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Consumer Confidence Unexpectedly Down in September
Consumer confidence dropped in the United States in September after gaining the previous month, a private research group found Tuesday.

The presentation of the 22nd Annual Hispanic Heritage Foundation Awards will take place on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 29. The awards were created in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan to commemorate the creation of Hispanic Heritage Month.

The silhouette that launched a thousand fits has become the doll that will launch millions of hits. Dora Links, Mattel's new doll that's a "tween," computer-centric version of Dora the Explorer, has finally been fully unveiled.

MillerCoors is putting out a call for entries for an annual entrepreneurial contest in which the top winner will be awarded a $100,000 grant, and the four runners up will each receive $25,000.

The Hispanic Business 500 has served as a barometer of the U.S. Hispanic economy for more than 25 years. We believe that applying our criteria on a statewide level can yield interesting results for our readers. Here, we take a closer look at the HB 500 companies in Texas.

Myriam Marquez, talks to us about Cuba, politics, and the Miami Herald's struggle for survival.

HispanTelligence Research
HB500
For more than two decades, the annual Hispanic Business 500 directory has served as a barometer of the U.S. Hispanic economy. A purchase of the 2009 directory provides the top 500 Hispanic-owned companies list in Excel format including: CEO names; company addresses and telephone numbers; e-mail addresses for 310 companies and Web addresses for 456 companies; and company revenue and employees numbers for 2008 and 2007.

Hispanics are now the largest ethnic minority in the United States and during the past decade, U.S. Hispanic purchasing power has rapidly increased. This report takes an in depth look at how today's Hispanic Economy is transitioning into an economic power in the U.S. Click here for the executive summary and table of contents!

The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States is expected to grow 41.8 percent in the next six years to 4.3 million, with total revenues surging 39 percent to more than $539 billion, according to new estimates by HispanTelligence. Spurred by growing entrepreneurial trends and affluence among the nation's largest minority population, the increase is expected to come at a robust rate of 8.5 and 8.7 percent, respectfully, over the next couple years.





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