European markets based on the surge on Wall Street Wednesday, but also on purchases cheaply. The NYSE has erased its losses late in the session to close up 0.2%. A technical rebound which was conducted in a context of bad macro news (sales of new homes in July after falling sales in the former, smaller increase than expected orders for durable goods).The Paris markets will also be comforted by Asia which has borrowed the same road this morning as Wall Street.

After consecutive declines (which have seen the ACC lost 2% since Monday), European investors are making purchases on the cheap pending the release of weekly unemployment registration in the United States earlier this afternoon.

Side currencies, the euro remains strong against the dollar. In morning trade, one euro is worth 1.2710 dollars (0.31%) and 1.2712 in mid-session.

The Paris markets react to the small decline in unemployment in France in July, fell after the market closes Wednesday.More importantly, they welcomed the battery results fell before the opening.

Accor flies, Gemalto tumbles

For the first time in years, the industrial take over ads on macroeconomic indicators:

After his former branch of service Edenred, Accor issued this morning. The group announced a net loss for the first half of 64 million euros against a loss of 236 million a year earlier. Despite very conservative outlook, the stock market welcomed the performance: Accor shares are leading the ACC with an increase of 4.68% to 24.6 euros.

Credit Agricole has reported a net profit of 379 million euros in the second quarter, well above the 280 million expected by the markets. Net revenue reached 5.469 billion euros and the cost of risk fell by 13%.Again, the stock appreciates: the titles are among the highest increases with a jump of 3.28% to 10.225 euros.

Bureau Veritas (4.30% to 47.34 euros) announced adjusted net income Group share up 8.9% to 149.5 million euros in the first half. Turnover was up 1.5% to 1.349 billion euros. The group aims to increase its sales in the second half of the order of 10% and expects a "slight increase" in operating margin over the full year 2010 on the current scope.

Gemalto has reported net earnings fell to 63 million euros in the first half and sales of 840 million euros, up 5%. The group said banking on accelerated growth in the second half, with a turnover of over one billion euros over the period.The title gives 2.63% to 28.67 euros.

Bongrain (+0.19%), Lagardere (0.41%), Stallergenes (1.34%) and Etam (1.56%) will release after the market closes.

Wednesday, L'Oreal (5.77% to 80.14 euros) announced an operating profit up sharply in the first half and higher expectations. This performance allows the number one global cosmetics find a level of operating margin similar to the record first half of 2008.

L'Oreal and Total (0.24%), major shareholders of Sanofi-Aventis (-0.81%) would otherwise be reserved for the proposed acquisition by Genzyme, fearing that the French pharmaceutical group pays its target too expensive , said Wednesday the banking sources told Reuters.

BioAlliance Pharma (5.03%) received European agencies agreed in principle on the filing in mid-2011 the registration dossier of the drug against herpes labialis.The laboratory recorded a strong increase in its turnover in the first half and a net positive.

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%.

Whatever the fans of austerity, the G20 Toronto has not been that of rigor. On the form, the exorbitant cost of the summit – 1.2 billion Canadian dollars, or 900 million Euro-shows that developed countries like Canada, still have strong reservations to spend public money to do their self-promotion. On the merits, the U.S. calls for further spending in the short term have been heard, even if Barack Obama had a hard time leaving scope for "recovery" in the final communique.

"We need to let it work through our plans for fiscal stimulus to consolidate the recovery," said the G20."Adjustments in the largest simultaneous countries could undermine the recovery," said the statement, which also bears the imprint of major emerging countries (China, India, Brazil, Russia).

Budgetary discipline

Pessimistic about the recovery, deemed "fragile and uneven, very worried about the" rate of unemployment reached unacceptable levels in certain countries, "the G20 always gives priority to growth. "Although Mrs Merkel has agreed to make more growth!" Says Nicolas Sarkozy.

For the first time, however, the virtues of fiscal restraint is recognized at the highest level."Sound public finances are essential to sustain the recovery, giving some leeway in case of a new shock, and avoid leaving future generations a legacy of deficits and debt" indicates the G20.

A commitment risk

But beware of plans rigor rushed! The G20 did not advocate austerity at all stages payday loans for self employed. "Fiscal adjustment needs to be carefully calibrated to support private demand," it said. "The consolidation measures should be phased in over time, growth, and differentiated according to country."

Angela Merkel welcomes the significant progress: the G20 endorsed the objectives of deficits and debt, modeled on the European Stability Pact, sanctions and less.The G20 developed countries commit to reduce their deficit in half by 2013 and to stabilize their debt to GDP by 2016. He was a Canadian proposal, which the first Prime Minister Stephen Harper to declare victory, after a summit a small scale.

But this commitment amounted G20 does not fear large world. The European Union should achieve this goal without problems, ensures José Manuel Barroso. France has already pledged to reduce its deficit 8% today to 3% in 2013. As the United States, they feel just referred.In its letter to its partners in the G20 to warn them against the rigors, Barack Obama has renewed its commitment to reducing the U.S. budget deficit by half in 2013 to return to deficits of 3% in 2015.

