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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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After Numéricable cable operator, it is the turn of the supplier Alice offer a so-called Triple Play, includes in a single package the internet, television and telephone for less than 20 euros (19.99 euros). This offer has just been launched is reserved for new subscribers to access broadband internet dedicated, unlimited calls to landline numbers in 60 destinations and 60 television stations.

The parent company also owns the Iliad ISP Free, used to practice low price to differentiate themselves from competition (pioneer Tripe Play offers 30 euro launched in 2002).Last September, Numéricable announced the launch of its triple play offer to 19.90 euros per month, which will take effect within days.

If consumers see a good eye that price war among operators to reduce their bill each time, lower tariffs may lead to a loss of associated services, such as controversial after-sales services, including quality has often been lacking in the area.

The results from Wal-Mart were already well wonder at the height of the financial crisis, they could only be better when the U.S. economy begins its recovery. The world leader in the distribution has announced Thursday that it earned in the third quarter sales up 1.1% to 98.67 billion dollars. Sales to U.S. store constant and excluding fuel have instead declined by 0.4%, where analysts had expected an increase of 0.4%.

Net income meanwhile rose by 3.2% over one year to 3.239 billion dollars. Reported to share, earnings reached $ 0.84, three cents higher than a forecast analysts. The group had said it expected earnings per share from continuing operations of between 0.78 and $ 0.82 for the third quarter.

In contrast, the group is cautious in the fourth quarter disappointed observers. Wal-Mart says and expects to post earnings per share from continuing operations of between 1.08 and $ 1.12, while analysts on average expect a figure of $ 1.12. In exchange for pre-market action shrank by 0.6% to 52.45 dollars to 13h20.

Hard times for airlines. The British Airways announced Friday a loss of 271 million pounds in the first half of its fiscal year end in September shifted. Compared with 49 million loss in the first half of 2008, this figure has more than quadrupled.

The CEO of the company, Willie Walsh, said that the entire airline industry "remained in recession", citing estimates from IATA, the global association of air, which anticipates a total loss of 11 billion dollars in the sector this year.

The group said in the same time it would accelerate its cost-saving measures and increasing its job cuts. "With a turnover that might reduce one billion pounds this year, we can not stand idly by and further cost reductions are essential," said Willie Walsh.3,000 jobs would be affected by March 2010 by the deletions.

Following these publications, the action of the group rose 6% to 198 pence at about 11:00 am

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