HP immediately filed a complaint with the California court: the recruitment of Mark Hurd by a large competitor would be "at risk" of confidential information. The agreement concluded by Mark Hurd at his departure from HP does not provide non-compete clause, but it includes a confidentiality agreement with a duration of two years.

"In his new positions, Hurd will be in a situation where it can meet its commitments to Oracle without being forced to use and disclose to other trade secrets and confidential information from HP," justified his ex- employer. Already, he has "endangered the trade secrets and confidential information from HP's most important, pousuit the complaint, which states that Hurd has touched" millions of dollars in cash, shares and stock options in exchange for agreements "between the two parties.

Mark Hurd has earned, according to estimates, about 100 million dollars (79 million euros) during the three years at the helm of Hewlett-Packard and the amount of the agreement reached at his sudden departure is August 6 estimated at 34.6 million.

HP and Oracle partnership challenged

As for Oracle, a transaction is denounced "vindictive".The boss Larry Ellison, exasperated, deplores action which neglects the highest point the relationship between the two partner companies who have customers in common. For him, HP makes it "impossible to continue the cooperation between HP and Oracle in the technology market.

Oracle is both an important partner of HP and one of its major competitors, including the market for computer servers after its acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $ 5.6 billion, a transaction close in the beginning of this year.

Mark Hurd, an acclaimed master

When Mark Hurd was fired by HP, the action fell 8% to 42.49 dollars in electronic trading session out, shaken by the surprise resignation. The announcement was especially elevated to a scandal that HP had already been pushed to resign as the Mark Hurd was replaced in January 2007.Patricia Dunn had indeed been found to have used private investigators in 2005, who used false identities to obtain phone records of conversations between board members and journalists …

Conversely, when Oracle announced its appointment on Monday, the share closed up almost 6%, while analysts revealed their enthusiasm for the company include Mark Hurd.

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Public debt dumped

Doubts about the credibility of these stress tests is increasing. On Tuesday, while the Basel Committee should meet to finalize the criteria for bank capital adequacy, the Wall Street Journal estimates that the amount of government debt securities held by certain financial institutions have been underestimated.The American newspaper cites the Barclays and the French Credit Agricole.

According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), French banks held on 31 March, 35 billion euros of debts of the Spanish State and 20 billion euros of debts of the Greek state. According to stress tests, Credit Agricole, Natixis, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, held only 6.6 billion euros (Spain) and 11.6 billion (Greece).

"This will destroy the growth"

After going up the slope after the publication of "stress tests", so worried about banking stocks to new investors. It must be said that it is enough. Guests on BFM Radio Tuesday morning, the President of the Board of BNP Paribas, Michel Pebereau, did not pull any punches."The" wise men "Basel III asks us to do in less than two years, what we have done since the existence of BNP Paribas," he says. In other words, raising 150 billion euros to double the capital of French banks. "These measures are unreasonable, he says. They will drain the interbank market (the market where banks lend to each other, Ed) and destroy the growth that is already not high. The regulator is in the direction he had just avoided.

While Germany had declared Friday that it would not oppose the tightening of international credit rules, the German banking federation announced Monday that the ten largest German banks, whether the measures were Basel III maintained, would raise 105 billion euros.

The Basel Committee, responsible for this case, should require financial institutions to show a Tier 1 capital ratio (capital tier one "is the core capital base of financial institutions, Ed) of at least 6 %, said the federation. But a mattress extra 4% would be required, 2% to preserve capital and 2% for "counter-cyclical capital (capital raised by banks to cope with sluggish growth, Ed).

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These costs are estimated at 51 million euros. So says a letter sent by the National Federation of the commercial aviation (fname) – which includes trade unions of air transport – the Department of Ecology.This letter was sent "in early August," said Jean-Pierre Le Goff, the managing director of the fname, who came on Saturday to confirm the information Parisien / Today in France payday advance.

French companies demanding repayment of 51 million euros. Such government action "is important to recognize the exceptional mobilization of air carriers and their contributions, and is also economically important for companies still in the midst of the crisis," said the official.

