Obama boasts of having "stop the bleeding" of the economy

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Before a week of employment and recovery, Barack Obama pleaded Saturday for the economic action of his government, he said, "did stop the bleeding" and given the middle class back on track. Despite unemployment at 9.6% of the workforce, the President of the United States seeks to give new ...

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 ...

Hermes raises its objectives, the rebound of luxury confirms

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Hermes International has raised its growth target Tuesday its sales for the full year given a second strong quarter came to confirm the rebound that began in the luxury sector. The company said it was now up 10 to 12% of its turnover in 2010, against at least 5% ...

European markets close an down, Paris lost 0.48%

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Major European stock markets closed lower Monday after a session marked by limited volumes due to the closure of Wall Street after the U.S. national holiday. The Paris Bourse ended were down 0.48% at 3332.46 points, while the FTSEurofirst index of leading European values closed at its lowest level ...

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 ...