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Alcatel-Lucent aims to compete with the best

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Alcatel-Lucent can now aspire to eventually reach the same level of profitability that the best class in the sector of telecom equipment, said its managing director Ben Verwaayen. This aspiration may seem ambitious for a group whose time some investors doubted the chances of survival and that has ...

The future of Greece in the hands of the Eurogroup

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Finance ministers from the euro zone must give the green light today to the payment of a loan of 130 billion euros to Greece to avoid going bankrupt. The Temple of Zeus in Athens. The partners of Greece in the euro area, which meet Monday, should agree on a ...

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

The level of consumer confidence in the French economic situation is similar to that which prevailed at the height of the financial crisis began in 2008, a negative signal for the consumer to a few weeks holiday season. The French surveyed by INSEE in November have also never been ...

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that he be assigned intrusive powers in national budgets, which could pave the way for joint programming of debt by the countries of the euro area, a perspective that no country is opposed in principle , she said. The EU executive believes that ...

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Françoise Bettencourt asked some of the insurance-lives of his mother after she had spent an agreement with her mother. 93 million euros are at stake Françoise Bettencourt asked some of the insurance-lives of his mother after she had a gracious past with his mother. 93 million euros are at stake ...

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Production and Japanese exports may stagnate before recording a modest recovery, said Thursday the Bank of Japan, which refers to the economic outlook made highly uncertain by the slowdown in global growth and the impact of the strong yen . Floods in Thailand will also affect exports significantly in ...

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

French deputies adopted on Wednesday by 315 votes against 198 the draft budget law for 2012 that the Senate will consider in turn on Thursday. Groups and UMP New Centre (NC) voted this draft budget called "obsolete" by the leftist opposition, who voted against. This draft budget, the ...

Saturday, November 12th, 2011

States in the euro zone must do more at European level and give some of their budgetary and fiscal responsibilities to the European institutions to overcome the debt crisis, said the German finance minister in interviews published Saturday. Wolfgang Schäuble told the German weekly Focus that Italy would be ...

Orpea was up 27.5% of quarterly sales

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Orpea announced Wednesday an increase of 27.5% of its sales in the third quarter 2011 due to high occupancy of its homes and its clinics. At 311.7 million euros, sales of the group recorded organic growth of 8.8%, Orpea said in a statement. "The dynamics related to both ...

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Swiss Re on Thursday posted quarterly results significantly better than expected but declined to give an assessment of damage caused by floods in Thailand. Net income for the Swiss reinsurer has more than doubled in the third quarter to $ 1.35 billion (988 million) against 618 million in the ...