Please help me identify Brazilian stocks corresponding to each of the
following 12 industries:  Consumer Durables, Consumer Non-Durables,
Manufacturing, Energy, Chemical, Business Equipment, Telephone and
Television, Utilities, Shops, Health, Finance, and all remaining.

I have obtained the list of industries from
http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/Data_Library/det_12_ind_port.html

In other words, the answer should consist of 12 company names,
and corresponding tickers.  The answer should include a justification
for why you assigned a particular company to a given industry.

Each company's historical (daily or weekly) (1991-2005) price data
should be available on http://finance.yahoo.com (or a similar free
service).

Each company should be one of the major players in the particular
industry (in Brazil).

Example:  If the question above were asking to name 12 U.S. companies
corresponding to those 12 industries, then a sample answer would be:

"Industry	          Company	                Symbol

Consumer Nondurables	  Pepsico	                PEP
Consumer Durables	  General Motors	        GM
Manufacturing	          Goodyear Tire & Rubber	GT
Energy	                  Exxon Mobil	                XOM
Chemicals	          Dow Chemical	                DOW
Business Equipment	  Xerox	                        XRX
Telecommunications	  Sprint	                FON
Utilities	          Duke Energy	                DUK
Shops	                  Target	                TGT
Healthcare	          Pfizer	                PFE
Finance	                  Bank of America	        BAC
Other	                  Hilton Hotels	                HLN

Sources:

Industry classification:  
http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/industry.shtml

Proof that the company is a major player in the industry:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/co?s=IBM
replace "IBM" with the appropriate ticker"

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Request for Question Clarification by thx1138-ga on 29 Jun 2006 14:49 PDT

Hello billbauer,

I am in Brazil, speak Portuguese and should be able to answer your
question.  However the Brazilian stockmarket is divided in to ten
industries and not twelve.  Would you like the market leader in each
of the ten industries as defined by the Brazilian stockmarket?

Regards

THX1138

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Clarification of Question by billbauer-ga on 29 Jun 2006 16:09 PDT

Hello Thx1138

Thank you for your reply.

May I please ask you to list the 10 industries?

Thank you!

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Clarification of Question by billbauer-ga on 29 Jun 2006 16:16 PDT

Are these the 10 industries:  Oil & Gas, Basic Materials, Industrials,
Consumer goods, Health care, Consumer services, Telecommunications,
Utilities, Financials, Technology.

If so, then giving me a Brazilian leading company in each of these 10
industries would be a great answer to my original question.

(I got these industries from
http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/industry.shtml )