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On the eve of the publication of results of Veolia, a board of directors at high risk took place Wednesday morning. In a terse statement, the board confirmed it was renewing its confidence in the CEO Antoine Frerot. This council was to approve that the group's annual accounts. But the controversy of last week [...]
Talks between GM and PSA continue to advance. Unveiled a less than a week and confirmed in the wake of PSA by management and the ministries concerned, the proposed alliance between the two manufacturers is accurate. In fact GM would consider taking a 5% stake in French group, says Reuters. A stake that could [...]
Friday night, Greece officially launched the enormous debt exchange it has obtained with its private creditors. This is a complex mechanism that aims to relieve the country by erasing more than half of the slate, or 107 billion euros, and pushing the date for repayment of the remainder (99 billion).
How are things [...]
Better than Total, the champion in all categories of profits in France, who won 13.9 billion euros in 2008, Volkswagen has broken every record by clearing a net profit (group share) of EUR 15.4 billion in 2011. A profit that doubled compared to 2010. The German group has become the most profitable automaker in [...]
Senators begin Wednesday examining the text of the social VAT, which transfers 13 billion in employer contributions on VAT and the CSG. This step should be quick: the left majority, should adopt a "previous question", which is to reject the bill Payday advance. The study published Wednesday that INSEE has yet to feed much [...]
Small businesses with fewer than 20 employees (TPE) through a difficult period. "They are in survival mode. They no longer have the slow growth of France, said Jean-Marc Jaumouillé, director of professional techniques in Fiducial. They suffered more in 2011 than in 2008 and 2009. They did not contribute to wealth creation in the [...]
Sony, with its new portable video game console, the PlayStation Vita (Vita PS), released this week in the U.S. and Europe, plays big. The Tokyo group has difficulty in televisions and scalded online players last year due to piracy of bank cards. In addition, Sony should try to forget the limited success of the [...]
Organic products seem immunized against the crisis. Last year, sales were nearly $ 4 billion euros, an increase of at least 10%, as estimated by the Bio Agency. A sacred performance. Over the same period, sales of consumer products (food and hygiene products) have indeed stagnated in volume, and increased by only 3% in [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy has graced the hearings of 20 hours of Laurence Ferrari, Wednesday night. Médiamétrie, l10, 7 million viewers were glued to their screens to follow the live announcement of the candidacy of president in elections 2012. Enough to get the audience share of 36.5% to JT on this one sequence, and even boost [...]
This is the response of tit for tat. While the voltage increases against a backdrop of anti-Israeli attacks attributed by some to Iran and rumors of Israeli strike, Tehran has threatened on Wednesday to suspend its oil exports to six European countries, including France and Greece, reported the Iranian channel Press TV in English [...]