Archive for March, 2010

The Paris Bourse wait

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Red takes his place at half-time for the opening of the Paris Stock Exchange on Thursday. While an opening in positive territory loomed, the future CAC 40 is now down 0.43% to 3925.50 points, after closing yesterday positive (0.86%). Markets had resumed with good guidance for trading on Wall ...

The Cac 40 hesitating

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The Paris Bourse was very difficult to choose a specific direction. After starting the session up 0.10%, the CAC 40 continues into negative territory. Halfway through, the index its Paris flagship widening losses and cowardly 0.66% to 3 878.10 points, falling below the threshold of 3900 points. Around 17 ...

The Post will foot the bill for cleaning of its factors

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Employees jubilant, Post irritated. A ruling of the Court of Appeal of Toulouse dated February 24 and issued Thursday, requires the company to pay the required maintenance of its postmen. The news seems trivial but it could ultimately be costly to the Post. This will in effect give 5 ...

EADS: Agreement reached on the A400 M

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

End of story. For several weeks, negotiations between the seven countries A400M customers and executives of EADS, parent company of Airbus, have punctuated the news. At yet another meeting, in Berlin, a "tentative agreement" was reached, provided the giant European aerospace in a statement. Customers (Belgium, Britain, France, ...

U.S. states bled by the crisis

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Click on thumbnail for larger graphic. The risk of default of a State has risen sharply with the recession. Between 1970 and 2009, 54 municipalities, counties or borrowers for which local authorities have declared bankruptcy. From our special correspondent in San Francisco Despite the return to ...