Hard times for the 380. After the case of microcracks detected in the wing of the superjumbo, Airbus will he deplore a new problem, this time in the "nose" of the device? The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is interested in any case the rivets of radom, that is to say the cover that protects the radar of the aircraft.
The authority may decide to issue in the coming weeks an airworthiness directive (AD) requiring the change of six rivets aluminum rivets titanium stronger. The 19 airlines that operate the world's fleet of 69 A380, eight months have to do this for an average of 3:30. Clearly, they would have time to schedule it as part of their regular maintenance schedule.
After the decision to order the Efsa a general inspection of the planes of A 380 in service and production, totaling one hundred aircraft, the image of the A380 takes another blow. However, this type of airworthiness directive is very common in aviation. All aircraft receive throughout their careers.
Two types of directives
"The FAA, U.S. aviation safety authority, has issued more than 830 airworthiness directives for Boeing B 747 in forty years," says one at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse. "For an airplane, receiving such a directive is as ordinary as to think about changing the wiper blades on your car or an oil change," says one.
The Aesa issues two types of directives: the current, AD, and urgent, called "emergency AD." In the case of microcracks, the two directives were common. The agency goes up a notch when it considers that the subject can affect flight safety. In this case, companies have little time to react, sometimes not even 24 hours.
In the case of rivets, flight safety is affected in any part, Airbus insists. The manufacturer points out that these are not structural elements. Six rivets 40 to 50 by radom "are not likely to blow up" the unit cover.
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Visa Europe and MasterCard compete imagination to make their cards more attractive. Thus, Visa deploys a program of benefits for some 4.2 million Visa cardholders Prime. They now benefit from price reductions in a list of partner stores (Sephora, Lapeyre, Opinion …) by simply presenting a coupon to download on the Internet (visa.fr). April 1, this program will be expanded to Lenotre, ready-to-wear or Bensimon to Nature and Discovery. "Historically, the world of credit cards was rather that of the travel and leisure. Now the goal is to approach the everyday consumer, "says Catherine Soubirou, partnership manager at Visa Europe. MasterCard, meanwhile, has developed an online shopping mall which also offers discounts to holders of the Gold card.
But for the most prestigious cards, these benefits are not enough. The 150,000 holders of a Visa Infinite card will then be offered, to April 1, new services very chic. As Jet Taxi, which for 2200 euros an hour, take four people in Le Bourget to the destination of their choice. Or the opportunity to attend events are difficult to access (the Grand Prix of Monaco Formula 1, the Cannes Film Festival …).
Extensions guarantees
Open doors to places or events was the confidential trademark of the very VIP Centurion Card from American Express. The same idea will wow now the holders of other cards. MasterCard has already embarked on this path, imagining private parties for its Platinum card holders who dream of visiting a quiet art exhibitions or attend concerts circle. A taste for the Parisians, what awaits them when Paris will join the Priceless Cities program, launched by MasterCard in New York last summer and launched from London and Toronto. It offers cardholders Platinum – but for some offers, a Gold – privileges: previews or priority seating for events to, in the highest rated restaurants
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"Exclusive offers, which consumers aspire today," says Francois Gandon, marketing manager of MasterCard France. Thus, the card interest is not limited to insurance they offer … even if they are perfected. Visa is for example to review his.
The foreign assistance was not playing in the event of natural disaster? This exclusion has been removed. Children of divorced or separated parents received guarantees only if the parent traveling with the cardholder? They are now protected even if they move without him. "The goal is to avoid maximum disappointment of our customers, guarantees on misunderstood or exclusions that surprise them," says Emmanuel Robert, head of product offers from Visa Europe France.
