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Spanish unions call for general strike

Friday, March 9th, 2012

UGT and CCOO denounce budgetary rigor and reform and a proposed layoffs while facilitating the country could lose 650,000 jobs this year. An employment agency in Malaga. Spain has an unemployment rate above 20%. The two main Spanish unions, UGT and CCOO, announced Friday a general strike on March ...

Confessions of hard use ECB liquidity in France

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Unlike many of their Italian and English counterparts, French banks are reluctant to disclose their participation in the second refinancing operation three years (LTRO) organized on Wednesday by the Bank Central Bank (ECB). This has lent almost 530 billion euros to banks, bringing to more than 1,000 billion ...

The winners of the cold wave

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

The cold not only promotes EDF and power consumption. It is the business of some traders. Overview of products and stores winners. Sales of soups are expected to exceed 16% this week compared to normal A jacket, an electric heater and a good soup. In this period of extreme ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange finished up 0.76%

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

The Tokyo Stock Exchange finished up Thursday for the third straight session, gaining 0.76%, driven by strong economic indicators judged from the United States and China. The Nikkei gained 67.03 points to 8876.82 points and the Topix, broader took 4.49 points (0.59%) to 762.45 points. Sony, which just announced its ...

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Edenred still plans to achieve by 2012 organic growth in issue volumes of its products between 6% and 14% a year based in particular on its existing markets and expanding its geographical coverage. Beyond its organic levers, the former branch of the Accor group prepaid service, which issues such ...

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Nicolas Sarkozy announced at a meeting Franco-Germano-Italian in Strasbourg, France and Germany propose "in the coming days" measures to amend the treaties. This reform does not concern the ECB, however, because Berlin opposed. President Nicolas Sarkozy meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany, France and Italy, met Thursday 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 ...

Monday, November 14th, 2011

The European Commission will Wednesday unveil new rules for new rules to limit the power of rating agencies. The suspension of a rating and the attack to justice agencies include planned. Moody's in New York. The "blunder" by Standard and Poor's comes almost timely for the European Commission. Brussels ...

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 ...

Annual target for Accor confirmed after a quarter in line

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Accor has confirmed its target of operating profit for 2011 Tuesday by announcing an increase in sales for the third quarter thanks to the acceleration performance of the economy hotel segment. The hotel group Accor is always operating income in 2011 of between 510 and 530 million euros. It ...