To your pens! A one month holiday season, the start of "Operation Santa's Mail" was given last Tuesday. In 2010, almost 1.5 million letters were sent to Santa Claus, including 160,000 e-mails. And the 2011 starts strong. In just four days, the mailbox of the famous man in red has already approved 133,350 letters [...]
Nov
27
On the wire! After spending almost the entire session in the red, the CAC 40 rallied in the very last lap. At the finish he returned 1.23% to 2856.97 points. But on the whole has lost 4.7%. And since the beginning of the year, he left nearly 25%.
Yesterday the market was still [...]
Nov
24
Dentists in the annual conference through Friday in Paris, take the opportunity to remind the economic weight of their profession. The 40,100 dentists, 92% in private practice, employing 47,900 employees. They also work 17,800 people in the laboratories of prostheses and 4,000 people from their other suppliers, said the French Dental Association (ADF, which [...]
Nov
21
Like almost all professional mortgage, the broker Meilleurtaux.com expects rising interest rates in coming months, after some stability since the summer. In November 2011, he recorded the average fixed rate of 4% over 15 years, 4.24% over 20 years and 4.37% over 25 years. It averaged 0.5 points more than in January of this [...]
Nov
18
Eight days. It only took eight days for Italy, if attached to the chatter and bargaining that distract from the action, change of government. Eight days for a bloated team, dedicated to one man, Silvio Berlusconi, who won the 2008 elections, and defended by a right-wing coalition increasingly uncertain, gave way to a gathered [...]
Nov
12
At a silver lining. The great blunder of the rating agency S & P issued Thursday to its subscribers in error message suggesting that the note of France was degraded allowed to know the exact impact would have been the suppression agencies rating of the famous "AAA" from France.This information has been totally denied [...]
Nov
9
Berlusconi has lost its absolute majority. With 308 votes, he won the vote on the technical budget Tuesday afternoon, but is found below the absolute majority of 316 votes. The opposition abstained from the vote, which allowed the coalition of Berlusconi to win a relative majority.
The opposition immediately demanded the resignation of [...]
Nov
1
After finishing stable Friday night, the U.S. equity markets again start their week under the sign of prudence. In the wake of the Asian and European stock exchanges, Wall Street ended in the red on Monday. The Dow Jones lost 2.26% to 11,955.01 points, the Nasdaq drops 1.93% to 2684.41 points and the S [...]