Many contracts of life insurance unclaimed recovered their beneficiaries. New features introduced in recent years have indeed enabled recipients who are unaware of contracts to recover some 555 million euros since 2006, according to a report that the economy minister, Christine Lagarde, s' prepares to submit to Parliament with Le Parisien and Aujourd'hui en [...]
Aug
28
According to the latest figures published by the Centre for Documentation and Information Assurance, 500,000 people each year in France are victims of dog bites. And 60,000 cases require hospitalization. There is no data in France for the financial evaluation of these accidents. The U.S. comes in contrast to publish figures. In 2009, 4.7 [...]
Aug
5
They will give half of what they have. Nearly 40 American billionaires have pledged to donate over 50% of their fortune to charity. The initiative, called "Giving Pledge" ("Pledge"), was launched in mid-June by Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Warren Buffet, the richest man in America. "We just started the operation and [...]
Aug
2
After the industry, it's time for banks to disclose their account. One of the first major French banks – the first having been the group CM5-CIC – to publish its interim accounts, BNP release Monday before market accounts for the second quarter. The net profit exceeds 2 billion euros to 2.105 billion an increase [...]
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 [...]
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
7
Back to basics for Lakshmi Mittal. The Chairman of ArcelorMittal, the fifth World Fortune has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of a steel plant in India, Karnataka State, south of the country. A mammoth project with an annual capacity of six million tonnes which would require more than 5 billion euros [...]
Apr
27
The index futures are predicting a cautious opening of U.S. markets. Shortly before the opening of Wall Street, futures on indices Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 yielded 0.41%, to 1203.30 points, and 0.37% at 2039.75 points.
The Dow Jones is expected to slightly decline, -0.22% to 11,126 points.
The small [...]
Apr
23
Ingenico believes to be on track to meet its financial targets in 2010 after seeing its sales on a constant increase of 8.8% in the first quarter.
Sales of specialist electronic payment terminals totaled 173.2 million euros against 153.3 million a year earlier, a growth that the group deems consistent with its expectations. [...]
Apr
12
Two days before the next general meeting, UBS expects under its first-half net profit of 2.5 billion Swiss francs (1.7 billion euros), a figure twice in the fourth quarter of 2009 when bank had earned 1.2 billion Swiss francs (817 million euros). For 2009, UBS posted a loss of 2.7 billion Swiss francs (1.9 [...]