Archive for April, 2010

Industrial production remains weak in February

Friday, April 9th, 2010

The recovery is slow. Industrial production remained unchanged in February from the previous month, Insee said Friday. In January, it increased by 1.1% thanks to strong production of energy through vigorous cold. The only manufacturing output rose 0.4% in February. "The business is growing but the rate is ...

E-commerce taxation bypasses French

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Why deprive yourself when you can sell in France while also being taxed - for example in the Benelux - legally? Some of the Web giants like Apple, Google, eBay or Amazon, see little reason and happily engaged the "tax optimization". For the first time, a report submitted ...

Employment of older workers: companies in running order

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

How many businesses of 50 to 300 employees will, ultimately, pay a penalty equivalent to 1% of their payroll, failing to set up a "senior level job? Answer by the end of this month when Bercy has recorded all SMEs signatories, who had until March 31 to perform this ...

The U.S. creates 162,000 jobs

Monday, April 5th, 2010

This is the best figure since the beginning of the crisis. The U.S. economy created 162,000 jobs in March, according to the Ministry of Labour. Economists s'attentaient to nearly 180,000 net new jobs. The unemployment rate, calculated on a different basis, it has remained stable at 9.7%. In ...

Slight increase in the number of overtime hours in 2009

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Finally some good news has no doubt what is said Nicolas Sarkozy this morning to find statistics overtime in Q4 2009, issued by the Ministry of Employment. The average number of overtime hours reported on the last three months of the year in companies with more than 10 workers ...

Brazil: 400 billion euros of major works

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Monday, Dilma Rousseff had tears in his eyes when speaking. The head of the Civil House-local equivalent of prime minister-and candidate to succeed Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave his last speech before leaving the government, as required by electoral law. Lula himself has organized an outing of choice: ...