The French car market resumed its decline in November after a slight rebound in the previous month, the disappearance of the delayed effects of scrappage scheme imposed in particular on sales of small cars.
The new car registrations fell 7.6% last month to 179,160 units, show statistics released Thursday by the Committee of French [...]
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 [...]
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 French banking regulator warned Dexia Credit Local (DCL) in August 2010 that its liquidity position did not meet minimum requirements and that it planned to put the financing subsidiary of Dexia local under "special supervision" and to appoint a controller.
Already recapitalized in 2008 to 6 billion euros not the French public authorities, [...]
The cost of support for Dexia is not insignificant for Belgium, but France, this bailout is not in itself a significant risk to his notes because of its low exposure to the Franco-Belgian bank, said Monday a Fitch analyst told Reuters.
"The cost of support for the Belgian Dexia is not insignificant, and highlights [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The manufacturer of personal computers Lenovo China Thursday posted a near doubling of quarterly profit, but expressed concern about the impact of a slowing global economy, making the stock market drop his title by nearly 8 %.
The third global brand PC has been driven by strong sales in China and other emerging markets [...]
Credit derivatives and CDS (credit default swaps) are a poor instrument for measuring the risk to the debts of States, particularly rated and most liquid such as France, the United States or Germany, experts say Reuters poll.
Since the collapse of large U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008, CDS, hitherto limited to [...]