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When members begin on Tuesday the review of the proposed supplementary budget, including measures of anti-deficit plan presented by François Fillon end of August, Martine Aubry is firing on all cylinders on a policy it deems as "unfair "that" ineffective ". That same day, in the columns of The Tribune, the Socialist candidate for [...]
Friday promises to be as black as the night before at the Paris Bourse. The CAC 40 was launched on the day down 0.37% to 3064.49 points. But around 9:40, the drop is accelerating: the Paris index unscrewed from 3.44% to 2970.13 points, releasing the threshold of 3000 points. London and Frankfurt lost respectively [...]
Nearly 40,000 people packed Monday to Lourdes to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. On the main plaza, religious habit, patients in wheelchairs and stretchers August 15 … A regular in the small town of Hautes-Pyrenees. Processions to the grotto of the apparitions of the Virgin, immersion in pools of spring water, candles and [...]
Mired for weeks in a battle with fellow Brazilian Carrefour, the retail group Casino has announced interim results this morning quite satisfactory. In the first six months of the year, the company has seen its sales jump 18.8% to 16.14 billion euros (+7.1% organic growth), more than 15.98 billion euros anticipated by analysts. Taking [...]
Wall Street began the week with no direction. After a sharp decline Friday, the Dow Jones ended unchanged at 11,952.97 points, the S & P 500 gained 0.07% to 1271.83 points. In contrast, the Nasdaq was down 0.15% to 2639.69 points.
The discussions were led by several merger announcements of company news generally [...]
Traditionally, the post of IMF Managing Director is awarded every five years to a European. Except that this time, the so-called "emerging", such as China or Brazil, hoping to appear in the landscape of global governance.
If emerging markets do not seem to agree on the way to propose a single candidate set, [...]
The Paris Bourse hoisted the green flag, encouraged by a bargain-hunting and foresight of a debt rescheduling Greek. Halfway through the CAC 40 advances 0.79% at 3942.62 points. On Tuesday, the Paris Stock Exchange closed sharply down by 1.21%. In the past four sessions, the Cac 40 lost nearly 3%.
Other major European [...]
Business leaders may have breathed a sigh of relief last night when he saw the plunge of the main raw materials. In recent months, they look indeed with concern the soaring price of those commodities. Their concern was evidenced in the accounts of the first quarter of the year or in the speeches of [...]
The United Kingdom intends to remove the expiration date shown on the packaging of certain foods like pasta, cereals, bread. A drastic measure, inspired by a 2008 study whose results are shocking. Each year one third of food purchased by the British end up in the trash. The study evaluates to seven million tons [...]
The euro zone continues its obstacle course towards the definition of a total revenue to the debt crisis. On the night of Friday to Saturday, the leaders have made real progress on the loan terms to the peripheral countries. Finance ministers find themselves on Monday for further details and talk about governance.
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