After Australia and New Zealand, the reinsurers would have gone well for this new disaster. Although it is too much to quantify the exact costs of the earthquake on Friday, the magnitude of the earthquake – 8.8 on the Richter scale, the most powerful ever recorded in the Archipelago, as well as 'expected arrival [...]
Mar
9
After the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, the European Union to freeze billions of euros from the Central Bank of Libya and Libyan sovereign fund, the Libyan Investment Authority. The 27 countries of the European Union have agreed on this issue, diplomatic sources. The formal agreement should be endorsed Friday by the [...]
Mar
7
The big French companies have practically recovered their health dazzling pre-crisis! The combined profits of the forty groups of ACC and reached 82.15 billion euros (1), up 83.5% over 2009! "These results are good, although still lower than 15% for those records in 2007," said Pierre Sabatier, in PrimeView. Sales of these major groups [...]
Mar
5
After climbing from 1.59% to close Thursday, Wall Street took a break this Friday, despite good employment figures published today for the month of February. The Dow Jones lost 0.09% at 12,248 points, the Nasdaq was down 0.13% to 2795 points and the S & P 500 yield 0.06% to 1330 points.
Yesterday, [...]
Mar
3
The Paris Bourse, where she has faltered last night closing because of further oil price rises, is no exception to the downward trend in U.S. and Asian stock exchanges recorded since yesterday evening. At the close, the CAC 40 was down 0.81% at 4034.32 points.
Tensions in the Middle East intensified and the [...]
Mar
2
Wall Street failed to hold throughout the session these good provisions found in the opening. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 168.32 points to 12,058.02 points and the Nasdaq composite, dominated by technological 44.86 points to 2737.41 points. The broader index Standard & Poor's 500 has sold 1.57% (20.89 points) to [...]