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 [...]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange closed up 1.56% Monday, ending in the green for the first time in six sessions, coinciding with the rebound of the euro and U.S. index futures.
The Nikkei gained 127.48 points to 8,287.49, after falling last week to a low of two and a half years.Government sources in Rome say [...]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended down 0.39% Monday, uncertainties related to the evolution of the debt crisis weighed on investor sentiment, which also took profits after strong gains on Friday.
The Nikkei lost 34.31 points to 8,769.09 and the Topix, larger yielded 1.57 points (-0.21%) to 750.45.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou concluded [...]
The price of light crude ended down on Tuesday for the third straight session, affected by the renewed pessimism caused by the decision of the Greek Prime Minister to hold a referendum on the agreement European rescue of the country.
On the Nymex, the December contract on the U.S. light crude (WTI) ended on [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
The government will create a windfall tax in 2012 for manufacturers subject to the quotas of carbon dioxide (CO2), a government source said Tuesday, confirming a report in the daily Le Figaro.
This tax will be sitting on their sales-tax at a rate of between 0.08% and 0.12% and is expected to bring nearly [...]
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 [...]
Ahold announced Thursday the acceleration of its share buyback program after posting profit below expectations in the second quarter, having trouble like other distributors to pass on rising costs in a sluggish economy for households.
The Dutch group, owner of the first supermarket chain in the Netherlands (Albert Heijn) while achieving 60% of its [...]