Show that the situation is under control, without overdoing it not to give the impression that the situation is serious. The leaders of the euro area have increased their efforts on Wednesday to reassure the markets while the pressure has continued to gain momentum on debt Spanish and Italian. In Madrid, which must now [...]
Jul
21
As the season results announcements in full swing in the U.S., Apple unveiled last night, after market, the figures exceeded expectations last quarter. The CEO, Steve Jobs, even spoke of "best results ever recorded." And the reaction was not long in coming: in electronic trading after the close of Wall Street, the title soared [...]
Jun
29
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, presented Tuesday in New York, Office 365, the set of office software tailored to the "cloud," distributed computing on the Internet. This is a "collaboration tool for the productivity of individuals and businesses, which operate around the world and all the equipment," said the boss of the world's largest software. [...]
Jun
22
The Paris Bourse tries a timid rebound on Tuesday. Tensions remain very strong in Europe as it is now the Greek Parliament will decide whether to grant its confidence in the new government formed by George Papandreou. Greek Prime Minister called for a national agreement of political parties to adopt its austerity plan and [...]
Jun
11
The deputies continued Friday to review the draft budget law amendment removing the tax shield and reducing the ISF. As expected, they voted in Article 1 of the bill abolishing the wealth tax for estates of less than EUR 1.3 million and revised the scale for the highest wealth. Now between 1.3 and 3 [...]
Apr
29
Frédéric Lefebvre unveils measures are announced Friday at the National Conference of simplification.
LE FIGARO. – Will you reduce the paperwork?
Frederic Lefebvre. – Business leaders have sent 600 proposals for simplification. With Jean-Luc Warsmann and Jean-Michel Aulas, who co-chair the Audience, we prepared a first set of 80 measures that address [...]
Apr
13
Nicolas Sarkozy met at the Palais des Congres de Versailles a hundred representatives of the professions gathered by the National Union of Liberal Professions (UNAPL) chaired by David Gordon-Krief. Recognizing that "professional feel to have been forgotten," the Head of State reassured them. "We need you to revive the French economy. Having been in [...]
Apr
12
While eight months, the series Genzyme has monopolized the attention of the markets, traders should now look again more closely at the product portfolio of Sanofi-Aventis. After disappointing results in late January on a treatment (BSI-201) against a form of breast cancer, the pharmaceutical company said Tuesday that both positive clinical results on one [...]
Mar
3
The Paris Bourse, where she has faltered last night closing because of further oil price rises, is no exception to the downward trend in U.S. and Asian stock exchanges recorded since yesterday evening. At the close, the CAC 40 was down 0.81% at 4034.32 points.
Tensions in the Middle East intensified and the [...]
Feb
17
LE FIGARO. – The crisis is behind us, the G20, created in the heart of the financial turmoil, is it still useful?
Christine Lagarde. – What we want is precisely that which can not prevent himself in a situation of systemic crisis putting the country at risk. Let us not forget that the [...]