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March 13, 2012
The tension mounts trade with Beijing. The European Union, the United States and Japan have initiated a complaint against China on the issue of "rare earth", the raw materials it has a virtual monopoly and export it rationed in favor of its own high-tech industry. The proceedings ...
March 2, 2012
Car sales in the U.S. reached their highest level in four years last month. Nearly 1.15 million vehicles were sold, 15.7% higher than February last year, according to figures from Autodata firm. The latter states that annualized seasonally adjusted, this represents 15.1 million vehicles. The most since February 2008! ...
February 29, 2012
The increase is only 1%, but the figure is impressive. $ 411 billion or 306 billion euros: that is the cumulative sales of military equipment and services performed by the first hundred defense companies worldwide in 2010, according to the latest report published on its website by the International ...
February 15, 2012
Consumer organizations, urging Apple to improve working conditions in factories of its suppliers in China, now expect concrete results. Monday, they have reacted cautiously to the new measures announced by Tim Cook, CEO of the IT group to ensure that the workers who assemble the iPhone and the iPad ...
November 24, 2011
A stay of two hundred in hospital is related to an "adverse event associated with care." That is to say that it is the result of a treatment or diagnostic procedures performed in hospital, does not 'come to a natural progression of the disease. " Nine categories are listed, ...
November 2, 2011
Air France is moving towards an end to the conflict which penalizes air traffic since Saturday. Air traffic in France was almost normal Tuesday, the fourth and penultimate day of the strike of flight attendants worried about downsizing by crew. Management expects a quick exit from the conflict. ...
October 11, 2011
A new brand of luxury hotels in Paris to establish themselves on Valentine's Day. On 14 February, the American group Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which operates 1,070 hotels worldwide under nine brands (Sheraton, Westin, Le Meridien ...) will open a "W", the most trendy brand, launched in 1998 in ...
October 3, 2011
The Paris Bourse is scheduled to begin this week in the red, as at the close Friday. Futures contracts on the CAC 40 were down 2.88% to about one hour of the opening. The debt crisis continues because of European concern the markets, and lead the outlook for global ...
September 26, 2011
Wednesday that it will be considered by the Cabinet the draft budget law for 2012. A text that includes fiscal measures, fixed departmental budgets next year and, by inference, determine the government deficit - it should be around 80 billion euros in 2012. But this year, the timing of ...