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Wall Street started badly the meeting this Thursday. On opening the Dow Jones lost 0.75% at 10,194 points and the Nasdaq fell by 0.87% to 2172 points. The Exchange NEWYORKAISES is affected by the disappointing numbers of jobs. The U.S. Department of Labor lists because 480,000 new applications for unemployment benefits from January 24 to 30, or 1.7% over the previous week. The indicator has thus regained its level of December 12. It's much more than was expected by analysts, who figures the department would have to show a decline in new listings to 455,000 files.

Moreover, markets can not rely on the monthly sales featureless published by major U.S. retailers.

On the values front, Cisco will be monitored closely.The action of the number one global internet network equipment gained 4% in hours trading Wednesday after the publication of quarterly results, above expectations and with comments upbeat on the prospects for recovery in 2010.

Monster Worldwide also should be surrounded. The Action Group on Internet recruitment gained 2.3% in hours trading Wednesday after the quarterly earnings release and the announcement of the acquisition of HotJobs to Yahoo for $ 225 million in cash.

Athens finally got the good report from Brussels. The European Commission ruled Wednesday that the savings plan acceptable Greek. "The Commission shares the ambitious deficit reduction that the Greek government has set, and the fiscal and structural reforms announced in the stability program," she said in a statement.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, had presented new budget measures, including freezing the salaries of all officials at the last moment on Tuesday evening. The Commission appreciated the welcoming approach.

The approval of Brussels is not a blank check Payday Loan for Bad Credit .The Commission "calls on Greece to explain the tax measures announced and the timetable for their implementation in the coming weeks" and ", more detailed measures to be implemented in 2011 and 2012.

Athens will be placed under surveillance and will be an infringement procedure for lack of reliability of its statistics.

After the announcement of the Commission, the Greek bond yields back down to 6.516% against 6.742% on Wednesday morning around 8:30.

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For the last meeting of the year, the U.S. markets move down slightly: the Dow Jones lost 0.07% at the opening, and the Nasdaq Composite yield 0.08%. The volume should be particularly weak in a few hours and Eve in the absence of significant news on the business side. Entries weekly unemployment have been lower than expected, which could support the trend.

The rise of the euro is lower because of "good" figures of unemployment in the United States. The euro bought 1.4372 dollars against 1.4386 dollars in early morning.

Good indicators Americans support the dollar because they "reinforce expectations of an early withdrawal of measures to support the economy in place by the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed)," explained brokers ETX Capital.

On the currency front, the dollar is declining due to adjustment of positions at year end.Futures on the Nasdaq 100 and S & P 500 are respectively increased by 0.09% to 1878.50 points from 0.14% to 1123.70 points.

As for values to follow, we will keep an eye on Ford. Geely has announced that it was supported by the Chinese government to acquire Volvo, the Swedish subsidiary of Ford Motor. "Without government support, the transaction could not be done," said Gui Chengyu, CEO of Geely Auto, quoted by Reuters. "The ultimate goal is to list Volvo Award," added the officer.The first private Chinese automaker also said it expected robust growth of automobile sector in China next year, with support from Beijing.

AIG has announced the departure of its Legal Director Anastasia Kelly, who was to receive millions of dollars in compensation to départ.Le U.S. government imposed in October cuts in executive pay of the seven companies have been bailed out by the more 'State, including AIG.

A first since 1983 in the United States. The unemployment rate rose above 10% in October, to 10.2%, due to massive destruction of new posts. The U.S. economy has indeed lost 190,000 jobs over the period. Since the beginning of the recession, this brings to 7.3 million the number of jobs destroyed. Statistics released by the Labor Department are well below economists' expectations, which anticipated an unemployment rate close to 10% and job losses a little lower, around 175,000.

For the White House, these figures are "painful proof of the continued weakness in the labor market.President Obama will sign on Friday an extension of unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed.

The number of hours worked do not take off

Another vector for concern: the recovery is not yet so intense it would force companies to increase the number of hours worked. The latter remained taped to 33 hours weekly in October, hours worked throughout the economy has even declined 0.2%. For now, companies are content, therefore increasing the productivity of hours worked, as evidenced yesterday in the Labor Department. The only positive note in this sea of bad news, the number of job losses were revised down for September, with 219.000, against 263,000 originally announced.

If the trend over the last few months remains bonnne, with a decrease in job destruction, we are still far from the inflection point that the U.S. economy will create employment and reduce unemployment. Sign of the economic crisis in the United States: Another index, alternative at the official rate of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those forced to work part time has increased to 17.5%. Either its highest rate since its 1995 record. The task of Barack Obama, elections before the 2010 interim, is therefore difficult. Like the Fed, which had warned Wednesday that weighed the risks still on the recovery. Forecasting the central bank of U.S. unemployment up to 10.1% in 2009 is indeed already expired …

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