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Boeing announced Wednesday the end of the flight program certification 747-8 Freighter cargo version of the last variation of the successful four-engine Boeing.

Since its first flight in February 2010, the 747-8 Freighter has performed more than 1200 flights and 3400 hours spent in the air.

"We are in the run-up to delivery to our customers," said Elizabeth Lund in a statement, Boeing vice president in charge of the program 747.

The first 747-8 Freighter will be delivered to Cargolux in September, once the device has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Boeing has received 76 orders for the freighter, the unit list price of $ 319 million.This device is the freighter version of the 747-8 Intercontinental to transport passengers.

Axa Private Equity, which has exceeded the threshold of 5% of share capital and voting rights of the Club Méditerranée, would sit on the board of the leisure group, told Reuters on Tuesday a spokesman for the capital center Axa-Investment.

The Financial Markets Authority (AMF) said Tuesday in an opinion after receiving a letter advising Axa Investment Managers Private Equity has surpassed the 5% on July 28 following an acquisition in the market Club Med shares, which it now owns 1,600,608 shares, representing 5.29% of capital and 5.13% of voting rights.

"Consistent with our logic of long-term investor, we plan to request our participation on the board," said a spokesman for AXA Private Equity.

A spokeswoman for Club Med confirmed the threshold crossing but declined to comment on the application for Axa PE on the board.

The leisure group, whose capital is highly fragmented, is regularly the subject of expressions of interest or alleged.

In 2009, the group has been a battle in 2009 between the businessman Bernard Tapie and CEO of Club Med Henri Giscard d'Estaing, followed by a statement the same year the fashion designer Christian Audigier is saying "very interested" in an initial stake in Club Méditerranée.

In 2010, media reports which BMB Group, an investment company in Brunei, would consider a bid for Club Med, have been circulating.The Chinese conglomerate Fosun, which held 9.5% stake in July 31, 2011, for its part, had said last month will strengthen its presence in the French group. (See)

At 17:15, the Action Club Med lost 2.07% to 16.10 euros, a market capitalization of 486.8 million euros. Since the beginning of the year, the title took 4.2%, after rising more than 20% throughout 2010.

Barack Obama announced late Sunday night that the Democratic and Republican leaders had agreed in extremis on raising the U.S. debt ceiling, spreading the risk of the world's largest economy in default of payment.

The agreement, which should be submitted to a vote of both houses of Congress on Monday, provides for drastic reductions in public spending but not tax increases.

The agreement reached after days of negotiations involves a reduction of 1.000 billion dollars in public spending over ten years.A bipartisan commission will also identify ways to reduce the federal deficit by at least 1500 billion dollars.

"There are still some very important upcoming votes in Congress, but I want to announce that the leaders of both parties in both houses have reached an agreement to reduce the deficit and avoid a defect, a defect that would have a devastating effect on our economy, "Obama said during brief remarks to reporters at the White House.

The Democratic president, who called on MPs to "do the right thing" by voting in favor of the compromise, said he would ensure that the U.S. does not relive a similar crisis in 8-12 months, is in full presidential campaign.

He also said that the drastic cuts in public spending would not intervene too quickly, so not to further weaken the weak growth in the U.S. economy.

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"This is not the best deal in the world but it shows how we have changed the terms of debate," said John Boehner, for its part, the "speaker" of the Republican House of Representatives.

The compromise, he said, does not include any tax increases and spending cuts that exceed the expected increase in the ceiling of the debt.

The U.S. Treasury, which in May reached its debt ceiling set at 14 300 billion, Congress needs to borrow more.

He warned that if no agreement is reached after 2 August, the U.S. might not be able to fulfill their obligations vis-à-vis their creditors.

It is now up to leaders of Congress to rally their elected officials.

During a conference call with Republicans elected John Boehner, who wants to submit the agreement to a vote of the representatives on Monday, said the compromise did not violate the principles of the Republican Party.

Nancy Pelosi, who leads the Democrats in the House, it was suggested that the agreement might be difficult to accept by all the elected Democrats, including the left wing of the party who accepts evil without immediate increase of taxes on the wealthiest households and corporations.

Asian markets, the announcement of this compromise was greeted in extremis market share, while gold, traditional safe haven, and the dollar retreated against the yen was appreciating.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei index has surpassed the 10,000 points, gaining 1.84% to 10,013.90 points in mid-session.

