SNPL pilots and key union hostess and stewards have launched a strike notice for four days starting Monday. They oppose a bill to impose a minimum service in the air during a strike. Of passengers at the information board on flights at Charles de Gaulle

French unions aviation, including pilots of SNPL and the main organizations of hostesses and stewards, confirmed Friday their strike call from 6 to 9 February to oppose a bill regulating the right to strike in this sector.

In addition to the pilots and flight attendants, federations FO, CFDT, UNSA and CGT have the air, after an inter-union, called the staff of companies and their service providers to mobilize. The bill "has been hardened to the Assembly and the government does not want to negotiate, the National Council of SNPL therefore confirmed the strike on Friday from 6 to 9 and decided it would be renewable, either directly after 9, or at another time, "he told AFP Yves Deshayes, national president of the SNPL, the main pilots' union, super-majority at Air France.

"At the Inter, after our board meeting, it's the same with a strike from 6 to 9, and a few different versions according to the unions," said Yves Deshayes. "The three main trade unions of PNC (flight attendants), the SNPNC, the Unac and UNSA also call from 6 to 9, "said the driver. "The strike is held from 6 to 9," also said Franck Mikula, president of the Unac (CFE-CGC) at the conclusion of the Inter.

The SNPL said that among the ground staff would go on strike and some others would be "in action via other means." "We call for the strike in all French airlines, in metropolitan and overseas territories" , said Yves Deshayes.

The group specializes in the trade press and trade fairs Reed Elsevier reported Wednesday an increase of 1% of its turnover for the first nine months of the year to provide comparables and said earnings per share on year in line with expectations.

According to a spokesperson, the group consensus estimates for EPS to show between 45 and 46 pence, representing an increase of 4% to 6%.

In exchange, the action was down 0.82% to 8.80 euros in Amsterdam and from 1% to 532 pence in London, while the European index of the media sector earns 0.7%.

Each of the five divisions of the Anglo-Dutch group is growing its billing smoothed non-recurring items.

France and Germany have formalized their agreement on how to resolve the debt crisis in the euro area, said Friday the French Minister of Economy Baroin after meeting with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble and Nicolas Sarkozy.

"We will over the coming days to continue our discussions but we already have on contractual agreements that will be very important," said Baroin referring to the stabilization of the euro area, the recapitalization of banks in Europe and "maximizing" the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF).

Wolfgang Schäuble assured that the two countries had a "common position" and expressed confidence that they can "protect the euro area".

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel pledged in Berlin on Sunday to respond "lasting and comprehensive peace" to the crisis in the euro area for the G20 summit scheduled for early November in Cannes, which will include a recapitalization of European banks.

The French president was then assured that the compromise between the two countries on how and where the process was considered "complete", denying the reports of differences over the use of EFSF, now ratified by all Member States of the area, to provide the necessary funds.

While the capital needs of European banks were estimated between 100 and 200 billion dollars by the IMF, Angela Merkel stated that the new European Banking Authority and the International Monetary Fund would be asked to ensure that what is proposed is "durable and strong."

Nicolas Sarkozy announced the other as France and Germany were preparing a number of adjustments to the Treaties to strengthen European integration in the euro area.

The founder of the investment fund Galleon, Raj Rajaratnam, who was convicted in May of insider trading was sentenced Thursday to eleven years in prison, one of the most severe penalties ever imposed for this offense.

The verdict marks the end of a long process that had shaken the financial world by revealing one of the greatest scandals in Wall Street since the 1980s.

The survey was particularly high profile was marked by an abundant use of FBI wiretaps, a method usually associated with the procedures surrounding the mafia or drug trafficking crime as more "white collar".

Raj Rajaratnam was found guilty of fraud transactions and conspiracy to have established a vast network that fed into confidential information on companies.

It was one of his informants including senior executives in companies like consulting firm McKinsey & Co, Intel, and to a former director of Goldman Sachs.

The judges did not follow the request of prosecutors, who called for 19 ½ years in prison against Raj Rajaratnam.The award is beyond the ten-year sentence recently imposed in another case a major insider trading.

Judge Richard Holwell said the founder of Galleon, aged 54, suffered from an "advanced diabetes" that can lead to kidney failure and may need a transplant, and had taken this into account by setting the length of the sentence.

"The government is absolutely right to consider insider trading as an assault on free trade in a democratic society," said the judge.

Raj Rajaratnam did not read the statement on his behalf before the verdict, which was also sentenced to 10 million dollars in fines and the restitution of $ 53.8 million.

The judge also agreed to recommend that the sentence be carried out at the prison in Butner, North Carolina, one of its inmates fallen financier Bernard Madoff, sentenced to 150 years in prison for fraud. This has its own hospital.

Raj Rajaratnam must report to prison Nov. 28. Those convicted of federal crime generally must serve 85% of their sentence before becoming eligible for early release.

The release date of the recession has been repeatedly pushed back to Athens for two years. According to the international organization, the economy should resume growth in 2013. In Greece, the horizon darkens again.

