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• Victor J. Perea Appointed Senior Vice President, Finance for Barcelo Crestline Corporation (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)...
  Bruce Wardinski, CEO of Barcelo Crestline Corporation and Playa Hotels & Resorts, S.L. today announced the appointment of Victor J. Perea as Senior Vice President of Finance for Barcelo Crestline Corporation.
  
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• MedCath Names Parker to New Finance Post (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)...
  MedCath Corporation , a health care provider focused on high acuity health care services, predominantly the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, today announced that Art Parker, Senior Vice-President and Treasurer and currently Interim Chief Financial Officer, has been named Senior Vice-President, Finance and Development effective immediately.
  
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• Mall of America: Hurdles to mall growth rise (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)...
  Tighter credit markets may not have shut off financing for the Mall of America's proposed expansion, but it may be more costly and complex.
  
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• Jews abroad love Israel, though fewer call it home (Reuters via Yahoo! News)...
  David Borowich was raised as a Zionist in America, and when he was a teenager and his neighbors made Aliyah -- literally the ascent, or immigration to Israel -- he knew he would soon follow.
  
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• The Dollar: Shrinkable but (So Far) Unsinkable (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)...
  What are the chances that a day of reckoning is coming, when the dollar would be so weak that America would have to play by the rules that apply to every other country?
  
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• HSBC's profit rises; Asia, Mideast growth outweighs charges (Market Watch)...
  HSBC Holdings' first-quarter profit comes in ahead of the banking giant's year-ago performance as higher profits in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America help offset rising U.S. bad-debt charges, among other factors.
  
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• Banking / In Depth Interviews (Business News Americas)...
  With three deals so far this year, prospects in Latin America are looking good for global trade finance solutions provider Surecomp.
  
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• America's value can be figured in barrels of oil (Akron Beacon Journal)...
  Most of us view the world through dollar glasses. It's perfectly reasonable. Dollars, after all, are the currency we use in daily life. And the lens, until recently, was distinctly rosy.
  
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• Documents indicate that Chavez helped Colombia rebels (AP via Yahoo! News)...
  Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border.
  
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• A country in crisis (The Wichita Eagle)...
  "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism" by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 256 pages, $25.95) M ake no mistake. America is in serious trouble. If you will, wander down to K-15 any day and watch as one train every 10 or 15 minutes chugs by loaded down with containers full of Chinese junk paid for by American debt, mostly treasury bills. Check out ...
  
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