Archive for August, 2010
August 30, 2010
Bids climb for 3PAR. The computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard are engaged in a struggle to redeem the American Society of data storage. A standoff that intensified this week. Last rebound Friday: HP announced in mid-afternoon that he raised his bid for 3PAR to $ 30 per share, ...
August 27, 2010
Even when Boeing announced a further delay of delivery for its B787, Airbus (EADS) has revised downwards its forecast production rate of the A350, the newspaper Les Echos. Airbus did not confirm, nor deny. "We never disclose our delivery dates for programs in development, contends a spokesman for Airbus. ...
August 26, 2010
Unheard of since the beginning of the crisis. This makes two months in July as the number of jobseekers registered in category A to decrease employment center. "One more and it will become a reliable trend," enthuses Laurent Wauquiez, the Secretary of State for Employment. The largest decline even ...
August 24, 2010
After a sharp decline in 2009, futures prices have started to increase this summer. The consumer Rural Families who publishes his Observatory prices is a significant increase over one year reaching 11.1% for fruit and 5.5% for vegetables. According to the study published this morning in La Croix, the ...
August 23, 2010
At the Paris Bourse, the atmosphere was positive on Monday. At the fermture equity markets, the CAC 40 ended up 0.77% comfortable with 3553.23 points. Note that just before the opening of Wall Street, the index had risen to 3583 points. But U.S. indexes quickly took down the slope, ...
August 22, 2010
Major operations are continuing in the commodities sector. After the takeover of the Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton on the Canadian Potash and the takeover of British Power by GDF Suez International, an English exploration company Dana Petroleum is the subject of a hostile takeover by the Korean group Korea National ...
August 5, 2010
After opening at 3746.56 points on balance, the CAC 40 suffered some profit taking and lost around 10:30 just over 0.5% to 3726.45 points. At midday, the index feature yielded 0.54% to 3727 points. Tuesday evening now, the benchmark index of the Paris market had bent slightly, from 0.12% ...
August 4, 2010
After finishing sharply higher Monday, the markets take a breather on Tuesday. A few minutes after opening, the Dow Jones was down 0.34% at 10,638 points, the Nasdaq lost 0.30% to 2289 points while the S & P LAHC 0.33% to 1122 points. Markets were waiting for signs ...
August 2, 2010
The Paris Stock Exchange closes in the green Monday. The market is supported by the buoyant stock markets in Asia. The CAC 40 was up nearly 1% to just over 3675 points. The Nikkei closed up 0.35%, the Nikkei 225 index of blue chips gaining 33.01 points to 9570.31 ...