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Transportation strongly perburbés

The boss Bernard Thibault of the CGT predicts a movement "more powerful" than before and that is "anything but a symbolic gesture." The Inter confirmed another day of action this Saturday, October 16. In several sectors, notably transport, energy, public service or refinery, the federations have called for strikes renewable.

Transportation

• SNCF

The seven federations of railway (CGT, UNSA, Southern Rail and Fgaac-CFDT, FOR, CFTC, CFE-CGC) have endorsed the principle of a renewed strike on Monday evening at 22:30.

All night trains in France and abroad, with the exception of the Paris-Rome, were canceled.

On average a TGV Paris-province runs of 3, 1-TGV Province Province of 5, almost 4 in 10 Transiliens rush hour, 4-B of 10, and 1 day on Reef 3.Téoz traffic is assured because of a train on average 3.

Outbound traffic was normal for the Eurostar to London, Thalys and 8 out of 10 will roll into Belgium and the Netherlands. Two out of three trains are scheduled to Germany, and 8 out of 10 trains to Switzerland.

Information:

http://www.sncf.com http://www.infolignes.com http://www.abcdtrains.com

Hotlines:

0.805.90.36.35 for Outline, TER, and Intercity Téoz 0.805.70.08.05 for Transiliensncf.mobi for real-time access to information on mobile

• RATP (Paris Metro)

The CGT, Sud, FOR and CFDT RATP filed a notice of indefinite strike from October 12.The union UNSA-transport, which includes drivers of subway, RER, buses and trams, himself has decided not to call workers to strike.

At RATP, "the service is also in line with expectations, even slightly better than expected," said a spokesman.

– Metro:

Lines 1, 11, 14: Traffic normalLigne 6: three trains on quatreLignes 3, 3a, 4, 8, 13, two trains on troisLignes 2, 5, 7, 7a, 9, 10, 12: a second train

– Buses and trams:

Three out of four bus ride and should be almost normal traffic on the network of trams. T1 only three trains will run on four.

– RER:

RER A: a second train, with an interconnection maintained at Nanterre Préfecture

RER B: a train every five rush hour. Station Denfert-Rochereau is the starting point and terminus for all trains.

Information:

http://www.ratp.fr

Freephone:

0.800.15.11.11

• Urban (by province)

The notice of strike filed by the CGT federation covers the period from October 12 to 30 in transport in provincial towns. Strike notices were filed by 85 companies of 111 urban transport networks.

– Of these 85 networks, 49 of them have filed strike notice 24 hours non-renewable, as at Aix-les-Bains, Arles, Clais, Cannes, Dunkerque, Lille, Limoges, Lyon, Nice, La Rochelle, Toulon, Tours and Vienna.

– For 29 of them, foresaw these have a renewable period of 24 hours, as in Angers, Avignon, Bourges, Grenoble, Marseille, Montepellier, Nantes, Rennes and Toulouse.

– Setp networks filed a notice of less than four hours in Agen, Beziers, Brest, Forbach, Saint-Malo, Saint-Nazaire and Tarbes.

• Air France

Side air, about 30% of flights were canceled at Paris Roissy airport and 50% at Orly airport.

Useful numbers: 36.54

• Ports and Docks

Ports and Docks The CGT has called for renewed strike in all ports of France from Tuesday in all sectors (cleanliness, rail and airport handling, fish trading, river transport, marinas and marine).

The National Federation of Maritime Unions (FNSM) CGT also called marine commerce and fisheries in renewable strike starting on 12 October.

• Public

The General Union of Federations of staff-CGT (CGT-UGFF) announced Thursday the filing of a notice of strike action covering the period from October 12 to 18 inclusive cons of pension reform.The CGT has also filed a notice covering all public services until the end of the month.

For its part, the Federation of Public Service CGT said in a statement it had filed a strike notice covering the period from October 12 to 30.

• Education

The SNUI-PP, first union at the first level (nursery and primary schools), and the SNES, the main union for secondary school teachers, called the strike for the day of 12 October. According to the Ministry of Education, the strike rate expected in the first degree is 27.17% against 33.53% during the strike of 23 September. No figures are available for the second degree.

Unions and students FIDL UNL invite students to demonstrate alongside employees. The main student union, UNEF, called for a day "facs dead." South Students also calls for the mobilization in all universities.

• Job center

Solidarity Federation South-job calls for a renewed strike after October 12 and filed a notice to that effect by day 24 from 13.

