The Franco-Belgian bank Dexia and Depfa the Irish accounted for almost half the $ 111 billion borrowed by banks at the Federal Reserve Oct. 29, 2008, the day the loan through its emergency window reached their peak , according to documents released by the U.S. central bank Thursday.
Nine of the top 12 borrowers [...]
U.S. Supreme Court seemed to lend a sympathetic ear to the arguments advanced by Wal-Mart, which wants to prevent a large class action launched by employees accusing the group of sex discrimination.
The judges of the highest court in America have strongly questioned Tuesday on the possibility that more than one million women are [...]
Thales said Friday that close to a deal with the UAE concerning compensation arrangements on arms contracts after the publication of a newspaper article which revealed discrepancies.
In its Friday edition, the daily La Tribune reported that the refusal of the specialist defense electronics, aerospace and security to sign the new rules of "offsets" [...]
Unemployment fell slightly in February for the second consecutive month, according to figures released Thursday by the Ministry of Employment and job center.
The number of jobseekers registered in Class A was down 0.1% to $ 2,701,100 in late February in France, is 2,100 job seekers less than in late January. In one year, [...]
EDF has not formally asked the government to raise electricity tariffs in France over five years, said Wednesday a spokesman for the group.
The daily Les Echos, EDF proposed government with a device that would lead to increase the electricity bill for individuals from 5.1% to 6.5% per year until 2015, including inflation.
The trend was to buy Wall Street Monday as investors welcomed the announcement of the sale of T-Mobile USA to AT & T by Deutsche Telekom for $ 39 billion, largest merger-acquisition since the beginning of the year.
AT & T finished up 1.14% to 26.26 dollars after announcing the sale of T-Mobile USA [...]
Wall Street falls sharply higher in early trade Friday, led by the G7's decision to take action to reassure the markets vis-à-vis Japan and the announcement by the Libyan authorities for a cease- Fire has been at the same time crude prices go back down.
Minutes after opening, the Dow Jones advance of 1.21% [...]
Post Bank, which has already subscribed for about one billion euros of bonds of Dexia, said Thursday its readiness to extend liquidity agreement with the Franco-Belgian bank beyond 2011 and be open to acquisitions asset management.
The two financial institutions have signed earlier this year an agreement under which the Postal Bank has committed [...]
The BoJ will absolutely prevent a financial crisis adds to the crisis. It has injected 3 trillion yen to 20,000 billion already provided the money market.
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced it yet injected 3,000 billion yen (26 billion euros) in the money market to support the economy after the earthquake, most of the [...]
The nuclear crisis in Japan could lead to increased demands on security and curtail some projects of French industry abroad, according to analysts polled by Reuters.
EDF shares, the leading operator of nuclear plants in the world, lost nearly 5% in the afternoon at the Paris stock exchange, accusing the second largest drop in [...]