The prosecution had requested 14 years of camp. Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil and its main partner, Platon Lebedev, will eventually serve a new sentence of six years in prison. This penalty is in addition to eight years in prison that the former boss of Yukos is serving since 2005. "The only possible [...]
The Paris Bourse was able to find the 3900 points. Will still he clings to it. She was very far away on Tuesday, while the CAC 40 was chained down its fifth session in a row, in a market where less than a billion euros were traded (800 million). At the opening on Wednesday, [...]
A year without a spark. 2010 has not signed the comeback of mergers and acquisitions strategy, promised by many experts a year earlier. Buoyed by the slight economic recovery and stabilization of the debt markets, the number of transactions has certainly buckled up for the first time since the crisis began in 2007. But [...]
Just unwrapped Christmas presents under the tree, the time of garage sales has already sounded. The French are increasingly likely to sell on the Internet these events or simply duplicate receipts. And since Friday evening, online shopping and online auctions are on deck. PriceMinister recording a peak audience for the Father Christmas is past. [...]
The Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto launched its takeover offer of $ 3.9 billion (about three billion euros) on Riversdale Mining coal but bidding is likely.
The first big acquisition of Rio Tinto from that of the Canadian aluminum companies Alcan in 2007 anticipates a growing Asian demand for coal, the indispensable ingredient [...]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended down 0.23% Wednesday, after reaching a new peak in session for seven months. Investors, however, did not challenge a bullish sentiment background. The Tokyo Stock Exchange will also be closed Thursday for the anniversary of the emperor and in this context, investors have not wanted to stay on large [...]
Sad anniversary for the SRU (Solidarity and Urban Renewal). Passed ten years ago, this text requires municipalities with over 3,500 inhabitants (1500 in Ile de France) a 20% quota of affordable housing for the less affluent. But many municipalities are unaware of their obligation, as revealed in the survey published on Monday dansLibération. While [...]
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INSEE does not believe that France can do beyond 1.6% growth this year. Yet the government had made to believe. "In 2010, growth of the French economy will be significantly higher than our expectations," said even the Prime Minister at a meeting of the National [...]
The right arm of the Minister of Economy Alexander Juniac, will not be the next boss of Areva. As Le Figaro revealed Wednesday on its website, the Committee on Standards in Public – the body that must give its consent to officials and members of cabinet ministers who choose to leave the public service [...]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is virtually unchanged on Tuesday at the closing, but the few points gleaned allow the Nikkei (+0.22%) to climb to 10,316.77 points, a level not seen for seven months.
Japan's industrial production has been declining by 2.0% in October compared to September, and not 1.8% as previously estimated in [...]