• Energy

Five unions (CGT, CFDT, FOR, CFTC, CFE / CGC) called the strike on Tuesday. The CGT has filed a notice of indefinite strike in the areas of gas and electricity from Tuesday, which could lead to walkouts at EDF and GDF Suez, announcing cuts costs and cuts targeted at certain enterprises or on public buildings.

CGT federation of chemistry, on which the employees of the oil sector, also calls for renewed strike.

Ten refineries in France over 12 voted in favor of the strike, including eight in favor of a renewed strike. The 13th French refinery in Dunkirk, voted to strike but does not produce more oil since 2009.

While officials at oil terminals at Fos-Lavera enter their fourteenth day of the strike, the refinery from Total-La Mede began Sunday procedures shutdown progressive and the Donges refinery (44), which supplies all the western France.

• La Poste and France Telecom

Sud PTT union, second largest union at La Poste and France Telecom, called for renewed strike in two public companies from Tuesday.

• Audiovisual

Unions CGT, FOR and CFTC France Televisions filed their notice of strike renewable.

• Judiciary

The Union of Magistrates (DM), at the left, calls a strike on October 12 while the other union body, the Union of Magistrates (USM majority) advocates a more moderate.

Noting that judges have no formal right to strike, it does not use the term, but called on its members to refer non-emergency hearings on October 12.

• Prison Service

CGT-prison has filed a strike notice to all employees of 12 to 18 October.

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Owners unemployed longer

Purchasing a home he would have set a shot in the ankle? in a forthcoming report, and unveiled on Thursday by the daily Les Echos, the Center for Strategic Analysis (CSA) establishes a correlation between unemployment and homeownership rates. According to the findings of Clement and Mahdi Ben Jelloul Schaff, two economists from the body attached to the prime ministry, "countries with the highest rates of home ownership are at the same time, those familiar with unemployment rates higher" .This observation is easily explained by them: the fight against unemployment through greater residential mobility of employees, ownership of an apartment or a house becomes troublesome when it comes to anchor a new search ext.

Of course, in France, where the proportion of owners is far below the European average, the property is not sufficient to explain the high unemployment rate. Economists point out however that the correlation is still visible. "If we compare individuals of the same socio-professionally in France, a homeowner takes longer to find work as a tenant, the duration of unemployment is about 30% higher, resulting in a higher proportion of unemployed among the tenants of the same socio-professional category, "says Clément Schaff cashadvance.

Obstruction of taxation

CAS does not take much to jump to conclusions. For the body, the France of owners required by the President of the Republic is not bad in itself, but this idea requires accommodations. To find a job elsewhere, the owner must indeed be consider selling his property and therefore pay transfer taxes, or rent it and in this case pay both rent for his new residence and tax on rental income that it collects.

The report examines various proposals to address this dilemma. It advocates the establishment of the deductibility of rents paid by tenants of landlords rent receipts, and relief transfer taxes.In return, local governments who receive those rights could raise a new tax so that local people are not moving only to pay mobility.

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Lucien Barrière will be listed on October 1

Groupe Lucien Barriere, which owns 37 casinos and 14 upscale hotels, on Thursday morning gave details of its forthcoming IPO. The quotation of Lucien Barriere begin Oct. 1 in compartment B of the Paris Bourse.

The price of each share at the time of entry into the Paris market will be between 16.10 and 19.60 euros, a price deemed "reasonable CEO Dominique Desseigne, broadcast on BFM this morning. That values the company between 575 million and 702 million euros.

The boss praised the project for fundraising in the financial markets because it represents "an important step in the development group."Lucien Barriere has "many assets to accelerate growth, further improve its performance in qualifying prospects rebound in the leisure industry, and create value for its shareholders," he said.

Synergies to

Dominique says Desseigne have thought about a "new concept" to counter the effects of the crisis and the abolition of smoking in its casinos. He tries to play "two-way synergy between the explosion of Internet poker and casino hard." Thus, the universe of the Internet "loves to confront" face-to-face with the reality of casinos and vice versa. "Similarly, casinos and hotels remain "together" because the synergies are strong between the two activities, particularly during poker tournaments that host hundreds of playing internationally.

Lucien Barriere announced Thursday that its website will be launched online poker on September 17 in the evening. To launch this new product, Lucien Barriere has partnered with the French games. Together they want to become the national champion of poker on the Internet.

