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The British defense group BAE Systems said it expected this year stagnation in sales after a 7% decline in earnings in 2011, attributed to reductions in military spending improve Rican and UK.
Its sales fell 14% to 19.15 billion, mainly due to lower shipments to the U.S. military due to its withdrawal from Iraq. Analysts [...]
Barack Obama pleaded Monday for important stimulus for growth and for raising taxes on high incomes, at the presentation of its draft budget for 2013.
President of the United States, which had already exhibited this weekend outline of the proposed budget earmarks $ 350 billion to programs creations jobs and 476 billion in major [...]
The mining giant Anglo American is preparing to take up to 85% its stake in De Beers diamond group by buying from the Oppenheimer family for $ 5.1 billion (3.7 billion euros), which pushed up its stock exchange.
The agreement puts an end to old ties of nearly a century between the Oppenheimer family [...]
European markets retreated Monday in mid-session, including sealed by mining stocks after an intervention by Japan on the foreign exchange market to counter the soaring yen, which had the effect of strengthening the dollar against other currencies .
Investors also expect to have more details on the plan to end the crisis announced last [...]
Italy needs to implement structural reforms required by the euro area, even bring down the Berlusconi government and provoke early elections, says Lucia di Clemente, an economist at BNP Paribas. The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at the European Summit of October 23, 2011 Italy is caught between the calls to order from its European [...]
Despite the rule of non-replacement of a staff of two retiring, staff costs still represent over 40% of the state budget. This measure creates two times less than expected savings, according to a parliamentary report. View the Ministry of Economy and Finance at Bercy.
150,000: the number of jobs of employees who have been removed [...]
German Beiersdorf has hired a new CEO in an attempt to fight against the erosion of its market share, in the person of Stefan Heidenreich, head of the Swiss food group Hero.
Heidenreich will be appointed to the Executive in January and will take office after the annual general meeting, scheduled April 26, the [...]
Shaken by a drop in subscriptions, the magazine of the National Institute of consumption could increase in the private sector, the risk that its credibility challenged.
While its competitor, the UFC-Que Choisir a hit, the magazine "60 million consumers" has seen its sales plummet by 22% between 2008 and 2011, according to an audit of [...]
Greece on Tuesday reaffirmed its resolve to meet all the conditions is related rescue by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, while the inspectors of the "troika" EU-IMF-ECB should return this week in Athens.
In a speech to business leaders in Berlin, Prime Minister George Papandreou sought to allay fears about his [...]
Mersen, ex Carbone Lorraine, a statement Wednesday its objectives in 2011 after a first half marked by solid activity with solar and Asia.
The specialist in graphite solutions and electrical components now expects organic growth to double-digit revenue, while it was far higher than 5%, and an operating margin of at least 12%, against [...]