"It seems that the worst is behind us," said Paul Roll, director general of the Office of Tourism and Congress of Paris. First city in the world in number of international arrivals, Paris has not been spared by the economic crisis. Even if the impact was less marked than in other cities, tourist numbers [...]
Jul
2
At the time of recovery, even soft, the overtime hours are back. In the first quarter, the average number of overtime hours per company increased by 9.6 hours compared to early 2009, according to figures released Friday by DARES.
Mid-sized companies of 250 to 499 employees this figure shot up, with an explosion [...]
Jun
24
Senior executives of private broadcasting, Nonce Paolini TF1, Canal + Bertrand Meheut, Nicolas de Tavernost for M6, RTL Christopher Baldelli, Jean-Paul Baudecroux for NRJ Group, Alain Weill for Next RadioTV and Gilles Cremilleux for strings local, sent a letter to Nicolas Sarkozy to urge him to lead the reform of France Television to the [...]
Jun
21
Gold continues to mix with peaks. The yellow metal is still beating his personal best last Friday by scoring 1,262.50 dollars an ounce on the spot market, improving the previous record of 1252.11 dollars scored ten days before. On the Comex in New York, even the precious metal climbed to 1263, $ 70 per [...]
Jun
18
China has emerged unscathed from the slump that has upset the global financial system. "Last year, Chinese banks have been the arm of an expansionary monetary policy", said Yang Zaiping, executive vice president of the Association of Banks of China, during an interview with China Central Television (CCTV) last February.
In 2009, Chinese [...]
Apr
27
The index futures are predicting a cautious opening of U.S. markets. Shortly before the opening of Wall Street, futures on indices Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 yielded 0.41%, to 1203.30 points, and 0.37% at 2039.75 points.
The Dow Jones is expected to slightly decline, -0.22% to 11,126 points.
The small [...]
Apr
26
The company, which sells cosmetics and herbal Provence, today launched an offer reserved for the Asian market, covering 25% of its capital, half through a capital increase. She hopes to raise 530 million euros as well. The sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. should attend to the tune of 50 million dollars. L'Occitane operates [...]
Apr
21
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Wednesday nudged up its forecast for global growth but said the risks to the recovery, particularly the developed countries' public debt and imbalances in capital flows. In fact, the institution has maintained its growth forecast for the eurozone to 1% in 2010, while stressing the fragility of the recovery [...]
Apr
17
The third U.S. airline, United Airlines, and the fourth, Continental Airlines, have resumed discussions on a possible merger of the two entities reported in the New York Times. The dialogue is not yet in its infancy. Negotiations had been held on this same subject two years earlier, but Continental had broken the commitment to [...]
Apr
7
A first for a group of ACC 40.Total was indicted on 27 February by the French judge Serge Tournaire, corruption, complicity and concealment of influence peddling in the case called "oil-food cons", echoing the UN program established in 1997 for the Iraqis, when the international embargo following the invasion of Kuwait.
After the [...]