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Markets relapse, the CAC 40 lost 3% to 2940 points

The Greek crisis can not stop producing its adverse effects on the markets. Monday, the Paris Bourse had another session black. The CAC 40 has raised the red flag at the opening. He then widened its losses for most of the session. At the finish, he loses 3% to 2940 points.

Even gloomy atmosphere on other European financial centers. In Frankfurt, the Dax lost 2.83% and the FTSE in London has sold 2.03%. The ill wind has also blown on Wall Street. Sitting in the Dow Jones fell by 1.93% and the Nasdaq 2.06%.

Last week, European markets had experienced a brief respite, hoping significant progress on the issue of Greek debt. But the meeting of European finance ministers on Friday and Saturday in Poland ended in failure.They have postponed any decision on the October installment of a new tranche of 8 billion euros to Greece, which desperately needs the money.

Banks on the front line

The markets welcomed the news calmly. "Despite the need for action, European leaders continue to show slow and have not yet ratified the measures promised July 21," observe the experts Saxo Bank guaranteed high risk personal loans. But for the strategists of Aurel BGC, the markets will continue to brood, "as investors will not feel that a lasting solution was found for Greece."

Trying once again to reassure the French Minister of Economy Baroin said that the issue of a default of Greece, feared by some observers was "not a working hypothesis" in the zone euro.Investor caution was also reinforced by the expectation of two important deadlines in the afternoon. A teleconference between the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos and the Troika, "between the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF. In the U.S., investors sifting through the intervention of President Barack Obama, who introduced new measures to reduce the deficit amounting to 3 trillion dollars. Bank stocks were again at the forefront. BNP Paribas lost 5.48% and 6.70% Societe Generale.

Wall Street ends on a rebound after Fed speeches

A disappointment, yes, but short-lived. After opening down moderately, Wall Street initially widened its losses after the speech, as expected, Ben Bernanke. This involved the measurement of the Fed to support the U.S. economy at annual meetings of the Fed's Jackson Hole (Wyoming). But the New York indexes were quickly taken: at the close, the Dow Jones gained 1.20% to 11,283.17 points. The S & P 500, wider, takes 1.49% to 1176.57 points. The Nasdaq dominated by technology advance on its side of 2.47% to 2479.44 points. Over the whole week, the Dow gained 4.3% and the S & P 500 4.7% and the Nasdaq 5.9%, reversing some losses last week.

The Fed chairman did not communicate further decisions to boost growth, leaving the possibility of a new monetary easing later.Yet he managed to reassure the markets by stating that "the foundation of growth" were still there in the United States. "It is clear that the recovery after the crisis was much less robust than we had hoped," he acknowledged, however,

He also announced that the Fed would meet two days in September, instead of originally planned to study, among other things, instruments designed to bring a new economic stimulus money. Ben Bernanke promised that his institution will "do its utmost" to ensure growth and price stability.

Concerning the debt crisis in the eurozone, "I trust," he said, convinced that the Europeans will do what it takes to get by.

Just in Europe, the indices sank after the speech of Ben Bernanke: The CAC 40 ended the session on a drop of 2.30%, the Dax in Frankfurt loose 3% and the FTSE 100 in London 2.13%.Yesterday Wall Street had already ended down sharply in anticipation of disappointing announcements from Ben Bernanke. This morning too, the seats were won by Asian nervousness.

GDP revised down

Before the appointment of Jackson Hole, investors were aware of the second estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter. During this period, U.S. GDP grew by 1% annual rate over the previous three months, said the Commerce Department, revising and down 0.3 points his first estimate of growth in the spring published in late July. Analysts had forecast a less pronounced rate revision, to 1.1%, according to their median forecast.

