The auto sector continued its decline in France in October. Anticipating the release Tuesday of registration figures, the industry minister Christian Estrosi announced on Sunday an overall decrease of 1% of sales of new passenger cars at the end of October compared to last year. "The share of French brands is 55%. So the [...]
Wait and prudence should reign in the Paris Stock Exchange on Friday. The CAC 40, which had rebounded 0.50% to close Thursday through publications in above expectations of heavy odds, it could be difficult to continue its momentum. As in Asia this morning, the U.S. macroeconomic news may bounce back because of a slowdown [...]
That is the figure most anticipated. Thursday morning, France Telecom will release its quarterly results. Everyone expects the first sales figures of the package open, offering quadruple play (Internet, television, landline and mobile) launched with much fanfare last August 19. According to our information, at the end of September, the operator has already sold [...]
Investors pocketed a share of their profits to the Paris Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Halfway through, the CAC 40 lost 0.56% to 3848.15 points. Same atmosphere in the rest of Europe, the FTSE-100 index in London lost 0.82% to 5704.86 points while in Frankfurt the DAX index was down 0.30% to 6619.02 points.
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"This trial is necessary to protect our investments in innovation." In a brief statement on Monday, a spokesman for Gemalto warrant legal action initiated in the United States by the group against Google, HTC, Motorola and Samsung. Gemalto accuses these companies' use of Gemalto's innovation in the Android operating system, the virtual machine Dalvik, [...]
Oil refinery strike Grandpuits, near Paris, was requisitioned by the government early Friday morning "on behalf of the interests of national defense." A cordon citizen "of about 80 people, residents and activists of other corporations, trying to prevent the requisitioning of the refinery ordered by the prefect
Total Grandpuits site, Seine-et-Marne is one [...]
Women of the European Union will be able to pamper longer. The subject of the extension of maternity leave – after having been postponed several times – was on Wednesday voted to Parliament. MEPs in Strasbourg have decided to raise it to 20 weeks. The statutory leave is currently 14 weeks in Europe and [...]
Mobilization pushed the streets between 1.1 million and 3.5 million French on Tuesday, according to figures from the Interior Ministry and unions. The latter therefore intend to continue their actions on Wednesday, but the SNCF and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to a slight improvement in traffic:
According to a statement [...]
107 billion dollars went up in smoke! This is the amount of losses in 2010 worldwide by distributors because of shrinkage, that is to say stock losses due to crime or administrative errors.
Revealed Tuesday by Checkpoint, 2010 earnings are still in progress, shrink falling by 5.6% compared to 2009. It represents 1.36% [...]
Liliane Bettencourt is seeking to stop the repeated requests for guardianship made by his daughter, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers. Considering himself "harassed", it should file a complaint early next week for "moral violence". "We are finalizing the complaint for moral violence which is a form of crime that very recent assimilates to physical violence," said [...]