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The Asian market returns to the green on Wednesday. Investors in the region are encouraged by the rebound recorded in the markets of Europe and on Wall Street yesterday, despite dominating the wait before the meeting of Heads of States of the euro zone on Thursday. Moreover, U.S. President Barack Obama has sought reassurance on the issue of sovereign debt of the United States. He found "consistent with (its) approach" on raising the debt ceiling a new plan presented Tuesday the Senate, and held that "progress" had been made in negotiations with his Republican opponents.

Finally, another source of motivation for investors: the good results from Apple. After those, equally good, IBM, the group reported Tuesday a quarterly revenue again well above expectations, driven by strong sales of iPhones, particularly in Asia, and tablets iPad.This new support this morning all the technology stocks in the region.

In Japan, the Nikkei shows a rise of 1.15% at 10,003 points at a time of closing, including increased by Pioneer (3.12%), SoftBank (2.61%), Toshiba (2 , 99%) and TDK (3.18%).

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong more timidly climbed from 0.10% to 21,914 points. The bank is on the rise as Bank of Communications (0.91%). In contrast, the Shanghai Stock Exchange was down 0.41% to 2785 points. In Korea, the Kospi up 1.15% and the Indian Sensex gained 0.36%. The S & P Australian advance of 1.60%, boosted by the progresison heavyweight BHP Billiton (1.64%), which announced that a new record for annual production of iron ore. Action News Corp (3% to 14.94 dollars) is also continuing its rebound after the hearing of his boss Rupert Murdoch in front of British parliamentarians.

Oil up

Oil prices were also up Wednesday in electronic trading in Asia, with investors encouraged by the figures better than expected real estate in the United States, analysts said.

In morning trading, a barrel of "light sweet crude" for delivery in August took 80 cents to 98.30 dollars. That of Brent North Sea crude for September delivery took 69 cents to 117.75 dollars.

Nikos Aliagas will make his return to radio. It will be on Europe 1, to interview people in the new morning Bruce Toussaint. Just a month after announcing his departure from the "6 / 9 'NRJ, with a simple tweet, the host TV and radio back then the tape. Denis Olivennes, the head of the Lagardère group's television station, confirmed Tuesday morning on Twitter.

For its first grid back, the CEO of Europe 1 has muscled its morning. At the helm, Bruce Toussaint, a defector from Canal +. To maneuver for political and big personalities: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach retains his interview. For humor, Nicolas Canteloup has re-signed for a season and retains his column, which is a peak audience of the station with 1.4 to 1.6 million listeners.In a grid, which reaffirms the primacy of the information, Nikos Aliagas therefore takes the side of people who had been introduced by Marc-Olivier Fogiel in his morning.

Moderator contract of TF1, Nikos Aliagas presents "50 Minutes Inside", the magazine of a people. On the radio, he has succeeded in redressing the morning of NRJ in two seasons only.

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Parisian investors tried to back up the hill after a session that began in the 3900 ACC 40chuter points. But to no avail. After taking all morning, the benchmark index of the Bourse de Paris digs its losses to 15 hours (-0.92%) at 3854.15 points, after the announcement by the U.S. Department of Labor unemployment figures very disappointing for the month of May. Same scenario elsewhere in Europe, the Dax index featuring the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Folding of 0.47% to 7041.04 points while the FTSE was down 0.59% to 5813.26 points.

In addition, investor optimism is reinforced by the continuing problems of sovereign debt in Europe.Today Greece and the "troika" will unveil details of an upcoming fiscal tightening.

Finally, operators are troubled by bad macroeconomic indicators in the U.S. which suggest that the recovery is still difficult for the world's largest economy. Yesterday, the bad news is still chained to the front of the productivity, prevents Wall Street rebound. This morning the Asian market was also very mixed. This especially since the rating agency Moody's has threatened Thursday to put the debt rating of long-term United States, currently at AAA, on negative watch.