As for currencies, the euro is regaining ground against the dollar after the speech of Ben Bernanke. To 22h (French time), the European currency was worth 1.4486 dollars against 1.4378 dollars on Thursday night.As for the oil markets, U.S. crude oil ended up slightly, and snapped a series of four weeks of losses. Since Monday, oil gained 3.11 dollars or 3.78%. On the Nymex, the contract on October U.S. crude (WTI) finished with a gain of 7 cents to 85.37 dollars baril.Dans the same time, Brent advanced 0.61%, or 68 cents to 111.30 dollars.

Wall Street should open normally by Monday morning as Hurricane Irene is expected to reach the East Coast of the United States this weekend. The New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday ordered the mandatory evacuation of more than 250,000 New Yorkers living in vulnerable coastal areas before Saturday 17 hours. "We intend to be open for trading Monday.We have a device to respond to such events, to the market to function while ensuring the safety of our staff, "said a spokesman for the New York Stock Exchange AFP.

Values ​​of the day

On the corporate side, Madison Square Garden (1.31% to 23.14 dollars), Frontline (-0.15% to 6.47 dollars) and Royal Bank of Canada (-2.69% to 49.89 dollars ) must be published.

Tiffany (9.35% to 69.01 dollars) reported Friday a profit of 69 cents per share in the second quarter, while the consensus gave 70 cents. Sales came out at 872.7 million (consensus: 786 million). The jeweler raised its guidance range for the BPA 2011, it now expects between 3.65 and 3.75 dollars. (Consensus: 3.56 dollars per share).

HollyFrontier (7.17% to 70.73 dollars) has reported a dividend increase of 17% to 8.75 cents.MTS Systems (-1.09% to 34.55 dollars) also announced a 25% increase in its quarterly dividend.

Pandora Internet Radio (-2.50% to 8.20 dollars) which made its IPO in June, on Thursday posted a net loss of $ 3.18 million in the second quarter of its fiscal year offset, and sales more than doubled, exceeding analysts' expectations.

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (9.31% to 8.57 dollars) has reported a quarterly profit of $ 8.8 million or 12 cents per share against 2.2 million a year earlier. Sales jumped 11% to $ 97.9 million.

Boeing (-2.78% to 62.80 dollars): 787 Dreamliner, its new aircraft, for which more than 800 orders have already been registered, received Friday certification authorities in the U.S. civil aviation.The first deliveries of the aircraft, the Japanese company promised to All Nippon Airways, lagging about three years, due mainly to disruptions in the supply chain components.

Tour of Europe's austerity plans

In an attempt to reassure the debt crisis, the austerity is accelerating in Europe. States as markets in the sights they will have to convince the date of 2013 to bring their deficit below 3% (a year later to the country under the rescue plan), as agreed with the European Commission . The great unknown is the impact on growth, with figures for the second quarter are published on Tuesday in Brussels.

Italy

Rome adopted Friday a drastic austerity plan to recover 45.5 billion euros by 2013, based in particular on tax increases, massive loss of seats of local administrations and combination.

For the first time, a solidarity tax on the highest incomes was introduced, up to 5% for incomes over 90,000 euros per year and 10% in excess of 150,000.Parliament had already voted in July an austerity plan of 48 billion euros over three years. But Italy has no choice its massive debt (120% of GDP) in place at the forefront of possible victims of the debt crisis. The surge of his bond yields to record levels last week had forced the ECB to redeem itself from the Italian debt in exchange for strict conditions on the hardening of austerity.

Sunday, the president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, welcomed these measures "critical" for Italy, but also "for the euro area as a whole."The Europeans know that, after the bailout for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the fall of Italy would push the euro into unknown territory paydayloan.

Spain

Seen as another weak link by investors, Madrid about to vote in late August a tightening of discipline, to bring back 4.9 billion euros in additional funds. This new turn of the screw completes the plan adopted in 2010 drastically to save 65 billion over three years.This time, it is health insurance and big business that would be utilized.

Greece

Athens, whose budget woes have catalyzed the debt crisis, the end of June adopted an austerity plan providing for severe savings of 28.4 billion euros in 2015 (divided equally between tax increases and decreases public expenditure) and a wave of privatizations to bring 50 billion euros. This was the condition imposed by the IMF and the European partners to unlock their help.

