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While industrial countries emerging from crisis levels weighted with historically high public debt, emerging markets display patterns much healthier. Their good resistance during the recession of 2009 and an underlying trend towards greater stability has attracted the interest of investors.
"We see a positive snowball effect on emerging market debt: a dozen countries have been under positive outlook by rating agencies, which herald a recovery of notes, analytical Anne-Sophie Girault, a specialist in this Market Aviva Investors. Moody's, Standard & Poor's and others see a positive view of the low debt ratio of developing countries, which averages less than 40% of gross domestic product. Twice as less developed countries.
The emerging markets have also gained credibility in the markets."They have improved their fundamentals, the local central banks are becoming more independent, inflation is under control and steering of public finances is good," Frank J. Nicolas, Natixis AM. And the economic outlook is much better than in Europe, for example.
Result: institutional investors have been interested for nearly ten months to market, providing stability. They take long positions. So far, only hedge funds were present in the short term, making the market very volatile. Today, the market is 360 billion of debt issued in dollars and 1.4 trillion dollars of debt issued in local currency.
Record demand
In this context, the demand for emerging market debt from the investment fund has beaten all records in the first half, according to the calculations of Aviva.At $ 31 billion, it almost reaches the levels of previous years in just five months.
Emerging now are they safe? "These are pseudo-safe investments," says Franck Nicolas. "Beware of Loved tobacco." Clearly, the emerging countries are always a risk of sudden reversal of the situation. And if their fundamentals, growth, inflation, debt-positive, "markets, very nervous now, can still cause a contagion" of the debt crisis in emerging countries, recognizes Anne-Sophie Girault.
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• Transport
– Station: Ticket prices for trains Coral, Intercity and TER (Regional Express Train) will increase an average of 2.5%. This will result in higher ticket from 10 cents to 2.30 euros depending on distance traveled during the trip.
As for the discount cards (cards 12-25, Senior, and Child Escapes +), their prices remain unchanged.
– RATP: The price of individual tickets will go from 1.60 euro to 1.70 euro.
Subscriptions Navigo will also increase, except for packages zone 1-5 and 1-6.The monthly Zones 1 and 2 (Paris and suburbs) rises from 56.60 to 60.40 euros (+6.7%), the zones 1-3 of 74.40 to 78.20 euros (+ 5.1%) and the zones 1 to 4 from 91.70 to 95.50 euros (+4.1%).
• Energy
– Gas: After an initial increase in April, prices will increase again by 2% to 4.7% (about 8 euros per year for those who use gas for hot water and cooking 45 per year for those who use it also for heating)
– Bulbs: As part of the scheduled end of incandescents in the EU to promote energy saving, incandescent lamps of 60 watts are removed from store shelves.Those whose power was 100 watts or more have disappeared from shelves in 2009.
• Bonus for scrap
The premium case is lowered to 500 euros instead of 700 for any car ordered until December 31.
• Stamps
The price of postage for mailings of letters under 20 grams, will increase by two cents from 56-58 cents, an increase of 3.5%.
• Retirement
The index points which is the basis for calculating salary in three public (state, territorial and hospital) must be revalued by 0.5%.
• Unemployment benefits
Allowances of approximately two million unemployed by unemployment insurance compensation will be revalued by 1.2%.
• Communication
– Hadopi: It is from this Thursday that the first warnings will be mailed to users in violation of the law on downloading.
– Phone: The price of calls made and received from another EU country (roaming within Europe) will be reduced to 39 cents per minute excluding VAT cons 43 cent today. Receiving a call will be charged € 0.15 per minute instead of EUR 0.19.The SMS tariff remains unchanged for its 11 cents per message.
• Business and Disability
Firms with more than 20 employees employ any disabled person and took no action to promote employment of disabled people will have their penalties tripled to about 13,000 euros per person missing.
• Livret A
Currently at its lowest level since its inception to 1.25% – Return of the booklet A should move to 1.50% or 1.75% from 1 August by Budget Minister Francois Baroin.
