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 [...]
Sep
4
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
24
After their fine up yesterday, the U.S. stock market continued to gain momentum, encouraged by the results of resistance testing in European banks. At the final bell, the Dow Jones 102.32 points to 10,424.62 wins points and the Nasdaq, dominated by technological 23.58 points to 2269.47 points. The broader index Standard & Poor's 500 [...]
Jul
19
In London
The Farnborough Air Show which opens Monday morning in south London, will be the ground for a new battle between Boeing and the European Airbus. The first provides for the first time its new aircraft, the B 787, outside the United States. The second shows his optimism. Its parent company EADS [...]
Mar
6
Catering. Consultancy. Cleaning. Tutoring at home. Services have emerged as one of the engines of the French economy. They represent 57% of GDP. They have experienced an average growth of 2.9% per year against 2% for the overall economy over the last thirty years. They employed 8.9 million people or 34.4% of total employment [...]
Jan
16
After opening on a bullish note Friday, the Paris flagship index began to doubt at midday before falling into the red to 13 hours, and recross the same time below 4000 points. A publication of the results of the U.S. bank JP Morgan, the first financial institution to release its results for the fourth [...]
Jan
3
The San Francisco bank Wells Fargo has refunded just before Christmas 25 billion dollars which had been loaned by the U.S. state to avoid bankruptcy a year earlier. Freed of that debt, it can now overcome limitations on compensation imposed by the government institutions it has helped. Duly noted. From December 31, Wells Fargo [...]
Dec
29
A year after liberalization of the Livret A, the Caisse d'Epargne, La Banque Postale and Cr?dit Mutuel drain still nearly 90% of the stock. Other banks, which last year may also offer the booklet to their customers, opened 9 million this year, representing nearly 27 billion euros. They have actually focused their efforts on [...]
Dec
18
The new center-right government led by Angela Merkel on Friday faces his first test since the elections. The Bundesrat, the upper house of Parliament, has to decide about 8.5 billion euros of tax cuts that Chancellor defends against all odds in 2010. However, it faces fierce opposition from various federal states led by his [...]
Dec
8
The Paris Bourse was stable Tuesday morning, Wall Street yesterday, giving little direction to markets. The statement made the day before, by Ben Bernanke on monetary policy of the United States has also not move the market. The chairman of the Federal Reserve has however indicated that the central bank would keep interest rates [...]