The service sector slows in Europe

Finally, the wait dominates before the publication of several important statistics.In France, growth in services sector activity slowed slightly in May but remains close to the peak of nearly 11 years hit the previous month, final results showed on Friday of the monthly survey from the Markit Purchasing Managers . PMI Segment income $ 62.5 after hitting 62.9 in April, its highest level since September 2000. An initial flash estimate of 62.8 gave the May 23

This same index slowed sharply in Germany last month to 56.1, its lowest level since October against a flash estimate of 54.9 and a figure of 56.8 in April.

Then the United States, the appointment of the day will be the publication of the monthly report on employment from the Labor Department low rates payday advance. Then comes the ISM services.

As for currencies, the euro, which climbed to over $ 1.45 yesterday, continues its recovery. It traded at 1.4482 dollars this morning.Oil prices were also rising in electronic trading in Asia, due to the decline of the dollar, prompting investors to buy commodities. In morning trading, a barrel of light sweet crude for July delivery gained 20 cents to 100.60 dollars. That of Brent North Sea crude for delivery same took 24 cents to 115.78 dollars.

Values ​​to follow

The banking industry is again monitored while the budget plan for Greece and the "troika" will be unveiled. BNP Paribas (+0.78% at 52.82 euros), Societe Generale (0.57% to 40.43 euros), Credit Agricole (+0.48% to 10.40 euros) move.

TF1: -0.32% to 12.39 euros

Media rights to Roland Garros on Europe, formerly held by Eurosport (TF1), will change the diffuser to be allocated to the agency MP & Silva from 2012.

Vivendi: -0.18% to 18.91 euros

SFR announce next week an overhaul of its mobile offerings and partnership with the broadcast site Spotify music on the internet, writes La Tribune. The telecom operator will hold a press conference Tuesday, June 7

Thales: 2.54% to 29.68 euros, Safran: 1.89% to 28.30 euros

Discussions between the two groups regarding an exchange of assets will be using a mediator, Aldo Cardoso, former head of Andersen's consulting firm, said Friday the newspaper Les Echos.

Renault: 0.70 to 38.16 EUR

The manufacturer believes that the shortage of diesel that has weighed on its registrations in the month of May in France will be eliminated in the second half, especially against the backdrop of the expected slowdown of the market, told The Tribune on Commerce Director of the French subsidiary.

A TV for unlimited calling. Sony chose an original niche to highlight its TV connected: video conferencing over Skype, a service that allows free calls, provided you have an Internet connection.

If Japanese is not the only one to offer this service – Samsung, LG and Panasonic offer it as well – it is the first to make it as widely promoted. This choice is indicative of the state of the market for connected TV, which is considered a powerful source of growth for manufacturers, but that is slow to take off. For now, in fact, consumers are not rushing to acquire these new displays, including the additional cost can reach 20%. Now, Sony has chosen to generalize the TV connected to nearly all its range: 90% is provided.The ability to enjoy a free video conferencing service, regardless of the destination of the call could be a vehicle purchase.

Microsoft, another winner

But this initiative also risks alienating the telecom operators, who see emerge a new type of competition. However, competition is already fierce between service providers that continue to add "free" to their offering. Not to mention the risk of flooding posed to Internet networks likely this additional data traffic.

The highlighting of Skype, which is a service offered by Sony on its TV connected, enter the group's strategy to "bring consumers to their television, they gradually abandoned in favor of their PC, smartphone or tablet.The President of the Japanese giant, Howard Stringer, has willingly TV connected as an element "family structure" which may again find themselves in a room.

Although, paradoxically, the fact chat on his television to watch television prevents! Indeed, if technically nothing prevents the embedding of a "picture in picture, television channels are radically opposed to the idea of ​​content that eludes them inserted in" their "emissions. And even if the content is generated by the viewer himself.

For TV makers, adding new services, including Skype is the illustration, also aims to maintain the value of their products in a market where prices are falling fast.

Finally, the main beneficiaries of development of the offer should be Skype and its new owner Microsoft.The software company was criticized for having paid dearly (8.5 billion dollars) the service provider, has everything to gain. Since March, banner ads can be inserted into the video chat. On the big screen, they will be better highlighted! The benefits of Skype may finally take off.

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"The legislation governing the couples and the Labour embarked on a chase. The great divorce reform of 1975 was followed in 1979 by the introduction of fixed term contracts (CDD).

