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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 [...]

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 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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European values ​​have come down sharply Tuesday for the third straight session, closing with a lowest close in 26 months, fear of failure to Greece making only grow with each passing day.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index yielded 2.68 and the Eurostoxx 50 was unscrewed from 2.21%. In Paris the CAC 40 ended down [...]

Populist and protectionist measures in the developing world are likely to increase as nations will suffer the fallout from the crisis of sovereign debt in Europe and the economic slowdown in the U.S., said Thursday the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick.
Zoellick warned in an interview with Reuters that a new crisis [...]

Hurricane Irene caused between 200 million and 400 million dollars (138 and 276 million euros) in damages covered by insurance in the states of North Carolina and South, said Sunday's catastrophe modeling firm EQECAT .
This evaluation suggests that the hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm may have caused less damage than feared [...]

MPs passed a tax increase on the sale of housing divorced couples. Women may be the first to suffer. With 130,000 divorces annually, the right to share is expected to generate nearly 323 million euros next year.
Wednesday, June 29, tax reform has finally been confirmed by joint committee (CMP). To review the tax shield, [...]