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Wall Street is expected in the red pre-meeting Tuesday. At the NYSE, the Dow Jones, Nasdaq 100 and S & P 500 retreat respectively of 0.05% at 10,548 points, from 0.13% to 2329 points and 0.23% to 1,136 points.

U.S. operators will choose to pocket a share of the gains made last week by caution before a salvo of indicators in the coming days. Especially since the main stock index hit a "low point" there is exactly one year, March 9, 2009. Since the S & P 500 has started the largest rally in history. In one year, the U.S. index has increased by almost 70%!

The next U.S. statistics are expected tomorrow with the traditional weekly report on unemployment. Weekly Market in the United States, will then be placed under the sign consumer.The two major economic indicators this week, published Friday, will be the sales details for the month of February and the preliminary estimate of consumer confidence.

The euro continued its decline against the dollar Tuesday, settling below $ 1.36, penalized by renewed concerns about Greece and the risk of contagion within the euro area, while the market remains cautious vis -à-vis a possible European Monetary Fund. At the opening of the NYSE, the euro bought 1.3562 dollars (-0.42%) against 1.3631 dollars late Monday teletrek no payday advance .Net earnings per share is reduced to 93 cents, against 96 cents previously.

Last November, Hewlett-Packard unveiled a decline in net income of 8% annually to 7.7 billion, although the last quarter it was up 14% yoy to 2.4 billion dollars. At this time, Dell has introduced quarterly profit falls by 54% and a revenue and earnings per share below expectations.

In May 2008, HP had offered the number two global services company EDS for $ 13.9 billion.

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It is expected that Monday morning, important announcements of Government of Dubai, after the panic that swept over the markets last week following the announcement by Dubai World to a deferment of six months minimum payment of a debt of 3.5 billion. The reaction of local exchanges, after four days of closure because of the Eid holiday, was also highly anticipated.

It seems that support the day by the Central Bank of UAE, which has decided to provide creditors with more cash, has not reassured investors. The Exchange has unscrewed from 8.31% in Abu Dhabi and Dubai lost 7.3%. "The security of the Central Bank is limited to banks to avoid a systemic effect.But this does not solve the crisis, "notes Pascal Devaux, economist at BNP Paribas.

Dubaïotes authorities have not made this Monday in response to a specific exit strategy. The only communication came through the Ministry of Finance, who said that the emirate would not assume the liabilities of the conglomerate. "It is for creditors to assume their own responsibility in the decision to lend to businesses," said Abdulrahman Al Saleh, director general of the ministry on the television channel Dubai TV. "The creditors believe that Dubai World is part of the state, which is incorrect.The State owns the company, but since its creation, it is determined that the company is not guaranteed by the state, "he added.

Lack of transparency

By disconnecting and Dubai World, a huge conglomerate that has a dozen subsidiaries and displays 59 billion in debt, including 25 billion for real estate division Nakheel, the emirate is likely to worsen the climate of uncertainty and lack of investor confidence. Just as many experts criticized the lack of transparency and communication, particularly on economic issues in the emirate.

The target for Dubai is to prevent contagion to the entire economy of the region. "He actually tries to distinguish the business risk of sovereign risk," says economist of BNP Paribas.This to avoid that risk assessment has a negative impact not only on the sovereign risk of Dubai but also in its larger neighbor Abu Dhabi. For, while suggesting that the rescue medium term can only come from the oil revenues of big brother.

Besides this solution, Dubai has little alternative to overcome the crisis. Either the conglomerate renegotiate its debt with the risk of a higher price if the markets continue to fall. The other option is to sell off its property assets that have lost much value with the crisis. If this seems impossible at this time, Dubai will not be shy of a restructuring.

Finally, one thing is certain: by the agency Moody's, the impact of the crisis "could be disastrous" for the confidence of investors by pushing interest rates upward.What curb heat recovery of an economy still recovering and setting appropriations for the restart.

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The beginnings were, however arduous. Just arrived at Bercy in 2005, Foreign Trade Christine Lagarde addresses a French taboo: the Labor Code. "Complicated, heavy, rather inflexible. Emotion, call to order the Matignon. After the election of Nicolas Sarkozy and his rise in rank to the Economy, the Minister referred to a "austerity plan" against the state of public finances. Whirlpool, public disavowal of the Elysee. A little later, faced with soaring oil prices, it advises the French to put the bike …. By Christine Lagarde, the French may have first caught his gaffes and his unwavering optimism about the economy. Two and a half years after his appointment to the Ministry of Economy, the most sacred here, however, European finance ministers … Meanwhile, the economic crisis has been there. And made the French minister "a star in the world of finance. Nothing less.And this is not his entourage, who devotes a sincere admiration, who says it. No, it's very Anglo-Saxon Financial Times, publishing its annual list Tuesday of Ministers of the euro area. "No other minister of Finance of a major economy in the world is reached through this years test in such a form" and did so involved "at the international level regarding the regulation and the future banking sector, "said the influential FT.

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