Jul 1

New session in the red for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the largest in the Asia-Pacific. On Thursday, the Nikkei index lost another 2.04% to end at 9,191 points, its lowest level this year.
The bad behavior of Wall Street the day affects the morale of investors. Especially in the Standard & Poor's 500, [...]

Jun 22

Auchan case now as the prices of cars …. The distributor Lille launched on June 15 a website dedicated to the sale of new vehicles, auto.auchan.fr. There are nearly a thousand offerings, including a Renault Scenic with 27.5% reduction, a Peugeot 308 SW sold out to – 30.5% and a Fiat Bravo to -32%. [...]

Jun 12
European banks have enough capital
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European banks have passed the tests of strength by Moody's. The rating agency has increased the stress tests to thirty European banks from ten countries and has concluded they have a level of capital sufficient to take further losses. The concerns related in particular to the ability of these institutions to cover potential losses [...]

Jun 9

On Tuesday morning, the euro symbol still under $ 1.2 preprend but a little and gold is more than 10 points of its record high of 1,238 dollars an ounce. The CAC 40 ended the session just above 3400 points, down 1.21%, the benchmark index of Paris opened up slightly in the wake of [...]

Apr 28

A denied "categorically". Fabrice Tourre, a trader at the heart of the case heard Goldman Sachs on Tuesday by U.S. lawmakers, denies all charges against him and issued against the bank by the SEC, the U.S. financial policeman. In his written testimony, he denied the charge of the market authority that it did not [...]

Apr 14

Investment bank Morgan Stanley could lose nearly two-thirds of the 8.8 billion invested in global real estate fund, the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds (MSREF) VI International reports the Wall Street Journal. This loss represents about 5.4 billion dollars. If the information is confirmed, it would be the biggest loss ever by an investment [...]

Apr 12
UBS loses fewer customers
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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 [...]

Apr 3

The dogs bark, the caravan passes. The market share of hard discounters may well have declined last year to 14.1% in value against 14.3% in 2008 Worldpanel Kantar, Lidl and Aldi have fared better than their competitors. The two German purists class, have stabilized their presence in France, respectively 4.8% and 2.5%. At the [...]

Mar 27

Another attempt to rescue the U.S. housing sector. The Treasury Department announced on Friday measures to try to improve assistance for distressed homeowners. These measures would give priority to unemployed, for which banks would be forced to cap the mortgage repayments to 31% of monthly income. In the case of borrowers for which the [...]

Jan 9
Wall Street is smiling again
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Despite the unemployment figures for December, which are worse than expected, U.S. stock markets end up, thanks to a late start of the session: the Dow Jones gained 0.10% and the Nasdaq, 0.75%. The day before, the Exchange had ended in the balance.
The U.S. has destroyed 85,000 jobs in December as the [...]

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