Carrefour Market on strike, but no stores closed

This Saturday, employees from 150 to 200 stores, according to unions – the 600 Carrefour Market in France responded to the strike call by the CGT. They want to be housed in the same boat as their 65,000 colleagues in Carrefour hypermarkets, ie receive vouchers restaurants. They are also demanding wage increases of 5 [...]

French growth: economists remain cautious

The good news on growth, announced Thursday night by François Fillon and Christine Lagarde, has been confirmed on Friday morning. The business grew by 1% over the first three months of the year, INSEE said on Friday. This figure is well above expectations, which ranged around 0.6%. It guarantees, according to calculations by Nicolas [...]

The Asian market continues its momentum

Asian stock markets continue their slow progress on Wednesday. After the strong rebound of U.S. indexes on Tuesday, the Nikkei 225 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange is 0.55% to 9873.22 points. The yen remained stable vis-à-vis the dollar at 80.86 yen to the dollar.
While the group must report its results after the [...]

Taiwan face the brain drain

From our special correspondent in Taipei
The president himself, Ma Ying-jeou has made it a matter of "national security". Taiwan lets out his brains to neighboring countries. Last month, at an electronics fair held in Taipei, three major companies in Singapore specializing in semiconductor tried to entice the nose and beard of the [...]

Sony delays PlayStation Recovery

Sony struggles to emerge from the crisis triggered by piracy giant hit 100 million user accounts on its network of online video games PlayStation, particularly involving banking data. The electronics giant has had to delay the resumption of the site planned this weekend: his engineers need more time to ensure network security and protect [...]

"Madame Figaro" launches a monthly digital

The accelerating pace of innovation in digital media. Madame Figaro aims to be at the forefront of this movement. The women's weekly, which has already launched a month ago its version for the iPad, try a new adventure with i-Mad, an application for tablets whose mission is to offer a new reading experience.
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Wall Street sees red, not good predictors

U.S. stock markets end in red on Wednesday, linking their third consecutive session of decline. The Dow Jones fell 0.66% to 12,723.58 points, the Standard Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 have them, respectively dropped 0.69% to 1347.32 points and 2828.23 points to 0.47%. On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange finished mixed.
Investors [...]

Nuclear: The draft of the EPR would Penly down

At a time when several large countries, like Germany, Italy and Switzerland have decided to phase out nuclear power, France would follow suit. The draft second EPR Penly it is the first EPR Flamaville under construction – on the Channel coast could be put to sleep.
In an interview with the magazine Challenges, [...]

SNCF launches trains flextime

SNCF launches new offer Trade: the "trains with schedules to be confirmed." Now, customers of the railway company will be able to book well in advance over their places on the routes affected by work, with some uncertainty about the departure time up to 60 minutes for night trains Fifteen minutes for other trains. [...]