After suffering a decline of more than 3% yesterday, the Paris Stock Exchange on Tuesday recidivism holiday. The CAC 40 began the session on a further decline of 1.89% to 3185.30 points before to increase its losses. He dives over 4% at 3142.59 points just Vanat noon. In its wake, the Dax in Frankfurt was down 3.37% and the FTSE-100 in London lost 1.71%. Milan plunged nearly 5%, while the Athens Stock Exchange falling more than 6.31%.
Greece is the main reason for this new diving indices. The country has placed his fate in the hands of the people by deciding to hold a referendum on the decisions of the European Summit of 26 October. "The will of the Greek people be binding on us," said Prime Minister George Papandreou, who will also seek a confidence vote in Parliament on the agreement on debt.They are again assailed by doubts about the debt situation in Europe. Operators including questioning the ability of banks to recapitalize. They also seek to know whether additional funds will be allocated to the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF).
In short, "investors are becoming aware of the lack of details in the agreement reached at the EU summit last week," said Michael James of Wedbush Securities cashadvance. "Reports suggest that the plans for the EFSF were not easy to sell to China and Japan," commented on his side Patrick O'Hare of Briefing.com site financial analysis.In addition, "there is a growth problem, a very bad direction of unemployment, inflation at 3%, so no rate cut, and now Germany has a real growth in retail sales by 0.3% so she is not going to save the euro area ", listed his side Evariste Lefeuvre, an economist at Natixis. "Without real support of the economy, the Agreement on Greece will not have any real effect," said Michael James.
Manufacturing activity in China slows
Traders also expect the G20 to be held in Cannes Thursday 3 and Friday, November 4 for more information on the involvement of other countries in the European rescue plan. In an interview with Le Figaro, the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has already ensured that his country will support the rescue of the euro area, "if necessary".
In this tense atmosphere, the euro lost ground against the greenback.
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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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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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.
From our special correspondent in Wroclaw.
The Europeans hoped "a dialogue between friends," the Americans had "no arrogance." Las. With the destabilization of markets and growing concern on both sides of the Atlantic, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, could not resist lecturing his seventeen counterparts in the euro area gathered Friday to Wroclaw (Poland).
The relief provided by five central banks – including the U.S. Fed – banks in the euro area will not long concealed the absence of concerted policy response to the crisis. On behalf of the Europeans, the President of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker declined projects Tim Geithner, citing "differences in approach with our American colleagues."Treasury Secretary, he has put his finger where the euro hurts: he publicly expressed concern "of the conflict between governments and the European Central Bank," a week after the sensational resignation of the Chief Economist of the ECB .
Barack Obama's America, soon launched a presidential campaign, fearing a collapse of Greece, a contagion to European banks and a possible fracture of the euro area. If the crisis deepens, it is the U.S. economy would suffer the backlash, shock reverse of that which had hit Europe after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
The first message in Washing-ton is to push the Europeans to speak with one voice and act decisively. "Governments and the Central Bank should work together (…) to avoid catastrophic risks for financial markets," said Treasury Secretary.And he insists, denouncing the cacophony that destabilizes the common currency: "Everyone should also abstain from loose talk about the end of the euro area." Targeted: the proponents of expulsion from Greece …
Denial of a tax on financial transactions
The unprecedented invitation launched by Poland – host country because currently presiding the EU – Timothy Geithner had anything to embarrass, in turmoil, the finance ministers of the euro. We saw Baroin host the head of U.S. Treasury of a strong handshake in Wroclaw. But the Euro has carefully kept at a distance. He has not formally participated in the circle, but a "preliminary conversation" about an hour. Contrary to custom, he did not sent to journalists.To tell his truths to Europe, he preferred an audience of bankers in another part of town.
Some did not take gloves to say that Europe has no lessons to learn. The United States, collapsing under the deficits should put their own house, says the Belgian Didier Reynders. "America has nothing to dictate when the person refuses flatly our suggestions," added the Austrian Maria Fekter. It is true that Tim Geithner repeated Friday his opposition front to the tax on financial transactions carried to Paris, Berlin and Brussels.
