The Labor Department reported Friday, 243,000 non-farm jobs created in January, the highest figure since April, and the unemployment rate down to 8 , 3%, its lowest level since February 2009.

Since August, the unemployment rate fell 0.8 percentage point.

Economists polled by Reuters on average expected 150,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate of 8.5%, as in December. 

The number of jobs created in December was revised up slightly to 203,000 against 200,000 announced last month, and November was revised in 157,000 net increase to 100,000 against.

The private sector has provided in January all new jobs with 257,000 positions created, a highest level since April, while the public sector by removing 14,000.

Moreover, the average hourly wage increased by four hundred, which should help to support consumption.

According to the report of the Department of Labor, the expected slowdown in U.S. economic growth in the first quarter has not yet had an effect on hiring decisions of firms. 

"It's a good surprise, and the first digit of the job that is really good since the recession," said Philippe Weber, studies and strategies in CPR AM.

These figures significantly better than expected gave a boost to equity markets in Europe and the dollar.

The Dow Jones opened up 0.55%, the S & P500 by 0.66% and the Nasdaq 1%.

"This is certainly a great support for the U.S. recovery and this suggests that the rebound is growing," said Brian Dolan, chief strategist at FOREX.com markets .. ……

WHAT IMPACT ON DECISIONS OF THE FED?

The Federal Reserve announced last week the probable continuation rates to near zero until at least late 2014, on behalf of a particular unemployment rate ; high unemployment. 

The Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told to consider new measures to support the economy, but, faced with this recovery in the labor market, the leaders of The Fed may well turn back.

The U.S. central bank has already bought 2,300 billion in bonds to keep rates low and stimulate the economy.

The United States experienced a rapid growth year on year over the last three months of 2011 to 2.8%, against 1.8% last quarter. However, the recovery of stocks of companies accounted for two thirds of this increase, which should result in slower growth in the first quarter of 2012.

The fiscal crisis raging in Europe, where several states are already in recession, is expected to affect U.S. exports and thus hamper growth.

However, there are still some signs of strength in the U.S. economy, as auto sales strong in January, a manufacturing activity, which reached a high of seven months or even declining four weeks moving average of jobless claims.

However, there are still 19.3 million Americans unemployed or underemployed.

Remain reasons to be cautious. The unemployment rate did drop for the fifth consecutive month, but partly because of the abandonment of job searches by some Americans, tired of not finding work.

An index, which includes people who have stopped job searches and those working part time but would like to work more, stood at 15.1% in January against 15.2% in de ; December.

The British public sector employees are on strike on Wednesday against pension reforms, a move that will disrupt schools, airports, hospitals and municipal services, including trade unions and expect that it will be the "most important in a generation." More than a thousand events are planned across the country and the organizers hope that two million people observe this work stoppage, more so than during the previous day's strike in June for the same reason.

The government wants to delay the age of retirement in the public sector to 66 years in 2020 – against 60 for the most current, and increase contributions, as part of its austerity plan. Negotiations taking place for several months are currently at an impasse, the government citing the increase in life expectancy and the need to restore a balance with the private sector. In an attempt to limit the nuisance caused to users – a particularly sensitive subject in the UK – the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has asked companies to accommodate employees with exceptional children.

"The bond purchase program dismantles market discipline without establishing a discipline policy in place," write the "Wise Men" German in a report released Wednesday.

Blurring the fiscal and monetary policies, "the ECB endangers its credibility because it may be suspected to monetize sovereign debt," they write.It previously projected 1.8% and 3% respectively.

Economic advisers plan for next year export growth of 3.2% and unemployment down to 6.9% against 7.1% in 2011.

The Italian government said Wednesday in a statement the convening of an extraordinary cabinet meeting Wednesday to 20h to adopt anti-crisis measures before the G20 summit on Thursday. "The cabinet is convened today at 20h," said the presidency in a news brief in giving details of the proposed measures.

The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Matteoli, said the Cabinet would adopt a decree containing 'urgent measures' among those promised last week by the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to its European partners.Berlusconi insists on arriving Thursday at the G20 in Cannes with a first set of measures to boost growth and reduce the huge debt of 1.900 billion euro (about 120% of GDP), to bring it to the immune to the contagion of debt crisis.

