Deal-makers set sights on turbulent French market
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THE year 2005 is looking like a lucrative one for investment bankers. With equity markets in healthy shape and the need for reform greater than ever, investors are betting on a resurgence of deals.
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French stocks were volatile Tuesday amid a little-moved index, as more evidence of struggling sales pressured automakers while retailers climbed amid the loosening of some price pressure concerns.
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French retailer Carrefour and chip groups helped European shares hold their ground on Wednesday, and merger moves in the construction sector lent support.
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France may push to merge EADS with Thales.
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Exchange officials warned Societe Generale about rogue trader Jerome Kerviel's deals late last year, a Paris prosecutor said, piling pressure on the French bank to explain why his trades were not discovered sooner.
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France and Russia sign deals in the transport and aviation sectors worth more than $10bn.
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PARIS : French companies and farmers have reeled in deals reportedly worth up to five billion euros (dollars) in China during a state visit to the country by President Jacques Chirac, but executives were said to be disappointed that bigger business was
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France appeared on a collision course  with the European Union on Thursday after Brussels warned Paris  not to interfere with any foreign bids for Societe Generale in  the wake of its rogue trading losses.
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PARIS, Oct 17  - European stock markets could be heading for a patch of rough water with the introduction of new accounting standards, analysts are warning, saying that stock prices could be bounced around and initial public offerings held back.
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Lesser-known French retailer turns in a strong first half. Investors, take notice.
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Finance ministers from Britain, Germany, France and Italy met here on Thursday to discuss a common European strategy to confront turbulence on the financial markets.
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France's embattled wine industry is to receive a multi-million euro aid package from to make it more competitive.
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Business & money: French desperate to keep bank out of foreign hands
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Wall Street banks, private equity firms and hedge funds are increasingly trying to arrange and finance entertainment deals.
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The German and French financial  watchdogs said on Thursday they were looking into recent  trading by U.S. financial services group Citigroup C.N in  European government bond and derivative markets.
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France's embattled wine industry is to receive a multi-million euro aid package  to make it more competitive.
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