Portugal

Lisbon, also forced a bailout, wants to go beyond the expectations of international donors. To counter any slippage in public finances, the government announced in July drastic measures: special tax of 50% of the fourteenth month of incomes above the minimum wage, increase in VAT from 6 to 23% …These cuts are in addition to a package (15% increase in transportation rates, primary school closures …) has already been decided despite their unpopularity.

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Riots in London, the press questioned the role of the BlackBerry

The day after a second night of riots in the suburbs of London, the British press is concerned about the impact of new technologies in organizing rallies. If the use of Twitter and Facebook was highlighted during Arab riots in recent months, a new player is on Monday stormed the British media: the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), who played a key role in events.

BBM is a service available only on BlackBerry brand phones, allowing users to exchange messages for free via the Internet, and not through the telephone network. Messages can be exchanged only if both corresponding to communicate their personal code (PIN) before.The interception of messages by a third party, or by the police is complicated.

The principle of BBM is similar to that of SMS, to the last detail BBM messages that cost nothing. One argument that has made the BlackBerry smartphone's favorite British adolescents (37%), according to a study cited by the Guardian. For The Urban Blog Mashup, taken by the Telegraph, BBM is very popular among young 'for three reasons: it's fast, it's free, and unlike Facebook or Twitter, the messages exchanged are completely private. " .

"The gangs have been using BlackBerry for organizing the riots"

"The device, previously reserved for businessmen and politicians, are now the preserve of thugs and young (…) through this application," says the Telegraph.The conservative daily notes and Mark Duggan, the young man whose death was the cause of the night of riots in Tottenham, had sent a message via BBM to his girlfriend shortly before being shot by police. "The message said: 'The cops follow me,'" wrote the daily.

"The gangs have been using BlackBerry for organizing the riots," says the Telegraph. A Guardian journalist is in the same direction, explaining that "many sources (him) confirmed that BBM, inciting to raid the town of Enfield, was heavily circulated on the BlackBerry network Sunday early afternoon noon ". The journalist claims to have read other messages about plundering six other districts in north London on Monday night. "There is no doubt that BBM is used to organize the violence."

The BBC website, he does not deny the use of BBM in the events of the weekend, minimizing its impact."While smartphones have helped those who participated in the riots, they were certainly not convinced those who were not interested to join rallies," writes the site based on the analysis of Dr. Chris Greer, Professor of Sociology and Criminology at City University in London. For its part, RIM, the manufacturer of BlackBerry phones, said Monday in the evening he would "cooperate fully with the Interior Ministry and the British police force."

British police monitors Twitter users

Scotland Yard warned on Monday that it would arrest any person to become involved in urban riots on Twitter. "Provocative and inappropriate messages were posted on Twitter" during the weekend, said the British police.The Times cites several messages such as "Everyone at Tottenham n **** the police, I hope that there will be a dead tonight" (the message has since been deleted).

For its part, the Telegraph has collected pictures of rioters and that of a young man posing in front of several games he had stolen during the violence. "Do you know? Send us an email if you have any information, "wrote the site, without specifying for what purpose he seeks to know the identity of these people.

The United States lost their "AAA" rating

The penalty was expected but it still sounds like a shock. In the night from Friday to Saturday, the rating agency Standard and Poor's (S & P) has dared to lower the rating for government debt of the United States, and deprived of their "AAA" for the first time in history . S & P said in a statement it had degraded to the next level this note, the best possible, to bring it to 'AA +'. It also lowered its outlook to "negative", which means that Standard and Poor's believes that the next time the note will change, it will be to be devalued again. The United States were rated "AAA" by S & P since the creation of this agency in 1941.They remain in the other two major agencies, Moody's Dean (since 1917) and Fitch Ratings.

