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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 [...]
At an award of € 3.2 billion of bonds yesterday, Madrid was subjected to a yield higher than 5% against less than 4% in recent auctions. This level not seen since 1997. This morning, however, rates slightly relaxed in the market for public debt in the eurozone.
In Italy, the composition of the new [...]
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated their commitment on Sunday during their joint press conference to introduce a tax on financial transactions. "A moral imperative," said the French president.
The measure was one of four priorities, along with food security, infrastructure, and social protection, recalled Friday by the head of state who opened [...]
Star against her financial meetings held Friday and Saturday in Washington as part of the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, Europe had to give pledges its commitment to its partners. Unprecedented procedure, the finance ministers of the euro zone have pledged Saturday in a joint text, with their counterparts around [...]
Special Envoy in Wroclaw (Poland)
It's a tight club, not only for recruitment. But it has rarely received a mission as political. The seventeen finance ministers of the euro are found Friday in Wroclaw, Poland, to give shape to a double commitment: pull Greece out of business and regain control of the single [...]
The week promises to be crucial for Greece and the euro area. Wednesday, an emergency meeting of the International Monetary Fund will meet on Greece, when the "troika" – delegations from the IMF, the European Central Bank (ECB) and European Union (EU) – should his return to Athens to monitor the accounts of the [...]
After two sessions of gains, the Paris Stock Exchange is divided into negative territory on Friday and continues to widen its losses. to 16 hours, the CAC 40 lost more than 3% and returned under the 3000 points to 2989.52 points. London and Frankfurt follow with respective losses of 1.03% and 1.87%.
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LE FIGARO – The government introduced this week its plan to redress public finances. The crisis of this summer did she raised awareness about the need to seize the arms at the waist?
Valerie PÉCRESSE – It has been four years since we conduct a rigorous, freezing state spending, by not replacing an [...]
The European Central Bank pulls its weight in the markets to prevent contagion from the debt crisis in Italy and Spain. In one week, between 4 and 11 August, it bought for 22 billion euros of bonds, she said yesterday. Not since the inception of the buyback of government bonds in the spring 2010 [...]
Relief. Is the word that prevails today in all of world stock markets, after U.S. lawmakers passed this night finally put to agree on raising the debt ceiling. In the wake of the Asian stock markets, the benchmark index in Paris advance to its first weekly session of 1.28% to 3718.38 points.
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