Only the number of private sector jobs is important, because the public continues to destroy temporary jobs created earlier this year for the population census and does not reflect the U.S. economy.

The unemployment rate, calculated differently, increased only 0.1 percentage points to 9.6%.

The Paris Bourse jumped in the wake of the publication of U.S. statistics, the CAC 40 gaining 1.43%, to 3683.54 points.

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• A social network for music. Apple sells fashionable social networks. But in his way. His new office dedicated to music, Ping has been described by Steve Jobs as the "encounter between Facebook, Twitter and iTunes" No fax needed payday loans.The result is surprising, because Ping is not available online, but integrated into iTunes 10 on Mac, PC, iPhone and iPod.

Once inside Ping, functions and navigation, however well recall those of a social network. People came to create a profile, add friends, create a circle of contacts, follow the news of celebrities and post messages and comments. Ping, if so authorized, also gets the title of songs purchased on iTunes by his friends to create personalized rankings Sellers. The goal for Apple is still selling more pieces.

The old Apple TV (gray) and the new, smaller. Photo credits: REUTERS

Monday already markets in New York fell sharply, including the Dow Jones closed just on the threshold of 10,000 points, the lowest of the session (-1.4% at 10009.73 points) the lowest volume of transactions since the beginning of the year. It is down 4.4% since the beginning of the month.

Already this morning, the Asian indices have suffered heavy losses and their stock markets in Europe have followed suit.

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Attention is actually suspended the publication Friday of employment figures for the month of August in the United States. The deadline is crucial.Then will come after the consumer confidence index in August (which could show a slight increase to 50.9 against 50.4 last month) and the confidence index of purchasing managers in Chicago (August) under 57 against 62.3 previously.

But before that, the S & P / Case-Shiller home price for June was released Tuesday. Conclusion: the price of single family houses has increased more than expected thanks to the positive effects of a tax credit that expired in April. The index came out at 0.3% in seasonally adjusted data, against an increase of 0.5% in May and 0.2% expected by economists.

Doubts about the strength of the recovery

Obama announced his economic advisers to work with new measures to support economic activity.He spoke of targeted measures, such as the extension of tax breaks for middle class matures, increasing public funding for the development of clean energy, infrastructure works or new tax cuts aimed "to encourage businesses to work their capital to create jobs here in the United States.

"This announcement is far from reassured investors, due to lack of accuracy and because investors doubt the effectiveness of proposed measures, analysts said Aurel BCG.

Semiconductors follow

As for values, the semiconductor industry will be watching: the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors rose 1.2% in July from JuneThe association has confirmed its forecast of growth of 28.4% of the market for semiconductors throughout the year.

A follow HP (-1.22% to 38.09 euros) was the only value in the green yesterday (+1.5%). In addition to its attempt to acquire 3PAR, the leader in PC sales has announced a new plan to repurchase its shares.

The Financial Crisis Enquiry Commission (Commission of Inquiry on the financial crisis), tasked with finding the causes of the financial crisis, will listen to Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman, Fuld (former boss of Lehman Brothers) and Steel (ex-boss Wachovia) and Sheila Bair (FDIC Director) on the concept of "Too Big To Fail".

3M (-0.51% to 79.24 euros) yesterday announced the acquisition of Cogent (-0.18% to 11.07 euros) for 943 million dollars.The group's management warns that this will reduce its earnings per share cents from September to October in the 12 months following the settlement of the transaction.

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Two indicators will follow on Monday: Economic confidence in the euro area for the month of August at 11:00 and expenditure and household income also for the month of August in the U.S., to 14.30.

On the currency markets, the euro breaks down somewhat against the dollar around $ 1.27 to 1.2731 (-0.18%) and lost ground against the yen at 108.27 yen (-0, 38%).

Saffron unscrews, Zodiac flies

As for values, Sanofi-Aventis has revealed the conditions of his talks with U.S. biotechnology company Genzyme, he would buy for a price of $ 69 per share, totaling $ 18.5 billion (14 5 billion euros). Genzyme does not want to continue discussions on an offer below $ 80 per share.The share lost 0.77% to 44.91 euros.

The daily La Tribune, Saffron prepare an offer to buy the equipment manufacturer, Zodiac, with a premium "of between 30% and 40%. The share lost 1.63% at 19.02 euros. For its part, Zodiac climbs by 13.28% to 49.12 euros.