Decisions deferred
For the second time in eight days, Treasury Secretary left Europe empty-handed. Friday, the Europeans have made a face at her suggestion to "leverage" means the EFSF, the bailout fund for countries of the euro in difficulty."This is not a subject that is discussed with a country outside the EU," Jean-Claude Juncker meant. Same end of inadmissibility of the American idea of supporting the growth of public funds "even a donkey does not stumble twice on the same stone, 'says Didier Reynders, convinced of the urgency to fight first against the deficits.
For the Americans as to Europeans, the European event in Wroclaw ends with a disturbing sense of incompleteness, even for emergencies. The Eurogroup has pushed to mid-October a decision on payment of 8 billion euros to Greece. He did not reach an agreement on guarantees that Finland requires Greece.
After two sessions of gains, the Paris Stock Exchange is divided into negative territory on Friday and so its losses widened in mid-session, the CAC40 index lost 1.28% to 3046, 20 points. London and Frankfurt follow with respective losses of 0.74% and 1.43%.
The banking sector raises again the concerns of investors. It emphasizes its losses from the statements of Christine Lagarde under which a liquidity crisis was not to dismiss as some banks needed additional capital. "This is the effect Lagarde. These statements primarily affect banks that are considered the least well placed in terms of capital ratios, "said one trader.
Result: mid-term, Societe Generale falling 6.66% to 18.21 euros and signed the largest decrease in the CAC.Behind her, Crédit Agricole loose 4.34% to 5.60 euros, Natixis 4.65% to 2.48 euros, BNP Paribas 3.77% to 31.01 euros and Axa 3.82% to 9.78 euros.
Obama's plan is not reassuring
Investors also unenthusiastic welcome details of the plan for employment unveiled by U.S. President Barack Obama in the night. He introduced a bill on the release of 447 billion dollars for the Americans out of unemployment. "This plan will give an electric shock to an economy that has stalled, will give confidence to businesses on the fact that if they invest and hire, there will be customers for their products and services," assured the U.S. president to members of Congress .
As in Asia this morning, traders seem to doubt the implementation of this plan. Its funding is already generating questions from Republican opponents could block a vote.Barack Obama urged them to adopt "immediately". The U.S. president also announced that it will issue on September 19 "a deficit reduction plan more ambitious."
As Wall Street yesterday, investors have also not appreciated the remarks of the President of the Federal Reserve on growth and jobs last night. The Fed "will do everything it can to participate in the return of growth and employment rates," said its chairman Ben Bernanke, minimizing inflation fears.This speech, however, feeds the assumption of a new effort of quantitative easing, which could be announced at the next meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Fed, scheduled for September 20 and 21.
Inflation slows in China
Still on macroeconomic, Japan has this morning reported a decline of 2.1% of GDP in the second quarter 2011 annualized. This is more than the 1.3% decline initially estimated. The main factor weighing on GDP has been the decline in exports (-4.9% from January to March).
In China, rising consumer prices, the main barometer of inflation, which had accelerated in recent months, slowed slightly to 6 no teletrack payday loans.2% in August.Industrial production is she up 13.5% in August.
In France, industrial production rebounded 1.5% in July after a decline of similar magnitude in June, show statistics released Friday by INSEE. The budget deficit of the French government fell in late July to 86.6 billion euros, against 93.1 billion euros a year earlier, thanks to lower costs, said Friday the Department of Budget .
On the agenda are also on Friday, stocks of wholesalers in the United States. Are also expected in the afternoon, the first estimate of U.S. consumer confidence from the University of Michigan.
As for currencies, the euro hovers around $ 1.38, having dropped below the threshold for the first time in six months (1.3789 to 24:10 in Paris). Oil rises for its part, supported by a surprise drop in U.S. inventories.In early electronic trading, a barrel of "light sweet crude" for delivery in October gained 23 cents to 89.28 dollars per barrel of Brent North Sea crude for October delivery 21 cents to 114.76 dollars.
