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...Lynn Franco, a senior director at the Conference Board, said the sharp fall in the index suggested economic growth had slowed at the start of the fourth quarter and described consumer expectations as “dismal...
...Margrethe Vestager said a Franco-German proposal to change EU antitrust rules would have prevented her from imposing landmark fines on Google as she began campaigning to become the European Commission’s...
...The Franco-German team recently submitted another protocol to the tech giants, which aimed to assuage privacy concerns, but were rebuffed. France will pilot its app next week....
...The recent Franco-German proposals to potentially soften and/or politicise competition enforcement in the EU continue to generate debate....
...A Franco-German compromise — backed by a majority of governments last week — will mean that any platform with revenues under €10m a year, fewer than 5m monthly users, that has been active for under three...
...Officials said on Tuesday that under the new Franco-German proposal — which was conceived on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Buenos Aires last week — Facebook and Google would be targeted through their...
...Growth in the US fueled third-quarter earnings at Altice, the cable, telecoms and advertising group controlled by the Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi, offsetting continued pressure in its French...
...Westinghouse is the reactor supplier to NuGen, a Franco-Japanese consortium planning to build a new plant at Moorside in Cumbria....
...Photographs: Aaron Fallon; Vincent Girier Dufournier; Richard Green Gallery, London; Sebastian Izzard Asian Art LLC gallery New York...
...If successful, they would also deal a blow to Altice, the European group backed by Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi that was scrambling to buy TWC in recent days....
...Franco-Belgian lender Dexia and Spain’s Bankia both passed tests only shortly before their near-collapse....
...Charles Giovanni Vanzan Coutinho, Managing Director, Charles Coutinho LLC, New York, NY, US...
...A Franco-Chinese consortium has walked away from the race to build Britain’s new generation of reactors in a setback to the government’s hopes of ushering in a revival of nuclear power....
...It also has its eye on Lagardère’s 7.5 per cent stake in EADS, the Franco-German aircraft maker. Qatar Airways is one of the biggest customers of Airbus aircraft manufactured by EADS....
...Qatar Holding has also indicated that it would be interested in taking a stake in EADS, the Franco-German aircraft maker, should it become available....
...The increased stake is likely to revive speculation that Qatar is preparing to enter the share capital of EADS, the Franco-German aerospace group in which Lagardère holds a 7.5 per cent stake....
...When the euphoria subsides over Mariano Rajoy’s landslide victory – his party’s most convincing win in the post-Franco era – it will not be business as usual for Spain....
...Areva’s EPR, a Franco-German design, features a double 2.6m wall able to withstand impact from aircraft and a chamber to contain a core meltdown....
...That said, this rivalry is hardly helping to ease the growing tensions between the two countries, further undermining the so-called historic Franco-German relationship....
...The Franco-Dutch carrier commands a 30 per cent share of the passenger market between Europe and Africa....
...When Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy arrive in Toronto for Saturday’s summit of the Group of 20 leading nations, they will present themselves as a smiling double act, determined to demonstrate that the Franco-German...
...Its principal office is located at Punto Franco Nuovo, Magazzino 51,34123 Trieste, Italy. Location to be covered: Trieste, Italy....
...Filippo Lo Franco, of JP Morgan, said: “If the second half of the year is as good as the first – and the comparables with 2009 are tougher – I could see these companies [shares] growing 15 to 20 per cent...
...Given the Franco-German aerospace group’s turbulent history, it was perhaps not surprising that yet another industrial partnership would be greeted with open scepticism....
...It controls a publishing empire with scattered media assets as well as being the French core industrial shareholder in the Franco-German EADS defence and aerospace group that in turn controls Airbus....
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