Oil has replaced Greece in the range of concerns hanging over the economy. Soaring 16% of black gold prices since the beginning of the year poses a risk to the already soft recovery experienced by developed countries, some economists fear. "We watched the beginning of last year: rising oil prices has the power to [...]
And if all eyes were still staring on the wrong side? Wednesday night, when presenting the new iPad in San Francisco, Apple also announced a significant drop in the price of iPad 2, which will continue to be sold in parallel. EUR 489, the tablet entry level is now moving to 409 euros (399 [...]
This is the last resort of former employees of Marionnaud to keep their jobs. Threatened with dismissal by their current company, the subcontractor ECLA, they attack the distributor of cosmetics to justice. They hope the judge will rule Tuesday, recognize the responsibility of Marionnaud in their troubles, and force it to take over labor [...]
While the infidels realize a carton on French screens (the second best start to the year after the Would I Lie 3), the authorities of a small Indonesian province just released an initiative that could find its place in the film co-written by Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche. The leaders of Gorontalo, north-eastern Indonesia, [...]
Within three months of the start of Euro 2012, a poker game liar seems to be set up around the awarding of television broadcasting rights for the European tournament leading. While UEFA has still not issued its final decision on the diffuser of the competition, RMC Sport announced this morning that the ogre TV [...]
Apple promises to all iPhone users: using its Safari browser, they will escape hyperciblées advertisements on the Internet. The firm at the apple has, indeed, with his navigator, also available on Mac computers, an automatic locking mechanism that prevents the specialists in online advertising to place cookies on websites and thereby to determine an [...]
The report by the Center for Strategic Analysis in a housing report released Wednesday is brutal: while the subject of aid mobilizes huge (37 billion euros) from the State and local governments, households the less fortunate spend more on housing. In 2005, they spent at this position 41.4% of their income against 25% in [...]
It's a real ras-le-bol. While the mobilization of personnel in the aviation sector against a bill regulating the right to strike ends this Thursday evening after four days of disturbances, the travel agencies are concerned about the economic impact of this social movement. "These four-day strike has caused additional work for tour operators, amounting [...]
According to Yves Leterme, Prime Minister Acting laBelgique, the decision was not "totally unexpected". The announcement of the rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the sovereign rating Friday night in Belgium – the passing of AA + to AA – is nevertheless "naturally bad news."
In the viewfinder of the rating agency, the [...]
McDonald's could have done this new scandal. Committed for 10 years in a campaign to improve its image and to defend the quality of its products, the giant U.S. fast food undergoes further attacks of his detractors. At issue this time, the treatment of chickens by a subcontractor of the group providing the eggs [...]