Eight days. It only took eight days for Italy, if attached to the chatter and bargaining that distract from the action, change of government. Eight days for a bloated team, dedicated to one man, Silvio Berlusconi, who won the 2008 elections, and defended by a right-wing coalition increasingly uncertain, gave way to a gathered [...]
Sep
12
Statements that had caused an outcry among European officials. On the sidelines of G8 was held in Marseille on Saturday, the former Minister of Economy and Finance held to explain the 200 billion euros. "This figure was included in a draft document and did not reflect the final estimate of the IMF, she said. This [...]
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 [...]
Jul
29
LE FIGARO. – Your net half-year euro rose 17% to 6.7 billion euros. Part of the French public displays Total estimated benefits "insolent." What do you tell him?
Christophe de Margerie. – What do you want Total to answer those who have already tried? However, I am ready to discuss the importance of [...]
Jul
25
(Special Envoy to Berlin) The pavement of the road shines in front of decrepit facades. Raining cats and dogs in this small village in the former East Germany. Are expected to disembark Walter Ulbricht or Erich Honecker inaugurating a model farm and a gymnasium. But it is West who won. The sequence nostalgia runs [...]
Jul
8
Inspired football in asset management, he had to think. This is what Antoine Briant when he thought the company amLeague. His idea? Create a "league" between managers to allow investors to measure their skills in a single glance. The founder is not at its first innovative idea: a few years ago, he noted 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
11
The deputies continued Friday to review the draft budget law amendment removing the tax shield and reducing the ISF. As expected, they voted in Article 1 of the bill abolishing the wealth tax for estates of less than EUR 1.3 million and revised the scale for the highest wealth. Now between 1.3 and 3 [...]
Jun
1
Keep the 4000 points will be the goal of the day at the Paris Bourse. This threshold was consolidated yesterday with an increase of 1.63%, amid relief on the Greek case. Germany indeed abandon the idea of ​​restructuring the debt. Information that was also relieved Wall Street and Asian markets yesterday.
On Wednesday, [...]
May
17
While the Director General of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was charged with attempted rape and arrested in the U.S. yesterday as investors worried about the turn that will take the debt crisis in the euro area, especially in Greece. The indictment of Dominique Strauss-Kahn ally of Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou, [...]