While the French government is trying to accept a tax on sodas, Denmark chooses to go further. The country became on Saturday the world's first to introduce a tax on fat. Presented as a measure to fight against obesity, it will increase the prices of 16 kroner (2.15 euros) per kilogram of saturated fat. [...]
Sep
5
Staff morale was recorded in late spring a dramatic improvement, the financial crisis of this summer related to sovereign debt of the United States and the countries of the euro area has dramatically changed the situation. And the beginning of September, white-collar grind black.
In any case, what emerges from the latest wave [...]
Sep
3
The maneuvers began in the closed world of corporate marketing of sports rights. The European investment fund Bridgepoint acquired Infront, the world number two industry for about 600 million euros. Infront company formed ten years ago by Robert Louis-Dreyfus and Klaus Jacobs on the ruins of the Kirch empire, was put on sale by [...]
Aug
16
That was just a year ago: Sparkling Commodities chartered its first shipment of coal to China. A ship of 50,000 tons, the first of many, along with a new step in the path of Michele Assouline: This engineer Arts and Crafts, a specialist in trading of electricity at the time of the opening competition [...]
Aug
11
LE FIGARO .- How to explain the collapse of Societe Generale Wednesday as the stock market?
Frédéric Oudéa. – We have suffered a series of attacks on markets. First in the form of rumors denied by the rating agencies-the loss of the rating "AAA" of the French state, which was scheduled for Wednesday [...]
Jul
21
As the season results announcements in full swing in the U.S., Apple unveiled last night, after market, the figures exceeded expectations last quarter. The CEO, Steve Jobs, even spoke of "best results ever recorded." And the reaction was not long in coming: in electronic trading after the close of Wall Street, the title soared [...]
Jul
11
Impatience is not formally expressed, but the signal is clear: the leaders of three major European institutions – the Council, the Commission and the Central Bank – can be found Monday morning in order to spur the seventeen countries of the euro, still unable to agree on mounting a second rescue plan for Greece. [...]
Jun
30
The draft budget of the European Union (EU) for the period 2014-2020 annoys London. "The Commission proposal is totally unrealistic. It is too large, does not match the limited budget that we announced and is incompatible with the difficult decisions taken in countries throughout Europe to make budget savings, "said a spokesman for the [...]
Jun
27
If the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his "confidence" in the future of the euro area and promised to continue investing in the region at the beginning of a new tour on the old continent, the mood remains tense markets Financial. While stock markets in Asia are changing declined this morning, the Cac 40devrait [...]
Jun
19
In Athens
It is now the strongman of the government just revamped George Papandreou: Evangelos Venizelos. Imposing, talkative and impulsive, professor of constitutional law of 54 years did not mince his words when entering his new office as Minister of Finance: "I left the Department of Defense to enter a war", has he [...]