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 ...

Facebook acquires Instagram for $ 1 billion

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Facebook announced Monday the acquisition in cash and securities Instagram, application enabling the exchange of pictures, for one billion dollars (762 million). The social network plans to complete the transaction in the current quarter. Instagram was launched in January 2011 and now has thirty million users. ...

The unemployment rate declined to 6.7% in March in Germany

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

The number of job seekers in Germany fell in March for the fifth consecutive month, bringing the unemployment rate from 6.8% to 6.7%, a new low since the re ; unification of the country, show statistics released Thursday by the Federal Labour Office. The country had 18,000 job ...

Qatar wants to enter the supervisory board of Lagardère

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Qatar has increased to 12.8% its stake in the capital of Lagardère and plans to apply for entry to the supervisory board of the media group, we read in a notice published Monday by the Markets Authority (AMF). Qatar Holding, one arm of sovereign investment fund Qatar Investment ...

G20 hopes to increase IMF resources in April

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

The G20 finance ministers pledge to do in April the stock of progress in strengthening the resources of the International Monetary Fund, have we learned from officials G20. At their next meeting in April, the G20 agreed to agree on a financial firewall around 2,000 billion dollars (1.487 ...

Deficit: the Court of Auditors advocates more effort

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Barely 10% of the effort to rebalance public finances French was realized last year, warned the Court of Auditors in its annual report public. She said the largest portion of the road will remain ahead in 2013 and 2014. The first president of the Court of Auditors, Didier Migaud, presented ...

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 ...

Rise in quarterly operating profit of Deutsche Börse

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Deutsche Boerse, the operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange wants to merge with NYSE Euronext as part of a transaction of nine billion dollars, said Wednesday a 35% increase in quarterly operating results. The EBIT of the company thus stood at 330 million euros for the three months to ...

Annual target for Accor confirmed after a quarter in line

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Accor has confirmed its target of operating profit for 2011 Tuesday by announcing an increase in sales for the third quarter thanks to the acceleration performance of the economy hotel segment. The hotel group Accor is always operating income in 2011 of between 510 and 530 million euros. It ...

S & P revises upwards the risk of Spanish banks

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Standard & Poor's raised its risk assessment Tuesday for the Spanish banking sector, saying it will continue to face funding difficulties and release of earnings. The rating agency notes that Spanish banks continue to suffer from the economic crisis over the next 15 to 18 months. S & ...