French firms sign big deals with China but lament the ones that got away
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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 not won.
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Rumors are rife in France that the beleaguered bank Soci&#201;t&#201; G&#201;n&#201;rale will be acquired by a hostile rival
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Markets in London, Paris and Frankfurt plunge on fears that China's stellar growth could slow.
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Big Asian companies are increasingly interested in investing in China, India and Vietnam while their appetite for investments in the U.S. is starting to fade.
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PARIS President Jacques Chirac of France will return from a lavish five-day state visit to China on Tuesday with industrial orders worth more than $4 billion, a success that is not going unnoticed in neighboring European countries and may intensify
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President Jacques Chirac of France declared Saturday that France was a natural trade partner for China and, during a flurry of air, rail and energy deals, he played down
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Business & money: French desperate to keep bank out of foreign hands
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BRUSSELS, Feb 8 (IPS) - The massive deal that China signed with the  Democratic Republic of Congo last year is not the "second  colonisation" that some Europeans allege it is. The agreement  appears, in fact, a promising way to kick-start an economy.
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Urged on by China's government and armed with credit from state-owned banks and stock market listings, many Chinese manufacturers are going global.
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French state-run company Areva  (CEPFi.PA) has unexpectedly agreed a $5 billion deal to build  two nuclear power plants in China weeks after a U.S. rival  appeared to have won a competition that dragged on for more  than two years.
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French President Jacques Chirac declared on Saturday that France was a natural trade partner to China and, amid a flurry of air, rail and energy
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Selling high-wage Germany to outside investors isn't an easy job these days. Unless, curiously enough, the foreign business executives come from low-wage China.
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France on Thursday hailed the planned signing here Friday by China Southern Airlines of a deal to acquire five Airbus A380 aircraft as both a political and economic triumph.
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Shanghai is selling off assets of more than 40 state-owned companies, including electronics firms, a hotel and a stake in a major brokerage, hoping to bring in more foreign financing and expertise, the city says.
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PARIS  - French companies were counting some four billion euros (&#36;5 billion US) in spoils after President Jacques Chirac used an official visit to China to boost economic ties in a bid to prevent France from being left behind in the emerging Asian superpower's markets.
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Itâs somewhat of a mystery why the Italian fashion industry continues to putter along while China, Eastern Europe, India and even France go whizzing past.
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Struggling French heavy engineering company Alstom signed contracts worth up to one billion euros (1.23 billion dollars) in China for the delivery of trains and locomotives, the company said.