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 ...

Coca-Cola beats consensus, plans to cut costs

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Coca-Cola released Tuesday quarterly net income down, although higher than expected, and announced a new program to reduce its costs, which pushed up the title of 1.3% in pre-market trading. Net income in the fourth quarter totaled $ 1.65 billion (1.25 billion euros), or 72 cents a share, ...

The winners of the cold wave

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

The cold not only promotes EDF and power consumption. It is the business of some traders. Overview of products and stores winners. Sales of soups are expected to exceed 16% this week compared to normal A jacket, an electric heater and a good soup. In this period of extreme ...

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

International creditors of Greece did not convince the leader of the Conservatives Saturday, Antonis Samaras, to undertake in writing to support the austerity measures required for new aid. The leader of New Democracy, one of the three member parties of the coalition government of Lucas Papademos, reiterated that his ...

Saturday, November 12th, 2011

States in the euro zone must do more at European level and give some of their budgetary and fiscal responsibilities to the European institutions to overcome the debt crisis, said the German finance minister in interviews published Saturday. Wolfgang Schäuble told the German weekly Focus that Italy would be ...

Orpea was up 27.5% of quarterly sales

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Orpea announced Wednesday an increase of 27.5% of its sales in the third quarter 2011 due to high occupancy of its homes and its clinics. At 311.7 million euros, sales of the group recorded organic growth of 8.8%, Orpea said in a statement. "The dynamics related to both ...

Extended to tax soda drinks with sweeteners

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Extended the tax proposed by the Finance Committee of the Assembly would raise 250 million euros. More revenue for reducing the cost of agricultural labor. Tax soda drinks should also touch sweeteners. The government does not expand the new tax on soda beverages containing sweeteners such as the National ...

EU and Brazil for concerted action on the debt crisis

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Brazil and the European Union must act in concert to calm the markets about the risks of contagion associated with the European debt crisis, said Tuesday the leaders of both parties. "It is fundamental that there is a policy coordination between countries to weather the current international situation," said ...

Discussions between Athens and continue Troika

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

The "troika" continues to peel the accounts of Greece and has not given the green light to the payment of a further tranche of aid vital to prevent the country is insolvent when this month , sources said Monday. Vice Minister of Finance had previously Oikonomou Pantelis said the ...

European shares start rising sharply

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

European shares opened sharply higher Tuesday, extending their rally started Friday afternoon, still supported by expectations of further measures to stem the debt crisis in the euro area. At 9:36, the CAC 40 index advances 2.79% at 2939.25 points after taking 1.75% Monday, with a volatility index down 4.31% ...