Sep 4
The U.S. job less bad than expected
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Anxiously awaited the U.S. employment figures for August were better than expected, according to the Department of Labor. If the U.S. economy as a whole has destroyed 54,000 jobs, the private sector alone has created 67,000 jobs. Economists had expected only about 41,000 new posts.
The private employment nevertheless displayed a marked decrease [...]

Aug 26
Tourists return to Paris
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"It seems that the worst is behind us," said Paul Roll, director general of the Office of Tourism and Congress of Paris. First city in the world in number of international arrivals, Paris has not been spared by the economic crisis. Even if the impact was less marked than in other cities, tourist numbers [...]

Jul 29
Safran plans to improve its margins
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Saffron details his findings in the first half this morning, taking care to warn investors on an annual basis: the results are expressed as adjusted data. "The income adjusted retirement now writes for the purchase price allocation (PPA) associated with major business groups, particularly in the security field (23 million euros in the first [...]

Jul 29

The American magazine editors want to think. A year after the crisis that hit their portfolio advertising space reservations for their return numbers show a net investment return of advertisers. In September 2009, the pagination of the only monthly advertising had plunged more than 23%. The rise of advertising in particular benefit to women [...]

Jul 20

The electronic book continues to gain ground. At Amazon, he would now sells more than bound books. For every 100 paper books (not pocket size) sold over the last three months in the U.S., Amazon has distributed 143 books for the Kindle, the eBook reader, and up to 180 in June, according to a [...]

Jul 15
Ruptures "amicable": A Review halftone
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Breaks conventional CDI "friendly" between employer and employee, created two years ago, moved into the world of work, but they do not prevent misappropriation or dispute. In sharp rise since the implementation in July 2008 law to modernize the labor market, this device is different from the dismissal and resignation, seems to have reached [...]

Jul 11
Dunkirk: Total cons-attack
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The decision does not surprise employees. According to union sources on Saturday, Total has initiated proceedings before the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre to challenge the decision of the Court of Appeal of Douai forcing it to reopen its Dunkirk refinery. The oil group has assigned Friday the employee representative bodies in order [...]

Jul 1

New session in the red for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the largest in the Asia-Pacific. On Thursday, the Nikkei index lost another 2.04% to end at 9,191 points, its lowest level this year.
The bad behavior of Wall Street the day affects the morale of investors. Especially in the Standard & Poor's 500, [...]

Jun 24

Senior executives of private broadcasting, Nonce Paolini TF1, Canal + Bertrand Meheut, Nicolas de Tavernost for M6, RTL Christopher Baldelli, Jean-Paul Baudecroux for NRJ Group, Alain Weill for Next RadioTV and Gilles Cremilleux for strings local, sent a letter to Nicolas Sarkozy to urge him to lead the reform of France Television to the [...]

Jun 22

Auchan case now as the prices of cars …. The distributor Lille launched on June 15 a website dedicated to the sale of new vehicles, auto.auchan.fr. There are nearly a thousand offerings, including a Renault Scenic with 27.5% reduction, a Peugeot 308 SW sold out to – 30.5% and a Fiat Bravo to -32%. [...]

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