Renault, through its Russian subsidiary Avtovaz, will market the end of 2011 a low-cost car, Granta, 5600 euros. Renault gained 0.86% to 32.82 euros.

The German manufacturer of semiconductors, Infineon, has formalized the sale of its "no" to the U.S. over Intel for $ 1.4 billion. STMicroelectronics gained 0.73% to 5.4 euros and Soitec rose 0.24% to 6.79 euros.

Maurel & Prom (-1.71% to 8.6 euro) on Friday issued an operating loss under the first half of 2010 due to higher exploration costs but warned that his country would reduce the most risky by the end of the year.

Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone (APRR) has benefited in the first half of the resumption of road traffic, particularly trucks. The company announced Friday an increase of 5.1% to 422 million euros in current operating profit and said it expected an improvement in its EBITDA margin in 2010. Action stabilizes at 54 euros.

The CEO of Eramet (0.81% to 205.55 euros), Patrick Buffet, met Friday in Libreville, the Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, to discuss modalities for the entry of Gabon's capital mining group.

Regarding publications, the credit insurer Coface unveil its first half results pre-market. After-hours trade, it was the turn of Mersen and Seb.

Moreover, investors are holding their breath before a speech highly anticipated Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. central bank (Fed) on Friday. Alongside major world central bankers meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, it will review the global economy.

The suspicion is required.The second revision of GDP is expected to decline while the speech of Fed chairman should confirm the fragility of the global economic recovery.

The yen spotlight

In Japan, the Nikkei started the session on a drop of 1.04% before gradually erase their losses. At midday, he won 0.33% to 8935 points. The Topix ahead at the same rate to 814 points. However, the key index in Tokyo had a difficult start to the day, falling again to its lowest in 16 months. This volatility is explained by the expectation surrounding the much anticipated speech of the Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan. According to the entourage of the latter, the government will introduce today the actions it wishes to implement to counter the effects of the high price of the yen.

The strong yen just accelerates deflation, which remains very debilitating to the economic recovery of the archipelago.On Friday again, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that consumer prices had fallen by 1.1% yoy in July. This is their 17th consecutive monthly decline. Moreover, Japan's unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in July against 5.3% in June after previously recorded four consecutive months of increases.

The rest of the region patient

In China, stock markets are more expectant. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng 0.10% to loose 20590 points while in Shanghai, the key index lost 0.34% to 2594 points.

The Korean Stock Exchange drops 0.95%, the S & P Australian takes 0.43%, and the Indian Sensex is at equilibrium to -0.03%.

Oil down

Oil prices fall below $ 73 Friday in Asia.In morning trading, a barrel of light sweet crude for October delivery lost 37 cents to 72.99 dollars, while that of Brent North Sea crude for October delivery lost 33 cents to 74.69 dollars.

On Thursday, oil prices had rebounded in New York, supported by an indicator on the job better than expected and a weakening dollar. But oil markets also fear bad news on Friday.

"France offers its partners the choice of ambition," declared Nicolas Sarkozy, "the G20 only has the weight, legitimacy and capacity to make decisions necessary to give the necessary impetus to these sites of tomorrow" .

Hobbyhorse straddled the beginning of the year, the "disorder of currencies" calls for reform of the exchange market."The instability of exchange rates poses a major threat to global growth," said the head of the State, for whom it is "desirable, even necessary" to "develop tools to prevent excessive volatility currencies.

To study the issue, he suggested to organize a conference in China to think about how to "strengthen our mechanisms for crisis management. The job may be tough: Beijing supports a reform of the exchange market but is reluctant to give up its currency, the yuan, against the dollar in particular. Americans and Europeans, however, ask him to do so, alleging unfair form of support to Chinese exports.

Regulating commodity

Second site mentioned by the French President, that the commodities market.Nicolas Sarkozy wants me G20 looks at the "very functioning of derivatives markets for raw materials." He also wants to develop "measures of transparency and enhanced dialogue between producers and consumers to limit price fluctuations" in energy.

Last line of work focused on the economy, the President would give the G20 a "secretariat" and expand the jurisdiction of this meeting to development issues and funding climate.

In Japan, the Nikkei suffered the consequences of this pessimism. The key index of Japan, which had hit its highest level last year at the close, opened down 0.98%. He then widened its losses to fall below 9000 points at closing. A first since May 18, 2009.The index drops 1.33% to 8995.14 points while the broader TOPIX, yielded 0.86% to 817.73 points.