For now, no reply to that letter, the next team of Jean-Louis Borloo. As Secretary of State for Transport, it was confirmed that the case "is under investigation.FNAM said, she expected to return "next week".

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LE FIGARO. – Are you not preparing a tight budget?

Francis BAROIN. – When developing a budget, there must be serious and make sense. Our meeting last Friday about the president and prime minister had intended to make choices to reduce public spending in order to achieve the 6% deficit in late 2011. It is the cornerstone of our policy.Everything must work towards this goal: we have an obligation to return as quickly to deficit levels before the crisis. This is a critical issue for our economic growth. The debt and deficits are the major topics of concern of the French, and we must demonstrate our ability to reduce, which will restore their confidence in the future and encourage them to consume and invest in return.

Why have revised down growth for 2011, while the activity was better than expected in recent months?

Economic activity in the first half of 2010 was in line with our expectations, and we should finish the year with growth of 1.4% or even above. For 2011, we forecast a proactive and realistic.Aim for 2% growth, consistent with the OECD projection is proactive because it's better than 2010, but is also realistic because we must not forget that a recession ever went there and that all countries that have suffered will take time to erase the traces.

Are you worried about the credit ratings of France?

No. Over the past two years, it was vital to sustain economic activity by injecting public spending. The revival in France, was very well calculated, and I see that despite large deficits our country continues to borrow at historically low levels on the markets. This indicates that investors have confidence in us.They know we have great resources at our disposal such as a savings among the highest in Europe.

If growth is higher than expected this year, can we expect increased revenue for the State and Social Security?

The good news critical of the first term is the creation of 60,000 jobs. The recovery of the labor market is expected to generate about 2 billion of additional social security contributions. In mid-September, we'll do the exact point on this revenue to build the draft law on financing of Social Security in 2011 on a solid and sincere.

And for the state?

Tax revenues are in line with our expectations. This is particularly the case of corporation tax, which is a very positive signal. The crisis resulted in 2009 by a collapse of social security contributions and tax revenue. We go out.Any additional revenues from the economic forecasting will be fully allocated to deficit reduction.

Nicolas Sarkozy announced Friday a cut of 10 billion in tax and social niches. Is not that a tax increase in disguise?

Absolutely not. No one is forced to use a niche tax to reduce his tax: it is a personal decision. In contrast, a general increase in taxation would penalize everyone. There is no question of doing so. We will not increase taxes, whether VAT, income tax or corporation tax. It is a very political choice, which corresponds to the commitment made by Nicolas Sarkozy during the presidential campaign. To reduce deficits, we have decided to act primarily on the expenditure, including that which passes through structural reforms.In a country where public expenditure accounts for over half of national wealth, is where are the flexibilities consistent.

All the niches are not "chosen". Some tax cuts meet family responsibilities, to situations of handicap, disability, age. Will they be trimmed as well?

Similarly we have not touched the RSA and social minimum, the vulnerable population will be spared by the plane or the removal of niches. Family policy will also be preserved. But it is true that the reduction of niches is an exercise in subtle and difficult. Found 10 billion in savings over 75 billion tax and spending 45 billion on social niches represents a substantial effort. But necessary. For years, the niches have been the choice of the facility.Sometimes washed sand.

The movement of the plane there will be enough to keep your goal?

First, I note that we have actually a little less than 2 billion to find the niches. For decisions taken in the context of pension reform and the level of those to be on the Cades (Sinking Fund of the social debt) will yield a total of over 7 billion. And, of course, we will also with a plane that will reduce by 10% the tax advantage of a number of devices. But this is not the only tool used. Some niches will be deleted. Other tax cuts would be concentrated or have their revised calculation method. The idea is to share the effort between businesses and households. We make our decisions be final in mid-September.

Investors fear being heavily utilized.Are they right?

One of the successes of the French economy is the savings of its households. We will be very careful not to destabilize it. In general, we want to protect the purchasing power of the French.

How to pay off the debt that Social Security has widened during the crisis?

