It takes also a certain dose to be projecting

It is better to do than want pity, especially when it is not known what the aftermath will be made. Only the spirits say is indigneront the General society, having received 2007 billion euros for the end state 2008, from an annual $ 2 billion net profit They would look across the Rhine Commerzbank barely to balance after the spill of 18 billion of public money, for the payment of a dividend, including 50 million will return to its employees, is a sign of confidence in the future. It takes also a certain dose to be projecting. If the Bank of the defence has been divided by nine net losses of business financing and investment last year, it is essentially the change of accounting standards and the propriety of betting on the covers of credit. All other branches have seen their profitability to erode, and the trebling of provisions for doubtful debts in the last quarter gives a very bitter taste of the recession. After the Kerviel case and the financial tsunami, this third front will take place for the General in Central Europe and East and the Mediterranean basin, from where it fired almost half its operating profit.

These wonderful clouds

The fact all union force that disunity is clobbing. Torn by persuaded shareholders that the dismantling was the ultimate in management, Atos Origin, the second French computer services company, saw its stuffy horizon. If Bull was a grandmother that the time had ceased to add of petticoats, Atos is his granddaughter born of Sema, Origin, Axime, Sligos stacking... The comparison with the Bull of the day stop there. All members are healthy but not coordinated, each managing its own relationships, purchases, innovation, etc. It is an urgent need to draw a line on this disruption. His predecessor had intuition. Thierry Breton has authority based on a renewed shareholder confidence and a structure based on a Board of Directors is the CEO. This potential for rationalization and the relative safety of an activity consisting 70 recurring contracts allowed him to be less nebulous than this "cloud computing" in which he identifies a route of the future. He indeed felt strong enough to issue its 2009 vision and commitment to improved profitability. Is refused by its competitors are. It is true that more than 8 margin, those closer crowns while Atos with its 4.8 does that address the cliff. And it's easier. Least initially.

Mugs and shocks

It has go hunting band, as there is always that one that earns the best pieces. In the sharing of the remains of the Scottish Brewer Scottish & Newcastle, that Heineken and Carlsberg to are offered two Danish seems well made the better case. He has earned a place on a thirsty Eastern market. Dutch, he is has nothing to bitterness. In extending in Britain, where it was already present, he did have that extra exposure in a market to fall by more than 8. Less expensive paid its share of loot but there are economies that it is better not to do. Its net income fell 74 in 2008 when the Carlsberg won 14.5. Although beer is supposedly better support the effects, both prepare the same variegated measures the crisis: reduction of costs, debt and investment. Alone, however, Carlsberg is committed for 2009 by promising an increase of 12 of its operating income. What better dig in the stock market the gap that he finally managed to establish since the beginning of the year.