It was two years ago, April 25, 2008. After corn, soybean, rapeseed and palm oil, the price of rice, a staple food for two thirds of the global population, hitting record highs, causing riots in Argentina in the Uzbekistan, via Senegal. At this precise date, the Thai rice prices, seen as the market benchmark, [...]
Apr
12
Two days before the next general meeting, UBS expects under its first-half net profit of 2.5 billion Swiss francs (1.7 billion euros), a figure twice in the fourth quarter of 2009 when bank had earned 1.2 billion Swiss francs (817 million euros). For 2009, UBS posted a loss of 2.7 billion Swiss francs (1.9 [...]
Apr
9
Headline earnings Thursday on Wall Street are reflected in the increase in market indices in Asia on Friday morning. If the Nikkei earns only 0.05% at 11,173 points, after having slid more than 1% yesterday, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong rises, her, 1.35%.
In China, the Shanghai index up 0.58% at 3366 [...]
Apr
8
Far from the torpor on the United States and Europe, emerging Asia is in great shape. "Largely thanks to China, regional output, exports and employment have recently regained their pre-crisis levels," notes the World Bank in its half-yearly report on East Asia and the Pacific, published Wednesday. It is therefore auspicious that takes place [...]
Apr
7
A first for a group of ACC 40.Total was indicted on 27 February by the French judge Serge Tournaire, corruption, complicity and concealment of influence peddling in the case called "oil-food cons", echoing the UN program established in 1997 for the Iraqis, when the international embargo following the invasion of Kuwait.
After the [...]
Apr
3
The dogs bark, the caravan passes. The market share of hard discounters may well have declined last year to 14.1% in value against 14.3% in 2008 Worldpanel Kantar, Lidl and Aldi have fared better than their competitors. The two German purists class, have stabilized their presence in France, respectively 4.8% and 2.5%. At the [...]