Along with bills of state finances and Social Security, this fall, I will defend an organic bill to Parliament which will define the terms of repayment of 35 billion debt to Social Security that we will transfer to Cades . This organic law proposes to extend the four-year life of Cades, which is currently scheduled for late 2021. We also will allocate 3.2 billion euros of additional resources each year to Cades to be learned from the reduction or elimination of certain niches.Finally, Cades benefit from the recovery of the pension reserve fund which it will draw some resources.

You will increase the margin tax on certain investments of life insurance or income from movable capital (bonds, shares …) to finance the Cades?

It is a trail to the study among others.

Some members of the majority will once again seek an increase in the DRES …

We expect this debate during the fall, which is legitimate. But by offering 10 billion euros in savings on tax and social niches, we will show members that we have the means to finance the Cades without having to raise the CRDS.

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After the series of bad statistics released Tuesday as investors welcomed with relief the figures of private sector employment. The monthly survey from consulting firm ADP showed that the U.S. has created 42,000 jobs in July, when economists and analysts on average expected 40 000 new posts. The June figure was also revised upward and now shows 19,000 new jobs, 13,000 cons first announced.

These figures augur well before the official statistics of the U.S. labor market that will be published Friday. Economists and analysts on average had forecast an index down to 53.

Moreover, the ISM services has accelerated unexpectedly in July. It stood at 54.3 last month, against 53.8 in June

On the currency front, the dollar resumed on Wednesday it some color, but remains near its lowest level since 1995 against the yen and a low of three months against the euro. Indeed, this Wednesday, the euro continues to evolve over $ 1.32, while the dollar plunged against the yen at 85.42 yen 85.80 yen against Tuesday night.

Anadarko bounded

Time Warner (+0.40% to $ 32.49) has published a quarterly profit above Wall Street expectations after posting the largest increase in sales for two years.

Anadarko (4.29% to 55.01 dollars) oil group, owns 25% of wells BP, Tuesday reported a net loss of 8 cents per share less than 48 cents per share loss a year previously.Excluding items, earnings came in at 49 cents, while the consensus gave 35 cents.

EA (7.42% to 17.38 dollars) announced on Tuesday quarterly results better than expected and confirmed its forecast of annual and that could still give breath to the title Wednesday.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. competition authority, said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with industry giant Intel microprocessors (+0.08% to 20.73 dollars), against which she had complained in December for anticompetitive practices. AMD remains unmoved at 7.51 dollars.

The Canadian RIM (-3.85% to 53.39 dollars) presented Tuesday in New York, his new BlackberryTorch 9800, which will go on sale August 12 and will compete directly with Apple's iPhone 4 (+ 0.40% to 268.98 dollars), but his disappointment Arab continuing.Saudi Arabia has in effect suspended the BlackBerry service, according to the UAE, the Gulf countries demanding to watch multimedia phones from the Canadian manufacturer, which replicates grant any waiver of its encryption system, particularly safe.

Investment bank Lazard Franco-American (stable at U.S. $ 31.42) said Tuesday that the heirs of the deceased CEO Bruce Wasserstein, and other current and former executives of the bank, were put on the market some 7.4 million shares, or nearly 7% stake.

The Nikkei closed up 0.35%, the Nikkei 225 Index of blue chips gaining 33.01 points to 9570.31 points. In Shanghai, the stock opened up 0.39% Monday, as investors were apparently reassured by the slowdown in manufacturing activity in July, which shows that government efforts to cool the economy seem to be working. For its part, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong opened up 1.3%, the Hang Seng index gaining 272.2 points to 21,302.01 points in early trade.

The month of July was investor friendly in Paris.Last month, the CAC 40 was well recovered, compared to a decline in June and a memorable month of May in terms of poor performance. Between 1 July and this July 30, the index rose 9.1%. Since the beginning of the year, it remains a decline of 7.45%. Compared to a year ago, it was up 6.3%.

