The car market up 92% in April in Japan

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Sales of new cars in Japan, excluding mini-vehicles, jumped 92% in April, the monthly increase on record, reflecting the fact that the basis for comparison-April 2011 - is first full month that followed the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. This natural disaster had disrupted for months ...

Mario Draghi disappointed with the effectiveness of the ECB

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

The massive loans granted to banks gained little so far to the real economy. President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi agreed Wednesday that he hoped the massive loans made in recent months by the institution to European ...

AstraZeneca today announced the acquisition of Ardea $ 1.26 billion

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

AstraZeneca announced Monday the acquisition of U.S. company Ardea Biosciences to $ 1.26 billion (956 million), which gives access to a new treatment against gout and strengthens its presence in the rapidly consolidating biotechnology. AstraZeneca offers Ardea $ 32 per share, representing a premium of 54% over the ...

G20 agrees to pay more than $ 430 billion to the IMF

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

The Group of Twenty (G20) pledged Friday to give the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over $ 430 billion of additional resources, making more than double its lending capacity to better protect the global economy of the European crisis of debt. The IMF estimates that the debt crisis of ...

With Viterra, Glencore diversified into agribusiness

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Glencore, the world leader in commodities trading, and its partners Richardson and Agrium International, announced Tuesday the acquisition of specialist Canadian grain handling Viterra for 6.1 billion Canadian dollars (4.64 billion euros). Already in production and marketing of agricultural products, metals, minerals and oil, Glencore seeks to expand ...

0.4% increase in consumer prices in the U.S.

Friday, March 16th, 2012

The consumer prices rose 0.4% in February, their largest increase in ten months due to soaring gasoline prices, according to figures released Friday by the dice ; Department of Labour. The increase is in line with market expectations. In January, prices showed an increase of 0.2%. ...

Florange: new lock ArcelorMittal

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Tuesday morning, metallurgists to block access to the new administration buildings of the Florange ArcelorMittal plant in Mosel. Thirty workers wearing jumpers of the CFDT, CGT and FO have improvised a pyre outside the gates with straw bales and wooden pallets. The fight continues. Metalworkers block since 6:30 this ...

Football business: Brics can they compete with Europe?

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Brazil, Russia, India and China are needed on the football transfer market. But their clubs and leagues are still economically very far from Europe. But the road to growing up is fraught with pitfalls. Nicolas Anelka's shirt poses with his new club, Shanghai Shenhua at the press conference for his ...

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 ...

ThyssenKrupp displays a surprise quarterly loss

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

ThyssenKrupp Tuesday released a surprise loss for the first quarter of fiscal year, with a slowdown in steel demand in a context of low growth, higher costs in its Brazilian plant and a provision passed e on its business of shipbuilding. The German steelmaker reported a loss before ...