U.S. budget agreement, the IMF requires plus

L'accord budget approved Tuesday evening by the Congress of the United States is welcome but insufficient, held Wednesday, January 2 International Monetary Fund (IMF) asking U.S. lawmakers to agree on a "comprehensive plan" fiscal consolidation publiques.

"We must do more to put U.S. public finances on a sustainable path," said the Fund, which wants to see the adoption "as soon as possible" a plan to increase the resources of the State and contain rising security costs sociale.

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Values ​​to follow the Exchange Paris

PARIS (Reuters) - List of values ​​to follow Wednesday at the Paris Bourse, which is expected to open slightly lower, the futures contract on the CAC 40 index due January retreating 0.12% to 8:15 .

* CASINO saw organic growth stand at 3.2% in the fourth quarter, sales growth in the international offset with a stall of its hypermarkets in France.

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FAURECIA advanced to Tuesday the release of its 2012 results due to loss of its debt due to degradation of the automotive market in Europe in the months passés.

* AUTOMOTIVE sector might react after the announcement of a further decline (-16.3%) of new car registrations in the European Union in December, the 15th consecutive month of decline. The whole of the year 2012, they declined by 8.2% .

* Veolia, EDF-An ad hoc agent appointed by the Commercial Court of Paris proposes that Veolia Environnement and EDF 500-600000000 lend euros to their energy services subsidiary of Dalkia International, each in proportion to its shareholding, to exit the company's financial impasse, the daily wrote on Wednesday Echos.

* GDF SUEZ-Both reactors operated by Electrabel in Belgium, a subsidiary of GDF Suez, and forced to stop for several months should not necessarily remain permanently arrested, said Tuesday Belgian supervisory authority, which however called for new tests and information supplémentaires.

* EADS - The Tunisian company Syphax Airlines announced Tuesday that it had ordered ten Airbus to increase its fleet and open lines to the United States and Asia .

* PARIS AIRPORTS announced Tuesday a 1.8% decline in traffic in December compared to December 2011. The whole of last year, traffic grew modestly by 0.8% .

* ALCATEL-LUCENT - The government is considering a loan of Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse Alcatel to ensure it does not threaten the future of the group, said Tuesday the Minister of Economy, Pierre Moscovici, noting that the state had the means to oppose a decision contrôle.

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The agreement on the labor market is crucial for the notation

PARIS (Reuters) - The agreement on the reform of the labor market could raise a mortgage on the creditworthiness of France in the eyes of rating agencies and reassure international investors stung by a renewed interventionism étatique.

representatives of employers and trade unions are part of an agreement reached Friday combining greater job security for employees in return for greater flexibility market travail.

"This is a historic negotiation. Certainly by its immediate impact but also it will echo internationally," said Louis Gallois at a meeting with the editor of Reuters before the final phase of negotiations .

The former leader of EADS and SNCF had pleaded in its report on the competitiveness of the French economy for the introduction of flexibilities in the CDI in exchange for limiting the use of temporary contracts (CDD, temporary ...) .

If

nearly 85% of 17.7 million private sector employees have permanent contracts and 14% on temporary contracts (3.6% in temporary assignments and 10.1% in CDD), the proportions are very different flows on hiring, according to data from the Urssaf .

On

20.7 million excluding temporary hires recorded in 2011, only 16% were made permanent, the proportion is even lower if the 18.6 million hires in temporary assignments are taken into account.

"The idea that it moves in France through social dialogue is a very strong signal to the international level," Louis Gallois insisted that did not hesitate, like others, to intervene in the midst of final negotiations pressing social partners conclure.

MARGINS MANOEUVRE

They have seemed quite insensitive to this aspect of the negotiation until the last minute camping on positions very traditionnelles.

The Head of State had urged repeatedly to reach an agreement which he himself had stressed the historical significance immediately, warning that if the government would have to légiférer.

The successful negotiation of room for maneuver gives an executive whose popularity continues to fall and which must lead two other major social reforms in the coming months: the financing of social security and that of retraites.< / p>

It is also capable of correcting international investors an image of a France paralyzed by a sterile opposition between the social partners agreed prisoners of postures or openly hostile to capital étrangers.

