• Why raising the ceiling of the U.S. debt is it so urgent?
The race against Barack Obama committed by a deadline, a week today. Established by Congress to 14.294 billion dollars, the upper limit of U.S. debt has been reached in mid-May and, according to its own calculations, the Treasury will no [...]
From our correspondent in Washington
Serious and ambitious negotiations seem to have finally taken to Washington for fiscal consolidation. The direct involvement of Barack Obama in the process has changed the tone of the negotiations.
"The meeting was very constructive," Obama said Thursday, after receiving two hours the party leaders at the [...]
Stock markets move sharply lower U.S. on Monday. The Dow Jones lost 1.30% to 12,349.10 points, the Nasdaq 1.70% to 2755.69 loose points and the S & P 500 dropped 1.28% to 1316.18 points. On Friday, the NYSE has closed down, yielding to concerns about debt Greek and dragged down by disappointing results considered [...]
Member states of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced that the race to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head IMF will open on Monday. The board of directors composed of representatives from 24 countries and country groups, will collect applications until June 10 nominations. He has set a "target" to designate a replacement directeurdémissionnaire and [...]
The bill introduced last week by the Council of Ministers will be discussed by Parliament and should be voted in the first days of July. Only at that point, once the final text vote, the consequences can be accurately assessed. But it is already possible to assess the consequences of reform, individually and collectively. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Growth has accelerated in late 2010. It was posted at 0.4% in the fourth quarter after a modest increase of 0.2% in the third, according to Insee. It's a bit better than the previous estimate of 0.3% of the National Institute of Statistics. The figure for the year was left unchanged at 1.5% contrast. [...]
At the opening on Tuesday, the Dow Jones and Nasdaq were stable in a market that blew after three days of the increase, as investors continued to monitor the situation in Libya and Japan. Wall Street finished sharply higher.
In Japan, the situation remains uncertain but appears to have stopped deteriorating. The operator [...]