Wall Street weighed down by distrust, the Dow falls below 10,000

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Wall Street ended down sharply on Thursday, the Dow Jones closing below 10,000 points for the first time since early July, the eve of a review, probably on the decline, the growth figures in the second quarter and a major speech the President of the Federal Reserve. The decrease ...

HSBC wants to buy up to 70% of South African Nedbank

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

HSBC is in exclusive talks to acquire a controlling stake in Nedbank, fourth largest bank in South Africa, an operation that could reach 5.37 billion euros and enable the first European bank to increase its presence in a region strongly growth. HSBC and the Insurer Anglo-South African Old Mutual, ...

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 EU validates the agreement between British Airways, American and Iberia

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

The Oneworld alliance members British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia have obtained the green light Wednesday from the EU to deepen their partnership, after agreeing to divest a number of slots on transatlantic routes. The European Commission has also approved unconditionally the merger between British Airways and Spanish Iberia. ...

Tokyo stocks ended almost unchanged

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Tokyo stocks ended almost in balance Thursday after a roller-coaster session, investors seemed cautious comments shared between the U.S. Federal Reserve on the economy and support the core values of the change Prime Minister of Australia. The Nikkei gained 4.64 points to 9928.34 while the broader TOPIX, sold 1.07 ...

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 ...

In Britain, anti-tax bonus reported 2.2 billion euros

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The anti-tax temporary bonus established by the United Kingdom has reported two billion pounds, or about 2.2 billion euros to the state, said Wednesday Finance Minister Alistair Darling during the presentation of the UK budget for 2010/2011. Read also: Tax the bonus, a "very charming idea"? The ...