"The declarations of Obama might be sufficient for the Nikkei erases losses the past two days, but the gains of the day rather reflect a temporary relief, not a strong confidence," said Tsuyoshi Kawata of Nikko Securities SMBC.

The main concern of financial market concerns about whether the agreement reached in extremis will allow the U.S. to avoid a deterioration in the sovereign debt rating, currently at Triple A.

Threads to reduce the deficit and raise the debt ceiling are apparently still at an impasse. In fact, Democrats have accepted most of the claims of the Republicans seeking a final concession. Explanations. The Republican chairman of the House, John Boehner

Small eight days between the United States of default and financial armageddon that would follow. Nothing to do: Republicans and Democrats still opposed to the terms of a deficit reduction plan to accompany an agreement on raising the debt ceiling, which in May reached its limit of 14,300 billion.

President Barack Obama expressed confidence Monday that a compromise was still possible to avoid that outcome disaster. Except that compromise, the Democrats have done it since the beginning of the crisis. A few months ago they wanted to simply raise the ceiling.He had not reckoned that they needed the agreement of the Republicans, and that they had much benefit from this situation of dependency to require counterparties budget.

The Democrats, therefore, first proposed to reduce the deficit 2.4 trillion, including $ 400 billion would come from tax increases. Faced with the refusal of the Republicans, they then proposed a plan that would reduce the deficit of 4000 billion, of which one billion would come from tax revenues.The Republicans did not want to hear about tax increases, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Harry Reid, came Monday with a plan that gives almost all of the main claims of the Republicans:

First he proposed spending cuts of 2,700 billion over ten years, more than 2,400 billion dollars for raising the debt ceiling needed to operate until 2013.

Then he accepted the creation of a committee charged with developing a bipartisan package of deficit reduction that would be protected against any future amendments or filibuster.

Last but not least, he gave up any new tax measure to achieve its goal of reducing the deficit. Yet Obama had insisted from the beginning the need to raise taxes on the wealthiest households.Monday noon yet, the president said: "we can not only reduce our deficit by cutting spending.

Yet despite all these setbacks, the Republicans continue to reject the proposals Democrats. Critics are rather vague: the president of the House Republican John Boehner, said that the plan is "full of gadgets," he does "no real change in the structure of government expenditure" and not not address the major social programs. He now wants to go further by making voting a constitutional amendment that would impose strict limits on future spending. Exceeded their cause automatic cuts in spending.

In fact, the only real sticking point is purely political: Democrats plan approval of debt enough to hold until 2013, that is to say, which can last until after the presidential election in November 2012.They fear that a similar crisis would set back chances for re-election of Obama. It is precisely for this reason that John Boehner is trying not only to validate an initial recovery. He would escape the non-payment in the short term but would require Obama to revisit a second increase, just to put him in trouble on the campaign trail.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange, which was three consecutive sessions on the rise, finished Monday down 0.81%, amid rise in the yen against the dollar, because of fears about the U.S. debt.

The Nikkei lost 82.10 points to 10,050.01 and the Topix, broader, sold 6.90 points (0.79%) to 861.91.

"The market is nervous because of the risk of a default on U.S. debt, but the values ​​are down Tokyo's gradual and not abrupt, as they keep pace with the gradual rise of the yen," said Fujio Ando, ​​the One of the officials Chibagin Asset Management.

"Investors do not want to sell en masse because they provide the possibility of foreign exchange intervention should the yen appreciates too."

The Tokyo Stock Exchange, however, should benefit from a level of support related to expectations of good quarterly results season.

Pending the results of which markets they believe will demonstrate the recovery of the Japanese economy, the volumes could be low this week on the Nikkei.

Meanwhile, the trend of parity yen / dollar, the greenback was trading against 78.50 yen shortly after the close-penalty groups naturally Japanese exporters.

Toyota has lost 1.35% to 3,290 yen and Sony fell 2.19% to 2,054 yen.

The agency Fitch Ratings said Friday it would put the issuer credit rating of Greece in default after part of the agreement in Brussels between the euro zone leaders on a new aid plan in Athens.

She said the precedent with private participation in the new plan brings together the EU and the IMF, as described by the Institute of International Finance (IIF), an event is "part of default."

A higher score will then be attributed to the Greek sovereign debt and will likely be located in the bottom of the speculative grade, Fitch said.

