Wall Street expected without much conviction

The U.S. stock market should open very slightly up on Monday. Futures on Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 advanced in effect of 0.01% to 1236 points and 0.05% to 2216 points. On Friday, Wall Street ended the week on a slightly positive note. The Dow Jones gained 0.35% to 11 410.32 points, [...]

Areva will reach 900 million euros of fresh money

The supervisory board of Areva will meet Saturday morning at 10 o'clock to discuss his plan to increase capital, informed that on Friday a spokesman for the group. Several meetings of the supervisory board have been recently reported in the French nuclear specialist who struggles to complete a new round.
According to latest [...]

Eurozone: Sarkozy household Merkel

Heavily criticized for his handling of the debt crisis, Angela Merkel can at least count on the support of Nicolas Sarkozy, will host today at Freiburg on the occasion of the thirteenth Cabinet Franco-German. On Thursday, the Elysee said there was "no place" to discuss the issue of Eurobonds, "while the Euro has come [...]

Wall Street opening close to balance

On an annual basis, total consumer credit was up 1.7% (+3.4 billion). It is the second consecutive increase after 19 months of decline. This movement is explained by the growth in loans, which include auto loans, personal loans and student loans that climb by 6.8% over the month of October. However, revolving credit continues to [...]

The "revolution" Cantona is emulated

Some 38,000 members to the group entitled "On 7 December, we will all withdraw our money from banks" should meet tomorrow Tuesday at the call of former footballer. The buzz created by Eric Cantona was even echoed in several European countries like the United Kingdom, where the former football remains an icon – the [...]

Spain: Flights resume after strike

The first flights took off from Spanish airports late Saturday afternoon after almost 24 hours of a wildcat strike by air traffic controllers who has blocked hundreds of thousands of passengers on the ground at the dawn of a great weekend holiday weekend in Spain.
Two thirds of the Spanish air traffic controllers [...]

Germany opens its jobs to immigrants

Faced with the dramatic fall in unemployment in Germany and the growing demand for skilled labor, Berlin has decided to facilitate access to foreign immigrants in the German labor market. At the request of employers, the Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen, has finally decided to lighten the administrative procedures for immigrant workers in [...]