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 ...

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Wall Street closed higher Monday, turning in the last trading session after a particularly volatile and largely downward trend on fears that Italy's third largest economy in the euro area, in turn carried by the crisis of debt. The New York Stock Exchange closed up 0.71% Monday, the Dow ...

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 ...

Caterpillar's earnings up 44% in Q3

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Caterpillar reported Monday a record turnover and a 44% jump in profit in the third quarter, well above analysts' expectations and showing a cautious optimism for 2012. The world's largest earth-moving machinery and equipment for the mining industry said to expect that its sales climbed 10% to 20% next ...

Sarkozy and Merkel in search of agreement on the banks

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are found Sunday in Berlin with the need to reach agreement on the recapitalization of banks in Europe, amid differences over a recourse to public funds for the community to complete. The European Commission said Friday it would submit in the coming days proposals ...

The BoE injects 75 billion pounds of cash

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

The Bank of England injected 75 billion pounds of additional liquidity in the UK economy to support a faltering recovery and protect against the effects of the crisis in the euro area and the global slowdown. The BoE's decision on Thursday to bring its program of asset purchases to ...

Slight increase in inflation in August

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

The consumer prices in France rose 0.5% from July and 2.2% year on year. This increase resulted from the end balances and rising tourism. Winter sales, January 2010 The consumer prices in France rose 0.5% in August on a month, after falling 0.4% in July, and were appreciated by ...

European shares open up after Jackson Hole

Monday, August 29th, 2011

European stock markets opened up Monday in the wake of Wall Street and Asian stock markets, markets enjoying a renewed hope for investors Friday after the speech of the President of the Federal Reserve in Jackson Hole. Ben Bernanke said the Fed would meet two days in September, instead ...

Credit Agricole above expectations despite Greece

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Credit Agricole, which launched in late July a warning on its results because of the Greek debt crisis, said Thursday net profit above expectations in the second quarter, thanks to a load lower than initially announced on Greece . The French bank said in a statement it had a ...

Lower inflation excluding volatile in the euro area

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Inflation excluding volatile components decreased in July in the euro zone, Eurostat said Wednesday, confirming also the overall annual inflation rate. Excluding energy and unprocessed food packaged, retail prices fell 0.8% monthly increase of 1.5% annually from 1.8% in June Overall, retail prices fell by 0.6% monthly in ...