Standard and Poor's, which had warned in April that it was considering lowering, justified its decision with "political risks" to see the country taking insufficient measures against its budget deficit. For her, the political debate on these issues is not up to the problems caused by a debt of more than 14,500 billion. "The plan for balancing the budget on which Congress and the Executive have recently agreed is insufficient compared to what, in our view, would be needed to stabilize the dynamics in the medium term public debt" said S & P, citing the law known as "control the budget" passed Tuesday.

S & P is the second rating agency to downgrade the American note, after the Chinese – less powerful – Dagong.Other – mostly American and French Moody's Fitch – are currently at Triple A.

The U.S. public debt to more than 100% of GDP

The first power of the world is, well, so sure before. The United States and joined Japan, Spain and Ireland have lost that status envied payday loan lenders. The loss of this seal of excellence is expected brutal impact on the financial markets, difficult to imagine right now. But while the financial world is upside down, the risk that markets continue to dive is high. The announcement of S & P comes in effect when the markets were closed for the weekend, closing on both sides of the Atlantic one week black.

China, by far the world's largest creditor United States, found that she had "every right now to require the United States to address their structural problems of debt."Second World holder of U.S. debt, Tokyo assured him that his confidence in the U.S. Treasury and its strategy of purchasing these bonds were unchanged. In France, the Minister of Economy Baroin reiterated his "total confidence in the strength of the U.S. economy."

Two days ago, the U.S. debt has passed a symbolic milestone. Because it exceeded the threshold of 100% of GDP, just after raising the debt ceiling by Congress. The United States saw their public finances sealed by the harsh recession that crossed their economy from late 2007 to mid-2009. Since then, economic growth has returned, but they are not able to restore the health of their public finances. According to estimates by the International Monetary Fund, they should acknowledge this year, with about 9% of GDP, the highest budget deficit of the G20 countries, except Japan.It is sixteen countries rated "AAA" by Standard and Poor's, four of the G7: Germany, Canada, France and Great Britain.

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The Standard & Poor's removed the "AAA" rating from the U.S.

The rating agency Standard and Poor's lowered the rating Friday on the public debt of the United States, deprived of their "AAA" for the first time in their history. S & P said in a statement it had lowered the rating a notch, the best possible, to bring it to 'AA +'. It also downgraded the outlook to "negative", which means that Standard and Poor's believes that the next time the note will change, it is to be lowered again. The United States were rated "AAA" by S & P since the creation of this agency in 1941. They remain in the other two major agencies, Moody's Dean (since 1917) and Fitch Ratings.

Standard and Poor's, which had warned in April that it was considering lowering, justified its decision with "political risks" to see the country taking insufficient measures against its budget deficit.For her, the political debate on these issues is not up to the problems caused by a debt of more than 14,500 billion. "The plan for balancing the budget on which Congress and the Executive have recently agreed is insufficient compared to what, in our view, would be needed to stabilize the dynamics in the medium term public debt" said S & P, citing the law known as "control the budget" passed Tuesday.

"The last victim of the failure of President Obama"

John Chambers, President of the Evaluation Committee of S & P, said Friday on CNN that Washington could have prevented the lowering of the notes within the ceiling earlier. He said the responsibilities were shared by the Administration and Obama, but also "the previous administration." The first political reaction in Washington have shown blocking pointed to by S & P.Mitt Romney, candidate for the Republican primary, has called the reduction of "latest victim of the failure of Obama on the economy." The Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid, has instead called for "a balanced approach to deficit reduction," with spending cuts but also increases targeted taxes, it rejected the Republicans, under pressure ultra-conservative "tea parties", when discussing the debt.

For its part, the U.S. government has accused S & P based its decision on serious errors in calculations payday loan. "An appraisal contains an error of 2000 billion dollars speaks for itself," said the press spokesman of the Department of the Treasury. U.S. media said the government had severely challenged the projections of analysts of the agency after reviewing the findings of S & P. In vain."We take our responsibilities very seriously, and if at the end of our analysis, the commission concludes that a note is not to where it should be, it is our duty to make this decision" justified Reuters responsible for rating sovereign debt within the S & P, David Beers.

