This is the kind of evening that annoys the purists. Last June, the Becca Cason Thrash wealthy Texan, Vice President of "Friends of the Louvre" U.S. and international, organized a charity gala in the largest museum in the world. The guests – celebrities such as Albert of Monaco and actress Fanny Ardant – were [...]
Aug
18
Dark red on all world stock markets on Thursday. In Paris, the CAC dropped to 6% during the session. It closed down 5.48% to 3076.04 points. The falling motion was identical in all European stock exchanges: Frankfurt closed down 5.82%, its biggest daily drop since November 2008, London and fall of 4.49%. Milan lost [...]
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
2
This is the miracle of a well-considered financial communications. EuropaCorp, the film production studio of Luc Besson, this morning announced a net loss for the year 2010-2011 of 30.2 million euros after a loss of 9.2 million in 2009-2010. Operating income amounted to – against 47.4 million – 16.2 million in 2009/10. At the [...]
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
29
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, presented Tuesday in New York, Office 365, the set of office software tailored to the "cloud," distributed computing on the Internet. This is a "collaboration tool for the productivity of individuals and businesses, which operate around the world and all the equipment," said the boss of the world's largest software. [...]
May
18
This had not happened for a month. The Cac 40 closed on Monday below 4000 points, among others penalized by bank stocks. Investors worried about a new crisis on the debt of the euro area after the arrest of the International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
On Tuesday, the markets are a roller [...]
May
3
After several difficult years, the growth of the Altran Group continues to maintain double-digit for four quarters now. Specialist in High Technology Council announced in a statement an increase of 10.3% (10.1% at constant scope) of its turnover compared to 1st quarter 2010 to 387.7 million euros. Providing a dynamic demand in the coming [...]
Mar
20
Faced with the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, nuclear accident) that affects Japan, the Japanese government is studying the establishment of an emergency plan to help Island businesses to continue their activities , reported Saturday the Nikkei Newspaper. In total, the emergency budget specially created and distributed in the form of loans at low interest [...]
Mar
2
Wall Street failed to hold throughout the session these good provisions found in the opening. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 168.32 points to 12,058.02 points and the Nasdaq composite, dominated by technological 44.86 points to 2737.41 points. The broader index Standard & Poor's 500 has sold 1.57% (20.89 points) to [...]