There will soon be more legal restrictions on the purchase of tobacco abroad. According to the draft supplementary budget presented Wednesday by the Council of Ministers, the French law will adapt to the requirements of the European Union (EU). The French government sells well to pressure from Brussels, which considers that these restrictions are [...]
Nov
15
Save the banks for failing to bail out the state. The Irish Finance Minister would negotiate with the European Union aid to save the country's banks, according to the daily Irish Independent. Minister "Brian Lehinan could ask its European counterparts in Brussels on Tuesday if it is possible to give access to Irish institutions [...]
Nov
2
The rush of Areva to the Middle Kingdom continues. The French nuclear specialist will win "a great harvest of contracts or promises of contracts" during the upcoming visit to France by Chinese President Hu Jintao will begin this Thursday, says Les Echos.
The nuclear giant could announce a breakthrough in its negotiations with [...]
Oct
29
Wall Street ignores the macroeconomic good news of the day the United States. Despite U.S. GDP up slightly on U.S. exchanges are conservative: the Dow Jones was down 0.13% to 11,099.50 points, the Standard & Poor's 500 was down 0.15% to 1182.05 points while the Nasdaq 100 advance from 0.16% to 2511.40 points. On [...]
Oct
20
U.S. stock markets are evolving into negative territory on Tuesday. Around 9:10 p.m., French time, the Dow Jones was down 1.71% at 10,954 points, the Nasdaq loose 2.02% to 2431 points while the S & P dropped 1.80% to 1163 points.
The macroeconomic news has been marked by the surprise decision by the [...]
Oct
16
Google is starting to capitalize on its diversification. Anxious to prove it, the Internet giant has unveiled the exceptionally sales of some of these new activities on the occasion of the presentation of its results for the third quarter on Thursday.
Over a year, Google plans to make one billion dollars in sales [...]
Aug
4
BIC provides a moderate growth in sales in 2010 because it anticipates a slowdown in the second half. The first part of the year was solid with improved operating margins in 2010 compared to 15.3% in 2009.
The specialist pens, lighters and razors in a statement reported a 41.3% jump in net profit [...]
Jun
26
Societe Generale brought forth its own monster: the system Kerviel. It is this belief by hammered three hours on Friday, lawyers for the former trader, Me Nicolas Huc-Morel and Mr. Olivier Metzner. "Jerome Kerviel has been formed, formatted, can be distorted by Societe Generale." "It is his creation, a being in a virtual world [...]
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
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 [...]