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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 [...]

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 [...]

The Japanese bank Mizuho will remove 3,000 jobs in response to the deteriorating economic climate marked by weak demand for credit and a difficult economic environment at the international level.
Mizuho Financial Group announced the elimination of these positions, which represent about 5% of its workforce, by March 2016 in connection with the merger [...]

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 [...]

The German government's economic advisers believe that the European Central Bank (ECB) is likely to lose credibility by buying government bonds heavily indebted.
"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, [...]

BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole and BPCE on the list of large systemic banks that will be published Friday by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), said Nicolas Sarkozy, closing the G20 summit in Cannes.
The CSF must publish a list of 29 banks that need to raise capital and be subject to more [...]

The decisions of the top leaders of the euro area in particular provide a 50% discount on Greek debt held by private creditors and a strengthening of the EFSF to 1.000 billion euros. The details. The European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel in Brussels.
The top of the eurozone, which [...]

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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Progress has been made in the ongoing discussions on the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area even though the solutions remain to be found by next Wednesday, said Saturday night French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
"There is progress," he said on his arrival in Brussels where he will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela [...]

The head of credit ratings of sovereign debt at Fitch Ratings said he was convinced that Spain and Italy were solvent but considered Friday that the two countries were potentially illiquid.
David Riley has also held that a creditor of last resort credible was necessary to Rome and Madrid, stressing that the European Central [...]