At the front of macroeconomic indicators, two publications will receive special attention this Monday. In Europe, growth in manufacturing output and new orders accelerated, reaching their highest level in three months, according to the latest PMI survey released Monday and conducted by Markit Economics Institute. The PMI index for manufacturing final Eurozone appears already to 56.7 in July against 55.6 in JuneOn the other side of the Atlantic, the ISM manufacturing activity for July will be very guarded, this afternoon at 16:00. The caution about its direction: opinions are divided as to effect its orientation. Nobody knows whether it will be up or if instead will settle a bit more.

In Europe, investors will also be attentive to the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the ECB. Rates should stay unchanged, but after the recent stress testing of banks in Europe, questions are likely to put Jean-Claude Trichet said on strong banks and a possible return to normal in the interbank market

On the face values, we will monitor:

BNP Paribas (4.59%) which unveiled on Monday its quarterly results before the market in good order. They are far beyond expectations, thanks to lower provisions.The title gained 4.19% to 54.92 euros. The title brings in its wake Societe Generale (2.97%). For its part, Credit Agricole gained 2.33% to 10.75 euros.

Air Liquide (1.29% to 87.48 euros) on Monday confirmed its objective of increasing its net profit in 2010 after an acceleration of growth in sales between the first and second quarter, thanks emerging markets.

France Telecom (1.09% to 16.24 euros) has initiated discussions with shareholders Meditel second operator in Morocco, to acquire 40% stake in it, according to the Moroccan weekly News, suggesting a possible investment of 650 million euros. Title varies slightly to 16.05 euros.

Eurazeo announced Saturday that entered into exclusive negotiations with the U.S. fund Carlyle for the sale of the hotel chain B & B.Eurazeo gaining 1.74% to 49.73 euros.

The construction group Vinci (2.44% to 38.05 euros) was selected Friday by the Government for the concession and the construction of the airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, who should take over from 2017 the air service from Nantes-Atlantique.

Areva (-2.96% to 354 euros) on Friday, as expected, half results penalized by an additional provision under the Finnish EPR OL3, but confirmed its 2010 targets.

Eiffage (2.21% to 39.57 euros) published a quarterly revenue up 2.2% and said its order book stood at EUR 10.8 billion at July 1 ( +4.4% at constant since 1 April 2010), more than 11 months of activity.

APRR (stable) – The Socialist leader Arnaud Montebourg said it had seized the financial markets authority (AMF) to try and block the delisting of Autoroutes Paris Rhin Rhone (APRR) requested by Eiffarie, a joint venture of Eiffage and the Australian Macquarie Group

Besides GDP, the U.S. will publish the index of consumer sentiment and Chicago PMI. In Europe, German retail sales and GDP of the area will also be published.

But it was the positive interpretation of the many important results published before opening behind the rating.

Publication Burst

Alcatel Lucent (6.38% to 2.20 euros) announces revenues of 3.813 billion euros in the second quarter.The group reiterated its outlook for 2010, including an adjusted operating income of between 1% and 5% of its revenues.

JCDecaux (+0.35% at 19.94 euros) on Friday announced a net profit in the first half of 65 million euros. The group anticipates a change in organic revenue for the third quarter less than that of the second with a cash flow of 119 million euros, compared with -1.7 million euros in the first half.

Lafarge (-3% to 42.18 euros) has reported a sales increase of 2% to 4.43 billion euros in the second quarter. The company expects a reduction in capital expenditure to less than 1 billion euros in 2011.

EDF (2.02% to 33.12 euros) announced a net income Group share 1.7 billion euros including a provision for $ 1.1 billion on its North American operations.The group, which should sell its UK electricity networks based on an enterprise value of over 5.5 billion pounds, has announced a delay of two years for his BDU Flamanville.

EADS (4.38% to 18.35 euros) announces a net profit in the first half of 185 million euros and a turnover of 20.3 billion euros.

Schneider Electric (2.51% to 88.57 euros) publishes a turnover of 8.57 billion euros in the first half (+10.5%) of which 4.661 billion (+18.5%) in the second . In an interview with Le Figaro, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO, set an improvement for the second part of the year.

