Home Shopping Latino Inc. is launching the only network of its kind – a QVC-style shopping channel aimed at the Hispanic market. Targeting the United States in early 2010, the channel will be aired under the name of ViVa Telecompras. The company intends to sell products such as jewelry, gemstones, vitamins and beauty care items from third-party merchandisers.

Several weeks ago, the company announced an agreement with MadAmerican Exports Inc. to import sapphires, rubies, emeralds, garnets, tourmaline and other precious gems from the nation of Madagascar. This country is an Indian Ocean island nation off the east coast of Africa that is exceptionally rich in minerals and gemstones.

MadAmerican Exports CEO Biclair Andrianantoandro is an excellent person for Home Shopping Latino to partner with because he is well-known and well-respected by all political factions in Madagascar. He has held many official positions in

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Home Shopping Latino, Inc. has come a long way from CEO Frank Celecia’s original idea two and a half years ago to launch a television shopping channel for the U.S. Hispanic market. In spite of previous ill-fated attempts by others, Celecia felt that the time was now right with a bigger and more prosperous Latino market. HSL sees itself as eventually filling a niche for some 10-13 million U.S. Hispanic homes, a market which is expected to continue to grow to $1 trillion by 2011.

HSL is headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, but its on-air television and website production operations are located in Miami, Florida. The Miami area is a center for Latin television and film production. The company will launch its QVC-style network under the name “Viva Telecompras”, selling gemstones, jewelry, vitamins, and beauty care products, all provided by

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Home Shopping Latino Inc., focused on airing the only network of its kind to service the exploding Latino market in the USA with the on air name Viva TeleCompras, today announced an agreement with ROCCX and Executive Producer Rosario Marino for the production of five one hour segments to be aired on Viva’s Network.

According to recent statistics, the total Latino population in the United States is at 42.7 million, making them the largest minority group in the United States. The loyalty and size of the Latino market is readily apparent in the fact that Univision is now the 5th largest television network in the United States behind ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. Latino spending power has reached $700 billion and is expected to top $1 billion by 2010.

A Miami-based dynamic group of perfectly bilingual skilled professionals with expertise in the areas

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Home Shopping Latino Inc., doing business as Viva Telecompras, is an all Spanish language TV channel and online shopping website. The company will broadcast from Miami, Florida and expand its market via airtime and website broadcasts. The network will sell products provided by third-party wholesalers such as beauty care, vitamins, and in particular gemstones and jewelry.

Initially, the company is most interested in marketing high-quality, high-margin gemstones from the nation of Madagascar and has already developed a relationship to do so with MadAmerican Exports. Viva Telecompras will later subtract with jewelry manufacturers in Florida to make jewelry using these fine gemstones.

Home Shopping Latino is attempting to fill a very profitable niche in the home shopping industry with its Hispanic shopping channel. The Hispanic population is the fastest growing demographic – 9.3 million households with a population of over 35 million

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Home Shopping Latino Inc., and a new Latino Shopping Network, the only network of its kind to service the exploding Latino market in the USA, with the on air name ViVa Telecompras, today announced an agreement with MadAmerican Exports, Inc. to import sapphires, rubies, emeralds, garnets, tourmaline and other precious gems from Madagascar, an Indian Ocean island nation off the coast of Africa known for being exceptionally rich in minerals and gemstones.

MadAmerican Exports CEO Biclair Andrianantoandro previously served as Director of Exports and Ministry of Commerce, as well as Deputy and Acting Ambassador of Madagascar to the United Nations and Deputy and Acting Ambassador of Madagascar to the United States.

Home Shopping Latino CEO Frank Celecia stated, “Mr. Andrianantoandro is well-known and well-respected by all political factions in Madagascar. He has held many official positions and assisted in the promotion

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DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA): Stock of the Day

Judith Martin, The Investment U Research Team

One o’clock on a Saturday. What to do?

For less than the cost of just one mango margarita, you could be in an air-conditioned theater with friends or family for the matinee showing of a summer blockbuster.

This is where I’ve been most of my summer Sundays, strolling in late to find the theaters already packed. And there’s no company profiting more from my seat-searching stress than DreamWorks Animation (Nasdaq: DWA).

Last year, the company’s animation team wowed audiences of all ages with Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Kung Fu Panda, the number one animated film of the year.

This year the company aims to do it again with its newest release, the 3-D animated film Monsters vs. Aliens, featuring the voices of beloved stars Reese

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Bloomberg reports that Ghana’s Eurobonds have surged 93% since last November and may continue to rise given the country’s increasingly attractive fiscal position due in part to the production of a new oil field that is expected to put it in the world’s top 50 oil producers and to expand growth from an estimated 4.1% this year, to 6.1% in 2010 and 10.5% the year after. The yield on the 8.5% dollar-denominated bonds due 2017 fell from 9.83 to 9.73 percent during trading on Tuesday.

Ghana was the first post-HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Country) debt relief country to access the international capital markets, after being assigned a favorable credit rating of B+ in 2007 by the Fitch, the global rating agency. While a slew of other African nations such as Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria lined up in response, capital markets and risk appetite shriveled during the ensuing

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A recent study published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) at the request of UN Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), confirms the fears of many critics that land deals in Africa and Asia may in practice be little more than “neocolonialism”.

The report found that many countries do not have sufficient mechanisms to protect local rights and take account of local interests, livelihoods and welfare. A lack of transparency and of checks and balances in contract negotiations can promote deals that do not maximize the public interest. Insecure local land rights, inaccessible registration procedures, vaguely defined productive use requirements, legislative gaps and other factors too often undermine the position of local people.

Both The Economist and the Financial Times have weighed in on the issue, underlining the social and economic concerns such deals raise for local farmers, but

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Gold took it on the chin for a second consecutive day with the financials showing signs of strength during Wednesday’s session on the Canadian Markets. For the tale of the tape; the TSX Exchange added 0.93%, while the TSX Gold Index lost 0.3% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, rallied 0.16% with the advancers edging out the decliners by a 374 to 349 margin on 133 million shares traded.

It was a rough day for Sherritt International after the company tabled a $592.1 million or $2.03 per share loss in the fourth quarter thanks in large part to a $463.3 million impairment of goodwill on its Ambatovy Project in Madagascar. In 2008, Sherritt recorded a net loss of $289.7 million or $1.05 per share compared to 2007 net earnings of $370.4 million, or $1.79 per share. More importantly, Sherritt came out and stated that it may

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African agriculture has become a hot topic since last weeks announcement that a U.S. investor lease large parts of South Sudan. This followed the news a few months ago that South Korea’s Daweoo Logistics secured rights to plant corn and palm oil in Madagascar.br /br /Investor interest in farmland is focused on increasing food prices and demographics. br /There is clearly room for improvement in the continent’s full agricultural potential. Mechanised agriculture and bigger farms will lead to major productivity gains. One word of warning however, land ownership could prove contentious. On the ground expertise is a must.