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The streets of Athens and Thessaloniki were ablaze in the night, when MPs voted in favor of a new austerity plan. After heated debates within the precincts of Parliament, the austerity measures imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund was adopted by a majority of 199 votes out of 300 MPs, including 278 in attendance. The pressure weighed heavily on the members. In fact, the leaders of the Socialist Party and the rightist New Democracy, meeting within the ruling coalition, have warned that they radieraient members of their camps who would vote against the text. Of the 236 deputies concerned, a score of 21 members of socialist and right were therefore excluded from the ranks after the parliamentary vote.
Before the vote, the Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, had also hammered the Greek deputies "will take responsibility" and "define the most important choice" for Greece, "move to Europe and the single currency" . Government members have indeed hammered if the austerity plan was not passed, the country would be forced to declare themselves insolvent and out in the longer term the euro. Athens must indeed pay 14.5 billion euros in March, but its coffers are empty. Troika has called for new austerity measures in exchange for the release of its indispensable assistance of 130 billion. After the vote tonight, the Eurogroup could meet on Wednesday to give the green light to disburse it. Also requested consideration by private creditors, which should reduce the 100 billion euro debt.
Specifically, the measures include the reduction of health spending (1.06 billion), military (300 million) and reduced wages for young and pensions. A cocktail that does not pass to the people, who began hitting the streets in the afternoon yesterday. By late evening, scenes of chaos were observed in Athens on the sidelines of the anti-austerity, which gathered 80,000 people according to police, during which 54 participants were injured and buildings and shops burned. In Salonika, 20,000 demonstrators were reported damaged and six banks. Greek Prime Minister condemned these events, noting that "violence and destruction that have no place in democracy."
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Run for your lives! This is the response of the Greek youth graduated from the crisis and the stacking of austerity since early 2010. Examples abound. The Goethe Institute in Athens is facing a 70% increase in enrollment in German courses. A recruiting office in Northern Ireland offers young Greek, says Athens News, collect mushrooms or work in aquatic farms. A conference on migration to Australia by invitation only-recently gathered 1000 graduates (even though only 100 Greeks settled in the island-continent in 2010).
The Greeks want to leave their countries in crisis, but it is not seen in official statistics."Based on preliminary figures available, we observe no increase in emigration in Greece in 2010," notes Jonathan Chaloff, migration expert at the OECD, based on information provided by the U.S., Australian, Canadian or Swedish. "There is indeed a great desire to emigrate, but the obstacles are real: the language barrier, recognition of qualifications, etc..," Said he.
More border, more control
This is not the only reason why migration flows are difficult to perceive. "Young Greeks are mainly the countries of the European Union," Lois Labrianidis point, Professor of Economics at the University of Thessaloniki."But as there is no boundary or control, you can not count these departures." The researcher is a hint: the Greeks entered in the European Internet portal EURES CV exploded in 2011, reaching 15,500, two times the total recorded since its inception in 1993.
Young people fleeing a country they consider no future. "The dynamics of the labor market is worrying. The unemployment rate reached 16%, up 50% from 2010. And for young people is twice (30%), "notes Manon Domingues Dos Santos, migration specialist at the University Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée. "In this context, the most qualified are the most mobile: they speak foreign languages and better meet the needs of labor in host countries."
The crisis accelerates a phenomenon of brain drain that affects Greece for at least 10 years.At the edge of recession, in 2007, already 12.2% of the most educated Greeks living abroad, or at least 876,000 people. This figure is just swell: already during this period, more than 4.5% of graduates were leaving Greece every year, according to figures compiled by Frédéric Docquier, a professor at the University of Louvain. This is much less than Portugal (over 12%) but almost twice as Spain, also in crisis countries. In comparison, only 1.31% of French graduates leave the country.
Herding phenomenon
View from the best-trained its elites to broader horizons, such is the fate of small countries like Ireland or Lithuania. "Greece, however, could prove to be a special case, said Frédéric Docquier. It is in near-bankruptcy.They may therefore develops a herd phenomenon: if the elites and the most qualified anticipate the crisis and with rigor, everyone will leave the country when you leave you too. "
Problem: well-trained elites are among the taxpayers most likely to pay high taxes. Leaving their country, they will not settle the affairs of the state. In the longer term, "the departure of more skilled threatens growth by detracting from the production of research and innovation," Manon Domingues Dos Santos is concerned.
