Technip has exceeded all expectations. The group specialized in oilfield services announced an operating profit up 14.4% to 709.5 million euros, where analysts expected at least 690 million euros. Similarly, net income rose 21.5% to 507.3 million euros, a record for the band, and exceeds 488 million euros expected by the financial community. As [...]
To receive a new grant of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, the Greek parliament must adopt a new set of austerity measures. Since the crisis began in September 2009, the addition of austerity plans that inflicts Athens in the emergency exceeds the 169 billion euros. Some are new, others have already [...]
Air traffic is still disrupted on Tuesday. On the second day of the strike against government plans to introduce more tightly the right to strike in the aviation sector, Air France said in a statement to be able to provide over 50% of its long-haul flights , and 70% of its flights short-and medium-haul. [...]
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 [...]
The fight against tax evasion is paying off. She has twenty countries struggling against leakage to tax havens in two years to recover 14 billion euros in revenue, according to the OECD. The organization, which held today and tomorrow's fourth Global Forum on transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes, also believes that [...]
Creditor banks in Greece will have to accept losses "substantial" in the new bailout of the country, warned Saturday the European Ministers of Finance. At a meeting Friday evening, the central bankers of the euro zone have "agreed to say that we had to have a substantial increase in the contribution of the banks' [...]
The contours of the nationalization of Dexia emerge. When Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel discussed the rescue of banks in the euro area in Berlin, Prime Minister François Fillon, his counterpart Yves Leterme and representatives of Luxembourg have them addressed this issue in a summit to looks like a marathon. And this morning, after [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]