The International Monetary Fund has ceased to be optimistic for Greece, drawing a line under the belief that it could recover as soon as its creditors believed at the beginning of international aid plan. "The recession will be deeper than anticipated in June and a recovery is now expected that from 2013," wrote the IMF, the Commission and the European Central Bank in a statement Tuesday.

Greece, in recession since late 2008, did not see the end. Issues and the IMF forecasts a growing dark. The date on which the Hellenic economy should resume growth has declined steadily for two years.In 2009, before the debt crisis, the IMF thought it would be in 2011. In 2010 and until summer 2011, he was counting on 2012. Since September, 2013.

The "troika" of the creditors of Athens on Wednesday announced the release of 8 billion euros in November. But the IMF no longer speaks to unlock new loan to the country most in need of the euro area. At the end of the summit area on July 21, executive director of the institution Christine Lagarde said that Greece expected demand "soon" new aid. Two months later, change of tone in Washington at the annual meeting of the IMF, Ms. Lagarde forget any reference to a new loan, and hammered the need for Greece to meet its commitments before obtaining new European funds. "What we have heard lately is the strong commitment of European partners to be with any member of the area.And I think it's a crucial point, "she said, without defining the role of the IMF. Europe's director, Antonio Borges, agrees:" If the Greeks are doing what they should do, I think they can count on the full support of the rest of Europe. "He fails to mention the IMF.

Jacob Kierkegaard, economist Peterson Institute in Washington, history has proven that the institution had agreed, when it promised 30 billion euros to Greece in May 2010, a plan too ambitious reform the country quickly without restructuring its debt. "The projections are by nature optimistic. They tried to convince market participants that Greece was not an insolvent country," said he. But the IMF has found over time that Athens could not move as fast as you like, especially in its privatization.Gradually, the prospect of global institution with a long experience of debt crises has departed from that of Europeans, for whom it was to preserve the young first monetary union and bank-holding Greek debt. Kierkegaard says, "the markets have a confidence level much higher in the IMF as a neutral arbiter in the ECB or the Commission", and the IMF has gradually imposed his views.

The aid program in Athens, most originally designed by Europeans, has failed in its objectives: to make Greece more competitive, restore the credibility of public finances and financial calm tensions in the eurozone. Contrary to the hopes the Europeans, "the specter of a discount for holders of Greek bonds and the risks of contagion that accompany have not flown," says Samarjit Shankar, an analyst at Bank of New York Mellon.Especially, the way the Greek economy has sunk was a cruel disappointment, said Eswar Prasad, a former economist at the Fund (1990-2006). "In principle", the IMF forecasts assume that the government will follow a certain policy, says he told AFP. Greece shows that "the slippage in the implementation of a policy (…) can cause a divergence between growth forecasts and actual growth."

The economic downturn continues in the major economies, especially Germany, Italy and Brazil, leading indicators show the OECD published Monday.

Declined for the fifth consecutive month, these leading indicators are now below the 100-which distinguishes the increase in lower activity – in most countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Japan, the United States, Germany and Russia are the only countries for which the leading indicators remain above this threshold.

The CLI for the OECD area as a whole declined to 100.8 from 101.4 in July.

The G7 countries fell back to 101.1 from 101.7.

For the U.S., the indicator decreased to 101.5 from 102.1.

The indicator fell back by 0.9 points to 99.1 for France and 1.3 points to 100.5 for Germany.

Among the large emerging economies, the indicator for China was down 0.3 points to 99.8 while that of Brazil gives up 1.2 points to 94.8.

PSA Peugeot Citroen and General Electric announced Wednesday it had signed a business cooperation and technology in Europe around the electric vehicle.

The automaker and the U.S. giant has said in a statement that the agreement was not exclusive to work together including the deployment of a commercial offering combining the electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

New offerings destined for the corporate customers will also be developed.

General Electric is committed in this context to purchase up to 1,000 electric vehicles to PSA by the end of 2015.

PSA remember launched in late 2010 electric vehicle Citroën "C-ZERO" Peugeot and "ion".

Bouygues announced Wednesday a proposed acquisition of its shares to reassure shareholders against the recent decline in its share price and slightly raised its annual target of revenue through its subsidiary Colas.

The construction group, telecommunication and media will launch a tender offer (OPRA) from 1.25 billion euros for 11.7% of the capital, an operation expected to be accretive by approximately 11% of the Earnings per share assuming that 100% of the shares concerned are tendered.

"Given the recent decline of its massive share price in significant volumes, Bouygues intends to offer shareholders who want an opportunity to cash they can receive a 29% premium on the average one month" , said in a statement.

The repurchased shares will be canceled, he said.

Prior to publication, the Bouygues share closed up 1.45% to 23.07 euros, giving a market capitalization of around 8.1 billion euros.Since the beginning of the year, the stock has stumbled 29.5% after a decline of 11.4% over the whole of 2010.

"The transaction will be financed without any difficulty about availability," said the group finance director, Philippe Marien, during a teleconference. "We have eight billion euros in cash in our cash and undrawn credit lines, so we have no problem to finance 1.250 billion."