China demands U.S. action

The loss of this seal of excellence is expected brutal impact on the financial markets, difficult to imagine right now. The U.S. Treasury is an undisputed reference: a standard cost of money, an instrument normally used as "collateral" (guarantee) in a variety of transactions, and a refuge for investors in troubled times. "Uncertainty about the effects on the market is high," said recently the investment bank Goldman Sachs, exploring the potential consequences.The lowering of this note should indeed force investors to reassess risk widespread.

The S & P announcement came as the markets had closed for the weekend, but initial reactions are mixed from Asia. The Japan, the second holder of U.S. debt world, assured that his confidence in the U.S. Treasury and its strategy of purchasing these bonds were unchanged. But China, by far the world's largest creditor United States, found that she had "every right now to require the United States to address their structural problems of debt."

The United States had their public finances sealed by the harsh recession that crossed their economy from late 2007 to mid-2009. Since then, economic growth has returned, but they are not able to restore the health of their public finances.According to estimates by the International Monetary Fund, they should acknowledge this year, with about 9% of GDP, the highest budget deficit of the G20 countries, except Japan. It is sixteen countries rated "AAA" by Standard and Poor's, four of the G7: Germany, Canada, France and Great Britain.

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The CAC 40 expected sharply higher

Relief. Is the word that should prevail today on all global exchanges, after U.S. lawmakers passed this night finally put to agree on raising the debt ceiling. At 8:15, future contracts on the CAC 40 advanced sharply from 1.39% to 3724.50 points.

Last week, the inability of the United States to solve the problem of public finances had weighed on investor sentiment. In Paris the CAC 40 was indeed touched its lowest level in session year (3,630.75 points), while Wall Street finished its worst week in a year, despite the intervention of Obama Friday in an attempt to reassure debt.

After the relief 10 days ago on Greek sovereign debt, the calm would return to the Paris financial center.After weeks of negotiations, elected Democrats and Republicans have indeed finally found common ground on the amount of new ceiling, avoiding the world's largest economy is in default of payment in the coming days. According to preliminary information provided by the White House, the debt ceiling would be raised to 2.1 trillion dollars, which breathe new life in the United States on the forehead of the debt until 2013, after the presidential elections. This agreement in principle will also enable the countries to continue to borrow on the markets beyond the August 2 deadline set by the Treasury.

The reaction of rating agencies expected

On the other hand, no excessive optimism are to be expected in the financial markets today, at least until the U.S. Congress has not ratified the agreement. The first submission is expected to vote that day.Furthermore, few details have yet filtered on measures taken to reduce the deficit in the U.S., which does not exclude the possibility of deterioration in the rating of the sovereign debt of the United States.

For now, the first tranche of spending cuts of $ 1 trillion is expected. Then a bipartisan special committee of Congress will then be responsible for finding the end of November additional expenditure cuts amounting to 1.5 trillion dollars. A total of 2.5 trillion dollars in budget cuts, all over 10 years. From this point of view, the reaction of rating agencies in this agreement called the "medium term" should be widely followed by the markets.

On the currency front, the dollar has benefited only modestly from the announcement of the night, illustrating the temporary nature of such an agreement.Around 6:00, the euro slipped against the dollar at 1.4385 dollars against 1.4395 on Friday, but climbed against the yen at 111.67 yen against 110.41 Friday. For its part, the dollar set off again up significantly against the yen at 77.63 yen after briefly reached 78 yen, 76.73 yen against Friday night.

In terms of oil prices were up Monday morning in electronic trading in Asia, where the market relieved by this agreement in extremis. In morning trading, a barrel of "light sweet crude" for September delivery gained 1.53 dollars to 97.23 dollars. That of Brent North Sea crude for September delivery was appreciating $ 1.25 dollar to 117.99.

