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The government should announce on Tuesday a record deficit of foreign trade of France close to 70 billion euros in 2011.
70 billion euros, the amount of foreign trade deficit for the French government plans to announce Tuesday. An absolute record much higher than the previous record set in 2008.
Secretary of State for [...]

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 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 shares fall in early trading Monday, as Asian markets, in markets dominated by new concerns about the Greek crisis and global growth.
At 9:15, the CAC 40 was down 2.92% at 2894.91 points, starting the last quarter backwards, after falling 25% in the third quarter, its largest quarterly decline since 2002.
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European shares ended Tuesday in the disorder after the publication of disappointing indicators in Europe and the United States, after a session and hesitant in trading volumes still very limited.
The CAC 40 index closed up 0.18% to 3159.74 points."That said, it's half a surprise, in a very anxiety provoking," he adds.
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Standard & Poor's considers the prospect of stable sovereign ratings of France and Great Britain and has no plans to downgrade over the next two years, said Tuesday the director of the ratings agency in Europe.
While S & P downgraded Friday to AA + the United States and matched their score with a [...]

Changes in commodity prices and the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan have had a negative impact on the accounts of Schneider Electric, whose chief executive told the newspaper Les Echos that he was now the bottom of her range of operating margin target for 2011.
If Schneider Electric continues its annual target organic [...]

Japanese stocks ended up Wednesday in the wake of Wall Street, after the announcement of an increase in industrial production in the archipelago and as investor concerns over Greece seemed to temporarily subside.
The Nikkei gained 1.54% or 148.28 points to 9797.26 points, while the Topix, broader, taking 1.66% or 13.77 points to 844.11 [...]

It Michel Rocard, Ambassador for negotiations on the poles say. It worried them on the eve of 50th anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic. Bulgarian base of Livingston Island in Antarctica
Former French Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard, Ambassador for negotiations on the Arctic and Antarctic poles, expressed concern Tuesday in Buenos Aires of [...]

Carrefour said on Thursday the appointment of Christmas Prioux to head its operations in France and that its first half results in France were below its forecasts.
The second global distributor, who battle to recover the profitability of its hypermarkets in France, had already warned that its performance was not up to expectations.
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