According to Italian media, the measures envisaged by the Government on such disposals of public assets, reforming the labor market, a recovery plan South disadvantage, infrastructure, liberalization of professions or simplified administration. But other measures "shock" would not be excluded as a small wealth tax or a tax point of current accounts.

The euro area has suddenly plunged into turmoil Tuesday after the surprise announcement of a referendum in Greece, Prime Minister George Papandreou playing his all facing strong internal opposition, the risk of default in payment of his country .

Around 1:45 p.m., here is what the state of European stock: -5.07% for the CAC 40 in Paris, -5.32% in Frankfurt, -6.26% in Milan, -3.09% in London .. . To monitor in real time here.

After the lull that had received the results of the EU summit last Thursday, which gave birth to a debt reduction plan for Greece, the announcement of a referendum in Greece has "taken the market by surprise and shocked," said the broker IG Markets in Paris.

According to a government source, the referendum, the first organized in the country since the one that abolished the monarchy in 1974, will speak "about January."Papandreou had raised vertiginieusement setting, wondering if he had at least warned its major counterparts, first and foremost the German chancellor Angela Merkel.

In Paris, the French presidency announced that the head of state Nicolas Sarkozy would call Merkel in mid-day.

For political scientist Nikolapopoulos Ilias, this gamble is a decision potentially "suicidal for the country," jeopardizing the delicate negotiations that began after the Brussels agreement with the holders of private debt to Greek they erase nearly a third cheaper for them a loss of 50%.

"It adds to the uncertainty, which is never good for markets, wondering if all the scaffolding assembled by the euro area may collapse if 'no' to the referendum," commented echoing Michalis Matsourakis, chief economist at the Greek bank Alpha Bank.

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The European aircraft manufacturer, a subsidiary of Airbus, said the amount of its gross orders had reached 1,179 aircraft and reported delivered 374 aircraft in the first nine months of the year.

By comparison, Boeing had recorded at September 27, net orders of 425 aircraft, a delay that the American manufacturer hopes to meet with his future MAX 737.

Airbus was far behind its major competitor at the Paris Air Show that was held in June in order.

According to the median forecast of 27 analysts and fund managers polled by Reuters in a week, the Cac 40 should be at 3200 points by the end of December, up 6.8% from its closing level of 2995 points Wednesday.

If this forecast proves accurate, the CAC 40 will be charged with a loss of about 16% for the year 2011.

At the end of June 2012, analysts see the CAC at 3450 points, an increase of over 15% at the end of Wednesday.

Both projections are down sharply compared to the last survey conducted in late JuneWhile analysts expected a CAC at 4160 points at the end of the year and 4,350 points in mid-2012, before a series of bad economic indicators and renewed concerns about the Greek debt will make the markets fall .

"We believe that Greece will experience one eventually default 'ordered' but if policymakers are able to reduce the risk of contagion," said Patrick Moonen, responsible for investment strategy at ING Investment Management. For its part, sees the CAC 40 to 3100 points at the end of 2011 and 3200 points in mid-2012.

"To achieve this, banks will be recapitalized.And the European Central Bank will continue to buy the debt device. "

The CAC 40 has lost more than 20% since the beginning of the year, driven lower mostly by the questions of the market exposure of banks BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole and Societe Generale in the Greek and Italian sovereign debt .

The three banks have lost about two thirds of their market capitalization since mid-February, investors feared the damage that would cause a default Greek. The difficulties in obtaining bank financing in dollars on a tight money market are also the disadvantage of the Exchange.

Because of the rout in stock markets, the valuation ratios of the three major banks are found very low.Their price / net assets is approximately 0.3 and 4 of the PER, is one of the lowest in Europe.

Thus, it is not surprising that analysts and fund managers surveyed expect to see the bank at the forefront of the stock market rebound expected.

The rebound, however, should be limited by a darkening economic outlook.

"The possibility of resolving the crisis of sovereign debt in Europe reminds us that European indices could rebound, driven by banking stocks and insurance.However, the global economic slowdown is already evident in the macro, and distribution of credit will slow because of the willingness of banks to improve their balance sheet, which will impact more global growth and therefore limit the initial bounce, " Joffrey Ouafqa comments, Convictions manager at Asset Management.

He sees the CAC 40 to 3200 points by the end of the year and 3,300 points in mid-2012.