Macroeconomic side, investors should look carefully at the unemployment figures for the month of JuneOverseas are also expected to 4:00 p.m. construction spending for the month of June, the ISM manufacturing index for July.

As for values ​​to follow

Last week, the many semi-annual publications were rather disappointing, adding to the nervousness of investors. The pace slows publications this week, though are expected in the next three days the details of the interim bank values ​​(Tuesday BNP Paribas, Societe Generale on Wednesday and Thursday Axa and Natixis).

Eiffage reported a slight slowdown in growth in the second quarter despite a sharp rebound from its construction activities, the division of public works who registered a decrease over the period.

Outremer Telecom.A draft tender offer simplified to the telecom operator was introduced by OMT Invest, a structure controlled by Axa Private Equity, according to a notice to the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and released Friday.

EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF ENR) has entered into exclusive negotiations with Capital Perceva to cede control of Supra, the fund feeds the project to file a simplified takeover bid at the end of the process.

General Health issued a sharp drop in operating profit in the first half due to exceptional items, but its revenue rose due to higher acute care stays.

Recylex published Friday sales for the second quarter increased significantly, from 32% to 125.34 million euros, supported by an increase of 48% of its business in recycling lead thanks to rising 16 % of lead prices and increased sales volumes.

Air Liquide. The gas giant reported Monday a 11% increase in net profit in the first half, to 750 million euros.It maintained its forecast a "steady increase" in net profit for the year.

Note that Gameloft will publish its interim results after market close, while Le Noble Age unveil at the same time state sales for the same period. The British bank HSBC, which is listed in Paris, finally published its results for the first six months of the year.

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Vinci will build the stadium of Olympique Lyonnais

It has taken a major step Tuesday Olympique Lyonnais (OL). In a statement, the French professional club career has indeed appointed on Tuesday the company concessions in charge of design and construction of its future new stadium, the cornerstone of future complex OL Land. And it finally Vinci return the task to emerge from the Stadium of Light ground on the site Décines Charpieu.

After the Stade de France, Nice and Bordeaux, so this is the third contract raised by the construction group and concessions as part of the grand plan to renovate the French stage, for the organization of Euro 2016 Football in France. Note that Vinci has also built and operates since January 2011, the stage of Le Mans (MMArena), which is not part of the eleven stages selected to host matches of Euro 2016.

Private partnership / private

Regarding the financing of the stadium itself, with a capacity of 58,200 seats, the two companies will work as part of a private / private. As for the OL Land project as a whole, the community (Grand Lyon, Department, State …) will support the access to the stadium for 170 million euros. According to information provided earlier this afternoon by the group led by Jean-Michel Aulas on the financing of the only sports venue, Vinci is committed to "contribute to the funding by becoming a shareholder, to a maximum participation 49% of the company owner of the project, the Land of Montout. " Duty, the group estimates that 381 million euros the amount of the contract this morning."A cost which will complement other investments driven by external partners, including hotels, leisure centers and office buildings," says management. In total, OL Groupe estimated 450 million investments to the OL Land project, that is to say the stadium and related structures.

To collect a portion of the funds, the group will also sell the name of the future stadium to a private company. The identity of the partner to be selected, and the amount of its financial participation in this contract "naming" should be announced by the end of the year cash advance now. What to expect the Stadium of Light will soon be renamed before being completed.According to Jean-Michel Aulas, the enclosure will be built on the bottom "entirely private", even if 20 million should still be made by the State, as part of the renovation plan.

Deliveries for the second quarter 2014

A four-year first whistle of Euro 2016, the stadium project goes so Lyon (finally) to the next level. The memorandum of understanding announced Tuesday paves the way for the concrete realization of the project, after years of red tape. At the end of a phase "Project" about six months and subject to the signature of the design-build contract by that date, the phase of contruction will be launched.

