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Monday, April 11, 2011

Colombia Stocks : ETB, Ecopetrol Decline; Cementos Argos Rises

The following companies had unusual price changes in Bogota trading. 

Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of 4 p.m. New York time.

The IGBC Index fell 0.5 percent to 14,482.01, while the Colcap Index dropped 0.3 percent to 1,703.10.

Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota SA (ETB CB), the state-run phone company serving Colombia’s capital, fell 3.9 percent to 612 pesos.

Comptroller Monica Certain gave the company 10 days to file a plan of action to keep from continuing to lose value after failing to find a strategic partner to finance an expansion.

Cementos Argos (CEMARGOS CB) rose 1 percent to 10,600 pesos.

The company announced today completion of a 900 billion peso ($495 million) roadway in Barranquilla, according to the daily La Republica.

Ecopetrol SA (ECOPETL) , Colombia’s largest oil company, dropped 1.7 percent to 3,700 pesos, its lowest price since Sept. 30, 2010, as crude fell from a 30-month high after the International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecasts for the U.S. and Japan.

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