April 20, 2011
Liliane Bettencourt did not speak to may last months and, following the agreement last December with his daughter Frances, she made sure not to focus attention. Today she gave an interview to Le Figaro, and explains that L'Oréal is more than ever at the heart of its concerns. ...
April 17, 2011
Turnover up 27%, a net profit rises 17%: Google on Thursday posted quarterly results spectacular ... but not enough for Wall Street. Google saw its share fall immediately punished for earnings below expectations and rising costs. But more than the share price is the rise of new competitors ...
April 15, 2011
Irish debt enters the red zone. On Friday, ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has indeed lowered the rating two notches of Ireland "Baa1" to "Baa3", pushing the country to the lowest level possible for reliable borrowers. In other words, the last step before investor confidence will eventually volatilize. And ...
April 4, 2011
The race in the contactless payment technology is launched. Ingenico and look forward to pioneer in this field: it announces the purchase of electronic payments business to Hypercom for U.S. $ 54 million (38 million) in cash.The French manufacturer of payment terminals, thereby strengthening its market position in the ...
March 11, 2011
For once, oil prices retreated. Despite this, the U.S. stock market declines sharply Thursday. Investors have decided this time to focus on the bad economic indicators. Intensified fighting in Libya and the return of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe with the lowering of the sovereign rating of Spain ...
January 15, 2011
Despite a marked improvement in the European financial environment, and the European idea supported by the Belgian government to double the amount of the plan to help struggling countries, the International Monetary Fund estimates that Europe is still struggling to reassure investors. While Portugal, Spain and Italy have ...
January 5, 2011
In a strategic area par excellence, nuclear, China would have achieved a "breakthrough" major. That is what the Chinese press trumpets, that the country had developed a process to reprocess spent fuel for further use in reactors. Areva is a leader in this field. More than a third nuclear ...
December 27, 2010
Goldman Sachs wants to give a new pipe. Involved in a case of insider trading and criticized for its bonus policy, the U.S. bank now wants to avoid "reckless risk-taking." Three years ago, his boss, Lloyd Blankfein, had shocked the public by collecting a bonus record of nearly $ ...
December 9, 2010
Club Méditerannée announced Thursday in a statement of annual results in significant improvement. To offset its fiscal year 2009-2010, the net loss is thus divided by four to nearly 14 million euros against 53 million last year. Before taxes and nonrecurring items, the group result was positive at EUR ...
November 12, 2010
The phasing, but inevitable, relief from social security contributions on low wages: it is simply what the Senate voted by adopting, on Wednesday night in the 2011 budget of Social Security, an amendment of the rapporteur Alain Vasselle (UMP). Enough to leap employers who consistently argued that the reduction ...