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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 [...]

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 gamble of George Papandreou destabilizes markets. A "no" to the Greeks in the referendum, which will probably take place in January, could force the country to default. And, ultimately, out of the euro area. The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.
The euro area has suddenly plunged into turmoil Tuesday after the surprise announcement of [...]

The French Finance Minister Baroin promised Saturday to the rest of the world that the Europeans would provide a response on October 23 "critical" to the debt crisis. The French Minister of Economy Baroin chaired the G20 finance 14 to 15 October in Paris
Europe is the threshold of a decisive week that will culminate [...]

France and Germany "on contractual" agreements on ways to resolve the debt crisis in the euro area, said Friday the French Minister of Economy Baroin after meeting with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble and Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace.
Both ministers, however, did not disclose the concrete modalities of this cooperation, referring implicitly [...]

Propelled to the head of Dexia in 2008 after a first rescue Franco-Belgian bank, Pierre Mariani will ultimately failed to recover the former world number one local government financing trapped in the quagmire of debt crisis sovereign within the euro area.
Former director of cabinet of Nicolas Sarkozy during his visit to the Department [...]

Friday Fitch downgraded the rating of Italy a notch and that of Spain in two, citing a worsening debt crisis in the euro area and the risk of fiscal slippage in both countries.
Note of Italy fell from AA-to A + and that of Spain AA + to AA-.The prospect of the two countries [...]

There is currently no plan to recapitalize French banks and they do not need it, said the governor of the Banque de France, Christian Noyer, in an interview with Journal du Dimanche.
In case of extraordinary event, the public support mechanism used in France in 2008 is in place, says Christian Noyer, a member [...]