The upturn in France continues apace. The services PMI rose to 58.7 in December, according to the latest figures published by the Institute Markit / CDAF. Services rose for the fourth consecutive month. The index of purchasing managers for the overall activity, combining the services and industry (figure published earlier this week), also indicates an increase, to 59.2, against 60.2 in November.
The indicator for the services' folds compared to 60.9 in November (a high of 37 months) but nevertheless indicates a high rate of expansion, "notes Mark. Beyond 50, the index indicates an increase in activity. The dynamism of the index is due in December by the record number of new contracts at their highest level in two years.
On the other hand, job losses and slowing the decline in prices paid and charged by companies stalled."Further, in 2010, the upturn recently recorded should be based largely on developments in the labor market," said the statement Jack Kennedy, economist at Markit. "He therefore hoped that the growing confidence of businesses in the economic recovery is reflected, in the new year, with hiring decisions."
The services PMI in Eurozone recorded his part for its strongest growth since November 2007, to 53.6 in December against 53 in November. "However, the recovery did not extend to all countries in the eurozone, where the Spanish services sector remains a concern," said Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit.
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Sequences "emotion" and "crop" this Friday at the close of the 49th congress of the CGT in Nantes. Bernard Thibault, exhausted by a week of sometimes heated debates and visibly excited to have been renewed for the fourth time at the head of the CGT, first paid tribute to "six comrades" who leave the executive confederal "after rendered such services. " Among them, two leading figures of this decade: Maryse Dumas, his right arm on employment issues, and Jean-Christophe Le Duigou, the "Mr. Economy and Pensions" of the plant.
Bernard Thibault, who had gathered yesterday on behalf of 88.4% of the votes for the election of the Executive Committee, then cropped activists who have criticized his lack of involvement on the ground and its rapprochement with the CFDT. Particularly highlighting the vote by 77.5% of the delegates of the progress report of the past three years."It's a very honorable to score a direction supposedly cut off from its base," he joked, saying in passing that Nicolas Sarkozy would like to receive the same level of approval of French policy that led to the Elysee.
And the secretary general of the CGT then push the nail against those who disrupted the debate sometimes during the week and gave a divided image of the plant. "It can not be the CGT opposition and majority, he hammered the applause of the audience. There is no line of management, because management implements the guidelines validated by the Congress. "And this is not the great majority of the 1 000 delegates of the 49th Congress which contradict the resolutions of the document guidance for the next three years that received between 73 and 86% of the votes.The CGT knows where it goes, he still drummed, while specifying that the central union will not "attractive if it gives the image that his first battle is internal.
"The Internationale" raised fist
Wishing a CGT "closer, more united and effective," Bernard Thibault has drawn the roadmap for the coming months. "Our priority is the transformation of society," he said. Its power plant will therefore go on retreats launched by Nicolas Sarkozy. "The future of pensions will be the marker for the determination of employee resistance", he warned the head of state. The CGT also ensure that employers does not set wages and employment."The increase in salaries is the key to ending the crisis," he said.
The leader of the CGT has finally made an appointment to his "comrades" for two mobilizations to come: a euromanifestation March 24 to get a boost in employment at European level and a national campaign to defend public services in stride. And said, for those who doubt that the CGT would not wait the end of March "for organiserd'autres appointments and inter-national".
The message is clear: the CGT has not changed, it is always with those who struggle.And the Internationale, sung to finish his fist raised by the Secretary General and the thousands of delegates – admittedly preceded La Marseillaise but sung with more gusto – aimed to demonstrate.
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