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August 4, 2011
The CEO of BNP Paribas, Baudouin Prot, presented solid first half results Tuesday. Despite the heavy impact of the Greek crisis, the bank shows a profit of 4.7 billion euros, up 8.5% year on year. The head of the largest bank in the euro area, which has actively participated ...
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 29, 2011
Nearly three years after the financial crisis, the first sanctions against the banks fall. And the bill is particularly salty for Bank of America. The U.S. bank agrees to pay $ 8.5 billion to end the prosecution of several investors and placed in warranty provisions of $ 5.5 billion ...
June 20, 2011
China's monopoly on the rare earth is growing again. The country, which provides 95% of exports of these metals, has announced the establishment of a restructuring plan that will require a strengthening of the weight of the state-owned Baotou Iron and Steel. This will make the acquisition of four ...
June 18, 2011
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June 16, 2011
"A major threat to growth is the price of raw materials." Thus Nicolas Sarkozy in Brussels on Tuesday defended the choice of theme for the volatility of energy prices, agricultural products and metals as one of the priorities of French presidency of the G20. The Head of State intervened ...
May 18, 2011
Since the beginning of the year, the argument runs in a loop in the mouth of Nicolas Sarkozy and his ministers. If the performance of France remain considerably below those of Germany in employment is that the labor force goes up here, and drop it on the opposite bank ...
May 4, 2011
The Paris Bourse has caught its breath on Tuesday. At the close, the CAC 40 was down 0.29% to 4096.84 points. The benchmark index in Paris was completed yesterday its eighth straight session, buoyed by the general relief that followed the death of Osama bin Laden. This effect, which ...
April 28, 2011
And three! According to statistics of job seekers registered at employment center in March, the number of unemployed in group A (did not work that month) declined for the third consecutive month. He even declined significantly: 21,100. Or reflux of 0.8% monthly, the largest since the crisis began bringing ...
April 23, 2011
On the eve of Orthodox Easter, the church bells ring out across the country. Greeks prepare their celebrations by painting eggs in red, symbolizing the blood of Christ, or choosing the paschal lamb. Yet in the central meat market in Athens, where the best lambs are sold in ...