GANADORA DEL II CONCURSO DE X-TRADE B...

GANADORA DEL II CONCURSO DE X-TRADE BROKERS

'No tenía ni idea pero aprendí a invertir hasta ganar un Porsche'

Actualizado viernes 27/11/2009 09:36

Javier González | Ricardo Domínguez (Vídeo)

Madrid.- No estaba ocupada, y su hijo le propuso apuntarse a un concurso de inversores para "entretenerse un rato". María Luisa Vega Gómez, ganadora del II XTB Trading Cup de X-Trade Brokers (XTB), ha sido premiada con un Porsche Cayman por haber sido la mejor inversora de este año.

María Luisa, de Santander, ha ganado un 2102% sobre
su inversión inicial, de 20.000 a 440.338 euros virtuales al final del
concurso, gracias a una combinación de inversiones en materias primas y
divisas.

"Invertí en azúcar... soy una apasionada de Cuba, me gusta el azúcar", admite la ganadora, quien combinó intuición y aprendizaje a partes iguales.

"Mi hijo me dijo que me tenía que apuntar. Él me recomendaba algunos
movimientos, y he ido aprendiendo con el juego. Ahora me he puesto las
botas y he leído un par de libros", afirma María Luisa, quien recibió
ayer su coche deportivo en el Palacio de Congresos de Madrid.

"Me han enseñado a manejar el coche, ahora tengo que aprender a conducir",
hace un símil la ganadora con el premio y lo aprendido en el concurso.
No obstante, advierte de que su impecable partida no es fruto de la
casualidad: "Mis amigos no se lo creen, se piensan que me ha tocado la
lotería, pero no, me lo he ganado yo".

Los instrumentos de inversión de XTB Trading Cup son los Contratos por Diferencias,
herramientas que, a grandes rasgos, permiten hacer grandes inversiones
con un desembolso inicial mínimo, y cuyo vencimiento implica ganar -o
perder- la diferencia de revalorización o devaluación del activo
invertido.

María Luisa inició su partida invirtiendo en materias primas
como el mencionado azúcar y la plata. Después, a medida que ella y su
hijo seguían la evolución de los mercados, dieron el salto a las divisas, en especial al yen.

No obstante, la ganadora aún no ha decidido dar el salto al mercado
real. "Todavía tengo que estudiar un poquito más", reconoce María Luisa.

Otros premios

La segunda edición del concurso, en el que colabora el actor Ramón Langa, se celebró entre 4 de octubre y el 6 de noviembre 2009.

El segundo (Egonzalez) y tercer clasificado (Ivanovich) han recibido
por su parte 5.000 y 3.000 euros, respectivamente, en cuentas X-Trade
Brokers.

Además, la operación más rentable de cada semana
era premiada con una PDA de última generación y entre todos los
concursantes se ha sorteado un viaje a Londres para dos personas.

Escuchar la noticia en www.elmundo.es/tts/rosa/20/CMXrT+gzfx++oV4l3NXHmw.mp3

Olympic success

by Pete Sharma
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Olympic success

Level: Intermediate and above

Worksheet

Teacher's Notes

This week's activities:

• Completing the missing information in a chart of Olympic venues
• Matching headings to the correct paragraph in an article
• Reading an article about the recent Olympic vote to choose the host city for the 2016 games
• Deciding if words are nouns, verbs or both
• Completing a fluency task arising from the article

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Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor

October 7, 2003 : On this day in 2003, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California, the most populous state in the nation with the world's fifth-largest economy. Despite his inexperience, Schwarzenegger came out on top in the 11-week campaign to replace Gray Davis, who had earlier become the first United States governor to be recalled by the people since 1921. Schwarzenegger was one of 135 candidates on the ballot, which included career politicians, other actors, and one adult-film star. Born in Thal, Austria, on July 30, 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger began body-building as a teenager. He won the first of four "Mr. Universe" body-building championships at the age of 20, and moved to the United States in 1968. He also went on to win a then-record seven "Mr. Olympia" championships, securing his reputation as a body-building legend, and soon began appearing in films. Schwarzenegger first attracted mainstream public attention for a Golden Globe®-winning performance in Stay Hungry (1976) and his appearance in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. At the same time, he was working on a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1979. Schwarzenegger's film career took off after his starring turn in 1982's Conan the Barbarian. In 1983, he became a U.S. citizen; the next year he made his most famous film, The Terminator, directed by James Cameron. Although his acting talent is probably aptly described as limited, Schwarzenegger went on to become one of the most sought-after action-film stars of the 1980s and early 1990s and enjoyed an extremely lucrative career. The actor's romantic life also captured the attention of the American public: he married television journalist and lifelong Democrat Maria Shriver, niece of the late President John F. Kennedy, in 1986. With his film career beginning to stagnate, Schwarzenegger, a staunch supporter of the Republican party who had long been thought to harbor political aspirations, announced his candidacy for governor of California during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Aside from his well-known stint serving as chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under President George H.W. Bush, Schwarzenegger had little political experience. His campaign, which featured his use of myriad one-liners well-known from his movie career, was dogged by criticism of his use of anabolic steroids, as well as allegations of sexual misconduct and racism. Still, Schwarzenegger was able to parlay his celebrity into a win, appealing to weary California voters with talk of reform. He beat his closest challenger, the Democratic lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante, by more than 1 million votes. http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=5410 Picture: http://davidpaulmorris.com/content/photos/RECALL07OCT03ARNOLD096.jpg