"Our goal is to aim Iran where it hurts most." The words are clear, crisp and sharp. The Democratic majority leader Harry Reid's Senate on Monday spoke uncompromisingly after both houses of Congress last Thursday adopted sanctions against Iran, aimed at forcing the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
This series of steps that must still be signed by President Barack Obama seeks to reduce the supply of gasoline to Iran.It involves companies or their affiliates doing business with the country providing refined petroleum products or helping to develop refining capacity.
Christophe de Margerie warned
Thus, Total said, speaking through his spokesman Monday that the suspension of deliveries of petroleum products to Iran, confirming information the website of the Financial Times Sunday. Total joins BP and Royal Dutch Shell in the list of petroleum companies halting oil sales to Iran cash till payday. Last April, Christophe de Margerie, Total's then CEO had said his group would stop sales to Iran if the U.S. legislation penalizing companies providing Teheran in petroleum products was adopted.
The group chaired by Christophe de Margerie declined to say more, including specifying the date of termination of deliveries nor the volumes of oil involved According to a source close to the oil group, it would be "marginal quantities" . To believe the traders interviewed by the Financial Times, shipments have been stopped "about a month ago.
Fourth largest crude producer, Iran lacks refinery on its national soil, and thus depends heavily on imports for its supply of gasoline and refined products.
At the Paris Stock Exchange, Total closed up 0.66% to 38.13 euros in a market up 1.61% to 3576 points.
Fiercely negotiated three days in Toronto, the draft statement of the G20 should offend anyone. If it includes the rigorous growth strategy, it also warns against excessive austerity. Still as unpopular worldwide, the tax credit is mentioned by the G20 as a means available to states to pass through to the banks of the crisis mess. The 28 pages of draft final declaration, which obtained a copy of Figaro, operate a subtle synthesis between European and American positions.
Angela Merkel can boast of having imposed the virtues of fiscal discipline at the highest level. But to the relief of Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy, she has not transformed the G20 summit of austerity."Recent events show the importance of sustainable public finances and the need for our countries to implement measures to consolidate budget spread over time, conducive to growth, and differentiated according to country and national circumstances," says the One of the phrases most discussed compromise.
Determined to make growth "priority" of the G20, the United States got to place the term "recovery" prominently in the declaration, a challenge, says a trader. "We need to let it work through our plans to consolidate fiscal stimulus recovery," said the G20 as well. "Adjustments in simultaneous biggest countries could undermine the recovery," it added.
Disagreement over the top on bank charges
Canada has not really managed to impose a stability pact worldwide."Advanced economies have pledged to take measures to consolidate budgetary decline by at least half the deficit by 2013, and stabilize or reduce the debt / GDP ratio by 2016, said the G20. Nothing that does very afraid of the euro area, or even France, which has promised to reduce its deficit to 3% in 2013. The White House, meanwhile, did not wait for the G20 to commit to reducing the U.S. budget deficit by half in 2013 to return to deficits of 3% in 2015.
If the disagreement at the summit endorsed the tax credit, due to strong opposition from Canada to Australia, but also emerging countries (China, India, Russia), the G20 mention the tax as an option for countries seeking to save public money in any future banking crisis.Defended by the IMF, the tax would be adjusted to take the risk profile of financial institutions.
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The purchasing power has registered a decline of 0.1%.
In the U.S., the third estimate of GDP is known to 14:30.
Banks up
As for values, Credit Agricole (-1.7%) Societe Generale (1.4%) BNP Paribas (+1.1%) and Axa (1.32%) appear at the top of the charts of best performance of the CAC 40, behind Vivendu which grimpede 1.7% to 17.5 euros.
In contrast, the values cars are worth, including Peugeot plir 0.67%, Renault, 0.36%, 0.6% Michelin. Construction is bad too, with Lafarge (-0.96%), largest decline, and Saint-Gobain (-0.25%).
Latecoère: 2.56% to 6 euros According to Le Figaro, the aerospace supplier will propose to its shareholders on Friday, meeting in General Assembly, the free allocation of share purchase warrants (BSA) in 2012.
The EDF Group postponed its decision to invest in an LNG terminal in Dunkirk (Northern), said Thursday a spokesman for the group. This terminal was supposed to compensate for some job losses related to the closure of the refinery from Total.
Computer Services sector companies might respond to better than expected quarterly results announced Thursday evening by Accenture. The Group's net profit stood at 564 million dollars (457 million euros), or $ 0.73 per share against 537 million ($ 0.68 per share) a year ago and $ 0.69 expected by Wall Street.