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"We believe that health is more important to the consumer and that Danone will play a role in this development," said Bernard Hours, Deputy CEO, on the occasion of the General Assembly of shareholders.

A meeting is scheduled for June 1 with the EFSA.According to Franck Riboud, Chairman and CEO of Danone, "everything is a question now of adjustment" with the European Constable know what he can say.

Meanwhile, "not to take risks, we preferred to remove the folders to find themselves confronted with a" no "because it failed to respond to what we were asked," Did he admitted.

For him, Actimel "is a battle, it's serious." "Children are less time away from school," he said.But the question is "how to translate that into something that can be dire.

On the sidelines of the meeting, the group confirmed it will pay a dividend of 1.20 euros per share, including dates of posting and payment are respectively the May 4 and May 7, 2010.

Danone has published April 15 last, a quarterly revenue rose 7% to nearly 4 billion euros.

At the close of the Paris Bourse, the stock has lost 0.67% to 44.77 euros in a market down 1.33%.

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Apple Earnings blaze

On Wall Street, the technology sector should benefit from the announcement after the stock market, a 90% surge in net income of U.S. computer maker Apple in the first quarter. Inflated by including a doubling of sales of iPhones, the company's net earnings to net apple exceeds $ 3 billion in the second quarter of its fiscal offset.Turnover was up 49% to 13.50 billion dollars.

Also in the technology sector, Yahoo! also published after the close a net profit group share in the first quarter more than doubled on a year to over $ 310 million payday loans. In contrast, the turnover has been disappointing. It increased only 1% to just under $ 1.6 billion.

On Tuesday, the financial sector, for its part, was carried by the strong quarterly results from investment bank Goldman Sachs, whose future remains clouded by fraud prosecutions brought by securities regulators in the United States and in Great Britain.The firm has more than doubled its net profit in the first three months of the year to nearly 3.5 billion dollars.

On the foreign exchange market, the euro was slightly lower Wednesday as investors watching the talks between Greek officials and teams from the EU, IMF and ECB on aid to Greece due to start Wednesday after a successful bond sale by Athens yesterday. In the early morning, the European currency was worth 1.3433 dollars against 1.3436 dollars the previous day.

Today on Wall Street, investors will monitor the traditional weekly crude inventories will be published in late afternoon.

Before yesterday, the Bloomberg spoke of the creation of a joint venture in Asia. The project is actually much broader. Cr?dit Agricole and Citic were preparing to share all of their brokerage activities, with the ambition to offer a comprehensive worldwide.For the Green Bank, this means that it will bring in the trash marriage the two flagships, CA Cheuvreux in Europe but also CLSA Asia inherited his nugget of the former Credit Lyonnais and the ex-Indosuez, which strike force in Asia is comprised of over 1 300 employees.

"An entry by the front door"

The negotiations will refine the assembly operation. It seems, however, have articulated a pattern in stages. Globally, the respective contributions show an economic weight of about 70% for Credit Agricole, 30% for its Chinese partner. In Asia alone, the ratio is 50-50.

In China, finally, market still very restrictive with regard to foreign players, the Green Bank would of course be a minority, but Citic would offer "an entry by the front door," said a source familiar with the matter.Both groups have the ambition to create a unique platform for implementation to the world. A strategy that sticks to the explosion of capital flows to and from the Asian region, particularly China. She also accompany the rise, very fast, of IPOs on the Asian markets for new local giants, but also of foreign cash advance payday loan. Western companies are increasingly likely to be tempted by either a dual listing-West Asia, either through public offerings in part of their activities in emerging markets.

In 2007, Citic had wanted to attempt the adventure of large-scale partnership in market activities.But the Chinese had backed the wrong horse by selecting Bear Stearns, number five on Wall Street, which was the first major victim of the financial crisis in March 2008. The company was swallowed by a weekend, for a pittance and under pressure from the Fed, JPMorgan.

By marrying his "brokerage" than CITIC, Cr?dit Agricole replicates the strategy already implemented in the field of asset management and derivatives: Green Bank has established two joint ventures with Societe Generale, Amund and Newedge . In both cases, there is access to the critical size. The problem applies to the brokerage, a business in which the challenge is to offset the costs of research teams and infrastructures, galloping amid technological revolution on the market.

Finally, the operation comes at a strategic refocusing of the Cr?dit Agricole group.The Green Bank in 2008 has imposed a severe weight loss at its investment banking subsidiary, which came early and suddenly in crisis. Now, CA IPC (Credit Agricole's Corporate and Investment Banking) is focused on three areas: structured finance, capital markets and brokerage. The planned offensive alliance with CITIC confirms this last job.

SNCF undertakes to publish on Friday on its website and in the press, the list "train by train those who ride or not" for his customers are accurately informed about the conditions of their journey.

