Wall Street hesitant before the promise of land sales

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Wall Street opened on a tentative note, awaiting the promise of land sales, while jobless claims fell against all odds but that productivity was revised down sharply. A few minutes after the start of trading, the Dow Jones gained 0.04% to 10,273.86 points, the Standard & Poor's 500 index ...

Wall Street ended down, the Dow Jones fell by 1.4%

Monday, August 30th, 2010

The U.S. stock markets are left to lower Monday as investors continued to question the health of the U.S. economy, despite the announcement of an increase in household consumption. The Dow Jones has sold 1.39% or 140.92 points at 10,009.73 points, the Standard & Poor's 500 index 1.47% or ...

The Dow Jones ended down 0.36%, Nasdaq 0.52% yield

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

The New York Stock Exchange ended down 0.36% Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial 30 closed at 10,636.38 points. The S & P 500 is broader, has lost 0.48% to 1120.46 points. The Nasdaq Composite fell on his side of 0.52% to 2283.52 points.

Orange and Canal Plus negotiate a partnership

Monday, July 26th, 2010

France Telecom and Canal Plus are negotiating a partnership that could see the two groups merge TPS Star and at least one channel from the bouquet Orange Cinema Series, Monday wrote Le Figaro and La Tribune, without citing sources. Discussions could be officially announced this week at the board ...

It is too early to say that the crisis is over, says Trichet

Friday, July 9th, 2010

It is too early to declare that the financial crisis is over, says the president of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet. "The events of recent months have shown clearly that it was too early to declare the crisis over," he said at a conference organized by the Center ...

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 ...

Michelin takes its revenge in the press

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Expansion-The barometer LexisNexis sifts through each week more than 12,700 newspapers to establish the classification of large French companies leased more ... or more decried. The revenge of the old French industrial jewels. The award for "best news" of the week comes to Michelin. According to scores of ...

Christine Lagarde supports a tax on banks

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The economy minister, Christine Lagarde, expressed support Wednesday for the introduction in France of a tax on banks whose proceeds would be used in case of bankruptcy of a financial institution, more or less following the German example. Interviewed on Radio RMC whether she favored, Ms. Lagarde said: ...