The tax on purchases of shares of French companies save those whose market capitalization is less than one billion euros, according to a document released Monday by BFM Business.
The fee will rise to 0.1% of the value of acquiring the shares. It must take effect in August.
Are concerned the major listed companies [...]
Governments in the euro area may have to bring up to 145 billion euros of public funding to Greece under the second plan to help the countries under consideration, said Friday several European sources.
These funds would supplement the effort to prepare to make private creditors of Athens by accepting a discount of at [...]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended down 0.69% Monday as investors took profits after a Japanese monetary authorities intervene against the soaring yen.
The Nikkei lost 62.08 points to 8,988.39 and the Topix, larger yielded 7.37 points (0.96%) to 764.06.
The Bank of Japan intervened in foreign exchange markets to counter speculation that makes [...]
Discussions on the future of Dexia continued Saturday in Brussels and Paris to an agreement on the orderly dismantling of the Franco-Belgian bank, the first victim of the European debt crisis.
Originally scheduled for Saturday afternoon, a decisive meeting of the board of the group was delayed until Sunday to give negotiators more time. [...]
The representatives of the creditors of Athens (EU, ECB, IMF) insist that Greece deregulates including the taxi trade. Thousands of "outrage" expressed Sunday, June 19 against the austerity of Syntagma Square in Athens.
Representatives of international donors in Greece (EU-ECB-IMF) urged Friday to the Minister of Transport on the need to deregulate transport, including taxis, [...]
Greek Prime Minister would meet with French President to discuss the plan to end the crisis in the euro area. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou at the EU summit of June 23, 2011.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou would meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Friday to discuss the plan to end [...]
French consumer confidence has deteriorated sharply during the summer, the monthly survey shows Friday the INSEE.
The composite indicator of consumer confidence stood at 80, down five points from July, and is now the lowest since February 2009.
Economists and analysts polled by Reuters on average expected a figure of 84 and the [...]
Wall Street finished down closing a turbulent session, investors are drawing negative conclusions of the economic indicators of the day.
The New York Stock Exchange ended down 1.03% Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial yielding 30 119.96 points to 11,493.57 points.
The S & P-500, wider, lost 14.47 points, or 1.19% to 1204.42 points. [...]
Finland would be irresponsible if it did not require collateral in exchange for his aid to Greece, said Friday its finance minister, Jutta Urpilainen.
"It would be completely irresponsible for the government. That's why it will not happen. The Social Democrats will not give up," she said at a gathering of the Social Democratic [...]
After the growth recorded by the ghost French economy in the second quarter, the forecast of the Centre Expansion does not exceed 1.5% of GDP growth in 2011 and 1% in 2012. As a result, nearly 13 billion euros it will find more to solve the budget equation. Baroin was appointed Minister of Finance and [...]