Values to follow
• TF1 (-6.73%), M6 (-5.10%) Bolloré (3.63%) Vivendi (1.49%); NextRadioTV (-1.28%)
Chains react in a disorganized to take control of Direct 8 Direct and Star, two DTT channels free of the Bolloré Group, Canal +. The subsidiary of Vivendi will have three DTT frequencies. Be as much as TF1 and M6 more than the group which, in addition to the namesake chain, has only W9.For this operation, fully financed by shares, a stake Bolloré group Vivendi.
• Total (0.62%) signed the second largest increase after Vivendi CAC40 (1.55%)
The Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell said Friday that oil was discovered off the coast of French Guiana, during exploratory drilling at about 150 km off the coast.
• Sopra (0.70%)
The group announced the takeover of Delta, specialized in banking software.The transaction is expected to close in early October 2011, will be financed from existing credit lines of business consulting, IT services and software.
• Pierre & Vacances (-4.30%)
The group, which operates much of the accommodation ski resorts, opened 369 new tourist residences furnished this winter.
• ArcelorMittal (-4.30%)
The group will close as of October 3 for an indefinite period and the second blast furnace at its site in Florange (Moselle), according to a union source quoted by AFP.
• EADS (-0.16%) on the second step of the podium
The group said on Thursday not want to use all of its $ 16 billion (11.45 billion euros) in cash for acquisitions.
French clubs have bought more than they have spent. While the transfer market closed Wednesday, the financial statement of the summer transfer window is negative. This is not necessarily good news as the financial fair play (as imposed by UEFA to force European football clubs not to spend money they do not have) is on the horizon . According to the website TransferMarkt, French clubs in Ligue 1 has purchased more than 151 million euros during the transfer window and spent 191 million. A shortfall of 40 million. Last year at this time, the elite of French football had posted a profit of 57.67 million euros.
This difference of 97 million euros or less corresponds to that between purchases and sales made this summer by the PSG.Great animator of the transfer window was the Parisian club, now under Qatari clubhouse, has in fact spent more than $ 86 million to acquire new recruits, and he sold joureurs for 2.8 million euros. The Parisian club comes in second place teams with the most purchased during this transfer window behind Manchester City (92.25 million euros), owned by Sheikh Mansour, and ahead of Juventus Turin (85,750,000). By comparison, Lille, Marseille and Lyon, all three involved in the Champions League this season, spent 15 million respectively, 11 million and 5 million this summer.
For the record, the Argentine midfielder Javier Pastore, who came to PSG for 42 million euros, is single-handedly double the total of the purchases by clubs in Ligue 1 last year (21.7 million).The capital club up five players in the top "ten" of the biggest transfers of the summer transfer window.
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This is doubly reassured investors that the deal the week. By Ben Bernanke's speech Friday, but ultimately the impact of lower than expected Hurricane Irene passed over New York yesterday.
Shortly before the start of the meeting on Monday in New York, the index futures Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq 100 advanced 1.11%, respectively, to 1187.50 points and 0.94% at 2184.25 points. The Dow Jones was meanwhile expected to rise from 0.82% to 372.5 points 11.
The reaction of U.S. markets to long-awaited speech of Ben Bernanke, head of the powerful U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed), will eventually in two stages.A slight disappointment that quickly gave way to a clearer optimism which plainly overtime on Monday.
The Dow Jones above 11,000 points
According to analysts at Aurel BGC, the announcement by Ben Bernanke, a two-day meeting in September to study in detail the possible deployment of new monetary tools, reassured. "Either the recovery of economic activity is growing, or the central bank will implement new support measures, they summarize. Under these conditions, the U.S. indices rebounded sharply after the speech of Ben Bernanke. "
In fact, fell below the 11,000 points while the Fed chairman began to speak, the Dow finished at 11 284.5, up 1.2% on Friday night.A final increase, which encouraged European stock markets bounce back on Monday morning, except in London, closed due to holiday.
Two indicators will be stalked in the eye of investors on Monday, with, at 14:30, before the opening, income and consumption of American households for the month of July. It should show a slight increase. This will be followed at 16:00, the promise of home sales for the month of July, which are expected down 0.1% from a consensus of analysts, against 2.4% rise previously.
No major publication is expected on the business side.