The major rating agencies, all of which have a negative outlook on the rating they give to France, they justify their doubts about continuing on France by the rigidity of the labor market and the need to emphasize reforms structurelles.

Without going to evoke an increase in their rating, Standard

European shares erased some of their gains

PARIS (Reuters) - European shares erased much of their initial gains at mid-session and Wall Street is expected on a hesitant note, investors, already wary of early season results did not find solace in the announcement of a low bounce and lower expectations of German industrial production in novembre.

The earnings season started on a positive note: Alcoa reported a rise in its fourth-quarter earnings, cost control that enabled him to offset the effects of falling aluminum prices .< / p>

But the outlook is not as rosy in Europe, the largest economy, Germany, is under threat from a contraction in the fourth quarter despite a 0.2% increase in industrial production in November, below consensus 1.0%, after falling 2.0% in octobre.

European shares some accused the coup after the publication of this statistic. The CAC 40 in Paris (0.08% to 3709.41 points) and the Dax in Frankfurt (0.10%) are struggling to maintain positive territory at 11:50 GMT. In London, the FTSE is still better oriented and earns 0.38%. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 50 index sign up 0.14% .

telecom stocks (1.70%) and banks (1.43%) still derive indices to haut.

These

distribution markets saddled however signing the largest decrease sector (-0.94%) in the wake of Sainsbury (-2.83%), which reported a slowdown in the growth of its sales in the quarter, or Carrefour (-1.77%), which analysts fear a fall in sales in the fourth trimestre.

The automotive sector (-0.64%) is also heckled, like PSA Peugeot Citroën (-0.77%), which announced a fall of 16.5% of its global sales 2012.

The fall is even more severe for Bang

Australian Open: Djokovic, Sharapova and Venus start fort

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Three sets for rapid Novak Djokovic, two-wheeled bicycle for Maria Sharapova, a 6-1 6-0 Venus Williams Monday marked the opening of the Australian Open with one-seeded Juan Monaco (No. 11), is tombée.

even had an injured leg that tilts the Argentine 7-6 6-1 6-1 to Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, 79th player in the world, to the applause of the audience, admiring and grateful for his refusal 'abandonner.

Other seeded on the courts, the Spaniard David Ferrer (No. 4) and Czech Tomas Berdych (No. 5) that did not need three sets to beat Belgian Olivier Rochus 6-3 6 -4 6-2 and American Michael Russell 6-3 7-5 6-3.

Another Spaniard, Nicolas Almagro (No. 10), on the other hand struggled five sets to overcome the American Steve Johnson 7-5 6-7 (4) 6-2 6-7 (6) 6 - 2.

Novak Djokovic began his campaign effectively for a third consecutive title against the French Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-2 6-4 spread 7-5.

As if to save energy, the World No. 1 Serbian has had to raise his level of play for two games when he faced three break points in the second set and when the third set seemed to have to go to tie-break.

Three aces helped him save his service at the first warning shots and two winners gave him the third set and the victory in one hour and 42 minutes.

"I think we played a good game. We have used both and I managed to play well when needed," said Novak Djokovic.

"The tournament lasts two weeks. This is the first day, everyone is excited and I am happy to be here."

The Serb will next opponent American Ryan Harrison, 20 year old ranked 62nd in the ATP .

SHARAPOVA IMPITOYABLE

The expected defeat Paul-Henri Mathieu did not prevent the French tennis live a beautiful day with the qualification of six of its representatives engaged in the tables gentlemen and ladies, with Marion Bartoli spearhead. (See)

The No. 1 French and seeded No. 11 dominated the Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-2 6-4.

The player of the day, however, was Maria Sharapova who inflicted a 6-0 6-0 in 55 minutes to her compatriot Olga Puchkova, it is true 107th player mondiale.

The Russian said she was pleased not to have suffered pain in the neck and collarbone which ruined his program préparation.

"I did not want to be disturbed by the fact that I have not played a lot of matches. I wanted to focus on the future and show me aggressive on the court," she dit.

"It was one of those games where I do not care about the opponent and stay focused on what I have to do."

