Statoil publishes a record profit in Q1

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Statoil Tuesday reported record quarterly earnings in favor of a higher-than-expected oil production, which led to the Norwegian group reaffirming its forecast for the whole of 2012. In the first three months of the year, adjusted earnings came in at 59.2 billion kroner (7.8 billion) against 47.2 billion ...

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 ...

Countries that invest more in green energy

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

While China was displayed as the superpower of clean energy since 2009, the U.S. has taken the top spot developed by the American NGO Pew Charitable Trust, with over $ 48 billion investment in 2011 . France ranks fifth, a position gained in 36% of additional investment over one year. ...

COR-Kampf bows out, Hermelin as CEO of Capgemini

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Capgemini announced Thursday that its chief executive Paul Hermelin also cumulate the functions of chairman, replacing Serge Kampf, a founder of the group, who decided not to go in his term . Serge Kampf, aged 77, had reserved the option when renewing his term as CEO in 2010. ...

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 ...

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that he be assigned intrusive powers in national budgets, which could pave the way for joint programming of debt by the countries of the euro area, a perspective that no country is opposed in principle , she said. The EU executive believes that ...

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

French deputies adopted on Wednesday by 315 votes against 198 the draft budget law for 2012 that the Senate will consider in turn on Thursday. Groups and UMP New Centre (NC) voted this draft budget called "obsolete" by the leftist opposition, who voted against. This draft budget, the ...

The Eurogroup will move forward on the EFSF and Greece

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Finance ministers from the euro area opened Friday six days of intense negotiations that will be punctuated by three peaks and the outcome of which, expected Wednesday, is considered crucial for the future of the single currency. Meeting in Brussels, ministers primarily responsible for preparing the ground for the ...

Rise in quarterly operating profit of Deutsche Börse

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Deutsche Boerse, the operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange wants to merge with NYSE Euronext as part of a transaction of nine billion dollars, said Wednesday a 35% increase in quarterly operating results. The EBIT of the company thus stood at 330 million euros for the three months to ...

Barroso is that decisions of October 23, apply soon

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Any decision on the European financial stability or banks to the European Council decided on 23 October will take effect immediately, said Friday the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. He added that any revision of the plan provided for Greece in the Europe Agreement of July 21 will ...