Teens Go 23 Hours Without Technology — Raise Awareness About Distracted Driving and First Annual Allstate Canada Distraction-Free 23 Event in November

Internacional (Marketwired, 04 de Octubre de 2013) Sixty teens at a high school in Mississauga, Ontario, have just completed a 23-hour technology fast — a process which included handing over their smartphones — in order to bring attention to the dangers of distracted driving. The students from Rick Hansen Secondary School were the first in the country to take part in Distraction-Free 23, developed for the fact that you are 23 times more likely to crash if you drive distracted.

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MPVC Signs Option Agreement With CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. to Acquire Up to 80% Interest in Northwest Manitoba Uranium Property

Internacional (Marketwired, 04 de Octubre de 2013)  ("MPVC" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:MVC.H) announces that it has signed an option agreement with CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. ("CanAlaska") dated September 25, 2013, to acquire up to an 80% interest in a uranium exploration property located in northwest Manitoba (the "Option Agreement"). The property covers approximately 143,603 hectares and is made up of three licenses (MEL-236B, MEL-166B, and MEL-247B) located along the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border (the Property). The licenses are located approximately 90 kilometres northeast of the McClean Lake uranium deposit. The Property lies within the Wollaston Domain trend, which hosts a number of uranium deposits including, Cigar Lake, Rabbit Lake, Eagle Point, McClean Lake, Midwest Lake and McArthur River. These are some of the richest uranium deposits in the world.

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Mizuho and Taiwan Cooperative Bank Arrange $103 Million LatAm Cross-Border Syndicated Loan for Bladex in Asia

Estados Unidos (Marketwired, 30 de Septiembre de 2013) Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (Mizuho) and Taiwan Cooperative Bank (TCB) today announced the successful closing of a three-year, US$103 million cross-border syndication for Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. (Bladex). This financing represents the fifth successful cross-border syndicated loan arranged by Mizuho for Bladex in the Asian financial markets since 2009. 

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CFTC aprueba la plataforma de ejecución cambiaria de Tullett Prebon

Internacional (Marketwired, 27 de Septiembre de 2013) Tullett Prebon plc, uno de los principales corredores interleader (entre operadores) del mundo, anunció hoy que la Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Comisión de Trading de Futuros de Materias Primas "CFTC") otorgó un registro temporal para la plataforma de ejecución cambiaria ("SEF") de Tullett Prebon, tpSEF Inc. ("tpSEF"). 

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The Galtere Institute’s Finance for the Future Initiative at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Presents: The Biology of Investor Sentiment: Challenges for Risk Management

Internacional (Marketwired, 26 de Septiembre de 2013) This year's Behavioral Finance Symposium will focus on the differences in the approach to investing from the male and female perspective. Dr. John Coates of Cambridge University, along with some of the world's leading experts on behavioral finance, will come to Chattanooga to provide unique insight into the way investors, traders and financial consultants conduct business and explore the emotions that drive Wall Street.

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