Accor will sell 49% stake

The hotel giant will sell all its shares in Lucien Barriere, a 49% stake, or 17.5 million shares.The assignment of Accor participation "part of its strategy to focus on hospitality, its core business," said Accor.

The capital structure of Lucien Barrière will she family? Yes, says Dominique Desseigne on BFM, Asura he remains firmly at the head of the group.

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The owner gets to carpool Ucar

"The rental cars, it can be free." Thus Jean-Claude Puerto Salavert, President of UCAR, praises the new concept of "self-mobility" deployed by the rental of vehicles, in partnership with the site Covoiturage.fr, the leader of the carpool centralizes more than 85% of ads placed in France. The two companies signed an exclusive agreement to launch a carpooling service in the car rental agencies.

A concept called "Ucar Station." Customers renting a vehicle in an agency Ucar offering this service via the Internet or through the iPhone application Comuto. In their book, they are offered to reduce the cost of hiring by welcoming passengers. If they accept this principle, their offer is immediately relayed to the site Ucar.covoiturage.fr. Passengers involved and the driver's expense (rental, tolls, fuel, etc..).

The maximum rate of 6 cents per kilometer drive from Paris to Lyon costs about 30 euros, while Paris-Nantes costs 25 euros and 40 euros from Paris to Bordeaux, argues Ucar. "We will not raise rates during periods of heavy traffic," says Jean-Claude Puerto Salavert.

For now, this service is available in a dozen cities, including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille and Bordeaux. The owner plans to open 25 "Ucar Stations" this year and 50 in 2011. "Each of our 250 branches in France aims to become one Ucar Station," says the boss of Ucar, which means "upset the field of car rental.

The promise of low prices

"Today only 6% of the French lease vehicles because they consider prices too high," says Jean-Claude Puerto Salavert. Ucar has thus specialized in renting cheaply, including by launching its offer "24 hours for 24 euros.Its positioning has attracted 500,000 customers in 2009. By offering carpool services, Ucar's goal is to attract 100,000 additional customers in one year.

The launch of "Ucar Stations" and that, three days before the first National Day of carpooling, scheduled Sept. 17, is a strategic choice which is riding a trend fast cash now. Carpooling, which allows users to save, has the wind in their sails. "Owning a car is a cost of 6000 euros per year on average," said Frederic Mazzella, president of Covoiturage.fr.

According to a TNS Sofres poll conducted for the website in December 2009, 48% of French people have a workplace served by public transport. Yet, 84% of trips in France is by car. Carpooling, however, has only 1% of followers, according to a study published in August Regus Group."The potential of carpooling is immense, and our website is growing exponentially," said Frederic Mazzella, who do not communicate in the turnover of Covoiturage.fr, stating only that it has reached "hundreds of thousands Euro "in 2009 and carried 1.5 million people.

The Green Wave

A more promising potential as carpooling lampooned the ecological argument, in which consumers are increasingly attentive. Covoiturage.fr has calculated that its activity has saved 90,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2009. "Our success also depends in part on the network effect," said President Covoiturage.fr. The site is not just a search engine proposed shared paths, but also a real community, which has 750,000 members so far.

Finally, Covoiturage.fr diversifying its business by marketing its services.The site has already signed partnerships with several companies – such as Castorama, Vinci, Carrefour, Ikea, Vinci, Stade de France and the RATP – to whom it provides platforms carpool white label. Services that these partners are in place for their own customers or to their employees. Carpooling is undoubtedly a means of transportation that is gaining ground!

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Sanofi-Aventis wants to see the accounts of Genzyme

Sanofi-Aventis will report there on Genzyme's offer? The rumor was picked up again after the U.S. publication DealReporter said Wednesday that the case was seriously considered. According DealReporter, affiliated to the Financial Times, the French pharmaceutical giant would have mentioned a new bid at $ 71 per share.

A spokesman for Sanofi-Aventis joined Thursday morning would not comment on the rumor. But the group said it intends to continue its discussions with Genzyme, "he says, recalling that the laboratory has released a takeover offer for the U.S. company specialized in rare diseases Genzyme August 29 for $ 69 per share. The offer, valuing biotech to $ 18.5 billion (14.5 billion euros), was denied by Genzyme which considers inadequate.

The DealReporter says that raising the price to 71 dollars per share "was circulated during telephone conversations between the two companies last week. In exchange, Sanofi-Aventis would make a "partial due diligence" that would enable him to obtain additional information on the accounts of Genzyme.

