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UK growth to its most sustained pace in 9 years

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

The growth of the British economy in the second quarter was revised up, the country with even its strongest pace of growth in over nine years, according to data released Friday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), but Analysts doubt that this improvement continues. The gross domestic product ...

Airbus has more than doubled its orders through Farnborough

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Airbus announces more than doubled its aircraft orders this year thanks to Farnborough but this abundant harvest has been ruined by the cancellation of three billion dollars of orders from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise. DAE leasing company based in Dubai, has reduced by 25% the volume of an order for ...

COR-Lafarge lowers its forecast cement demand

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Lafarge has lowered its forecast for 2010 demand for cement in view of the demand in the second quarter, during which the group's turnover fell 2% as organic. The first cement world now exceed its target of 500 million euros from divestments of non-strategic assets for 2010 and said ...

The Elysee imposes a strategic alliance between EDF and Areva

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

EDF and Areva will conclude a strategic partnership agreement covering all their areas of common interest in nuclear power, said Nicolas Sarkozy. The possibility of a stake in the capital of EDF, Areva will be considered in the context of this agreement, the Elysee said in a statement. ...

Orange and Canal Plus negotiate a partnership

Monday, July 26th, 2010

France Telecom and Canal Plus are negotiating a partnership that could see the two groups merge TPS Star and at least one channel from the bouquet Orange Cinema Series, Monday wrote Le Figaro and La Tribune, without citing sources. Discussions could be officially announced this week at the board ...

Down by 0.2% in construction spending in May in the U.S.

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Construction spending in the United States showed a smaller decline than expected in May, official statistics show. The Commerce Department reported a 0.2% decrease overall expenditure on construction in May to 841.9 billion dollars on an annualized basis, after rising by 2.3% (revised) in April, which was the largest ...

Michelin takes its revenge in the press

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Expansion-The barometer LexisNexis sifts through each week more than 12,700 newspapers to establish the classification of large French companies leased more ... or more decried. The revenge of the old French industrial jewels. The award for "best news" of the week comes to Michelin. According to scores of ...