The former World No. 1 next opponent will be Japan's Misaki Doi, winner of the Croatian Petra Martic 6-3 6-4.

Venus Williams, who is no longer part of the favorites to win the Grand Slam final was almost as expeditiously as the Russian. She left a game in the Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva.

"It's good to spend as little time as possible on the court and not get caught up in long sets. It is obvious," said the American, who ended nearly three years without any title with his victory in Luxembourg octobre.

Classified seeded No. 25 Venus Williams will meet in the next round the French Alize Cornet, who qualified at the price of a terrible battle against the New Zealander Marina Erakovic finally beaten 7-5 6-7 (3) 10-8.

Other contenders for the Polish Agnieszka Radwanska (No. 4) and Australian Samantha Stosur (No. 9) struggled in the first set but found the pace to beat the Australian Bojana Bobusic 7-5 6 - 0 and Taiwan's Chang Kai-Chen 7-6 (3) 6-3.

Jean-Paul Couret for service français

60 million licenses passed Windows 8 via updates and OEM

Microsoft has announced having sold 60 million licenses of Windows 8. It is a very good result since sales began on October 26, when the commercial release of the system. These figures follow those registered for Windows 7, which remains to this day the system is Microsoft's best-selling and most fastest. We recall that in late November, Microsoft announced that it had passed 40 million licenses for Windows 8. At that time we wondered what type of sale it was: updates? Versions boxes? Actual sales? OEM sales? We did not get a response, but the new announcement provides without doubt. In fact, Microsoft makes it clear that this time the 60 million licenses consist of updates and licenses sold to OEMs. These last are not to be confused with actual sales. Clearly, it is not known exactly how many licenses were actually purchased by consumers, as it would be interesting to know the actual share of updates to better understand the impact of the current promotion (which is ends January 31). The announcement of 100 million downloads for the Windows Store is in turn particularly important. Like any platform, Windows 8 needs to attract developers to create applications using its new environment (WinRT). 100 million are an effective method of communication to mean that success is waiting for you and it's time to take advantage of potential. Finally, the Redmond company has said more than 1,700 aircraft had been certified to date for Windows 8 or RT. Find this item on PCInpact.com60 million licenses Windows 8 passed via updates and tweets OEMModération illicit Flower Pellerin following in the footsteps BelkacemSamsung, Sharp and ViewSonic touch screens are honored at CES

INDIA. The father of the student raped and murdered reveals his identité

"We want the world to know his true identity. (...) The revelation of his name give courage to women who have survived such attacks" .

Tel is the message delivered Sunday, January 6 by the father of the young student of New Delhi, whose death after a gang rape sparked a groundswell of outrage in India and the monde.

My daughter has done nothing wrong, she died for trying to protect themselves. I'm proud of her, "added the man in an interview with the British Sunday newspaper" The Sunday People. "

L'agression and gang rape in a bus on December 16 of this physiotherapy student opened a national debate on violence against women in India, where rape is reported to the authorities every twenty minutes on average. The young woman died Dec. 28 at a hospital in Singapour.

Le "Sunday People" published by the identity of the father and his daughter, stating that the father was entitled to do, but adds that he will not release photo of the girl at the request of the family.

Le father of the young student of 23 years has confirmed that he had no objection to the use of the name of his daughter by the media. Reuters has chosen not to publish the identity of the victime.

Condamnés to mort

Le student's father has spoken to the Indian press. He wished this week that the perpetrators of the attack were sentenced to hang, and a new law on sexual offenses named its fille.

La revelation of the identity of victims of sexual assault is in principle prohibited (...)

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Credit in the euro zone still ralenti

FRANCFORT (Reuters) - The decline in corporate lending in the euro area continued in November, noting the slowdown in economic activity and providing an additional argument in favor of a further rate cuts Central Bank européenne.

Compared to November 2011, loans to the private sector declined by 0.8%, unchanged compared with October. Detailed statistics released Thursday by the ECB shows that the decline for both consumer credit and loans to entreprises.

"Weak loans undoubtedly due to lower demand from the nonfinancial private sector," said Howard Archer, economist at Global Insight.

