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SMALL BUSINESS / ENTREPRENEUR

Rick Munarriz
Most stock investors are intimately familiar with the price-to-earnings ratio. It's simple enough to figure out. Take a stock's price, divide it by the earnings per share over the past year, and you're set with the P/E. It's so easy, even a GEICO caveman can do it.

Last Minute Tax Tips From Micro-Business Expert
It's April, and tax day is right around the corner but small-business owners submitting their 2006 tax returns are in luck.

U.S. Hits Limit for Skilled-worker Visas
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday it reached its limit for 2008 skilled-worker visa petitions in a single day and will not accept any more, to the dismay of technology companies that rely on the visas to hire foreign employees.


POLITICS

Bush to Relaunch Push for Immigration Reform
U.S. President George W. Bush will relaunch his push for a sweeping overhaul of immigration laws by delivering a key speech in Arizona later Monday, the White House said.

Top Gonzales Aide Resigns After Refusing to Testify
A top deputy to embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned abruptly Friday, two weeks after she said she'd invoke the Fifth Amendment rather than testify to congressional investigators who are probing the Bush administration's firing and hiring of eight federal prosecutors.

Chambers of Commerce Tussle Over Name
A name dispute is pitting the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, two organizations that have existed for decades in the nation's capital.


HISPANIC MARKET

Lost In Translation: Legal Issues Raised When a Company Markets to the Hispanic Consumer
A company's decision to target this market by advertising in Spanish -- while it may appear simple at first blush -- can raise a host of legal issues. An analysis by Martin Arias, former advertising counsel for a Fortune 100 company, outlines some of the issues that can get "lost in translation."

Florida Grocers Attempt to Lure Hispanic Clientele
Florida's two dominant supermarket chains, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. and Publix Super Markets, are competing harder than ever for Hispanic consumers by rolling out more Hispanic store formats.

Louis Ruiz, Co-Founder of Ruiz Foods, Dies
Louis Ruiz, an entrepreneur who co-founded the largest Mexican food manufacturing company in the United States – Ruiz Foods, Inc. – died Sunday at his home in Dinuba, Calif. He was 88.

HispanTelligence Research
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The leading 5 DMAs accounted for slightly more than 51 percent of all Hispanic advertising expenditures.

Ad Expenditure Growth by Medium: 2000-2007
Double-digit gains in Hispanic advertising expenditures were made in all media, but television continues to garner the majority of all ad dollars, according to a new HispanTelligence research report.

2006 Hispanic Business 500 Directory
Get the entire 2006 Hispanic Business 500 Directory in Excel format.

Liberty Mutual (2007)
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Nina Garcia
As one of the fashion industry's most powerful editors, Nina Garcia and her staff at Elle magazine influence how and where America's women shop, what they wear, and what retailers will feature in their stores.

2007 Hispanic Business Magazine Elite Women
Our list of 15 elite women nominated for the 2007 Hispanic Business Woman of the Year (WOY).

Standout Performer
Cuban-born Maria Elena Lagomasino managed to ascend Wall Street without blending in.






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