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The tension is still as strong financial markets. The persistent differences between European and fears of recurrence of the global economy still weighed on investor sentiment.
After attempting to rebound Wednesday, the CAC 40 has dug its losses for most of the session. He finally fell 2.32% to 3084.07 points. The volumes remain [...]

France Loisirs, a leading book distributors in France, sold to Bertelsmann in the spring by a U.S. investment fund, diversifying its activities. Reportedly, the group plans to launch its own brand of mobile phone: Mobile France Loisirs. For this, it should ally with small low-cost operator Zero package, which will assume all the technical [...]

The bankruptcy of thousands of municipalities, local authorities and public institutions French becomes clearer. In fact, 5500 government entities agreed with toxic loans between 1995 and 2009, according to a confidential document from the bank Dexia revealed by Liberation.
Thus, at the height of the financial bubble, the specialist in financing local authorities [...]

Twenty-four years after the first world held in New Zealand, rugby world last week signed a homecoming, celebrating the opening ceremony of the 7th edition of the World Cup. Certainly, in the meantime, the world of rugby has changed profoundly, from many countries in an amateur status to a professional model. However, the edition [...]

The uncertainty seems to have finally dissipated in Washington. After long weeks of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats finally have reached an agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. After a retraction in the Sunday afternoon, the White House confirmed Sunday night (Monday morning Paris time) that President Barack Obama and Congress had reached agreement [...]

The summer season has started pretty well for the French hotel, the first beneficiaries of above normal temperatures in April-May. Now and in the middle of summer, it is museums, cinemas and other places that are covered with full of visitors in search of work to deceive the inconvenience of bad weather.
If [...]

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 [...]

Carrefour had commissioned this week the bank Lazard to explore the possibility of a merger between its subsidiary and Brazilian Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao (CBD, Pao de Acucar), the local leader. According to the Sunday newspaper, the group led by Lars Olofsson would consider this option due to "disappointment" crossed by the French giant [...]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is Innocent until his guilt is proven. For all his indictment is a disaster for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the G 20 and for his family.
The Director General of the monetary institution was to meet Angela Merkel in the next few hours. It should be associated in the coming [...]

At a time when several large countries, like Germany, Italy and Switzerland have decided to phase out nuclear energy, the draft second EPR, Penly (Seine-Maritime) – The first EPR is Flamanville (Manche), in construction – seems more stuck than ever.
In an interview with the magazine Challenges, CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie [...]