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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Ipsos said Wednesday that the purchase of Synovate, the market research arm of Aegis, would cost between one and two percentage points of growth over the last three months of 2011 and probably in the first quarter of 2012.
Research firm, which also reported a slowdown in activity in the third quarter, does not [...]
The 110 million euros, with European banks may need to strengthen their capital should include some 46 billion already pledged to Ireland, Greece and Portugal to their credit, officials said Sunday from European sources.
At a meeting of European finance ministers on Saturday, the president of the new European Banking Authority (BEA) said the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Risky assets should suffer the heaviest blows Monday at the opening of financial markets after the decision of Standard & Poor's to deprive the U.S. of the highest credit rating, the "triple A", say the professionals interviewed Saturday Reuters.
If they speak of "historic" or "serious decision", they caution that it is not a [...]
Growth in manufacturing accelerated in June in the U.S. for the first time in four months, according to figures released Friday by the purchasing managers of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
The index of manufacturing activity of this organization stood at 55.3 last month, against 53.5 in May. The market economists polled by [...]