Archive for the ‘plans’ Category
February 6, 2012
The draft law imposing a tax on financial transactions will concern only companies headquartered in France and whose market capitalization exceeds one billion euros, according to BFM Business. The Paris Bourse. The draft law imposing a tax on financial transactions will concern only companies headquartered in France and whose ...
February 3, 2012
France Telecom confirmed Friday the sale of Orange to the Chinese Hutchison 3G Austria, a subsidiary of conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, continuing its asset sales abroad. The transaction is valued at 1.3 billion euros including debt Orange Austria amounting to around 1.1 billion euros. France Telecom, owner ...
January 31, 2012
The action Amazon.com dropped in exchange for after-hours trading after the first global online retailer said Tuesday that it could lose money in the first quarter 2012, the group continued to ; invest heavily to develop and implement new business. </ p> The giant e-commerce has grown at least two ...
November 29, 2011
The British government Tuesday revised down sharply its growth forecasts and found that it would take longer than expected to reduce the budget deficit, which led him to extend austerity measures beyond the election date of 2015. Finance Minister (Chancellor of the Exchequer), George Osborne, warned that the UK ...
November 18, 2011
The news is unnoticed but it is historical: the Central Bank of China has authorized the Central Bank of Austria to make investments in renminbi. Decryption with François Godement, China specialist and Director for Strategy Asiacentre. The yuan's Bank of China has signed an agreement with the Austrian Central Bank ...
November 10, 2011
HSBC reported Wednesday a fall from higher than expected profits in the third quarter due to sluggish performance of its investment arm and an increase in bad debts in the United States. The first European bank also warned that it could leave the United Kingdom, where its headquarters for ...
November 2, 2011
The surprise announcement of a referendum in Greece on the agreement reached last week in Brussels causes stupor in Europe. George Papandreou, Prime Minister, endangering its political future and the country's membership in the euro area. But also the very existence of the latter. Decryption. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou ...
October 23, 2011
Germany and the European Central Bank received Sunday the fund to support the euro, the EFSF, is not transformed in the bank, against the wishes of France, a majority of countries in the euro area and G20 members who saw an easy way to increase its firepower. Chancellor Angela ...
October 21, 2011
Spanish bank Santander announced Friday a strengthening of its balance sheet by about a billion dollars (730 million) by integrating new partners in its activities to consumer credit in the United States. The announcement comes as pressure intensifies on European banks to increase their own funds. In a ...
October 18, 2011
Moody's is given three months to determine whether his perspective "stable" on "AAA" tricolor is still justified. The rating agency said that financire the financial strength of the French government has weakened. The Minister of Economy and Finance Baroin presented Wednesday, September 28 in Council ministresle of the state budget ...