"But what is worrying is that a number of companies who want to borrow (...) and are in good shape are hard to do, which means that the tightening of credit weighs on growth prospects for the euro area, "ajoute-t-il.

The ECB expects a contraction of 0.3% of the economy of the euro area this year and its Board of Governors discussed at its meeting last month of the opportunity of lower interest rates. The discussions resulted in a standstill, the refinancing rate, the main instrument of monetary policy, remaining at 0.75%, its lowest level historique.

data released Thursday show a steepening of the decline in consumer credit in November, from 3.1% yoy from 2.9% in October. Loans to non-financial firms themselves, fell 1.4% after -1.5% in octobre.

THE WTO, AN ARGUMENT FOR "FALCONS"?

More encouragingly, the growth of household deposits and those of non-financial companies has accelerated to 3.8% and 4.2% over one year respectivement.

"The contraction of business loans could be reversed if the renewed confidence generated by the mechanisms of relief of the ECB and the improvement of crisis management in the euro area financial markets spread to the real economy and if austerity begins to fade, at least in some countries, "said Christian Schulz, an economist at Berenberg Bank.

The ECB has contributed greatly to ease tensions related to the financial crisis in the euro area in recent months with the launch of the WTO (monetary transactions in securities), the new device support to countries in difficulty through purchases obligations souveraines.

Despite this relative calm, some analysts still consider requiring lower interest rates. Howard Archer expects thus a further easing in the first trimestre.

But such an assumption implies that the ECB Council to overcome its divisions, several of its leading members, such as the German Jörg Asmussen, Luxembourg's Yves Mersch or Belgian Peter Praet, who clearly expressed their réticences.

"The promise of potentially unlimited bond purchases (through the WTO) is the main instrument of monetary policy of the ECB," said Christian Schulz.

"To ensure credibility, the president (of the ECB Mario) Draghi will ensure it enjoys the widest possible support within the Board of Governors, which gives disproportionate weight to the 'hawks' and therefore probably prevent a further decline in rates to support the economy. "

Paul Carrel, Eva Kuehnen Sakari Suoninen, Marc Angrand for the French service, edited by Dominique Rodriguez

The Project Shield nVidia hands and vidéo

Annoncé introduced at CES in Las Vegas a few days ago, Project Shield nVidia, handheld based on its new Tegra chip 4 and interesting interface for streaming PC games from a desktop to a TV HDMI has been tried by coyotes MobileGeeks.com.

L'occasion to discover more about this new machine, and enjoy the English accents of the German journalist who presents it to us. We discover a set of boxing including Android, with the ability to display a different image on the TV screen and the integrated console, and Need For Speed ​​Most Wanted PC version streamed in through the Project Shield television. Find this item on gameblog.fr

"Wall budget" negotiations in impasse

Le final countdown to the "wall budget" is engaged in Washington, where no significant progress was recorded during the weekend to prevent the entry into force Monday, December 31 evening of one brutal austerity and heavy menaces.

Sauf agreement in Congress increasingly unlikely in such a short time, in fact, occur automatically at midnight (Tuesday at 6:00 in France) a tax increase for almost all taxpayers and cuts in State spending fédéral.

Conséquence their inability to agree for weeks on revenues and expenditures, controlled Senate Democratic allies of President Barack Obama and the House of Representatives dominated by Republicans will have to sit on Monday, the day of the New Year's Eve for the first time more than 40 ans.

D'accord on observation, not on solutions

Pendant the weekend, negotiations continued between the leaders of the Senate, Democrat Harry Reid and Republican Mitch McConnell, charged by their sides to try to reach an agreement acceptable not only by their congregation, but also by the Chambre.

Une challenge given the ideological gulf that separates them forever. Barack Obama believes that voters, by renewing early November for a second term of four years, gave the green light to increase the tax burden on the richest for which he had campagne.

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Charlie Sheen: The actor has not left Georgia Jones

Plutôt quiet in recent months, Charlie Sheen Susceptible perfect love with his new girlfriend: Georgia Jones, a pornographic film actress of 24 years.

