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  • Thomson Financial Europe AM at a glance share guide: Shares, oil mixed 12 May 2008 05:12 GMT
    ... April 29 as record high prices stoked inflation fears and as the dollar remained at ... Budapest market closed for public holiday EUROPEAN UNION/EURO ZONE Institutions closed for Whit Trichet speech ... Whit Trichet speech in Milan (1500 GMT) FRANCE Energie '08 conference for energy companies and institutional ...

  • Sensex slides on global cues 12 May 2008 05:12 GMT
    ... Markets have opened lower on back of weak ... prices exacerbated fears about the threat of inflation. Crude for June delivery rose as high ... DAX 30 dropped 1% to 7,003.17. The French CAC-40 slipped below 5,000 for the first ...

  • First exchange-traded notes for platinum fuel latest rally 12 May 2008 04:31 GMT
    ... scarceness reportedly prompted King Louis XV of France to remark centuries ago that platinum is the ... economic growth, a weak U.S. dollar and inflation. Some analysts say platinum prices still have ... the yield investors would normally collect from short-term U.S. Treasury bills as collateral. The index ...

  • Chancellor fires blast at EU's farm policy 12 May 2008 02:30 GMT
    ... threatens to become a key battle with France and Germany over the future of Europe's ... response to soaring food prices. Michel Barnier, French agriculture minister, has called for the EU ... at a time of significant food price inflation, the EU continues to apply very high ...

  • Darling tackles CAP reform 12 May 2008 00:59 GMT
    ... all parts of the CAP that keep EU food prices above world market levels and ... €77bn (£61bn) a year. With EU food inflation running at 7% a year and with ... debate on CAP reform this year but France, which takes over the presidency of the ...

  • Financial fears rattle investors 12 May 2008 00:58 GMT
    ... said that he is slightly overweight in European equities as he believes that inflation trends are going to be negative for ... without dividend rights, fell 4.2%, while Air France-KLM ( ...

  • Rangers fans plan to paint town blue as tickets sell for thousands 10 May 2008 23:42 GMT
    ... squad: Frenchman Jean-Claude Darcheville; Brahim Hemdani, a French-born Algerian; as well as Daniel Cousin, who ... following month there were similar scenes in France when the Russians travelled to Marseilles and ... trademark stammering, public-school toff tones. "Could I possibly...erm...you know...get a ticket?" Love was clearly not ...

  • Bread prices on a roll 10 May 2008 11:46 GMT
    ... Higher costs of flour, ingredients hit bakeries hard ... costs. Few products better illustrate the food inflation crisis than bread, a food source so ... close to the jump in costs. A French baguette that sold for $1.95 now costs ...

  • London investors look to oil prices next week; euro gains 10 May 2008 09:18 GMT
    ... London investors look to oil prices next week; ... keep the global economy on track. In Paris, the CAC 40 tumbled 1.88% to 4,960.56 points and ... The Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading eurozone shares was down 1.41%. On Wall Street, ...

  • Royal jewels, rare watches to test the auction market 10 May 2008 09:18 GMT
    ... A Christie's employee holds a 21.40 carat heart-shaped Fancy ... designed as a floral branch by the French jeweller Maison Vever in around 1900, estimated ... de Carvalho. Now 87, the former Miss Paris is parting with a collection worth 5-8mn ...

  • Trade Deficit Narrows in March, but Exports Fall 10 May 2008 06:44 GMT
    ... goods and clothing. “Consumers struggling with high inflation, negative wealth effects, falling home prices and ... and also narrowed with South America and France. Over all, the trade deficit with Europe widened slightly, to $7.1 billion, from $6.8 ...

  • Opening bell: Investors eye U.S. retail sector 10 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... U.S. stock futures rose Thursday as investors digested retail-sales ... hit surged past $123 a barrel, keeping inflation fears alive. Crude-oil futures fell 26¢ to ... the German DAX slipped 0.3% and the Paris CAC-40 was off 0.2%. Japan’s stock market ...

  • Japan's collision course 10 May 2008 04:46 GMT
    ... come in. Canadian-born, educated in Toronto and Paris, he has lived in Japan for 25 ... so a rate cut might push up inflation. It can't cut taxes or raise spending ... club - the United States, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Canada - it has ...

