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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 ...

Enthusiasm on the Stock Exchange about a possible alliance PSA-GM

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

The prospect of a possible alliance between the French PSA Peugeot Citroen and General Motors Wednesday raised the enthusiasm on the stock market but also concern about the employment front, factories Europé ; Ennes both manufacturers suffering from overcapacity. PSA announced Tuesday evening study a proposed alliance, without ...

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 ...

Wall Street opens up small, hopes on Greece

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Wall Street opened higher Friday as investors bet on breakthroughs in the Greek case, but the gains may be limited after the sharp rise in the S & P 500 and on the eve of a holiday weekend, the markets are closed Monday. The Standard & Poor's 500, ...

The "bulls" retain control this week on Wall Street

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

Despite weak corporate earnings and signs of an overbought market, the "bulls" (those who play upwards) may retain control over Wall Street next week. Since the opening of the "season" of results, 352 companies in the S & P 500 have published their accounts and only 63% beat ...

Greece: the far-right ministers resign

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Three of the four right-wing ministers and a Minister of the Socialist government of Lucas Papademos submitted their resignations in protest against the new austerity plan. Three of the four ministers of the Greek far-right party Laos opposing the new austerity measures demanded by the creditors of the countries presented ...

Deficit: the Court of Auditors advocates more effort

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Barely 10% of the effort to rebalance public finances French was realized last year, warned the Court of Auditors in its annual report public. She said the largest portion of the road will remain ahead in 2013 and 2014. The first president of the Court of Auditors, Didier Migaud, presented ...

Coca-Cola beats consensus, plans to cut costs

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Coca-Cola released Tuesday quarterly net income down, although higher than expected, and announced a new program to reduce its costs, which pushed up the title of 1.3% in pre-market trading. Net income in the fourth quarter totaled $ 1.65 billion (1.25 billion euros), or 72 cents a share, ...

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 ...