Alstom: -0.5% to 38.3 euros French industrial group on Thursday launched a U.S. production plant turbines, especially for nuclear power generation, for which he has invested about $ 300 million, according to a statement.
This will ultimately alone as General Motors, the American auto giant, will assume the restructuring of its German subsidiary Opel. The German manufacturer has indeed withdrawn all applications for public aid claimed to European countries where it operates.
General Motors has "decided to resolve funding issues internally," the group said in a statement after the plea of inadmissibility raised by Berlin to its requests for government guarantees.
"The process is much more complex and much longer than expected," justified the manufacturer, which hopes to "implement quickly (his) plan."
In fact, the German manufacturer is found almost in the situation in November 2008, just before it calls the first time the German government to help paydayloans."General Motors is making a profit and has the capacity" to restructure its subsidiary, has reaffirmed the German Minister of Economy, Rainer Brüderl, who feels "comforted in (its) decision" not to help Opel.
Opel employs approximately 25,000 employees in Germany and it is expected 3,900 job cuts.
So far, Opel refused to consider funding 100% of restructuring by its parent, noting that it had recovered by the U.S. taxpayers' money, she could spend outside the U.S. USA.
"General Motors has demonstrated clear and put an end to speculation and uncertainty for employees," said the chairman of Opel's works council, Klaus Franz, said in a statement.
The CAC 40 index which comprises the forty largest capitalization of the Paris market, will be 41 values within one day, Friday, July 2, with the division of the Accor group, said in a statement Friday the exchange operator NYSE Euronext.
Accor, which is part of the CAC 40 will separate into two entities, one containing the name Accor hotels and gathering activities, and the other called Edenred, representing the prepaid services industry (Ticket Restaurant, gift cards bad Credit payday advance ..).
On July 2, two new groups will therefore part of the CAC 40 Edenred do so before the index feature of Parisian place before the opening of the meeting of Monday, July 5, said NYSE Euronext.
The general meeting to approve the demerger will take place June 29, days before the listing of the two entities.
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Back to basics for Lakshmi Mittal. The Chairman of ArcelorMittal, the fifth World Fortune has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of a steel plant in India, Karnataka State, south of the country. A mammoth project with an annual capacity of six million tonnes which would require more than 5 billion euros of investment. In the crosshairs, the Indian market: "India needs more steel and we must take part in this growth," said Lakshmi Mittal.
It was a long ArcelorMittal looking to implement a major project in India. A similar agreement was thus created in 2006 to develop a huge site.The state of Orissa, north-east, had been chosen, but since the group steelmaker hardly be allocated land by local authorities.
Beyond the financial aspects, this new project is a highly symbolic Lakshmi Mittal. He might be born in Rajasthan, have raised and educated in Calcutta, the wire was broken long ago with his country of origin. If he cut his teeth in the small mill of his father, the tycoon starts very early in the assault on lucrative opportunities abroad. In Indonesia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico and Kazakhstan that makes the group a family empire of steel.
Other projects in northern India
The gap is widening even further in 1994 with the partition of the group.Lakshmi, his father and his two brothers did not agree and the company is split into two faxless pay day loans. In Lakshmi operations abroad to the rest of the family, the Indian Affairs. Since, like Anil and Mukesh Ambani, the richest two brothers of the world settle their disputes before the courts, Mittal have all the trouble in the world to reconcile. Incommensurate with the billions earned by Lakshmi, his two younger brothers were still able to grow and it is not uncommon for the two groups are fighting the same markets. Africa was the setting for these quarrels, in 2004 or 2008 in Liberia and Nigeria.
Gradually, Lakshmi was thus cut off from India. Yet holds an Indian passport, he could never win in his homeland.Stamped "NRI", acronym of Indians living outside their borders, it has long been criticized for its lack of involvement in Indian affairs. Ask in the streets of Bombay Indian captains of industry, the name of Mittal will systematically swept under the carpet, at the expense of the brothers Ambani, Ratan Tata or India's Richard Branson, Vijay Mallya.