The conditions of access to work in France harden for foreigners. The government on Friday, via a decree in the Official Journal, the new list of professions "in tension" open to foreigners. Co-signed by the Ministries of Labour and Interior, the list was reduced to fourteen families of occupations accessible to non-EU nationals against thirty previously.
The list, created in January 2008, was to open the French labor market to foreigners to fill staff shortages in certain sectors. Today, more than half of these jobs are no longer considered "in tension". In other words, it is not as difficult to find candidates for these jobs on the labor market hexagonal.
The new list excludes primarily the building trades and public works (BTP) and information technology.Go, among others, site managers and foremen as well as computer experts or study. The order, however, still mentions the need to appeal to foreign labor in the manufacture of wooden furniture and glass processing. The trades of carpentry will indeed take advantage of this opportunity in terms of recruitment, because the shortage of skilled labor is still very important. The e-consultancy and telesales, especially shunned by job seekers French, are also turned outward. Even if the division by two of this list is intended to reduce labor migration, it is not the only means of obtaining a work permit in France. Agreements exist with countries outside the European Union.The United States, Canada, Morocco, Tunisia or Senegal, are seeing their nationals allowed to apply for hundreds of jobs in France.
Train job seekers
Trade unions and the opposition reacted strongly to its publication on Friday. They keep in memory the promises made last April by Xavier Bertrand, who said he wanted to "train job seekers for these positions" in order to respond to high unemployment. Shortly before the publication of the order, the PS national secretary for Employment, Alain Vidal, had pressed the point home. This measure is "the straw target of legal immigration to forget the ocean of mass unemployment."He said that "legal immigration is now only 20,000 people a year, while France has 4 million people registered at employment center," The CGT and CFDT, in turn, complain of not having been integrated in the development of the list and a simple return them by mail has been requested. Raymond Chauveau, coordinator of the CGT, is too restrictive and it is estimated that the state will not provide effective response to unemployment. "Despite the crisis, jobs in the construction industry have not diminished," he says before stating that legal immigration is necessary both in the labor market than to contain illegal immigration.Although it is not against to train job seekers to fill vacancies, he believes that "in some areas, working conditions are too hard and the wages too low to the French there engage. "
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Capgemini announced Thursday morning accounts for the first half in line with expectations. At the end of the period, the turnover of the group of services stood at 4.756 billion euros, in line with analysts' expectations. These revenues were up 12.9% year on year, an increase of 7.4% adjusted for foreign exchange and perimeter. The group is managed to boost its growth over the first half of 2010 had been "marked by the renewal or extension of several large outsourcing contracts." Thanks to this dynamism and improved margins, Capgemini releases half-year net profit of 127 million euros, or 2.7% more than the profit recorded during the same period last year.
Capgemini was the goal of improving its profitability.It keeps its promises in the first half, with operating margin, which stood at 6.1% against 5.8% during the same period last year. This adjustment margin is most sensitive in the U.S. (+8.2%). In France, which remains the largest market group, it has risen to 7.6%. Capgemini says that his income from work the fastest growing in Brazil and Italy. But on these very dynamic markets, the margin of the group is only 5.9% down year on year. This lower cost weighs on the performance of the Managed Services, also down slightly from the first half of 2010.
Margins were up, however, in system integration, and especially for Sogeti (9.9%). They also rose a bit in the activity "consulting", which shows a return of 11.8%. This activity is the only display a decline in sales in the first half (-1.6%).Capgemini says that-performance against the concentration of its consulting business "in areas most vulnerable to spending cuts in the public sector," citing in particular the United Kingdom and Benelux.
Annual targets maintained
The group intends to show at the end of the year growth in sales of 9% to 10%, of which "at least 5%" to constant data. It therefore maintains its annual guidance, despite "the macroeconomic uncertainties that still exist today in most countries and despite a negative currency that will probably be as bad as it has been for the past six months."
The figures, as estimates of the group, is already widely anticipated by investors. Without a good surprise, they are a little disappointed this morning.Around 11 am, at the Paris Bourse, the title appears Capgemini and down by 7.57% in a market that yields 0.75%.
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