July 1, 2011
The law on pension reform, enacted November 10, 2010 after a long parliamentary battle will come into effect on Friday. The legal age will gradually increase from 60 to 62, with four more months per year. The first people affected are those born after 1 July 1951. They will ...
June 28, 2011
Indices end in green on Wall Street Monday. After starting at equilibrium, the Dow has pressed the bar of 12,000 points in the morning. He ends up on 0.91% to 12,043.56 points. S & P and Nasdaq rising 1.33%, respectively, to 2688.28 points and 1280.10 points to 0.92%. ...
June 14, 2011
After the surprise announcement Saturday of the candidacy of Israel Stanley Fischer at the direction of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the French Minister of Economy and Finance, Christine Lagarde, seems to consolidate his lead in leadership contest the institution. After a world tour in emerging countries to reassure ...
June 12, 2011
The French have a very vague idea of what awaits them at the end of their careers, and that the anxiety. An international study of the HSBC bank, more than one French person in three (38%) know what will be its main source of retirement income. This is the ...
June 3, 2011
The battle between Groupon, the world champion of group purchasing, and its main U.S. rival Social Living, moves in France. These companies offer Internet users to large price reductions for goods and services, provided that a number of them support it. Yesterday, the French site dealissime.com specializing in joint ...
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 10, 2011
The unions had already waved the threats late last March. They put their threats into effect, calling all employees hypermarket distribution group to strike on Saturday to protest against including salary increases for 2011, considered insufficient. The appeal, launched by the FGTA-FP, the majority union at Carrefour (with 40% ...
March 25, 2011
Faced with rising rents in France, it becomes difficult for the student accommodation. AFEV (Association of the student foundation for the city), an association of student volunteers who fight against inequalities in income neighborhoods, has been working on this issue. It launched a program that offers student groups, in ...
February 23, 2011
Cocoa prices are overheated. On Tuesday, for the first time since January 12, 1979, the Bon Ton for March delivery rose to 3,666 dollars on the NYBOT-ICE U.S.. At the same time on Liffe in London, the same contract period has increased to 2,378 dollars per tonne, the highest ...
February 1, 2011
The mad rise of Facebook continues. In France, the social network now has more than 20 million active members (individuals having connected at least once during the last thirty days), or 5 million more than a year ago. 60% of them log on every day, giving power to the ...