Citing sources familiar with the matter, the DealReporter said such a rise is not sufficient to ensure that Sanofi-Aventis access to accounts from Genzyme.

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Wall Street remains cautious

After the euphoria of Wednesday, the U.S. markets are more hesitant. On Thursday, the Dow Jones starts at equilibrium, up from 0.07% to 10,274 points, the Nasdaq is 0.02% at 2177 points while the S & P gained 0.09% to 1081 points.

Investors, who had relieved acueille unexpected, increase of the ISM manufacturing index yesterday also learn some good news surprise side of the job today. Entries weekly unemployment, against all expectations, declined slightly in the United States during the week to August 28, at 472 000 478 000 cons last week, according to the labor department.Economists had expected jobless claims averaged 475,000.

But at the same time, investors learned that nonfarm productivity had declined much more sharply than expected in the second quarter to post its sharpest decline since the third quarter of 2006. Productivity has contracted at an annual rate of 1.8%, instead of a contraction of 0.9% initially announced. Although expectations were counting on a decline of 1.9% over the period April to June, this review again cast doubts on the markets.

Still on macroeconomic, investors now expect industrial orders for July and the promises of home sales for the month of July.

Note that the foreign exchange market, the euro is up slightly against the dollar, but only to increase its gains amid anxiety before the monthly monetary policy decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) and on the eve the very important report on employment and unemployment in the United States. The European currency traded at 1.2824 dollars against 1.2807 dollars late Wednesday afternoon.

Burger King flies

On the side of values, the automotive sector should stand today. The month of August has actually been the worst for U.S. auto industry since 1983. Sales fell 21% to 11.47 million vehicles.Ford Motor (0.53% to 11.67 dollars) has reported a sales decline of 11%. General Motors, which is preparing an offering of securities to reduce by nearly 61% of the state capital, reflecting a drop in its sales by 25%.

Always on the side of values, the U.S. computer giant Apple (-0.18 to 249.87 dollars ù) has unveiled the updated version of its iPod portable should be very surrounded. The Apple brand has also significantly lowered the price of its Apple TV boxes, for playback on a television screen high definition video from a computer.

According to CNBC, Burger King (23.30% to 23.26 dollars) will be acquired by Capital 3G priced at $ 24 per share. The transaction is valued at a total of four billion dollars (3.12 billion euros).

Warren Buffett has filed a formal offer to repurchase its Berkshire Hataway (+0.11% to $ 81) of 19.9% stake it does not already own in Wesco Financial (0.94% to 34.31 dollars).

General Electric (unchanged at 15.01 dollars) and Westinghouse Electric (-0.42% to 361.46 U.S. dollars) could spend ten billion dollars (7.8 billion euros) in total to build two nuclear reactors in India , the Financial Express reported Thursday. Citing unidentified official sources, the newspaper said the two projects are being finalized in preparation for the planned visit in November, U.S. President Barack Obama.

HP (+0.38% to 39.36 dollars) announced Thursday it had raised its takeover offer for 3PAR (5.27% to 33.77 dollars) to $ 33 per share, valuing the company Storage Data to 2.4 billion dollars.This announcement follows the increase in supply pa Dell (-0.87% to 12.01 dollars) which offers $ 32 per share. 3PAR has responded by stating that the offer was superior to HP and that he intended to break its previous merger agreement with Dell.

Vivendi raised its forecast for 2010

Morale is extremely high at Vivendi. The group of media and telecommunications has indeed raised its forecast for 2010 in the wake of the publication of interim results better than expected.

Vivendi is now, for the entire fiscal year, "adjusted net income higher than last year, 5.39 billion euros, before a planned maintenance of its adjusted net income. Moreover, management now expects "growth in adjusted operating income", he anticipates a "slight growth" in the figure above.

The boss of the group, Jean-Bernard Levy, said the renewed optimism by "excellent operational performance" of the three recent acquisitions GVT, Activision Blizzard and SFR fixed. The group has "raised the prospect of each of them."The officer added that "TVG is this year and in the future, a significant growth driver and we are accelerating investment. The result shows an affiliate growth and profitability "very top of the business plan of acquisition," said Vivendi. Vivendi has raised the forecast of the Brazilian fixed phone operator now anticipating an increase of 34% of its turnover and 44% of its adjusted EBITDA, and 35% against 29% previously.

