Ford ordered to compensate the family of a man killed while driving

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

A Mississippi court on Thursday sentenced to pay Ford $ 131 million to the family of a young man who was killed at the wheel of a vehicle from U.S. manufacturer, has announced the lawyer for the family. The suit focused on the accident that killed Brian Cole in ...

The HLM victims of financial products to high risk

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

A portion of the housing agencies in France find themselves vulnerable after having used the toxic financial products like subprime to the tune of seven billion euros, wrote Wednesday's Tribune. The business daily quoted a report on the subject conducted by the Interministerial Mission for Social Housing inspection (Miilos). ...

The Paris Stock Exchange began the month of August increased BNP top

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

The Paris Bourse is rising again in the opening exchanges in the wake of the Asian markets reassured by the Chinese activity indicators and after strong results presented by BNP Paribas. Around 9:15 am, the CAC 40 0.82% advance to 3673.11 points. BNP Paribas signs the largest increase ...

Lower earnings and sales of Thomson Reuters in Q2

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Thomson Reuters Publishes earnings and quarterly sales decline, slightly below Wall Street expectations, but anticipates a return to revenue growth in the third quarter. Its current operating profit fell 17% to 655 million dollars (500 million) and earnings per share adjusted income is 47 cents against 58 cents in ...

The business climate in the industry dates

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

The business climate in the French manufacturing industry rose slightly in July, according to the business survey released Thursday by the INSEE. The synthetic indicator of business climate has gained two points to 98 and that for the month of June was revised up to a point.Twenty-four economists surveyed ...

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% ...

Wall Street awaits the results, fears forecasts

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Wall Street preparing for a decisive week saw the publication of quarterly several heavyweights in the U.S. economy that will set the tone for future meetings on the U.S. equity market. But even before the opening of the new earnings season, optimism is not appropriate for analysts. Confidence ...

Germany: fall of partial unemployment

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The upturn in Germany is confirmed. Companies recall their employees they had laid off part to address the improvement of controls. In fact, the country should rely only 100,000 people unemployed part-year end as against 1.4 million at the height of the crisis in 2009, according to the Federation ...