Greece, which was over twenty years, between 50 and 70 years, a land of emigration, however, tries to take advantage of its diaspora. The government has proposed this year to Greeks abroad to finance its debt to the tune of 3 billion euros.
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A debt crisis could lead to another. The Greek fire is not yet off the government needs to rush to the bedside of local authorities and their bank moribund, the sulfur Dexia. Not a week goes by without a large community calls upon the State to the rescue. At least 200 cities, councils, hospitals and housing associations are home loans on their books "toxic" with huge interest rates have put their finances at risk. Listed, some heavyweights as Saint-Etienne, Marseille, Grenoble, but also the urban community of Lille and the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis. To reopen the tap credit to communities that provide 75% of the investment in the country, the government had to address the problem urgently Dexia.Will this be enough there?
Last month, the government has activated for the first time a special support fund created in late 2010 for the departments in need. The beneficiaries are seven departments (six rural) whose debt is massive, and revenues, almost entirely absorbed by the distribution of welfare. Hitherto considered the spoiled children of decentralization, regions require the State to review the financing of rail, now they consider "untenable" for their budgets low interest rate personal loans.
The alarm level is reached. In ten years, spending communities have increased by 60%, and local taxes, 45%! These figures are staggering.Whose fault? A lax politicians and poor managers who prefer to treat their customers (36,000 hiring officials last year when the state removed 34,000 positions)? The lack of political will of the state, hostage to local barons? Bankers incendiary? To have the heart net, Le Figaro Magazine has plunged into the accounts of local authorities, was shelled and analyzed partnered with the Thomas More Institute and Public Evaluation System.Inspiring!
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The Paris Bourse after opening down slightly, trying to make a step forward after a session that saw the CAC 40 fly over 2%. In the morning, the CAC 40 in advance of 0.62% to 3249 points in early trade. Investors do not follow the mood on Wall Street yesterday and Asian markets this morning. The latter found confidence to the rhythm of advertisements European leaders on a plan to end the crisis. They particularly appreciate the position of the European Commission yesterday called for an urgent recapitalization of the banks deal with the debt crisis. Remarks relayed by the Minister of Budget Précresse Valerie, who, like Berlin, says it is "a necessity". France is willing to inject even said herself of public money to support its banks if necessary.
This commitment reflects a shift in the euro area on the Greek case.The taboo of failure is no longer excluded. The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso called for "decisive action on Greece" while German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said yesterday that the overall level of indebtedness of Greece should be reduced s' it reaches an unbearable level, "to provide better opportunities" in the country. The discount will have to accept that private investors in the second aid package to Greece adopted in July would be 39% if we used the current market prices to assess the risk profile of the country, instead of 21% estimated at the time, said yesterday an official of the Institute of International Finance (IIF).
New vote in Slovakia, the euro rises
Concerning the Relief Fund in the euro area (EFSF), which must be expanded to support the plan to end the crisis, Slovakia has promised another vote tonight or tomorrow.It should be positive this time because four opposition parties agreed to support the government in place, in exchange for early elections. These data give back to the euro insurance. The European currency found the threshold of $ 1.38 in morning trading.
Oil, however, is small decline: a barrel of "light sweet crude" for November delivery lost 86 cents to 84.71 dollars. Barrel of Brent North Sea crude for November delivery yielded nine cents to 111.27 dollars for the last trading day of the deadline. The operators claim to be concerned before the publication of figures on weekly petroleum reserves in the United States.Another indicator to the American agenda: the weekly jobless claims, trade balance and budget.
