Archive for the ‘economy’ Category
August 18, 2011
The Paris stock exchange plunges into the red on Thursday, after a session already very hesitant. After starting down 1.15% at 3216.77 points, the CAC 40 unscrews from 3% to 3156.70 points at 11:30. The falling movement is identical on all European Stock Exchanges: London lost 2.08%, 2.97% Frankfurt, ...
August 9, 2011
The new housing market has definitely signs of weakness. The Federation of developers (FPI) released on Monday of new home sales down 19% in the first half of 2011 compared to the same period of 2010. "It's a market downturn. We are concerned whether the second quarter marked a ...
August 3, 2011
Wall Street still frozen in the red on Tuesday. After starting down, and despite the adoption by the Senate's compromise on the debt, the Dow Jones unscrewed from 2.19% to 11,867 points, the Nasdaq loose 2.75% to 2669 points and the S & P drops 2.56 % to 1254 ...
August 1, 2011
The uncertainty seems to have finally dissipated in Washington. After long weeks of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats have finally announced that it had reached an agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. After a retraction in the Sunday afternoon, the White House confirmed Sunday night (Monday morning Paris time) ...
July 25, 2011
The French government continues to implement measures to reduce labor migration to France. After fixing in April the goal of reducing by half the number of work permits granted to foreigners in France, the Ministries of Interior and Labour recently issued a new list of occupations open to non-Europeans. ...
July 21, 2011
Airbus, which has just won a great victory with the agreement American Airlines, has a historic opportunity to win new customers in the U.S. with his camera A 320 NEO. U.S. companies are preparing, in fact, trigger a giant wave of orders to renew their fleets. As American ...
July 18, 2011
Earlier this week hesitant in Asian markets. On Monday, the main financial centers in the region have no clear signals to follow while European markets closed lower Friday, as Wall Street finished up and the Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed today because holiday pay. Furthermore, fears persist on ...
July 12, 2011
During a trading session on the future roadmap of employment center, Xavier Bertrand said Monday that the social partners to public funding of public service employment in 2012 will be maintained at its current level of 1.3 billion euros. The Minister of Labour has also promised that the ...
July 10, 2011
Hiring marking time in the United States and much disappoint. The U.S. economy created only 18,000 jobs in June, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. This figure confirms the slowdown in the job market in the United States observed in May (25,000 jobs created, against 217,000 ...
June 24, 2011
"France is not at all in the same situation as Greece," said Christian Noyer, the microphone of RTL on Friday. In fact, "we do not know at all what I know Greece, for several reasons: the first is that we started to make very significant reforms, the most iconic ...