First ATM opens for business

September 2, 1969 On this day in 1969, America's first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic financial transactions. By the 1980s, these money machines had become widely popular and handled many of the functions previously performed by human tellers, such as check deposits and money transfers between accounts. Today, ATMs are as indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail. Several inventors worked on early versions of a cash-dispensing machine, but Don Wetzel, an executive at Docutel, a Dallas company that developed automated baggage-handling equipment, is generally credited as coming up with the idea for the modern ATM. Wetzel reportedly conceived of the concept while waiting on line at a bank. The ATM that debuted in New York in 1969 was only able to give out cash, but in 1971, an ATM that could handle multiple functions, including providing customers' account balances, was introduced. ATMs eventually expanded beyond the confines of banks and today can be found everywhere from gas stations to convenience stores to cruise ships. There is even an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Non-banks lease the machines (so-called "off premise" ATMs) or own them outright. Today there are well over 1 million ATMs around the world, with a new one added approximately every five minutes. It's estimated that more than 170 Americans over the age of 18 had an ATM card in 2005 and used it six to eight times a month. Not surprisingly, ATMs get their busiest workouts on Fridays. In the 1990s, banks began charging fees to use ATMs, a profitable move for them and an annoying one for consumers. Consumers were also faced with an increase in ATM crimes and scams. Robbers preyed on people using money machines in poorly lit or otherwise unsafe locations, and criminals also devised ways to steal customers' PINs (personal identification numbers), even setting up fake money machines to capture the information. In response, city and state governments passed legislation such as New York's ATM Safety Act in 1996, which required banks to install such things as surveillance cameras, reflective mirrors and locked entryways for their ATMs.

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Machu Picchu discovered

July 24, 1911

On July 24, 1911, American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Tucked away in the rocky countryside northwest of Cuzco, Machu Picchu is believed to have been a summer retreat for Inca leaders, whose civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century. For hundreds of years afterwards, its existence was a secret known only to the peasants living in the region. That all changed in the summer of 1911, when Bingham arrived with a small team of explorers to search for the famous "lost" cities of the Incas.

Traveling on foot and by mule, Bingham and his team made their way from Cuzco into the Urubamba Valley, where a local farmer told them of some ruins located at the top of a nearby mountain. The farmer called the mountain Machu Picchu, which meant "Old Peak" in the native Quechua language. The next day--July 24--after a tough climb to the mountain's ridge in cold and drizzly weather, Bingham met a small group of peasants who showed him the rest of the way. Led by an 11-year-old boy, Bingham got his first glimpse of the intricate network of stone terraces marking the entrance to Machu Picchu.

The excited Bingham spread the word about his discovery in a best-selling book, sending hordes of eager tourists flocking to Peru to follow in his footsteps up the Inca trail. The site itself stretches an impressive five miles, with over 3,000 stone steps linking its many different levels. Today, more than 300,000 people tramp through Machu Picchu every year, braving crowds and landslides to see the sun set over the towering stone monuments of the "Sacred City" and marvel at the mysterious splendor of one of the world's most famous man-made wonders.

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The Prince's Rainforest Project

The Prince's Rainforest Project

Daniel Craig. Actor. Optimist.

Pele. Athlete.

Takiwo. 12 years old.

Robin. Comedian. Cyclist. Frog translator.

-Lia.

-Gavin.

-Alish.

-Students.

Harrison Ford. Actor. Conservationist. And friend of frogs.

Joss Stone. Singer.

Tenzin Gyatso. Simple Buddhist monk.

Louie Johann. Schoolboy.

-William.

-Harry.

-Trying to preserve the rainforests.

-For all of us.

Climate change is the greatest threat facing mankind.

Every year, destruction of the Earth's rainforests releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...

...than all of the world's cars, planes, and ships put together. We must act now. Future generations are depending on us.

Charles, Prince of Wales.

The future of the rainforest is our future too.

Add your voice at www.rainforestSOS.org.

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