Renault (+0.16% at 33.07 euros) issued a revenue increase of 23.1% for the first half like for like identical, to 19.668 billion euros. The constructor returns to the green with profits of 823 million euros.

The reaction of Peugeot (-0.80%) is observed.Still in the automotive industry, Michelin (0.62% to 59.72 euros) announced a net profit in the first half and said it expects a continued rebound in demand for tires in the second half of the year .

PPR (-0.24% to 102.10 euros) announced a net profit after minority interests rose 86.8% to 407 million euros in the first half.

Imerys (2.01% to 45.36 euros) has reported a net operating income rose sharply to 122 million euros in the first half with a turnover of organic growth of 16%.

Total (2.09% to 39.15 euros) announced adjusted net income for the second quarter of 3 billion euros, up 72%.

CNP Assurances (-1.12% to 15.92 euros) has issued a net increase of 8% to 542 million euros and a turnover of 17.697 million euros (+2.4%).

Rhodia (2.98% to 16.22 euros) raised again after its 2010 targets announced Friday results exceeded expectations in the second quarter.

Saint Gobain is optimistic

Saint-Gobain (+0.02% to 33.3 euros) has reported a strong rebound in its first half results, while confirming its target of strong growth in operating earnings in 2010.

Capgemini (-0.59% to 36.13 euros) has announced the acquisition of the Swedish IT services Skvader Systems. No financial details were disclosed.

Air Liquide (-0.75 to 85.45 euros ù) has announced the acquisition of the company Lion Copolymer Geismar American Services. No financial details were disclosed.

Euler Hermes (4.92% to 61.39 euros) has reported net profit more than doubled in the second quarter from the first and said he intended to maintain profitability in an environment more favorable macroeconomic that over the past two years.

Ingenico (3.68% to 19.15 euros) on Thursday posted a net profit increased more than two in the first half thanks to increased transactions in Europe and raised its sales target.

Alten (1.43% to 22.71 euros) has reported a slight improvement in activity in its sector in the first half. Turnover rose 2.7% to 450.9 million euros over the period.

Flo (0.65% to 4.63 euros) said that the activity in its restaurants had not yet regained the level that was hers before the crisis, despite the reduction in VAT.The turnover of the group stood in the first half rose 7.6%.

Revenues climbed 42% year on year to 3.496 billion dollars and 9% versus the first quarter. "Our activities have included analog chip and reached a double digit growth compared to the previous quarter, rising faster than the market average", says CEO Rich Templeton.

However, the announcement disappoints Wall Street. In exchange after exchange, securities fell by 5.64% to 24.11 dollars my credit score.Indeed, analysts projected a turnover of 3.52 billion. In a conference call, TI said that the turnover of the second quarter was affected by the decision of a major mobile client not to replenish stocks as much as expected.

For the rest, the group is optimistic. It expects a turnover of between 3.55 and 3.85 billion with earnings per share between 64 and 74 cents. It ranges over observers who rely on a turnover of 3.59 billion for earnings per share of 64 cents. "Orders were strong this quarter, the backlog has increased and we expect further growth of our revenues in the third quarter," he assured Rich Templeton.

The two behemoths differ as much in their diagnoses of the French market. When Century 21 evaluates to 8.5% average increase in prices over the last twelve months, Fnaim reported an almost stagnant (+0.1%).

As regards property each looks after their own door, because nothing is more difficult to measure changes in prices of existing homes, all different from each other by definition. For its part, Century 21 invokes a simple method."No transaction is forgotten: the collection of information is done automatically from the software used when signing the preliminary contract (promise of sale)," said Laurent Vimont, network chair. Then simply compare the average price per square meter of transactions between two time periods to calculate the evolution.

Century 21 refutes the argument that sellers of "nice apartments" have retained their property during the recession of 2008-2009 winter to put them back on the market in greater numbers in the first half of 2010 when the economy restarts. That does it not distort price comparisons from one period to another? "Not because we are working on samples large enough for this" quality effect "does not play. Our transactions have focused on 23,200 units in France in the first half of 2010, with 1536 sales in Paris, "says one.