Values to follow Banks and cyclic form
The cyclical stocks such as Alcatel (9.9% to 2.2 euros) and Vallourec (3.32% to 48.90 euros) and the banks in the image of Societe Generale (2.92% at 23 , 84 euros), Credit Agricole (2.61% to 7.75 euros) or BNP Paribas (2.50% to 36.23 euros) always lead upward.
Total (-0.98% to 36.20 euros)
The oil company has discovered gas and oil off the coast of Norway, announced this morning the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. According to preliminary estimates, this discovery is to be between 19 million and 101 million barrels.To dig the well that led to this discovery, Total was allied with Norway's Statoil, authorities said.
Carrefour plunged 4.16% to 17.17 euros
The group launched Thursday a new warning on its results in 2011, relying now on a decline in operating income between 15% and 20%, 15% instead of the planned end of August.
Lafarge (2.28% to 29.62 euros)
The French cement company announced an asset swap with the U.S. Martin Marietta, which it will transfer the aggregates quarries and concrete plants ready and asphalt, in exchange for aggregate quarries and distribution sites .
Casino (1.98% to 62.71 euros)
The retailer saw its organic growth slowed in the third quarter with declining sales of its hypermarkets in France, but the group has confirmed its objectives for 2011 include the strengthening of its market share in the Hexagon and improving margins at Franprix-Leader Price.
Areva (0.72% 22.49 euros)
The consortium of the French group and Germany's Siemens called the Finnish operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) to engage in the path of cooperation with the approach the final stages of construction of the EPR reactor Olkiluoto 3 (OL3). The final cost of the EPR should be 6.6 billion euros, according to the member Marc Goua responsible for a report on the accounts of the group. Areva has also been licensed by the U.S. authorities to enable it to construct and operate an enrichment plant in Idaho.Finally, the boss of the group, Luc Oursel, raised the possibility "to smooth or to shift some investments to reduce risk and improve (the) financial situation"
ArcelorMittal (-0.38% to 14.47 euros)
The group decided to shut down two blast furnaces located near Liège in particular because of the deteriorating global economic situation, the financial daily reported on Wednesday Belgian L'Echo, information later confirmed by the unions.
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New stage in the European debt crisis, and new Franco-German opposition. While European banks are under attack by the markets, in turn infected by the debt crisis, the solutions to help them divide France and Germany. To resolve this dispute, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Sunday invited French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Paris wants the relief mechanism of the European Union, the European Financial Stability (EFSF) to recapitalize banks. Powered by the 17 countries of the euro area (except those receiving assistance such as Greece, Portugal and Ireland), the EFSF will see its powers expanded by the end of October.
According to Handelsblatt, Paris calls for the widest possible interpretation of the new European instruments: the buyback of indebted countries, designed to calm the markets, and the granting of funds to states to recapitalize banks. The German government, whose latitude is narrower because of the great power of Parliament, fiercely opposed to this "laissez-faire," according to the German newspaper. First contributor to EFSF, Germany would find itself more to the de facto finance a large part of the recapitalization of French banks …
Roles reversed
For this new act of the debt crisis, the roles are reversed this time. France has always, until now, prompted Germany to act. But now, if Paris believes that the recapitalization of banks is not a priority, we think differently in Berlin paydayloans.Thursday, Angela Merkel has stated that it "should not hesitate" to bail out institutions. However, she said, public support should be used rarely if institutions fail to build on their own, for example by increasing their capital. The European Central Bank has sent the same message.
France, it has recognized the need to help the sector than lip service in recent days. "It will take more capital for banks," says one source close to the now government. It's the only concession made by France: it will take ultimately recapitalize institutions, not because they need is to restore investor confidence.French banks are most exposed in Europe to default risk in Greece or Italy.
Pre-aid to Greece
In this context, urges Germany, a strengthening of European banks is a preliminary step to a new rescue Greece, which should go through a deep discount debt securities of the country (advocated by Berlin). Clearly, the eurozone banks should agree to relieve Athens by abandoning much of their claims. Result, they should wipe heavy losses. Not to sink the stock market, they can not solve it without having increased their capital.
