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For detailed information on the firm we invite you to visit LevinKate Eisenberg, Copyright Business Wire 2009. (Updates with bourse close, fresh trader comment) Stocks  |  Currencies  |  Bonds By Alexia Vlahos SANTIAGO, June 12 (Reuters) – Chilean shares closedslightly weaker on Friday as investors took profits a day afterthey hit their highest level since early December 2007, whilethe peso ended flat, traders said. The blue-chip IPSA index .IPSA closed down 0.16 percentat 3,252.50 points, preliminary closing data showed, while theall-market IGPA index .IGPA fell 0.12 percent to 15,448.49points. “It was profit-taking basically,” said Felipe Cruz, atrader at the CorpCapital brokerage.

“The market had risen alot and people had been waiting for the bourse to correct a bitbefore coming in.” The IPSA, which is up 36.9 percent year-to-date, rosearound 16 percent in May, when it posted its biggest gain in asingle month since January 1994. Soquimich (SQM_pb.SN), Chile’s leading exporter offertilizer and one of the world’s biggest producers of iodineand lithium, fell 1.08 percent to 21,603 pesos, while regionalenergy group Enersis (ENE.SN) fell 0.52 percent to 193.73pesos. Shares in Steelmaker CAP (CAP.SN) rose 1.26 percent to14,990 pesos. Cencosud (CEN.SN), one of Latin America’s largestretailers, fell 0.34 percent to 1,456.50 pesos, while retailerLa Polar (LAP.SN) fell 0.10 percent to 2,201.20 pesos a share.

Chile’s peso CLP=CL closed flat at 562.00/562.30 perdollar compared with Thursday’s close of 562.00/562.50. “It was quite a slow day with low volume trade and withslightly negative fundamentals, which didn’t have a big effecton the exchange rate,” said one foreign exchange dealer. The peso is up 14.1 percent against the dollar year-to-dateafter slumping 22.3 percent in 2008. (With reporting by Froilan Romero and Manuel Farias; Editingby Dan Grebler) Stocks Currencies Bonds. DALLAS–(Business Wire)–So far, Oncor has restored power to more than 400,000 homes and businesses. Atthis point, less than 80,000 homes and businesses remain without power.