Schäuble a judge from Greece to the euro can be avoided

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble estimated that an outflow of Greece to the euro can be avoided as long as Athens was complying with its commitments. "European solidarity is not a one-way street," said the minister at the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. "We can not have one ...

Right back on top in Greece, the EU still worried

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Greek voters, called for new legislation on June 17, seem to bring themselves to support the parties in favor of austerity plan intended by the Europeans, who are working on different scenarios narios with a possible exit of Greece in the euro area. The general elections of May ...

Winter temperatures weighed on Holcim

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Holcim has suggested Wednesday that he would again increase its prices, a severe winter in Europe charged on net profit in the first quarter. Sales of cement, concrete and asphalt decreased by double digit percentages in Europe and the net profit after minority interests stood at 10 million ...

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 ...

Wall Street ends in a disorganized, statistics weigh

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

The Dow and S & P 500 finished down slightly Wednesday after figures from the private sector employment worse than expected, raising fears that those for all sectors, expected Friday, will in turn lower than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial 30 yielded 0.08%, or 10.75 points, to 13,268.57. ...

Ryanair plans to operate up to 400 aircraft in 2015 or 2016

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Irish airline Ryanair low-cost plans to place an order from 200 to 400 aircraft in 2015 or 2016, said Thursday Chief Executive Michael O'Leary. The airline needs to spend a large order by the end of 2016 to reach its goal of doubling its capacity to 150 million ...

The indices on Wall Street opening in a disorganized

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

The three major indexes on Wall Street started Tuesday's session in a disorganized and with small deviations, pending orders to industry and the minutes of the last First meeting of the Federal Reserve. In early trade, the Dow Jones lost 0.12% to 13,248.75 and the S & P ...

Delays of trains: what's changing at the station

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

SNCF will implement at the end of a new system of "Travel Guarantee" to better inform and better compensate for delays or cancellation of a TGV or Intercity train. The six measures under the microscope. The head of the SNCF, Guillaume Pepy, here in 2007. While the Tribunal de ...

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 ...

Confessions of hard use ECB liquidity in France

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Unlike many of their Italian and English counterparts, French banks are reluctant to disclose their participation in the second refinancing operation three years (LTRO) organized on Wednesday by the Bank Central Bank (ECB). This has lent almost 530 billion euros to banks, bringing to more than 1,000 billion ...