"Fitch believes that the nature of the private sector is an event of partial default.However, the reduction in interest rates and longer maturities would give Greece the opportunity to return to solvency, despite the enormous challenges it faces, "said David Riley, director of the rating of sovereign debt at Fitch in a statement.

"The agreement signed Thursday is an important and positive step to ensure financial stability in the euro area," he said.

The new aid package to Greece approved Thursday by the leaders of the euro area accounts for some 159 billion euros, of which one third – 50 billion – will come from a voluntary contribution of the private sector through exchange operations bonds (37 billion) and redemption of shares (12.7 billion).

APRR said Wednesday it posted a traffic decrease of 0.8% in the second quarter 2011, impacted by the decline in light vehicle traffic.

In a statement, the operator specifies that the highway truck traffic increased 3.6% over the period while that of light vehicles fell by 1.6%.

The group suffered an unfavorable comparison effect after the second quarter of 2010 particularly suitable for motorway traffic.

"April 2010 had actually been a particularly high traffic with a prolonged strike at the SNCF, disruptions in air traffic related to the Icelandic volcano and good snow conditions in the Alps, unlike in April 2011, "noted APRR.

Turnover excluding construction spring up 2.7% to 504.8 million euros.

At the Paris Stock Exchange, before the publication of these figures, the action APRR finished 46.85 euros, down 0.32%.

Johnson & Johnson reported Tuesday a quarterly profit above expectations and maintained its annual forecast.

Net income for the group in the second quarter reached $ 2.78 billion (1.96 billion euros) or a dollar per share, against $ 3.45 billion, or $ 1.23 per share the year before.

Excluding special items, EPS totaled $ 1.28, surpassing the Thomson Reuters consensus I / B / E / S $ 1.24.

Group sales jumped 8.3% to 16.6 billion dollars against 16.23 billion expected by the markets.The weak dollar has helped boost the growth of sales.

The product group of health and hygiene maintained its forecast range of annual earnings ranging from 4.90 to five dollars per share, representing growth of 5% compared to the results recorded in year last.

The title gained 11 cents to 67.20 dollars in pre-market trading of having closed Monday at 67.09 dollars in New York.

The pressures have intensified on Sunday with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, for it prevents the group Murdoch to acquire pay-TV channel BSkyB, at least until the investigation into the scandal that is the tabloid News of the World is closed.

The best-selling Sunday tabloid in Britain bowed out Sunday by publishing its last issue, following the decision of its owner, News Corporation, not to edit it, given the excitement generated this week in Britain by revelations about his methods somewhat ethical.

News of the World is indeed alleged to have hacked for several years hundreds of voice mail belonging to the stars, to the relatives of soldiers killed in action and a teenage girl abducted and murdered in March 2002.

This case comes at the worst time for the group of Australian-American tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who is engaged in an attempted takeover of BSkyB, an operation estimated at around 10 billion euros.

Sunday, voices were raised in Britain that David Cameron intervenes in this matter.

"It should specify that the file BSkyB can not go further until the investigation is not over," said including the leader of the opposition, Ed Miliband.

The representative of the Labour Party has also said he would submit such an initiative in the House of Commons if ever David Cameron did not do.

But critics are not only coming from the opposition.

Simon Hughes, the vice president of the Liberal Democrats, who are partners in the coalition led by David Cameron called the prime minister to push the stock transaction.

The politician has also called on all members of the "Lib Dems" to do the same.

The budget deficit of Greece increased by 13% over the period from January to May, compared to the comparable period of 2010, exceeding the interim target set by the bailout of the country, said Tuesday the Department of Finance.

This deficit is 10.28 billion euros against 9.1 billion a year earlier, while the goal was indicative of 9.07 billion.

This deficit excludes local government and social security. It is different from the deficit that is the basis for the EU to establish its diagnostic program of economic policy in Greece.

Net revenue declined 7.1% to 18.36 billion euros over the period, while the target was 20.52 billion.Expenses before debt service, increased 4.3% to 21.29 billion euros (target: 19.92 billion euros).

Struck by the austerity, the Greek economy suffered a contraction of 5.5% annually in the first quarter. The EU and the International Monetary Fund has revised its projection of Greek GDP contraction in 2011 last week. It will decrease by 3.8%, against a previous estimate of down 3.0%.