Battle figures

Fnaim whose records are also on the "promise of sale", is based on a more sophisticated methodology and relatively delicate absolutely free credit score. "We correct the observed effects of price structures, including the size, location, comfort items, etc. …», explains Nicolas Thouvenin, the Director General of Fnaim. It also boasts a high number of transactions (5000 per month), 10% of the national market.

This method is quite close to the observation model established by notaries, with scientific backing from INSEE for 20 years. Except as notaries, considered the "justices" in statistics, working on sales contracts themselves, so with a delay of at least three months.Other disability, notary fees are not legal obligation to back the information to their rooms (85% do in Paris).

The Housing Secretariat is closely following this battle of numbers. After asking the National Council of Statistical Information (CNIS) a general report on "improving statistics, real estate and construction," which was presented in late March, Benoist Appeared plans to implement some of its recommendations "from the start," says one to his office.

Notaries will now be forced to disclose all their transactions to feed price indices. And they will work on the "pre-contracts" in order to better fit the situation. The reform should come into force from the fourth quarter of 2010 in Ile-de-France and the first quarter of 2011 in the rest of the country, says one.In addition, a device "calibration for private producers of statistics (like Century 21 and Fnaim) would be operational by spring 2011. A sort of tutelage that professionals look more or less enthusiasm and skepticism.

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And yet it does not benefit. Virtual, the massive use of electronic mail in particular has a tendency to dehumanize the management staff. "Some managers think they can coordinate and manage their teams from their messaging, notes Chevallet Romain, researcher at the National Agency for the Improvement of Working Conditions (Anact). But the mail does the illusion of coordination.The quality of the email exchange is no comparison with that which was in a meeting or simply between colleagues, "he says. Eric Albert, president of the French Institute for Action on stress (IFAS), reported a striking example of this dwindling trade. "You go account, it reports does one, two assistants who work in the same office send each other e-mails!". A phenomenon that is a real loss to the company. For dialogue face to face brought an emotional dimension that allows more adjustment to the other, to find compromises or to generate ideas …

A loss of 10 IQ points

The immediacy of the mall also has its downside."This permanent stress distracts the employee," Roman Chevallet analysis shows, supporting evidence, that the quality of work it is impacted, "A study of the London Institute of Psychiatry shows that go well with perpetually one task to another induces a loss of 10 IQ points, the equivalent of a sleepless night! "he says. Not to mention the stress caused by the influx of applications to which the employee is not always cope. A stress that tends to increase with the increasing demands of stakeholders, often owners of smartphones, which anticipate the responses of more and faster.

What, therefore, to use its smart messaging?

1. Introducing a hierarchy where the chronological order prevails. "It should restore priorities, stop confusing urgent and important," says Romain Chevallet.To do this, mails received may be classified according to their interest. By clicking on the flag that symbolizes a high importance, or creating files, theme, folder, or by importance. From this point of view, the mall has a definite asset. Although classified and easy to find, it can be a real list, and a database.

2. Cleaning up as and so as not to overload his mailbox and duty in the emergency delete messages surplus "with a machete. To save time, you can introduce filters that automatically redirect such unwelcome emails to the trash. Or select the messages by keyword to classify them in a folder. But be careful in this case not to lose sight of your overall messaging.Remove or archive emails as and also allows you to more easily find an important message.

3. Do not plug your mail to you, if your work permits. "The manager should set as a rule not to seek a collaborator with him," said Romain Chevallet. Especially since many employees, under pressure from management or a strong competition among colleagues, are needed to respond as quickly as possible, even to jeopardize their privacy.

4. Log out regularly. "In England, some companies have introduced a day without e-mail Wednesday," notes Roman Chevallet. Without going that far, it may be useful in order not to lose concentration, to force himself not to look at his mail every five minutes.Periods of disconnection from 1 to 2 hours can boost your productivity, provided that your manager is willing to wait this time to receive a response.

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