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The improvement in the U.S. employment continued in January, with the highest rate of job creation observed in nine months and the unemployment rate fell to , its lowest level in nearly three years, reflecting the impact of growth in the fourth quarter of 2011 at the beginning of new year.
The Labor Department [...]

Banco Santander has released Tuesday a net profit of 5.35 billion euros, down 35% as a result of new provisions for impairment of non-performing real estate assets. </ p> The largest bank in the euro area was the last of the Spanish banks to announce that it was setting aside capital to cover its exposure [...]

Wall Street has been able to maintain its gains Friday and turned down at the end of a shortened session and low volumes, a strong commercial start of the period of Christmas and New year could not compensate all fears arising from the debt crisis in the euro area.
However, U.S. consumers flocked to [...]

AT & T said Thursday it included in its accounts an exceptional charge of four billion dollars (3.0 billion) to cover the cost of a possible failure of his proposed takeover of T-Mobile, an operation whose outcome seems increasingly compromised.
The U.S. operator and Deutsche Telekom, parent company of T-Mobile, ensured continued efforts to [...]

The industrial new orders decreased by 3.1% in September from the previous month after rising 0.8% in August.
The commands in French industry, including export, fell sharply in September after several months of growth, even if they were up all over the third quarter, INSEE said on Friday. The industrial new orders (excluding transport equipment [...]

U.S. stocks ended sharply lower Thursday as investors showed particularly nervous after the downward crossing of an important threshold for the S & P.
The Dow Jones lost 1.13% or 134.86 points at 11,770.73 points, while the Standard & Poor's 500, the reference fund managers, gave up 1.68% or 20.78 points to 1,216 , [...]

Compagnie Financière Richemont said Friday expect a rise in operating income for the year after the publication of figures above analysts' expectations for the first half.
"In the second half, the impact on the luxury industry of the economic challenges the world faces and the high comparison base to which the measure group sales [...]

Commerzbank may need assistance from the German government to comply with new European requirements for capital if the economy continues to slow, given the poor results recorded recently by the group, said Monday the agency Fitch Ratings.
Last week, Germany's second largest bank, owned 25% by the German federal state, however, had said she [...]

The Rugby World Cup ends after six weeks of competition, during which 20 nations competed in 13 stages. Key figures in images, the economic record of the competition.
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Rio Tinto launched a friendly offer of 578 million Canadian dollars (414 million) on the Hathor Exploration mining group, specializing in uranium exploration.
This could derail the hostile bid launched by Cameco Corp. of Hathor.
The Board of Hathor has recommended that shareholders accept the offer of Rio Tinto, which amounts to 4.15 [...]