The new governor of Bank of Tunisia launched in Davos, a call to the international investor confidence. Echoing one of the slogans of the protesters that led to regime change, "democracy is good for investment," Mustapha Kamel Nabli said that "the payment system works, as banks and foreign payments and there is no pressure [...]
Dec
30
Should we rejoice or worry about leaning over the year 2011? We have come far. Contrary to the fears raised this summer, the worst crisis since the Second World War did not result in a relapse of the global economy. The worst has been avoided. However, neither Europe nor the U.S. is left to [...]
Nov
11
The CAC 40 does not know which way to turn this Thursday. The benchmark index in Paris first opened the session on a rise of 0.32%, gluing points to 3900, before dropping more than 0.50% half an hour after the start of the meeting. At midday, he returned to equilibrium with an increase of [...]
Nov
9
U.S. stock markets end up with no direction on Monday. The Dow Jones was down 0.33% to 11,406.76 points and the Standard & Poor's lost 0.21% at 1223.25 points, while the Nasdaq gained 0.04% to 2580.05 points. On Friday, Wall Street closed slightly higher. The Dow Jones gleaned 0.08% to 11,444 points, the Nasdaq [...]
Nov
4
LE FIGARO. – What is your message to Parliament, which examines the credit of the mission "media"?
Frédéric Mitterrand. – I wish the media sector to account for the diversity of culture in France. The diversity of cultural expressions of our country goes through all sorts of common expression and a diversity of [...]
Oct
13
The entrance to the Acropolis was closed to tourists on Wednesday morning. A banner hung at the gates: "We will not pay for your mistakes." Thirty officials from the Ministry of Culture Greek protesting against the non-renewal of 350 employees in CSD. They require Final hiring and block access to the site sporadically.
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Oct
4
The CAC 40 remains anchored in the 3700 points. The benchmark index of the Paris meeting starts at equilibrium: -0.08% to 3689.18 points. It fails to turn the page of a red week that it lost more than 2% in five days. In Tokyo, the Nikkei also closed lower. The rise on Wall Street [...]
Sep
15
LE FIGARO. – The Brussels Commission and the IMF have recently revised upward the growth forecast for France. The recovery is there?
Christine Lagarde. – Yes. I do think that the recovery is here. This does not mean that the crisis is completely behind us and that we have digested all the effects. [...]
Sep
8
After a weekend of three days, U.S. stock markets begin the session on Tuesday down in the wake of European stock. In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones coward 0.36% 10,410 points, the Nasdaq lost 0.39% to 2225 points while the S & P drops 0.60% to 1,098 points.
The macroeconomic news was [...]
Sep
4
Anxiously awaited the U.S. employment figures for August were better than expected, according to the Department of Labor. If the U.S. economy as a whole has destroyed 54,000 jobs, the private sector alone has created 67,000 jobs. Economists had expected only about 41,000 new posts.
The private employment nevertheless displayed a marked decrease [...]