February 22, 2012
The call of the employees of ArcelorMittal Florange seems to have been heard. Moving in Aytré, in Charente-Maritime, Nicolas Sarkozy has defended Site metallurgy currently stopped. "I do not want Florange die. Of course there is the crisis, less demand for steel, but we will make sure Florange reopens. ...
October 27, 2011
Confidence returns to Wall Street on Wednesday. After closing in the red yesterday, the Dow finished Wednesday up 1.39% to 11,869.04 points. The Nasdaq advance of 0.46% to 2650.67 points and the S & P is 1.05% to 1242 points. Once again, U.S. investors had their eyes on ...
October 14, 2011
Another bad news for Carrefour. For the fifth time this year, despite a slight increase of 0.3% of quarterly sales as reported at 22.8 billion euros (-0.6% on a comparable basis, excluding petrol), the distributor launches warning on its results. "In an environment of increasingly uncertain, we wanted to ...
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 7, 2011
Vallourec has lowered its forecast for profitability. The specialist in seamless tubes warned that its gross operating income would be lower in the second half than the first six months of the year. According to our calculations, the net profit could decline in 2011 compared to 2010. This new ...
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 30, 2011
Of the 600 amendments to the bill on consumption currently being debated in the National Assembly, MPs have finally decided to limit to 12 months duration of mobile phone packages. The maximum consumer engagement remains at 24 months. "I do not want a ban long packages. It is the ...
September 29, 2011
The Paris Bourse is expected to undergo some profit taking on Wednesday, rebounded strongly after the previous day. The CAC 40 was indeed awarded 5.74% to close at 3023.38 points. Same trend in Frankfurt the Dax gained 5.29% and in London the FTSE was up over 4%. On Wall ...
September 3, 2011
The time did she come to charge banks for the crisis "subprime"? The federal agency in housing finance in the United States (Federal Housing Finance Agency) is indeed about to make a complaint against a dozen major banks, reports the New York Times. Proceedings should be formally engaged on ...