  • Walker's World: The EU's euro power-grab 10 May 2008 04:44 GMT
    ... Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to seek French support to push the central bank to ... common front against the central bank with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, and possibly also with ... still uses its pound sterling. "Overall, European Monetary Union has brought the macroeconomic stability it was ...

  • A SECOND AFGHANISTAN'? A LONG STRUGGLE LOOMS 10 May 2008 04:41 GMT
    ... But as war approached, it joined China, France, Germany and Russia in preventing a new ... to occupy their region for the long term. Turkey fears the Kurds might declare a ... Britain’s 1992 crisis over participation in European monetary union. In recent years he has delegated management ...

  • Kremlin's blast from the past: Awesome display of military power in Red Square for Russia's new leader 10 May 2008 02:11 GMT
    ... corruption, shambolic public services, crumbling infrastructure, soaring inflation, grotesque abuses of power, sprawling bureaucracy, and ... only ineffectual bleats of protest from the EU and NATO. Germany's cosy ties with Russia ... alliances. Silvio Berlusconi's Italy and Nicolas Sarkozy's France adopt the same stance: accepting the riches ...

  • REPLACE Europeans, Asian markets, commodities and Wall St 10 May 2008 00:53 GMT
    ... FTSE 100 dropped 66.1 to 6,204.70 , Paris's CAC-40 dropped 95.02 to 4,960.56 , Frankfurt's ... few buyers and plenty of sellers. The French index dropped sharply on the back of ... Shares in BMW fell 4.2%, while Air France-KLM shares declined 3.1%. French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis ...

  • Europeans, Asian markets, commodities and Wall St 10 May 2008 00:53 GMT
    ... FTSE 100 dropped 66.1 to 6,204.70 , Paris's CAC-40 dropped 95.02 to 4,960.56 , Frankfurt's ... few buyers and plenty of sellers. The French index dropped sharply on the back of ... Shares in BMW fell 4.2%, while Air France-KLM shares declined 3.1%. French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis ...

  • Wall Street tumbles as oil price soars 10 May 2008 00:53 GMT
    ... US stocks fell on reminders of the lingering credit ... of holdings that aren't central to its long-term plan. The bank is rumoured to be ... per cent and the CAC 40 in Paris skidded 1.88 per cent. Additional reporting by AFP, ...

  • U.S. rice futures soar 5% 10 May 2008 00:53 GMT
    ... also rose with November milling wheat in Paris up 2.00 euros at 201.50 euros a ... higher at 140.00 pounds a tonne. Global inflationary pressures and weakness in the euro compared ... to moves by many market players in France to enjoy a long weekend following a ...

  • 8:15amEuropean stocks drop on write-downs 10 May 2008 00:51 GMT
    ... European stocks closed sharply lower today, hit by ... 1.05 per cent to 6204.70 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 tumbled 1.88 per cent to 4960.56 ... The Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading eurozone shares was down 1.41 per cent. The ...

  • Record-high oil prices and financial sector weigh on U.S. and European stocks 9 May 2008 23:52 GMT
    ... "Over the past weeks, investors got the feeling that ... credit research at Groupama Asset Management in Paris. "This Citigroup move might just be the ... between 2 percent and 2.5 percent. The French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis was the biggest individual negative ...

  • European stocks drop on write-downs 9 May 2008 22:50 GMT
    ... European stocks closed sharply lower today, hit by ... 1.05 per cent to 6204.70 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 tumbled 1.88 per cent to 4960.56 ... The Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading eurozone shares was down 1.41 per cent. The ...

  • The Week Ahead Europe & UK: UK and European Inflation Reports 9 May 2008 22:50 GMT
    ... Regarding additional European CPI reports for April, French and Italian CPI data will be released ... increase in the previous month. 2:45 EU France Current Account March Prior: €-0.6B 4:30 UK ... EU ECB's Noyer, Fed's Pianalto Speak in Paris Wednesday: It's another busy day for inflation ...

  • An Energy Policy That Makes Sense, Revisited 9 May 2008 22:44 GMT
    ... On April 4 (2008) I published my first energy ... mass transit for people and goods. The French have done it and power it with nuclear ... The tax policies need to be long term and phased in/out in a sensible fashion ...


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