Sep 1

Cable & Wireless Worldwide has risen sharply Wednesday in the London Stock Exchange, on rumors of interest from U.S. rival AT & T.
The group was not immediately available for comment on this information.
At mid-day, action, Cable & Wireless gained 5.24% to 70.3 pence, after a while jumped nearly 13% in the [...]

Aug 30

Saffron Monday denied preparing a bid for the capital of the aerospace supplier Zodiac although it remains convinced of the value of a rapprochement.
The communication specialist aerospace engine manufacturer Snecma's parent, spoke in response to an article in financial daily La Tribune has reported in its Monday edition that a takeover bid was [...]

Aug 23

Asahi Breweries and SABMiller are interested in operating in the Australian beer Foster's Group, valued over 10 billion dollars (7.9 billion euros), but no formal offer has yet been made, it was Monday learned from sources close to the matter.
The Sunday Times reported Sunday that SABMiller, the second brewer in the world, was [...]

Aug 6

The CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, under investigation for sexual harassment, resigned Friday, said the U.S. computer group.
Hurd, who was head of HP since 2005, will be replaced by Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak, who will serve as interim executive director.
According to HP, an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment [...]

Jul 25

Greece will receive a second tranche of funding from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) because Athens has fulfilled the conditions prescribed in its austerity plan, announced by the Minister of Finance in the Weekly Kosmos tou Ependyti.
Representatives of the EU, IMF and European Central Bank (ECB) will be in [...]

Jul 10

E. ON supports a proposal to allow alternative operators to finance the extension of the lifetime of nuclear reactors of EDF in becoming shareholders, "said President of the French subsidiary of German energy company.
In an interview published in Les Echos Friday, Luc Poyer also felt that the French nuclear industry was willing to [...]

Jul 7

Carrefour said on Wednesday he did not buy certain products in paper group in Indonesia Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), for environmental issues.
On the eve of the decision, Greenpeace accused APP, a subsidiary of Sinar Mas, of wanting to destroy the Indonesian rainforest and called distributors, including Carrefour, to stop buying its products. [...]

Jul 2

General Motors is expected to file his IPO in mid-August, we learned from sources close to the matter.
General Motors is also in talks with banks for a revolving credit line of five billion dollars.
Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have each agreed to provide $ 500 million loan. [...]

Jul 1

The manufacturing sector in the euro area in June recorded its slowest growth in four months, show the final results of the investigation Markit.
PMI final Markit purchasing managers stood at 55.6 in June, a level consistent with the flash estimate and slightly lower than the 55.8 for the month of May
It [...]

Jun 17

Every month or so, President of Bernard Krief Consulting, Louis Petiet, is talked about. Just last week, are the auditors of the company that launched an alert on the accounts of Krief Group. In late 2009, however, some saw in this new defender of French industry, the savior of SMEs difficulties. Multiplying redemptions in [...]

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