Already in May, the release of the situation had been operated by the choice of Lyon as host city of the European competition.The city was named first with eight, then ten stadia to host matches of Euro 2016. Then, when the future sports arena has been the subject of a statement in May of general interest (DIG), Greater Lyon has been run from 14 June to 18 July, public hearings required to amend the plan to local urban planning for the construction of the stadium. The city now hopes to receive the issuance of building permits by the end of the year, for a start of construction in early 2012. Barring unforeseen delays in construction or, as has been the site know of the great stage of Lille, the Stadium of Light should be delivered in the second quarter 2014.

In exchange, the news was applauded by investors, in a context of macroeconomic concerns hold their attention. At 15 hours, the title of the Lyon Group advanced 0.93% to 5.41 euros in a market down 0.5%.

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Air France: towards an agreement to avoid a strike in late July

Unions and management are on track to avoid a strike announced for the end of July. Thursday night, representatives of hostesses and stewards of Air France was optimism about reaching agreement with management in the day, on the organization of the work of flight personnel. This Friday is indeed crucial in the negotiations. "If we do not find a solution before tonight, we can not turn back. The organization of air activity is very heavy, told AFP Jean-Marc Jaouen, delegate of the National Union of cabin crew (SNPN).

The seven unions involved threatening a strike since Monday 29 July to 1 August in protest against the new organization of work proposed by management.The CEO of Air France, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, has in fact recently released a project to install four bases in the provinces to increase the productivity of the company based on the model low cost. It would be particularly asked the crew to work longer on a reduced number of days to be able to fly more planes. The sailing team would also be reduced from four to three people in some aircraft. In return, Air France did not want to donate 20% maximum productivity gains and made its staff.

The pilots union still in conflict

Towards unions as there was optimism yesterday about the possibility to find here tonight common ground bad credit payday loans. "We had five areas of disagreement, three have already been accepted by management", said last night at the AFP Jean-Marc Jaouen, the SNPN.Remains still to be discussed include the reduction of crews on long flights and medium-haul 142 passengers. "There is progress in the negotiations, although they are still insufficient. An agreement to end conflict can be signed, "also found Philippe Sports, the UNSA. Air France was doing its part to know last night told AFP that it "was very open in discussions" and that "all flights were kept" from July 29 to August 1.

If the conflict started with the hostesses and stewards are being addressed, it is not the same with the pilots' union, which called the strike on August 5 to 8. The powerful SNPL validated last week at 55% the new organization of work desired by management. But he opposes the hostesses and stewards on measures to sustain the supplementary pension fund for cabin crew, currently in deficit.Despite a law passed in 2008 providing for a reform of the fund, the implementing decrees have still not been published, failing agreement between the two parties.

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Greece: the banks would all be taxed

Europe is exploring all options to rescue Greece. Thus, the governments of the euro-area floor to the creation of a new tax credit to save the finances of Greece, according to the German daily Die Welt. This tax would apply to all institutions, even those who are "not directly involved in Greece," wrote the German newspaper, citing senior diplomatic sources, involved in the case.

And private sector rescue of Greece would not stop there. Banks will also be put to use to buy Greek bonds, Die Welt wrote, without giving details on the form that such involvement.

Inspiration German

The inspiration may have been drawn in Germany. The country will charge, this fall, a tax on the profits made by banks.The result of this tax into a fund that will support aid to financial institutions of the country considered strategic if next crisis. This tax should bring in less than a billion euros a year to the fund and should eventually have a volume of 70 billion euros. In detail, the large diversified institutions, like the first German bank Deutsche Bank, will pay more than small savings. The levy will be capped at 20% of net profit.

The question is whether this idea will be adopted at the Special Summit of the euro zone expected Thursday in Brussels. The bloc meet urgently to complete a new plan to help Athens. The International Monetary Fund will not participate in new rescue package for Greece, says Die Welt.According to the German newspaper, "many people have the IMF in ras-le-bol" and seriously doubted that Greece can carry out and the time-saving measures planned.

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