The week ahead on Wall Street may well look more or less to the previous, combining volatility and nervousness, the crisis of European sovereign debt remaining in all minds.
This week has the distinction of being a shortened session on Thursday is a public holiday in the United States where we celebrate the Thanksgiving [...]
European stock markets move down to midday, markets expect that Germany permitted the European Central Bank (ECB) to intervene massively to guarantee the debt of fragile states. But Berlin and the ECB refuse to do for now. Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin
Germany was sought on all sides Friday to find a solution to the [...]
Mario Monti, appointed Sunday evening to form the next Italian government has promised to conduct "with a sense of urgency but with care" consultations to establish the composition of his cabinet.
These will begin in the evening and will begin with interviews with the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Gianfranco [...]
Default, return to the drachma, massive devaluation, hyperinflation, recession … out of the euro would lead the Greek economy to disaster. Demonstration. Of "indignation" burn Greek euro banknotes to the Bank of Greece in Athens, October 17, 2011
The euro area, you love it or leave it. This was essentially the message from Nicolas Sarkozy [...]
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 [...]
The trade deficit of the United States declined slightly in August, show figures released Thursday by the Commerce Department.
The trade balance posted a deficit of 45.61 billion dollars, while the market was expecting a hole of 45.8 billion.
In July, the deficit eventually amounted to 45.63 billion (44.81 billion in the first [...]
The current account deficit of France in August fell to 2.9 billion euros from 3.8 billion in July, showed preliminary figures released Wednesday by the Bank of France.
The deficit on trade in goods fell to 5.2 billion euros, against 6.4 billion a month earlier.
Trade in services have stabilized, generating a surplus [...]
European shares continued their rebound Thursday started the day before, the European Central Bank (ECB) has as expected left rates unchanged and said it would provide liquidity to banks to longer term to avoid a new drying ("credit crunch" ).
For the presidency of the last Board of Governors of the ECB, Jean-Claude Trichet, [...]
60% of the French trust the member for Corrèze to boost growth and reduce debt, as against 22% for the mayor of Lille, according to a survey. François Hollande and Martine Aubry in the Summer of PS in La Rochelle (August 2011)
François Hollande is widely considered more credible than its rival in the primary [...]
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 [...]