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Wall Street earnings increases, on Thursday. After opening slightly higher, U.S. financial markets concluded the session by increases above 1% for the third consecutive time. The Dow Jones took 1.68% to 11,123.33 points, the Nasdaq rose 1.88% to 2506.82 points and the S & P 500 gained 1.83% to 1164.97 points.
After weeks of dithering, European leaders have taken in hand to avoid a collapse of the banking sector, weakened by the debt crisis, which brought down the French-Belgian group Dexia.The markets were also reassured by the publication of macroeconomic indicators in the U.S. exceeded expectations: job creation in the private sector and the ISM services.
On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced on Thursday to maintain its 1.50% interest rate, reference the cost of credit in the euro zone, despite the sharp deterioration in the economic and financial crisis.
Meanwhile official figures of employment for the month of September in the United States to be published Friday, new jobless claims are slightly lift the United States during the last week of September, according to figures released Thursday in Washington by the Department of Labor.The Ministry has identified the deposit of 401,000 applications for unemployment benefits in the country from September 25 to October 1, adjusted for seasonal variations, or 1.5% over the previous week, which is consistent with the estimate of analysts.
On the foreign exchange market, the euro reached 1.3435 dollars (0.65%). On the New York Mercantile Exchange, a barrel of "light sweet crude" for November delivery ended at 82 personal loans for bad credit.59 dollars, up 2.91 dollars compared to the previous day.
Apple has resisted despite the death of Steve Jobs
As for values, investors will have their eyes on the technology sector.
• Apple (-0.23% to 377.37 dollars) will remain particularly observed after the announcement of the demise of the group's founder Steve Jobs.
• Yahoo (-1.70% to 15.65 dollars) is the subject of new rumors of a possible bid from U.S. computer giant Microsoft, which had already in 2008 attempted to seize the group's internet America.
• Hewlett-Packard (4.99% to 25.05 dollars) should not make further major acquisitions in the software after the acquisition of Autonomy, according to statement from the group's new boss Meg Whitman cited by Reuters.
• Boeing (2.54% to 61.48 dollars) has received an order for $ 1.1 billion from Ethiopian Airlines for four Boeing 777 freighters.
• Gilead Sciences (1.28% to 39.65 dollars) has obtained a license agreement Boehringer Ingelheim for the exclusive rights to research, development and commercialization of an anti-integrase for the treatment of HIV.
• Marriott International (2.13% to 28.78 dollars) issued for the third quarter, earnings per share of $ 0.29, up 32% year on year. Turnover was 2.9 billion dollars against 2.6 billion last year. The revenue per available room key indicator in the hotel sector grew by 8.7% on a comparable basis, while prices rose by 5.3%.
The news is reassuring. With a large majority, the Bundestag adopted the new rescue plan the Eurozone. If the vote was little doubt that the amplitude of the majority was still uncertain. According to AFP, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won the support of its majority.
The new rescue plan foresees an expansion of European powers of the fire in the euro area, the Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), and increased its capacity from 440 to 780 euros milliarsd. "The German MPs have overwhelmingly demonstrated their sense of responsibility," responded the French Minister for European Affairs, Jean Leonetti, in a statement.
Of 611 votes cast, 523 of 620 deputies voted "for", said the chairman of the meeting Norbert Lammert. Only 85 deputies voted against and three abstaining.As expected, two of the three opposition parties, the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens, have made their voices.
More importantly, 315 members of the coalition voted for the building according to the AFP and a Conservative MP quoted by Reuters. Clearly, Merkel would not have needed the votes of the opposition guaranteed high risk personal loans. This was not a foregone conclusion, the majority having spread its divisions, the previous weeks on this subject.
If the Chancellor had failed to gather his troops, the German government would have been seriously destabilized, fueling doubts about the survival of the coalition. Angela Merkel would have indeed been "made in Germany as a loser," said Holger Schmieding, of Berenberg Bank.