Markets are very disappointed by Monday's meeting between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the President of the country's Central Bank Masaaki Shirakawa. They have not made any concrete announcements to fight against deflation and particularly to stem the rising yen leaden document. This morning, the dollar was hovering around 85 yen and the euro currency to 107.50 yen, just around, even falling in the morning at 107.21 yen, its lowest level in nearly nine years. This situation continues to penalize export values. Sony Corp., Canon and Tokyo Electron yield respectively 3.72%, 0.85% and 3.76% at closing.

The region follows the movement

In China, the doubts are even greater.At the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, the Hang Seng is at equilibrium (-0.02% to 20,824 points) while in Shanghai, the Shanghai Composite is 0.94% to 2664 points.

The Korea Stock Exchange was steady at 1275 points. In Australia, the S & P lost 0.93%, still affected by the decline of BHP Billiton who drops 1.2%. Scholarships India and Pakistan were down 0.18% and 0.14%.

LE FIGARO – Why sacked Christian de Villeneuve, hired five months ago?

Alexander Pugachev – Christian Villeneuve arrived at the editorial management the same day of the launch of the new formula of France-Soir, March 17. Under his leadership, the title has gained credibility and reputation. France-Soir is now in running order. He left because we have some disagreements together, particularly on the image and the editorial line. It is not enough to make France-Soir a "Parisian ba" to succeed, I want France-Soir stands, has its own personality.Christian de Villeneuve – this is not a criticism of me – Le Parisien in its DNA and that does not correspond to my vision of France-Soir. However, I still have confidence in Christian de Villeneuve and that is why I offered him the post of editorial adviser. It should give me his answer within fifteen days.

Remy Dessart takes over at short notice. What is its mission?

I presented Monday to the editor Remy Dessart. His resume is excellent: it has succeeded almost everything he has undertaken: he is at the origin of the popular economy magazine Capital, has worked to VOD, to Team, and even television as a director Information M6.He also led on behalf of the German Springer plans to launch a tabloid, a "French-Bild", which have not been created …

… Is it just your ambition to make France-Soir a "Bild" in French?

I understand the anxiety of writing due to the departure of Christian de Villeneuve and I want to reassure her. In any case, I do not want to transform France-Soir in a trash daily, or a populist Bild in the French "as I have read in the press. I, indeed, visited last month writing Bild, such as the Daily Mirror before and soon that of Osterreich. I even consulted the number zero of the famous French-Bild "… And I quickly realized that this project was not duplicated in France.

No change in editorial policy of France-Soir, or even dismissal is expected.The roadmap is set to Remy Dessart only to enhance the value added of the title to multiplying the scoops, the articles to the original angles, staggered. There is no point to a pale copy of Le Parisien.

Great ambitions for writing only 70 journalists …

We're looking to hire about ten more journalists to expand the investigative department of the newspaper. Many contacts have already been made to journalists. It is now up to Remy Dessart to his leg.

Should we expect a reshuffle in the drafting?

That Remy Dessart and see … But to have already spoken with him, no departure is expected.The work of each charge, including Dominique de Montvalon (formerly of Paris, Ed) to head the political department, is very appreciated.

Always Check the 150,000 copies by the end of the year?

Our record is good. In one year we went from 21,000 to nearly 90,000 copies circulated in France, according to OJD (20 of 000 for Paris-Ile de France). Given these figures, we are aiming now 150,000 copies in 2011. To achieve this, I intend to inject a minimum of 20 million euros, in addition to the 50 million already invested, to cover our losses and start a new advertising campaign in January. At the start, we planned to send 700,000 mailings to try to garner 5000 subscriptions.

Le Parisien is for sale.Have you looked at the file?

I would have liked but the group did not want to let me know … The advantage with France-Soir is that from a very low, we should not lead to cuts in recruitment but rather to relaunch the newspaper. However, I recently reviewed the record of a security area and is very attentive to opportunities that may present the regional press.

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The deal comes in a turbulent period for the U.S. giant. Like its rival Visa, Mastercard has lost almost 20% of its stock value in the second quarter. It just has to catch up. Investors have punished those titles because they fear that the reform of Wall Street, passed by Congress in June, weighs heavily in their accounts.

Congress wants to limit the fees charged by banks on transactions paid by card.Logically, the banks will seek to pass this shortfall by renegotiating their contracts with Visa and Mastercard. Committees should be limited next year. While regulators have not set the new legal amount, uncertainty will persist for Visa and Mastercard.