent rise in quarterly profit helped by strong demand abroad, and raised its full-year outlook, sending shares up as much as 9 percent to an all-time high.
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Obama, Calderon reach deal in trucking dispute

President Barack Obama said on Thursday the United States and Mexico had agreed on a way to solve a long-simmering cross-border trucking dispute that has hurt trade between the two neighbors.
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China sets out disputes facing arduous climate talks

China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, wants rich nations to vow bigger cuts to emissions as part of a new international deal on fighting global warming, Beijing's top climate negotiator said on Tuesday.
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Mexico vies to become top tourist destination

Within weeks from declaring 2011 to be Mexico's “year of tourism,” the country's president Felipe Calderon said that the government aims to make Mexico the world's top fifth tourism destination by 2018.
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Transocean employee numbers fell by 6 pct in 2010

Transocean Ltd (RIGN.VX), the world's largest offshore rig contractor, shrunk its work force by 6 percent last year as increased competition for shallow-water rigs led to more older rigs being set aside.
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Canada to lead North American Q1 auto gains: report

Canada will outpace the United States and Mexico in first-quarter automobile production growth, which will add roughly 1.5 percentage points to the country's economic growth, according to a report released by Bank of Nova Scotia.
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Gold: The Once and Future Money

For most of the last three millennia, the world's commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it's not. It's one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so,...
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Mexico seasonally adjusted jobless rate dips in Jan

Mexico's unemployment rate, adjusted for seasonal swings, fell to 5.23 percent in January from 5.55 percent the previous month, aided by a recovery in Latin America's second largest economy, official data showed.
Drug war mars spring beak tourism in Mexican city

Drug war mars spring break tourism in Mexican city

The 2011 spring break arrivals in Mexico's coastal city of Acapulco, a famous summer holiday destination, may fall as cancelation of trips have been recorded in the wake of fresh drug war violence in the country.
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Canadians look for high-end travel experience

There has been a significant increase of 500 percent in demand for affordable luxury brands, mainly including El Dorado and Azul Hotels, in the Caribbean and Mexico over the last two years.

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