In the first half of 2011, a resumption of sales of businesses began. The second barometer on the subject made jointly by the State and Altares, released Thursday, reported a sales increase of 2.4% over the first six months of the year. These sales were heavily impacted by the crisis in 2009, transactions were [...]
Since the beginning of the week, investors in Europe and the United States, is won over by a wave of optimism about the outcome of the crisis of sovereign debt. The CAC 40 jumped 5.74% on Tuesday to finish the session at 3023.38 points, aligning a third straight session rebound. Another encouraging sign is [...]
Gold has not used its safe haven status
Everything came together last week to blow away the gold: a warning from the Fed on the U.S. economy, disappointing indicators in Europe and China and a worsening debt crisis in Europe. And yet, the yellow metal has not taken advantage of the panic in equity markets, [...]
Finally some good news for state coffers. The mobile operators are making a check for 936 million euros.
Thursday, Arcep, the telecoms regulatory authority has given the results of the first batches of spectrum being auctioned. Bouygues Telecom, Free Mobile, Orange and SFR have each acquired spectrum for the fourth generation mobile phone [...]
Thirty years after the invention of the "contract of confidence" of Darty, the station is preparing its own it could be called the "guarantee travel." One way to reconcile with its customers by ensuring a better quality of service. According to the management team of the SNCF, held in Reims Wednesday during his annual [...]
Fun Radio had a good 2010-2011 season, recording four audience records during the period. On the last wave Médiamétrie April-June, the station was credited with 7.8% of total audience. Bolstered by this success, the music radio group RTL to conquer the world. Already present in Belgium and Slovakia, Fun Radio has "grow out of [...]
After five consecutive gains, Wall Street switches to red. On Monday, the Dow finished the session on a drop of 0.94% to 11,401.01 points, the Nasdaq drops 0.36% to 2612.83 points while the S & P 500 was down 0.98% to 1204.09 points.
Operators are showing more and more skeptical about the ability [...]
Criticized for having set fire to the powder with his statements on the need to recapitalize European banks, Christine Lagarde can rejoice: the idea has gained ground among European leaders that eventually joined the Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund on subject.
Meeting in Wroclaw, Poland, the finance ministers of the euro [...]
Lefigaro.fr – Can we say that Kweku Adoboli is "the new Kerviel"?
Frederic Boulier – It is true that there are many similarities with the Kerviel affair. The amounts are lost in the same order of magnitude. Jerome Kerviel lost 4.9 billion euros at Societe Generale, but before the "unwinding" of his positions, [...]
The verdict is Moody's fell this morning: the agency has lowered a notch notes Crédit Agricole (Aa2) and Societe Generale (Aa3) and confirmed that of BNP Paribas (Aa2). It is far from the severe penalty that the market seemed to dread Monday when French banking stocks were massacred in the aftermath of a weekend [...]