"I do not want a country will default but if it happens, obviously (…), we would be vulnerable to an event of this nature," said Pedro Passos Coelho to parliament.

"If this happens, we can not exclude a stronger plan to help," he added.

If such an event occurred, the prime minister would like the European Central Bank provides liquidity to banks in Portugal and Ireland.

"There are risks abroad and we need to take these risks into consideration," he said.

As part of the aid program of 78 billion euros was granted, the country must lower its deficit to 5.9% of gross domestic product (GDP), while it recorded a deficit of 9, 2% of GDP last year.

The center-right government is conducting a series of measures such as spending cuts and tax increases, and economic reforms to achieve the goals of the bailout.

Zoellick warned in an interview with Reuters that a new crisis is looming, while the budgets of many developing countries have still not fully recovered from the financial turmoil in late 2008.

He said the budgetary situation of more than half of developing countries deteriorated by about 2 percentage points of GDP since 2007, and over 40% of developing countries now have deficits exceeding 4% of GDP.

"If the situation continues to deteriorate, growth in developing countries may bend, the value of their assets could decline, and then their non-performing loans could rise," said Robert Zoellick.

"With these pressures and opportunities, we should expect to protectionist pressures (…), and a downside risk to the population," he added.

He said to continue to think that the economies of industrialized countries could avoid a double dip, but concerns are growing up in the event that these countries would not attack the problems head on.

"A crisis born in the developed countries could be exported to developing countries," he continues."Europe, Japan and the United States must act to address their major economic problems before they become larger problems for the rest of the world".

"Failure to do so would be irresponsible," he summarizes.

Inspectors from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union will hold a conference call Monday with Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos to learn what steps will be taken Greece to meet its budget deficit in 2011.

And what a view to release a new bracket with a first bailout of eight billion dollars, an amount that Athens needs by October before being run out of money.

Papandreou has canceled a visit to the United States Saturday to dedicate himself to this task."The board must consider measures ranging from further job cuts in the public sector to new demands on pensions," said a senior government official.

The government attributed the deficit to a deeper recession than expected and decided to impose a new tax on real estate in hopes of gathering around two billion euros annually.

But the "troika", nickname for the inspection mission from the IMF, the EU and the European Central Bank (ECB), doubt that this one-time tax on and requires more information on how the government intends to s 'take to begin to redress the public accounts this year and next.

"The troika believes that the recently announced property tax alone will not bridge the budget deficit and press for action on spending or reduce the use and treatment of the public sector," said a second senior government official.

The formation of opposition New Democracy accuses the government to overtax the economy.Its leader Antonis Samaras called Saturday for early elections, saying that the policy takes no action despite the sacrifices required of the population.

"A renegotiation with our donors to stimulate the economy is a condition to get out of this crisis," he said Sunday at a news conference.

"NO ILLUSION"

The international lenders are also concerned about the lack of political consensus on measures to end the crisis.Thus the Conservatives, spurred by a growing popular discontent after two years of austerity, offer them tax cuts and measures for employment development.

Papandreou's Socialists have a majority in parliament, but political scientists say that the quarrels and disturbances may lead to early elections.

The international lenders are skeptical of the effectiveness of an ad hoc measures and tax increases.They are calling for urgent reform, privatization and a slimming the public sector.

In an interview published in the Bild am Sonntag, the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said that Greece must have the clear mind about his future in the euro area and must have no illusions about its obligations.

"Belonging to a currency union is an opportunity but also a heavy burden. The measures to align its very difficult and the Greeks must decide whether to bear this burden," he said.

"No one should kid ourselves: without a positive assessment by the troika of the commitments of Greece, the next installment will be paid.So the Greeks must have numbers proving that they stick to the plan. "

The Minister of Economy Baroin recalled his part that the plan of aid to Greece was a loan, not a gift, save for the euro.

"The observers are in place, they continue their work.Greece knows what she has to do it we have said, she has commitments, she has duties vis-à-vis its creditors, it has the requirement to provide answers. "

In the meantime, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini writes that Greece intends to make the country's banks credit guarantees of up to about thirty billion to enable them to access the emergency stop of the central bank.

Excluded from the interbank market, Greek banks have become dependent on the ECB for their refinancing, borrowing in its operations in the money market, in exchange for guarantees in the form of sovereign bonds and other assets.