Incorrigible womanizer, Charlie Sheen shows again! His new conquest: a pretty brunette 24 year old known across the Atlantic to be a pornstar and has no less than 100 films to his credit.The former star of Uncle Charlie and his new girlfriend (who was said previously in a relationship with a woman, a woman named Faye Reagan) have been seen very close in the streets of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico recently days. Charlie is at ease with pornstars since it is already out with other stars of the genre or as Rachel Olson Bree Olsen. The latter also was full of praise for the expertise of Charlie under the duvet. "It is good in bed, she told Playboy magazine. I mean, a lot of practice ... it's downright a rock star. This is a powerhouse. This is a very sensual and sexual, when I was with him, I felt that we were a whole, because it is so sexually attractive. "Charlie Sheen definitely has an excellent reputation ...Find this item on

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The director of the Bolshoi sprinkled acide

Le artistic director of Bolshoi dancer Sergei Filine was hospitalized with severe burns to his face and eyes after being sprayed with acid by unknown Thursday evening in Moscow, reported Friday, Jan. 18 theater and police.

Le choreographer was attacked late at night by a stranger who threw him in the face "probably acid" at the bottom of the building in the center of Moscow, according to a spokesman for the police quoted by Interfax.< / p>

Il was hospitalized with burns to his face and eyes in the third degree, said spokeswoman Katerina Novikova Bolshoi, quoted by Itar-Tass. According to Russian television, doctors fear they will lose sight and said they could not decide in two weeks. They also believe that it will take at least six months to recover complètement.

"constantly threatened"

La spokesman Bolshoi, a close friend of Sergei Filine, stresses that the latter appointed artistic director of the Bolshoi in March 2011, had been the target of threats. It suggests that this attack is probably related to professional rivalries. "Sergei was threatened constantly since he took the position, and his predecessors were too," she told the télévision.

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Paris area: 70,000 homes without électricité

Environ 70,000 homes were without electricity Saturday, January 12 in the morning in several cities in Hauts-de-Seine after a fire in a transformer station in Levallois-Perret, did we learned from ERDF.

Le blaze broke out in the early morning and was extinguished around 11 hours, depending on ERDF, which indicated that the current should be gradually restored in the journée.

"Our officers are on the scene and we expect to restore power in three distinct ways: by acting on the post itself, making diversions from other positions and if necessary through gensets" said a spokesman for ERDF. At 12:45, 12,000 households had current again, he ajouté.

"No red lights"

Selon the mayor of Levallois-Perret, Patrick Balkany, "200,000 people are affected in Levallois, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Courbevoie" .

A Levallois, "there are no red lights" and the town hall organizes Saturday afternoon a reception for the cake had to buy cake bakeries in Paris because the city could not cook, he explained. The festival will still take place because the town hall has a generator intégré.

Le traffic was disrupted on the highway through Neuilly-sur-Seine, where, again, the lights were out service.

Levallois-Perret in noir

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Jeane Manson: "I have to continue to work for a living"

Elle moved to Spain after trouble with the IRS. Jeane Manson revientsur his departure from France, but also his daily aspirations. Testimony émouvant.

Elle had to leave France because of his troubles with the IRS. Jeane Manson now lives in Spain, in a small village in Catalonia where she tries somehow to rebuild. The newspaper "France Dimanche" received the confidences of the singer during the last cruise "Age tender and wooden heads" where she sang alongside including Richard Anthony, Catherine Lara and Michèle Torr between aut,. "Abort France was a heart-breaking", says Jeane Manson. "Especially so brutal! I even took my house, and I had to sell all my horses," she says with emotion. "I console myself by saying that it was my destiny!"

A 62 years, Jeane Manson, who has sold over 30 million albums since the start of his career, could already be retired. It must, however, continue to work to meet their needs. "I have to continue to work for a living. This is not so bad, it prevents me from aging," she admits. "I have to continue to fight for projects professional interest. Constantly with the fear that I forget" .

L'ancienne candidate of "Celebrity Farm" preparing an album of duets, whose release date is scheduled for next year. "I also intend to try my luck in the United States (she kept a pied-à-terre in New York) because sometimes I regret never having pierced there." This is what he wants ...

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