Lawyers are rubbing their hands across the Atlantic. The market for divorces finally woke up after two years of torpor. "They started to leave at the end of 2010, when their numbers had fallen by 24% in 2008 and 57% in 2009, has awarded Linda Lea Viken AFP, the president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. It's not just the legal profession to be welcomed in a country that counts normally breaks matrimonial 4.95 per 1000 inhabitants each year. World record is almost two and a half times more than in France. The upswing of the "separations" better expresses the country's economic health.If the Americans dare to part again is that they feel strong enough to face a financially costly operation.

Cheers flexibility, spring's traditional America, its prosperity and its mores, whether contracts of employment or marriage. United States, the standard is ten times change employer in his life, likes to recall former President Bill Clinton. This is much less in Europe.A study of the ad hoc International Labour Office, the German spends an average of 10.7 years in the same company and the French 11.3 years.

More than one in two marriages ends in divorce

For their part the French would they be more mobile in their private lives and in their professional life? That is what the sociologist Jean Viard says: our countrymen remain in their seven years and twelve couples with the same employer, had launched the author of In Praise of mobility, at a conference of parliamentarians UMP shocked by such a revelation . These statistics do were confirmed either by INED, National Institute of Demographic Studies, or by INSEE, the trend is real and underlined.

To judge the divorces in France, it is obviously misleading to report their number (130,601 voted in 2009) to that of marriages in the same year (251,478).And conclude that "more than one in two marriages ends in divorce." This rate of "divorce", a term the Ministry of Justice does not provide information on behavioral changes. Demographers proceed otherwise. They restore, generation after generation, the fate of unions. According to figures provided by France Prioux, a demographer at INED, 30% of marriages registered in 1970 ended in divorce, and this rate has steadily increased. It was 40% for marriages contracted in 1986 and 43% for married year 1992 payday loans with no fax. These projections, we said France Prioux only way to compare the routes, not yet complete, of generations as far as 1970 and 1992.

The side of the job market, things seem less clear.INSEE has just informed us that in 2009, 42.1% of employed persons in the same company for over ten years, all sectors combined (a photograph of the labor market in 2009). With peaks at 50.2% in industry and 57.3% for farmers. The crisis has prompted employees to remain in their company when they have not been dislodged by a "social plan". They were only 41.8% have a tenure exceeding ten years in 2008.

Since the early 1970s, couples and laws governing the Labour Code have embarked on a bizarre chase. The great divorce reform of 1975, establishing the procedure by mutual consent, was followed in 1979, still under the seven-Giscard d'Estaing, the introduction of fixed term contracts (CDD).In 1999, the creation of the PACS (Civil Solidarity Pact) offered a substitute for marriage, including homosexuals. Then the new simplified procedures for divorce in 2004 encouraged Florence Parisot, the president of MEDEF, in 2007 to ask (and get) a "divorce by mutual consent" between the company and the employee. But for now, advantage to love, including leases, more and more temporary, could in future be shorter than the labor contracts.

Ode to mobility

This hymn to mobility also money, third vital point of the triangle. "It is easier to change bank woman, ironically there are still some great banker instead. He stigmatized the administrative complexities inherent in this kind of operation.This is less true since the legal obligation in 2008 to establish a service in each establishment of "mobility aid" to its customers.

As for transport, their progress is measured in kilometers. In 1950, every French walked five kilometers a day, while he performs now 45, likes to emphasize the sociologist Jean Viard. Unfortunately, the ease of such material has to travel daily to more expensive counterpart perverse unprecedented housing in downtown. "There all is order and beauty, luxury, calm and pleasure", but inaccessible to the homeless near ", which should mobilize their time and energy to get to the grind. Should there be one day avoided the elevators in the big cities in order to reintroduce a social mix? In the nineteenth century, the less fortunate living on the upper floors where they climbed on foot. A lesser evil.

Intel takes a step back to get a place in the market of smartphones and touch pads. Wednesday night, the U.S. group announced the launch of a new generation of processors manufactured in three dimensions, which must make greater performance without increasing power consumption. "We have once again reinvented the transistor, welcomed Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel.

Transistors are like switches. They were so far consist of a stack of layers in two dimensions. The upper part acts as a "gate", which passes or blocks the flow between two components of the lower layers, the source and drain. But as the size of transistors has been reduced to a few nanometers, the conductive material between these elements are also refined, increasing the risk of current leakage.To remedy this, it needed to increase consumption.

The development cost under control

Faced with this challenge, Intel has changed its manufacturing process by embedding a thin part of the lower layer in the "gate" located above (see chart below). Thus, the current control can be done in three tranches of the fin, instead of one. "This allows the transmission of as much current as possible when the transistor is in active mode (in order of performance) and as close to zero as possible when it is in off mode (to reduce power consumption)," says Intel .

With this new architecture, the current control is performed on three slices (yellow).

And after? Over the past year, the taboo is broken. The toll gates were germinated on the news sites online. But consumers have not rushed in at the deep charge, while the free offer thrives elsewhere on the Web. Gathered this weekend in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW), the editors of American content exploring new mechanisms to pay players.

Heather Hollis, artistic director of the video game publisher Electronic Arts, the video game can inspire the press. "In the model of free-to-play, consumers play free and are encouraged to pay for progress in the game is a way of saying: here is something you might want to buy, based on the information we have about you, "she said.Similarly, the principle of "loyalty points" – a reward mechanism that is found in the "badges" of Foursquare mobile location-based service can be applied "to the traditional contents. About his joining the argument on Saturday afternoon by Seth Priebatsch, the young founder of location-based mobile game SCVNGR. "The game mechanics are powerful reasons for action," he said. For him, the game will unfold in the next decade the same way that the social and community has conquered all Web services for ten years.

The rise of mobile broadened the range of resources

For the Wall Street Journal, paid on the Web since 1997 and an international million subscribers, the mechanical community are not exhausted. "Social media provide us readers.It is important to create tools to share our content, "noted Daniel Bernard, product manager for The Wall Street Digital Network. How then do we give to subscribers the means to use their own network to promote ourselves? We know that people who come to us several times more likely to subscribe. But why, we must give "to see". The Wall Street Journal has done the opposite to many publications, broadening its offering free "shows its know-how, for example on political subjects. "But our core business, financial and economic, is what we charge," says Bernard.

Finally, the rise of mobile devices has broadened the spectrum of resources. "The applications are a way to return the payment or through payment in the application, either by creating commercial applications.But we must adapt the content to the terminals because consumption is different, "said Daniel Mandell, head of digital media at Wenner Media, publisher of Rolling Stone. There remains the question of interoperability of services that make a subscription to an application iPad tomorrow if the player wants to take another tablet?

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The redemption price would be fixed in April, and the report advocating the "right price competitive" known until mid-March. According to the Journal de Dimanche (JDD), the findings of this report, ordered the former director general of INSEE Paul Champsaur, "are ready and recommend the price of 39 euros per megawatt hour (MWh).

The new law on the organization of the electricity market (prefecture), which shall enter into force on 1 July, stipulates that EDF, the incumbent electricity, must yield to its competitors – GDF Suez Direct Energy and other Poweo – up to 25% of the electricity produced in nuclear power plants. The selling price must be set by ministerial order. This new mechanism is expected to boost competition in an industry dominated by ultra-EDF.More than three years after market opening to competition, the French are indeed remained mostly faithful to the regulated tariffs.

Reflect production costs

EDF had voted for a rate set at 42 euros per MWh, Henri Proglio, CEO of the group, believing that selling below this limit would mean the "looting". Alternative suppliers, including GDF Suez, hoping for a price closer to 35 euros per MWh.

To fix the wholesale rate at 39 euros, experts have focused on the impact that the price on your household. The increase for the public, would be at least 35% over five years with the wholesale price of 42 euros asked by EDF free business cards. It would be 30% at 39 euros, a level considered more reasonable by the Champsaur report, according to the JDD, or 5% per annum by 2015.Difficile to go below, however, according to the report."If the government does not overly increase the rates for individuals, it should not set a price too high for manufacturers," said a relative of Paul Champsaur quoted by JDD. Nome law specifies that the award should reflect "economic conditions of production" of nuclear power plants and it will be "consistent" with a specific tariff to business, Tartam (transitory regulated tariff for market adjustment) .

Friday, Energy Minister Eric Besson had told AFP that "nothing was adjudicated" and that dialogue "continue."He said that this price would be fixed "by a decree signed in April, after an arbitration of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister."

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While Barack Obama gets his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, to discuss including the yuan, China publishes a range of statistics confirming the good health of the country. In particular, gross domestic product (GDP) of China grew faster than expected last quarter of 2010, with an increase of 9.8% annual rate. Over the whole year, Chinese growth was 10.3%.

Great concern of the authorities, inflation has moderated somewhat in late with an index of consumer prices up 4.8% in December against 5.1% in November. It reached 3.3% throughout the year écoulée.Soit a little more than the 3% target previously set by Beijing.Furthermore, the jump of 23.8% of fixed investment shows that the rebalancing of the economy, too driven by investment to the detriment of the consumer is not yet on the agenda.

And despite the restrictive measures of the government which fears a bubble on the front real estate, investments in stone continued to increase, by 33.2%. However, Beijing still has recently tightened the screws on credit, but an article in China Daily Economic 21st Century Business Herald revealed yesterday that Chinese banks had already lent $ 113 billion since the beginning of the year, again a figure well above government targets central.Pourtant after advertising the Asian stock indices retreated: the Shanghai Stock Exchange lost 1.3% in mid-session, down close to the Nikkei.

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This is an ad that should satisfy Sanofi-Aventis. While the French giant has never been this close to buying U.S. biotech group Genzyme revises its forecast for 2011 downwards.

The nugget is now believed American power to make a profit per share of 4.10 to 4.35 dollars this year, instead of 4.30 to 4.60 dollars previously expected, according to its CEO, Henri Termeer, during a conference of analysts on Tuesday night. The turnover of the group should not exceed 5 billion dollars against 5.1 billion anticipated. "This announcement will undoubtedly benefit Sanofi-Aventis in the negotiations," said Jean-Jacques Le Fur, an analyst at Oddo.

"Sanofi-Aventis needs to Genzyme.And vice versa "

Genzyme has refused the offer of 69 dollars per share from Sanofi-Aventis, finding it did not take sufficient account of the performance potential of its flagship product, the Lemtrada. The group asks U.S. $ 80 per share instead. "For Sanofi-Aventis, I think a purchase between 70 and 75 dollars per share would be a good operation and lead to a revaluation of the group in the eyes of analysts. Beyond 80 euros per share, the game is not worth the candle, "said Herve Mangin, manager of Axa IM.

To break the deadlock, the two companies could use an extra cost *. But Sanofi-Aventis will at least increase its cash offer to perform the operation, "Jean-Jacques Le Fur, an analyst at Oddo. Sanofi-Aventis was given until Jan. 21 to reach an agreement."Given the resources used by Sanofi, it would be surprising if this operation is not successful," says one of them. The Sanofi-Aventis patents expire and the group needs to renew its pipeline.

"Chris Viehbacher plays its credibility"

In this game of poker liar ", the two sides resumed dialogue at least. "Sanofi-Aventis Genzyme needs and vice versa," says Jean-Jacques Le Fur. With Genzyme, Sanofi-Aventis is a real foothold in biotechnology and strengthens the United States. Growth of 3% over the period 2011-2013 is realistic. " But they gave no guarantee that the talks succeed. If Sanofi-Aventis is prepared to revise its offer to increase, there is no question of overpaying Genzyme. "Chris Viehbacher (CEO of Sanofi-Aventis) has credibility on this. It should not be the one who made this transaction a matter of money.The strategic focus must remain the priority. "

At the Paris Stock Exchange, Sanofi-Aventis climbed 1.94% to 50.40 euros in a market up 1.27%. Genzyme closed Tuesday down 0.08% to 72.34 dollars.

* The certificate of guaranteed value (CVG) is a special law that gives shareholders a greater appreciation if the value of the group purchased more than a predefined threshold.

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