Asked about the possibility of other similar projects, Philippe Marien said it was an operation "of an exceptional character.""So we consider nothing other than this operation," he said.

The project will be subject to a special general meeting called on October 10

RISE BUT FALL IN NET OCR

The group, owner of the road builder Colas, Bouygues Telecom, the third French mobile operator, and 43% of the television group TF1 has also slightly raised its sales target of 2011 to 32,000,000,000 euros, against 31, 9 billion so far, thanks to the performance of Colas.

The subsidiary has raised its target of Tuesday night's annual revenues to 11.9 billion euros, against 11.8 billion previously, and maintained its objective of improving margins throughout the year.

The interim results of the Bouygues group, reported Tuesday night to Wednesday morning due to the announcement of the OPRA, also showed a 6% increase in trading profit to 752 million euros, the result of an upturn Sequential activity in the second quarter, but down 27% of net income, group share, reflecting a lower contribution to Alstom in which Bouygues owns about 31%.

TF1 reported from late July to an improvement in profitability in the first half thanks to cost savings and a return to growth in advertising revenue for its flagship channel in the second quarter.

The other French construction giant, Vinci noted Tuesday its 2011 targets after a strong first half. The trio will be complete hexagonal Wednesday night with the publication of interim Eiffage in after-hours trading.

President Barack Obama announced Monday it had decided to appoint the labor market specialist Alan Krueger at the head of the Economic Council of the White House, while it should detail a plan next week to support employment.

Alan Krueger, an economist at Princeton University, will succeed Austan Goolsbee, whose resignation was announced in early June.

The appointment comes as President Barack Obama has detailed a plan to support employment after September 5, the day of the celebration in the U.S. Labor Day, which traditionally marks the end of the summer.

Austan Goolsbee, adviser to longtime Barack Obama, decided to leave his post as head of the Economic Council to get back to teach at the University of Chicago.His departure was a blow to the White House.

With an unemployment rate of 9.1% and fears of more serious view of the U.S. economy plunge into recession, the American presidency in fact trying to show that it does everything it can to support growth.

In the Garden of the White House alongside Alan Krueger, Barack Obama said he would build on the "raw recommendations" of the latter to stimulate the U.S. economy.

"Alan understands the difficult challenges facing our country and I am confident he will help us meet them," said Barack Obama.

PLAN FOR EMPLOYMENT

The U.S. president said he would detail next week a plan to support purchasing power and employment.

"Next week I will be releasing a series of steps that Congress can take immediately to put more money into the pockets of working families and those of the middle class, to facilitate employment for small businesses, to put teams construction work and rebuild roads, railways and airports in our nation, "he said.

Barack Obama hoped that this plan harvest support large, beyond the partisan disagreements.The Republicans have so far shown reluctance to stimulus involving additional costs.

Against the backdrop of fears around the gloomy figures for growth and employment, the popularity of Barack Obama has dropped to about 43%, close to its lowest level since the beginning of his presidency and as it prepares to appear for a second term in 2012.

The appointment of Alan Krueger must obtain the consent of the Senate.

European stock markets continued Friday in early trade started to decline yesterday, investors preferring to remain cautious about the highly anticipated speech of the President of the Federal Reserve in Jackson Hole.

Ben Bernanke is speaking at 14:00 GMT (16:00 in Paris) in Jackson Hole (Wyoming), as part of the 35th annual economic symposium of central banks. It is likely that the Fed chairman will announce gradual steps, not an ambitious new plan to repurchase shares.

At 9:30, the CAC 40 index fell by 0.84% ​​to 3092.71 points, after dropping 0.65% on Thursday.For the week, the benchmark index of the Paris remains up 2.7% after falling nearly 18% during the first three weeks of August.

Other major European markets, London lost 0.86%, 1.15% Frankfurt, Milan and 0.51%.Of the European indices, the EuroStoxx 50 yields 0.89% and 0.94% Eurofirst 300 loose.

"The conference in Jackson Hole is not the place for decisions on monetary policy," warns UBS in a note saying that the Monetary Policy Committee of the Fed (FOMC) has already reached a major milestone by announcing the August 9 keeping interest rates near zero for at least two years.

"If the Fed wishes to further modify its monetary policy, we believe it would make more sense to do at the FOMC meeting on September 20," said UBS.

As for values, the financial attempted to resist the general trend following the extension of the ban on short selling in four countries.

After being the only sector up for several minutes, the Stoxx bank index finally yielded 0.6%.

In Paris, Societe Generale has head increases the CAC 40 (+0.22%) to Credit Agricole (0.25%) and Natixis (0.18%).

The expectation of the speech of Ben Bernanke puts the dollar under pressure, several analysts point out. The euro also wins 0.39% against the greenback at 1.4425 dollar.

"Traders are looking forward to this time in a highly volatile backdrop of sovereign debt crisis and fears of a slowdown in economic activity in the United States," says Saxo Bank in a note.

After correcting for nearly 200 dollars per ounce of gold returns to form more than 1780 dollars (+0.8% to 1783.39 dollars).