With this comeback, Lakshmi Mittal India regilds therefore its image. Especially since the Indian adventure should not stop there way. In addition to this mill, ArcelorMittal plans to inject more than $ 20 billion in other sites in northern India.
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For the first time, the United States, Americans will have a smart card (smart card to the French) and "accepted in the world. It Gemalto.
A contract which seems small in relation to the size of the division payment at Gemalto.But "this announcement is very important symbolically," noted analysts at Natixis, surprised that the stock price does not react.
For the group at 1.65 billion euros in turnover in 2009 made his first steps on American soil that could well decide to finally initiate the transition from magnetic stripe cards – which are the subject of a high fraud rates – to smart cards adopting EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) to pay around the world and securely.
For the strategists of Natixis, the bank card market with a microprocessor in the United States has "a potential 1.5 billion cards.
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Greece, Portugal and Spain. Southern Europe continues to frighten the markets. The Spanish saw its debt rating one notch worse, with a negative outlook.
Between degradation rate and retention Note
During a joint press conference yesterday, Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, director of the International Monetary Fund, have called on Germany to take an expeditious decision on aid Greece. Both men say they are confident. German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems he heard the message, since it has declared its intention to activate "as quickly as possible" aid plan.
Fortunately, a decision from the United States has been somewhat reassure financial markets. The Fed has indeed confirmed keep interest rates low for a "prolonged period". And this, despite a rapid recovery of the economy.In this context, the Paris markets are cautious. Around 10:30 am, the CAC 40 rose 0.52% to 3806.81 points. At the London Stock Exchange, the FTSE-100 gained 0.55% to 5617.19 points, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the DAX 30 in advance from 0.30% to 6102.59 points.
After two sessions of sharp declines, the bank stocks are returning to earnings. BNP Paribas gained 1.55% to 51.77 euros, Dexia advance of 1.22% to 4.15 euros and Societe Generale was up 0.45% to 41.10 euros. In contrast, Credit Agricole, which said Wednesday night that its exposure to sovereign risk in Greece amounted to EUR 850 million, lost 0.32% to 11.02 euros.
CAC 40: Pernod-Ricard in mind, PPR red lantern
Among the values that have posted Wednesday, PPR has returned to growth in the first quarter after five consecutive quarters of downturn, and said Tuesday anticipate a further acceleration in sales during the year. However, PPR shares fell sharply from 2.65% to 101.20 euros, the biggest drop in the CAC 40.
The Thursday is rich in quarterly publications: ArcelorMittal (-1.80% to 30.58 euros) reported a net profit decline of 36.6% in first quarter 2010 over fourth quarter 2009.
France Telecom (1.44% 16.57 EUR) has published a turnover down 2% in the first quarter of 2010, in line with market expectations.
The result of Sanofi-Aventis (-0.67% to 51.53 euros) rose 9.7% to 2.4 billion euros in first quarter 2010 against a consensus of 2.28 billion euros.
Bull (0.62% to 3.23 euros) saw its sales boosted by the acquisition of Amesys, a company specializing in security systems: its sales rose 9.4% against 0.6 % off-Amesys.
Pernod Ricard has announced an increase of 14% of its turnover for the third quarter of 2010 of its fiscal year 2009-2010 to offset 1.5 billion euros.Pernod Ricard shares climbed 3.70% to 65.32 euros, the largest increase in the CAC 40.
The results of Vivendi (0.87% to 19.61 euros), AXA (-0.89% at 15.01 euros), Bouygues (0.60% to 36.89 euros), Areva (-1, 32% to 375 euros) or Michelin (-0.38% to 52.30 euros) are also expected.
Renault (-1.47% to 34.24 euros) has announced the acquisition of interests between the group, its Japanese partner Nissan and Germany's Daimler had been made Wednesday. The three groups have formalized their alliance in early April for three to share technologies and reduce costs.
The U.S. unemployment statistics in the heart of the day
On the macroeconomic front, the day will, however, less responsible.By midmorning, the German Federal Labour Office has reported a decline of 68,000 in the number of jobseekers in seasonally adjusted data, to 3.285 million, while economists were expecting an average decline of 10,000. Around 14:30, the investors will also monitor the weekly claims for unemployment benefits in the United States, and economic confidence in April in the euro area.
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