Another point, there will be more bookings on the main rail-route to the south-east, that is to say where the strike is the most followed. However, the reservations already made will remain valid.Guillaume Pepy has finally announced that there will be "measures of reimbursement for customers affected by the strike, but the details will be given after consultation with associations of users.

Do not give "bonus to strike"

Guillaume Pepy said also do not want to negotiate with the strikers saying only that "it is simply a bonus to strike from the premium to trading." Indeed, the two unions on strike, the CGT and the South have made the request a separate negotiation.Also it is "optimistic" about the round table proposed by management to all trade unions on April 21.

He also stressed that the minimum service was "pretty well" and that "all trains that were scheduled have been circulating," welcoming "the 96% of railway workers", they "were stoned for the past eight days to protect our customers maximum.

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The differential between the Bund and the Greek loan ten years, the German borrowing considered the benchmark in the European bond market, reached 391 basis points, a highest since late January. A level also close to 396 points reached at the height of the crisis.In other words, Greece must now pay twice as much as Germany to borrow on the markets.

In this tense atmosphere, the euro sank to its lowest level since March 26, to $ 1.33 against $ 1.35 last week. The tension on the Greek rate has rubbed off on the rest of European rates. Thus, the obligation comparable Treasury (OAT) French grew at 3.472% against 3.391%. The rate of Gilt UK has also tended to 4.004% 3.917% Thursday cons. The 10-year German Bund rose to 3.145% 3.080% cons Thursday night.

"It was a very bad day for Greek bonds," said Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou.The latter also wished to refute the rumors again: "There was never any action on our part to change the terms of the recent European agreement on the mechanism of support," he said cheap pay day loans .

A difficult month of May

This renewed tension on the market does not bode well for the country that has yet to find 20 billion euros by the end of May to repay debt is estimated at 300 billion euros, or 113% of GDP. Macroeconomic statistics are not reassuring either. According to the European Commission, the economy needs to contract by 2.5% against 2% initially estimated.The deficit also revised upward, to reach 13% of the GDP against 12.7% of the initial estimate used as the basis for projections of the annual budget.

Asian investors, including Chinese and Japanese funds, show little enthusiasm for the idea of buying Greek bonds. George Papaconstantinou, which announced its intention to borrow dollars, must travel to the United States after April 20 to find new potential buyers.

In this context, IMF teams have to land Wednesday at Athens, at the request of the Government, to advise the country. The IMF should include a focus on fiscal discipline and the fight against tax fraud.A visit also intended to reassure markets that are questioning the viability of the proposed plan by the Greek government.

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Most recently, the deputy governor of the central bank of China, Zhu Min, criticized hollow inaction of EU leaders in the Greek case. "I do not think that Greece will go to bankruptcy because it is relatively small," he said in Hong Kong Thursday morning. "But we see no decisive action that would send a signal to the market saying:" We can solve this crisis, we can stop it. " The market remains very volatile. "

And prevent the problem is not confined to Greece."Greece is a case, but this is only the tip of the iceberg," he said. "The main concern today is obviously Spain and Italy." One way to remind Heads of State and Government meeting at the European Council that it is time to extinguish the fire fast cash without a hassle . The rating agency Fitch has in turn worsened the note of Portugal on Wednesday, highlighting the structural weakness of the country.

The fear of a "great shock"

The United States also expressed concern earlier this week when European inaction. For the first time a director of the Fed, the U.S. central bank, has publicly worried about a contagion of the crisis in the Greek American economy.He said such fear at worst "a big shock in financial markets" could occur "as a general movement of withdrawal [investors] the debt market states. A particularly alarming prospect as the United States have more need than ever to issue debt.

"These statements sound like a call for decision making at European level" analysis Natacha Valla, chief economist at Goldman Sachs. Ultimately, "this crisis, caused by a small country like Greece, is amplified by a bad reason: the failure of European authorities to take a decision."

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These 5 million represent about 4% of annual sales (-10.3%) of Olympique Lyonnais, which amounts to 139.6 million euros. By comparison, Real Madrid shows a turnover of 401 million euros (+9.7%).The $ 5 million includes 3.3 million premium paid by UEFA for a qualification in the quarterfinals, 1.2 million euros in revenue stages, and between 0.2 and 1 million euro TV rights.

Also according Footbiz, Lyons would have received between 21.9 million euros and 22.3 million euros in case of defeat against Real Madrid, barely 5 million euros less than in case of qualifying cash advance now .

Suffice to say that these 32 million are extremely timely in the coffers of the club chaired by Jean-Michel Aulas. Lyon has seen its half-year loss widened to 8.7 million (against 2.4 million euros over the period 2008-2009).

Conversely, it is for the Real Madrid club the richest in the world, a crushing defeat as sports – the Madrid club has not reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League for 6 years – economically. The club chaired by Florentino P?rez has spent the last year 250 million euros to take a quick one, Brazilian Kaka (65 million euros), the French Karim Benzema (35 million euros) and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo (94 million euros). The failure is even more important than the final of the Champions League will be played at … Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu.