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The Abbé Pierre Foundation evaluates its 17th annual report to more than 3.6 million the number of inadequately housed or homeless, and more broadly to those 8 million affected by the housing crisis. The Abbé Pierre Foundation evaluates its 17th annual report to more than 3.6 million the number of inadequately housed or homeless, and [...]

Airbus said Thursday it had registered 1,038 net orders between January and September.
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, [...]

The Portuguese prime minister said Wednesday that his country would be vulnerable if a member country of the euro area was defaulting on its debt.
"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 [...]

In an interview with Les Echos, the head of Lagardère responds to criticism of its sense of priorities, and reveals his strategy to ten years. Arnaud Lagardère and his girlfriend, Jade Forest, were filmed last July during a photo shoot languorous. Since then, the video is a huge buzz on the internet.
"We do not [...]

The main European banking stocks opened down Monday after the release Friday of resistance test results conducted on the European banking sector.
Eight banks, including five Spanish institutions have failed the tests and should therefore raise 2.5 billion euros to strengthen their capital base. Of the 90 European banks subject to the fiscal year, [...]

SGS, the world leader in monitoring and inspection, announced Friday a lower than expected performance in the first half of 2011, coupled with a concern about margins.
If the group expects to Geneva this year strong growth in sales about 10%, it expects operating margins but slightly lower at constant exchange rates.
The [...]

The price of crude oil closed lower Monday in reaction to the decision of the IEA to make available 60 million barrels of oil stocks, amid economic uncertainty in the United States.
On the Nymex, the contract in August of U.S. crude (WTI) ended on a loss of 55 cents, or 0.6%, to 90.61 [...]

European banks have debt Greek stock seems to move towards an agreement for renewal (rollover) in which they take possession of new debt replacing the bonds matured.
Germany last week proposed an exchange of bonds which, in effect, would extend the debt maturities of seven Greek. But banks appear to favor the softer option [...]

The cinemas have recorded more than 206 million tickets last year, including 74 million for fms French. A historical record.
With a little over 206 million visits, attendance at cinemas in France recorded a record, ever since 1967, officials said in Cannes at the National Centre of Cinema. "2010 was an excellent year for French [...]

The Tokyo Stock Exchange finished down 0.7% on Friday, weighed down by banks after the words of the Japanese government suggest that they are called upon to help support Tepco plant operator rugged Fukushima-Daiichi.
The Nikkei lost 67.88 points to 9648.77, touching a low of two weeks, and the Topix broader yielded 9.40 points [...]