Increase in net profit for the half

Another reason for satisfaction, the group unveiled interim results above expectations. Adjusted net profit stood at 1.53 billion euros, up 4%, while analysts expected a slight decline. Vivendi also recorded a net profit of 1.267 billion euros against 1.188 billion in first half of 2009.The adjusted operating profit (EBITA) up his part of 11.9% to 3.24 billion euros, against 3.11 billion expected by professionals. The group was supported by the results of its video game subsidiary of Activision Blizzard and those of French telecoms operator SFR and GVT Brazil.

As for revenues, it amounted to 13.9 billion euros in the first half, up 4.8% at constant exchange rates, while analysts had forecast on 13760000000, by consensus quoted by CM-CIC Securities.

In addition, the group said it will pay a dividend of 1.40 euro per share for fiscal 2010, as he did in 2009.

KKR moves from NYSE Euronext

Three years after its rival, Blackstone, and especially after three years of unsuccessful attempts, KKR was thus introduced for the first time at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. Initially, the U.S. investment fund and private equity had planned to enter the market on Wall Street one month after Blackstone, but the crisis had decided otherwise. KKR, which was delisted from Euronext Amsterdam on Wednesday, offers no new action at this time, but plans to issue 500 million shares, according to market developments.

Valued at $ 7.1 billion in stock, as the closing price on Wednesday (up 2.9%), against 26 billion in the summer of 2006, KKR could see its market capitalization rise to $ 9.2 billion , according to analysts at Rabobank.They believe that after Blackstone's IPO in New York a second heavyweight private equity could galvanize investor interest and emulation.

Redeploy the firm

After the resignation of Jerome Kohlberg (the second "K" "KKR") in 1987, shares Henry Kravis (the first "K" "KKR") and his cousin George Roberts (the "R" of "KKR ") amounted to 13% for each of the company, which manages 55 billion in assets and employs 600 people. All employees of KKR a stake in the capital.

The two founders of U.S. private equity group hoping through the IPO to ensure that KKR will become less sensitive to cycles of uncertain LBO (leveraged buyout or takeover of a company through debt). This is why they are working on a redeployment of the firm towards the profession of investment banking.The question is whether investors will be convinced.

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This increases from today

• Transport

– Station: Ticket prices for trains Coral, Intercity and TER (Regional Express Train) will increase an average of 2.5%. This will result in higher ticket from 10 cents to 2.30 euros depending on distance traveled during the trip.

As for the discount cards (cards 12-25, Senior, and Child Escapes +), their prices remain unchanged.

– RATP: The price of individual tickets will go from 1.60 euro to 1.70 euro.

Subscriptions Navigo will also increase, except for packages zone 1-5 and 1-6.The monthly Zones 1 and 2 (Paris and suburbs) rises from 56.60 to 60.40 euros (+6.7%), the zones 1-3 of 74.40 to 78.20 euros (+ 5.1%) and the zones 1 to 4 from 91.70 to 95.50 euros (+4.1%).

• Energy

– Gas: After an initial increase in April, prices will increase again by 2% to 4.7% (about 8 euros per year for those who use gas for hot water and cooking 45 per year for those who use it also for heating)

– Bulbs: As part of the scheduled end of incandescents in the EU to promote energy saving, incandescent lamps of 60 watts are removed from store shelves.Those whose power was 100 watts or more have disappeared from shelves in 2009.

• Bonus for scrap

The premium case is lowered to 500 euros instead of 700 for any car ordered until December 31.

• Stamps

The price of postage for mailings of letters under 20 grams, will increase by two cents from 56-58 cents, an increase of 3.5%.

• Retirement

The index points which is the basis for calculating salary in three public (state, territorial and hospital) must be revalued by 0.5%.

• Unemployment benefits

Allowances of approximately two million unemployed by unemployment insurance compensation will be revalued by 1.2%.

• Communication

– Hadopi: It is from this Thursday that the first warnings will be mailed to users in violation of the law on downloading.

– Phone: The price of calls made and received from another EU country (roaming within Europe) will be reduced to 39 cents per minute excluding VAT cons 43 cent today. Receiving a call will be charged € 0.15 per minute instead of EUR 0.19.The SMS tariff remains unchanged for its 11 cents per message.

• Business and Disability

Firms with more than 20 employees employ any disabled person and took no action to promote employment of disabled people will have their penalties tripled to about 13,000 euros per person missing.

• Livret A

Currently at its lowest level since its inception to 1.25% – Return of the booklet A should move to 1.50% or 1.75% from 1 August by Budget Minister Francois Baroin.