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Guillaume Pepy, SNCF president, participated in the assault of Russian Railways, which it wants to sell its expertise in high-speed train. He promised the boss of Russian Railways SNCF Participations that "the tender to be announced in late 2011 to build a high-speed line between Moscow and St. Petersburg," he said Monday in 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 [...]
The anxiety begins to rise in the staffs of distributors. Since last May, in response to rising prices in hypermarkets and supermarkets, French households scratch some products of their shopping list. In late February, the central purchasing of hypermarkets and supermarkets had completed, in pain, their traditional annual tariff negotiations with food manufacturers and [...]
Nervousness still dominates in the Asian markets on Friday. In the wake of rebound late in the session Thursday on Wall Street and Europe, Asian stock markets were first opened up before erasing a portion of their earnings. Shortly before 7 o'clock, the Nikkei index of 225 blue chips Tokyo yields 0.26% to 8958.84 [...]
Tensions rise within the European Union. The Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager already concerned about a possible increase in the allocation of European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). Although no decision has been taken at the special summit on 21 July he wrote in a letter to his Parliament that a reassessment "significant" [...]
The U.S. stock markets are expected to open higher on Tuesday in a small, driven by better than expected results. Future of Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 advance respectively from 0.64% to 1308.70 points and 0.68% at 2356 points. On Monday, the New York Stock Exchange finished down.
Investors are increasingly [...]
Professionals of the solar French looked forward to these provisions since the beginning of the year. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet for Le Figaro reveals new rules for large installations in excess of 100 kilowatts peak (kWp) more than 1000 m2 of photovoltaic panels. They go through a series of tender whose final details were refereed this [...]
Investors are serious threats to U.S. debt. After Moody's, Standard & Poor's is who placed the AAA rating of U.S. debt on negative watch, a move that paves the way for a potential degradation of this note in three months. The debates in Congress about raising the ceiling of the debt of the United [...]
"There are two ways to bring artists in a festival. It depends if you have money or if we have not. " Here's how CEO François Floret and coprogrammateur Festival Route du Rock in Saint-Malo (from 12 to 14 August 2011), summarizes the difficulties faced by the organizers of summer music festivals at the [...]
This is a record for Le Figaro and a record for news sites. In May 2011, The Figaro.fr exceeded 8 million unique visitors monthly, according to figures released Thursday by Médiamétrie / / NetRatings. At the high for the 31st time in three years, the gate ahead and Orange News (6.39 million unique visitors) [...]