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Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Group Investments, said Colombia "may be the best country to invest in" for a number of reasons, including its growing oil production.
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LONDON, April 9- Raw sugar and arabica coffee futures on ICE were little changed on Tuesday, hovering above multi-year lows, weighed down by expectations of bumper crops from Brazil, the top producer of both commodities. "Everyone thinks prices should come lower as the Brazil crop comes in," said a London- based broker.
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*Embraer to deliver six Super Tucanos and command center. RIO DE JANEIRO, April 9- Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA has sold six Super Tucano light attack planes to Guatemala to bolster its fight against drug trafficking, according to a senior executive.
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*Embraer says firm orders to start in 1st qtr of 2014. RIO DE JANEIRO, April 9- Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA is looking to shock rivals with the price of its KC-390 military transport plane when it starts booking firm orders within the next 12 months, according to a senior executive.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 percent this year. *Lender plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" on Brazil.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 pct this year. *Plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" in Brazil.
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*Client coverage in Brazil seen up by 50 pct this year. *Plans to expand in Colombia, is "bullish" in Brazil.
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*Cocoa market focused on Ivory Coast mid-crop outlook. "Values are reapproaching their 2-1/ 2 year lows, levels which in the past have attracted strong buying interest," analyst Luke Mathews of Commonwealth Bank of Australia said in a market note. May raw sugar futures rose 0.04 cent or 0.22 percent to 17.82 cents a lb by 1459 GMT.
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*Cocoa market focused on Ivory Coast mid-crop outlook. LONDON, March 27- Raw sugar futures on ICE slipped on Wednesday with the market edging closer to last month's 2-1/ 2 year low while arabica coffee and cocoa prices also eased. May raw sugar futures fell a marginal 0.02 cent or 0.11 percent to 17.76 cents a lb by 1222 GMT.
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BRUSSELS, March 27- Belgian chocolate makers believe their renowned pralines should have similar protection to that enjoyed by French champagne or Italy's Parma ham.
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NEW YORK/ LONDON, March 27- Raw sugar futures on ICE edged up on Wednesday, as the prices found support just above last month's 2-1/ 2 year low, and white sugar on Liffe turned down, headed for a fifth straight daily loss. May raw sugar futures on ICE Futures U.S. rose 0.07 cent, or 0.45 percent, to 17.85 cents a lb by 12:32 p.m. EDT.
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BOGOTA, March 21- Colombia posted better-than-expected growth last year even as weaker public investment and manufacturing bit into expansion and increased the likelihood policymakers would cut interest rates to spur the sluggish economy.
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March 20- Florian Homm, a flamboyant hedge fund manager who was arrested in Italy this month after five years on the run, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for running what prosecutors called a fraud that caused investors to lose $200 million.
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LONDON/ BARCELONA, March 20- Spanish infrastructure firm Abertis is expecting non-binding offers for its airports business before the end of March, in a deal worth about 900 million euros, two sources familiar with the process said on Wednesday.
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THE HAGUE, March 19- The collapse of the International Criminal Court's case against an ally of Kenya's president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta is the latest blow to a tribunal under close scrutiny for securing just one conviction since it was set up more than a decade ago.
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PANAMA CITY, March 17- Latin America is increasingly looking to the private sector to help fund a $200 billion a year infrastructure investment gap that is dragging on economic growth and preventing the region from catching up to other emerging markets.
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BOGOTA, March 14- Colombia's FARC rebels blew up the rail line of Colombia's largest coal exporter, Cerrejon, on Thursday, taking the train out of commission for up to four days but not impeding exports, military and company officials said.
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BOGOTA, March 14- Unknown assailants bombed the rail line of Colombia's largest coal exporter on Thursday, knocking 17 wagons off the rails, the Cerrejon coal company said. "Around 4:45 am, the train, which headed towards the coal port of Puerto Bolivar, was attacked with explosives... which produced the derailment of 17 wagons," Cerrejon said in a statement.
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*Campaign for April 14 vote off to ugly start. CARACAS, March 12- Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into suspicions that the late President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said.
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*Campaign for April 14 vote off to ugly start. CARACAS, March 12- Venezuela will set up a formal inquiry into suspicions that the late President Hugo Chavez's cancer was the result of poisoning by his enemies abroad, the government said. Foreign scientists will be invited to join a government commission, the OPEC nation's acting leader said.
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CARACAS, March 11- Hugo Chavez's exit from the world stage may take the sting out of an ideological battle that has enveloped Latin America since a new batch of leftists started taking power about 15 years ago to challenge U.S. "
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