Bloomberg.com Region - France News http://www.bloomberg.com Bloomberg LP en-us Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks advanced, rebounding from the biggest drop in seven months for the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index, as concern over Dubai’s attempt to delay its debt payments abated. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=ad9Gn4o30PgA&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=ad9Gn4o30PgA Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:49:58 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Vivendi SA should seize the moment to sell its 20 percent stake in entertainment unit NBC Universal and bolster its strategy of expanding in emerging markets, the French company’s biggest union said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=aVp3Bs7FQAW4&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aVp3Bs7FQAW4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:32:05 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- France’s CAC 40 Index gained 42.22, or 1.2 percent, to 3,721.45 in Paris. The gauge fell 0.2 percent this week. The SBF 120 Index also rose 1.2 percent today. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=aXXhYoHykGas&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aXXhYoHykGas Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:25:33 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Russia pledged to inject 50 billion rubles ($1.7 billion) into OAO AvtoVAZ in return for technology from 25 percent shareholder Renault SA. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=a7rKXTz3P_3U&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a7rKXTz3P_3U Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:10:44 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European confidence in the economic outlook improved in November to the highest since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., suggesting the recovery in the 16-nation euro region is gathering strength. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=am6RvI5pnoLE&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=am6RvI5pnoLE Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:31:27 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- France Telecom SA, Europe’s third- largest phone company, is setting aside 700 million euros ($1 billion) to put in place measures allowing “senior” employees to work part time. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=a8HKtt.3lYEs&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a8HKtt.3lYEs Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:29:48 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, a Spanish Socialist known for tackling countries’ deficits, will be antitrust chief in the next European Commission, succeeding Neelie Kroes. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=aFAeZtBYA6XI&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aFAeZtBYA6XI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:33:19 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- French consumer confidence rose for a fourth month in November, beating economists’ forecasts, as concerns about jobs waned and households showed more willingness to make major purchases. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=aCU6y.L9Vkq4&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aCU6y.L9Vkq4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:41:46 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC may be owed $1.9 billion by Dubai World, making it the largest creditor outside the emirate to the state company seeking to reschedule debt, said two people familiar with the companies. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=ai9qojctV7q4&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=ai9qojctV7q4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:03:18 EST General News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy won his bid to install an ally as the European Commission’s next financial-services regulator, fueling British concern that traders and hedge funds will face stricter rules. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=aUwgdpqhqIN4&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aUwgdpqhqIN4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:31:32 EST General News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Unions representing French museum workers are threatening to extend and widen a strike that has kept Paris’s Pompidou Center of modern art shut all week. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=ahnBLCUmYzew&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=ahnBLCUmYzew Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:29:18 EST General News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union prohibited all airlines based in the African nations of Djibouti, the Republic of Congo and Sao Tome and Principe from flying in the bloc while further easing curbs on TAAG Angola Airlines under the latest changes to a list of unsafe carriers. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601090&sid=a.ZTuO1gH4sg&refer=france http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a.ZTuO1gH4sg Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:07:47 EST