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It is the global rush on atomic reactors. Nicolas Sarkozy opened Monday morning an international conference on access to civilian nuclear technology that would bring together a thousand participants including some forty foreign ministers and the new Director General of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), Japan Yukiya Amano.

Not less than sixty States have shown in recent years with the Vienna their desire for nuclear reactors to generate electricity payday advance online . "The expectation in these countries is very strong," said an organizer of the conference. Iran and North Korea, which have violated their international obligations, have not been invited to Paris, unlike Syria and Libya.

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Friendly atmosphere in Berlin between Christine Lagarde and his German counterpart Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble, who met Monday for a preparatory meeting at the Brussels summit. Certainly, the French minister still can not correctly pronounce the name of his neighbor, but for the rest, they gave the image of a pair perfectly consistent.

"It is for us to strengthen the Franco-German base and we consult on the question of the stability pact. We have also given our views on oversight of the financial system, "said the minister, Wolfgang Schäuble before takes the floor:" I'll just translate what Ms Lagarde said earlier, "joked the former Minister of Interior of the previous government Merkel.

On the merits, the ministers argued over several issues.They first agreed to establish a "common agenda" on a range of topics (G20 finance …). They then discussed access to bank credit for SMEs. If both countries have said that there was no reason to fear a "credit crunch", they agreed to "proposals" together. To this end, France and Germany will "exchange of experts".

Public finances have also been at the heart of discussions on Monday. The replacement of the Social Democrat Peer Steinbrueck, highly appreciated by Christine Lagarde, told the good news: the country's deficit this year would be 10 billion less than expected.For Axel Weber, Bundesbank president and also present at the meeting with his French counterpart, Christian Noyer, it "could allow Germany to return in 2012 in the nails of the European stability pact."

"Semantic shift"

The France is also changing its official position on the thorny issue of public finances. There are a few more days, Prime Minister François Fillon and 2014 set the deadline back to a deficit below 3% of GDP, with an "effort to reduce more than 1% per year. On Monday, Christine Lagarde said she supported the goal of reducing the French deficit to 3% by 2013. One year before the date officially adopted by Paris so far."If the situation is bad, we can not achieve this goal, was still eager to clarify the French Minister.

It may be a "semantic shift" – dixit Bercy – compared to what was the prime minister, but the political signal sent to our European partners and the Commission is far from negligible. Last week, the Brussels executive had asked to return to France from 2013's deficit in the nails of the Stability Pact. She considered him already granted an extension from its requirements of spring, because of "the deteriorating economic situation."

Finally, the question of the Presidency of the Eurogroup, "we will discuss in the coming weeks," said Christine Lagarde.

Around 12:15, the CAC 40 gained 0.05% to 3816.48 points. Operators are focused on companies that have released their quarterly results, like EDF, GDF, Rexel or Euro Disney.

On the macroeconomic front, the United States publish entries to unemployment benefits weekly at 14.30 and oil stocks weekly 17 hours.

The current account deficit narrowed in September to -3.7 billion euro in France, thanks to an improvement in the situation of trade in goods, says the Bank of France.

Within the Cac 40, the car jumped and financials slip

PSA Peugeot Citroen (5.34%) recorded the largest increase in the Cac 40. The automaker revised "markedly higher" earnings guidance for 2009.It now expects operating profit to breakeven in the second half and free cash flow positive for the year.

Rival Renault take this advertisement and allows itself 3.43%.

However, financials are misguided. The insurer Axa yields 1.49%. Topping the list of the most marked declines in the Cac 40, the title insurer is followed by banking stocks Credit Agricole (-0.98%) and BNP Paribas (-0.76%). Societe Generale fell by 0.69%. Out Cac 40, Natixis escaped this trend and advance of 2.06%.

EDF (-0.47%) achieved a turnover up 2.9% to 13.4 billion euros in Q3. The group said its production of electricity would be set back significantly over the year.

GDF Suez (-0.07%) post an operating profit down 2.7% to 10.1 billion euros in Q3.

Vietnam Airlines and EADS (+4.02%) signed an agreement in principle for the delivery of 4 Airbus A380, said Marwan Lahoud, vice president of European Aeronautic.

Eurofins Scientific achieves the highest increase in the DTH

Eurofins Scientific jumped to 11.96%, and grants itself as the largest increase in the SRD. The net group result increased by 31% to 5.9 million over the 3rd quarter, against 4.5 million euros in the third quarter of 2008.

Air France gained 2.23% after submitting the tender medium-mail that it will implement in April 2010 in order to meet the low costs airlines.

Atari (-10.16%) was sanctioned after lowering its profit target for the second half, to become an operating profit "to balance or slightly negative."The former Infogrames presented for the first half revenues up 25.7% to 68.5 million euros and a net loss of 23.2 million Euros.

The turnover of Rexel (0.95%) decrease of 19.4% on a comparable basis to 2.793 billion euros in Q3.

The net loss after minority interests of Euro Disney (-12.2%) for 2008-2009 increased to 55.5 million euros against a loss of 2.8 million in 2007-2008. Turnover 2008-2009 spring to 1.23 billion euros, against 1.32 billion in 2007-2008.

According to the Echos, the bidders for the transmission and distribution subsidiary of Areva (0.79%) each offer about 4 billion euros. Toshiba has offered 4.2 billion euros, General Electric and Alstom tandem-Schneider Electric, 4 billion.

In the third quarter, Pharmagest Inter @ ctive (+8.28%) achieved a turnover of 18.88 million euros, an increase of 12.7% over the same period last year.

Danger on the accounts of the Association for the management of the guarantee scheme of employee claims, AGS. This organization employer advance loans to businesses, where backup, reorganization or liquidation, are no longer enough cash to pay the salaries of their employees, their benefits or even dismissal. In twelve months from October 2008 to end September 2009, the advances made by the AGS soared 47.9% to just under 2 billion euros. The number of beneficiaries has increased from 42.5% to just under 300 000 people.

"The strong growth of our business stems completely from the crisis justifies Météyé Thierry, the director of the delegation Unedic-AGS.We had to manage since the beginning of large media files such as the Camif. The caseload of over 100 employees and is also up sharply: 175 between the early and end of October, against 140 for all 2008 and 120 in 2007. Conversely, the amount of debts recovered caps (when business conditions recovered or recovering the amounts advanced on assets sold in liquidation). In one year, they have barely exceeded 600 million, a decrease of 3.7%. "The recoveries are increasingly difficult to operate," notes Thierry Météyé.

Given the imbalance, the SFA has decided to increase again by 0.1 point premium rate business in early October, to move it to 0.4% of payroll.This would double the rate in six months, exceeding the 700 million currently collected! "This represents a significant increase for businesses, recognizes Thierry Météyé. But it was necessary to meet rising demands in advance. "

Deficit of 215 million

Result, the AGS has a deficit of around 215 million euros. The agency hopes to fill with increasing revenue contribution in early 2010, with an increase in rates and stabilization of recovery levels.

Another note of hope: the decline of almost 40% in the third quarter of 2009 the number of collective proceedings opened. "The trend is particularly pronounced in September," said the SFA. Ditto on the number of backup procedures requiring the intervention of the SFA. In one quarter, they fell almost 20%."We're in a phase of stability," said Thierry Météyé.

"To wage increases in 2010

"Half of the executives were increased in 2008