Archive for July, 2012
Moody’s downgrades the rating of Nokia to Ba3 with a negative outlook
The risk rating agency Moody’s downgraded today assigned the note to the Finnish mobile phone company Nokia to Ba3, negative outlook, due to the increase in its quarterly loss. Moody’s downgraded the rating to Ba3 from Ba1 to Nokia. On Friday, Fitch downgraded the rating of the giant today Finnish mobile telephony, to “BB-” from [...]
Spain Was Plunged into Crisis but Rejects a Global Rescue
Spain, which is plunged into crisis and social unrest, seemed unable Monday to restore confidence in panicked markets that bet on the overall rescue, although the Government ruled it out. Spain does not need rescue, said Monday the Minister of Economy of the fourth largest euro zone economy, Luis de Guindos, before the economic committee [...]
The IMF reiterated its support to Greece after an article on the withdrawal of aid
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reaffirmed its commitment to support the helena economy and edited an article in the German weekly “Der Spiegel”, according to the international body was raised not to offer more financial aid to Greece. “The IMF is supporting Greece to overcome its economic difficulties. A mission will begin discussions with country [...]
McDonald’s has net profit of 2613.7 million in the semester
McDonald’s, the world’s largest chain of fast food restaurants, reported today that in the first half of the year had a net profit of 2,613.7 billion, virtually the same as on the same date in 2011, which attributed to the impact of exchange rates and economic slowdown. The chain, based in Oak Brook (Illinois), which [...]
Iran announces three exchange rates to import various goods
Iran announced today that the establishment of three scales of foreign exchange for import of various types of goods, from basic to luxury, due to current problems in hard currencies like the euro and the dollar by international sanctions on the country. He told the Iranian student news agency, ISNA, deputy Fathipur Arsalan, head of [...]
Natural Gas in Europe is reinforced to start marketing gas in Germany
The energy company Gas Natural Group has strengthened its presence in continental Europe to start marketing gas in Germany, reported a company sources. The gas company opened a sales office in Cologne (Germany) earlier this year and has already closed the first contracts to supply gas to industrial customers in the next three years. The [...]
France asks to EU the supporting measures for Spain
The French Government today called on the European Union (EU) to pressure from the markets, immediately adopt measures to support Spain and other countries are also making “significant efforts” in order to consolidate their accounts. Paris has sent this message through its foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, during the visit of work done to Madrid, which [...]
Apple Gets to Launch its New iPad in China Without Incident
Apple has managed to avoid incidents in the launch of its new model of iPhone in China, its second largest market after the U.S., where the tablet has now gone on sale without registering that in January there were riots in iPhone 4S, but not great expectations. This time, the U.S. giant was prepared thoroughly [...]
Iran believes that a conflict in the Persian depends on the stupidity of the West
Any potential conflict in the Persian Gulf waters “will depend on the stupidity of the Western countries,” said today the head of the Naval Forces Revolutionary Guards of Iran, Admiral Ali Fadavi. In comments broadcast on Iranian news agency, IRNA, Fadavi said his country has “complete control of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of [...]
Hollande requests to the French “a fair effort” to overcome the crisis
French President François Hollande, today called on his countrymen a “right effort” to recover the place of his country in the world face the challenge of the economic crisis and appealed to regain lost competitiveness. In an interview after chairing his first military parade of July 14, National Day gala, Hollande explained to his fellow [...]
