Dexia wants to regain its independence. His plan out of state guarantees, established by the French, Belgian and Luxembourg in 2008, must enter its final stage Wednesday with the abandonment of the guarantees on long-term financing. Asked by the daily newspaper Les Echos, Pierre Mariani, managing director of the group, expressed confidence, saying the [...]
While the G20 has been illustrated this weekend of some disagreements, the twenty richest countries of the world reached an agreement on the deficit. Asian stock markets react differently. In Japan, the Nikkei Nikkei lost 0.38% to 9,700 items, further away from the Cape of 10,000 points. In Singapore, however, the Straits wins 0.5% [...]
A draft "courageous, necessary and just." After the day of action against the pension reform, which drew between 797 000 and nearly two million people across France, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, has defended the government's project on air in France Inter Friday. "Our priority is to protect the retirement plan division," she insisted.
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The transaction was announced, it is now finalized. The insurer AXA confirmed on Thursday the conclusion of the sale of a portion of its business specializing in life insurance, pension and insurance plans across the Channel to the British group Resolution. The amount of the transaction amounts to 2.75 billion pounds, or 3.3 billion [...]
After starting the session on an uptick, the indices have fallen into the red after 16 hours. The investors have not welcome the announcement of a retreat, unexpectedly in May, resales of new housing: – 2.2% last month to 5.66 million units annualized, while economists were expecting average of 6.12 million units, or 5.5%. [...]
No change in the short term. But the door remains ajar for two more months. Nicolas Sarkozy held a meeting this FRIDAY on pension reform in the presence of several ministers: Baroin (Budget), Georges Tron (Public Service) and Eric Woerth (Labour). Following this meeting, the President of the Republic has decided to send as [...]
A few hours before the EU summit of heads of State and Government, the markets have sent two positive signals. France and Spain have successfully raised funds from investors to finance their debt, on Thursday morning. Paris has issued 7.99 billion euros of bonds 2, 3 and 5 years and Madrid for 3.48 billion [...]
The situation is much tighter than it appears in the world. The media group has initiated a conciliation procedure with the Registry of the Commercial Court of Paris.
This measure, launched in May, led to the appointment in early June, a conciliator in the person of the administrator Regis Valliot Specialist sensitive files [...]
The World Cup soccer does it threaten the global productivity? It is a question that may arise after the publication of a survey conducted by Monster in early April: according to the specialist in career management and online recruitment, 19% of French workers say they are watching the World at their place of work, [...]
The rich are resisting. Despite the crisis, the number of millionaires grew by 14% in 2009, according to the annual Global Wealth 2010 "published on Thursday in New York by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). This increase brings the total number of dollar millionaires homes to 11.2 million. Less than one percent of households [...]