Germany is the eleventh country to approve the reform of the rescue plan initially set up in 2010 to assist countries in the euro area in need.Berlin, because of its predominant economic weight in Europe, will be the first contributor.
The vote of the Bundestag is the first in a series of three crucial. In the coming weeks, he will speak on a second plan of aid to Greece and early 2012, on a permanent rescue mechanism (MES) to succeed the EFSF.
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Since the beginning of the week, investors in Europe and the United States, is won over by a wave of optimism about the outcome of the crisis of sovereign debt. The CAC 40 jumped 5.74% on Tuesday to finish the session at 3023.38 points, aligning a third straight session rebound. Another encouraging sign is the trading volumes are recovering. Yesterday more than 4 billion changed hands on the great values of the Paris stock exchange.
Other major European markets rose in unison. The Dax in Frankfurt Stock Exchange gained 5.29% and 4.02% London FTSE. And the European indices, the Eurostoxx 50 was up 5.06%. "The anguish of Greece, who were greatly exaggerated, have finally subsided a bit," said one operator.A Wall Street as investors watch with great attention the developments of the rise of public finances in Europe, the relief was also needed. Sitting in the Dow Jones advanced 2.27% and the Nasdaq 2.18%.
"Investors have decided to give credit to European and international policy makers in their efforts to find ways to resolve the crisis of sovereign debt," explained economists broker Aurel BGC. There are "high hopes that one is engaged in the right direction towards resolving the debt crisis in Europe," agreed analysts at LBBW in Frankfurt. Other analysts, however, want to caution, as the strategists of the Crédit Mutuel-CIC who believe that the upturn may not last and that the rumors that stir the markets are certainly still "exaggerated."For them, the hypothesis of the expansion means the European support fund for countries in trouble (EFSF), which propels the securities of banks for several days, "does not solve the structural problems in Europe."
According to the spokesperson of European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Olli Rehn, Europe is considering strengthening the capacity of the European support fund for countries in trouble (EFSF). Rumors press also reported a proposed quadrupling of the Fund's lending capacity to 2000 billion euros. In turn, an official of the ECB, the Austrian Ewald Nowotny, did not rule out declines in interest rates in the euro area.But soon, the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble assured that Europeans had "no intention of bailing out" the EFSF and called the hypothesis of totally "stupid."
Absent for several weeks, the good news poured in yesterday from Europe and the United States.
On the Old Continent, first. Jean-Claude Juncker, the leader of the finance ministers of the euro area has confirmed the return of the troika, bringing the European Union, the ECB and the IMF, major donors of Greece, by Thursday Athens, which could allow the release of a new tranche of EUR 8 billion, which is vital for the country. At the same time discontent rises and Athens was again paralyzed Tuesday by a wave of strikes in public transport.
Good news also in the United States, in the still under close surveillance of the property.House prices in the twenty largest U.S. cities have stabilized in July, according to Case-Shiller survey.
In Paris, banking stocks, on the front line since the beginning of the sovereign debt crisis, have literally flown the hope of a breakthrough in the situation in Greece.
Societe Generale, had a spectacular end of the session, jumping nearly 17%. For its part, BNP Paribas was awarded 14.15% and Credit Agricole was up 13.10%.
Oil opened up in New York
The euro was weakening on Tuesday to below $ 1.35. In session, the euro stood at 1.3496 dollars, against 1.3523 dollars late Monday.He had fallen in session Monday to 1.3363 dollars, its lowest level since mid-January, prior to recover.
As for commodities, gold has recovered slightly this morning at 1640 dollars an ounce after declining over the last three sessions. Oil evolved soaring Tuesday at the opening in New York, driven by renewed optimism for the determination of the Europeans to resolve the debt crisis in the eurozone. On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), a barrel of "light sweet crude" for November delivery traded at 82.64 dollars, up by $ 2.40 at the close on Monday night.
