Archives for: February 2010

Evangile dominical / Sunday's Gospel

2010-02-28 | by Son [mail] | Categories: Evangile / Bible
Evangile de Jésus-Christ selon Saint Luc 9,28-36Jésus prit avec lui Pierre, Jean et Jacques, et il alla sur la montagne pour prier.Pendant qu'il priait, son visage apparut tout autre, ses vêtements devinrent d'une blancheur éclatante. Et deux homme… more »

Business this week - Feb 25th 2010

2010-02-27 | by Son [mail] | Categories: France, Finance, Almanach, US, Company news, UK, Industry news
Executives from Toyota faced tough questioning at a congressional hearing into its recall of millions of vehicles. Akio Toyoda, the carmaker’s embattled president, attended the proceedings after initially saying he wouldn’t. He apologised for the safety… more »

Politics this week - Feb 25th 2010

Barack Obama unveiled a document that he hopes will form the basis of the Democrats’ final health-care bill ahead of a televised bipartisan summit. It contains many of the proposals in the Senate version of the bill, but would cost more ($950 billion) an… more »

Evangile dominical / Sunday's Gospel

2010-02-21 | by Son [mail] | Categories: Evangile / Bible
Evangile de Jésus-Christ selon Saint Luc 4,1-13 Après son baptême, Jésus, rempli de l'Esprit Saint, quitta les bords du Jourdain ; il fut conduit par l'Esprit à travers le désert où, pendant quarante jours, il fut mis à l'épreuve par le démon. Il ne m… more »

Business this week - Feb 18th 2010

2010-02-20 | by Son [mail] | Categories: Almanach, US, Company news, Industry news
Barclays reported that pre-tax profit almost doubled in 2009, to £11.6 billion ($18.2 billion). More than £6 billion of that came from the sale of the British bank's fund-management business last summer. Almost half of the rest came from its investment-b… more »

Politics this week - Feb 18th 2010

Coalition troops in Afghanistan mounted their biggest offensive against the Taliban since the start of the eight-year war. Centred on Marja, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, it involved foreign and Afghan forces. The coalition said early stages… more »

Evangile dominical / Sunday's Gospel

2010-02-14 | by Son [mail] | Categories: Evangile / Bible
Evangile de Jésus-Christ selon Saint Luc 6,17.20-26 Jésus descendit de la montagne avec les douze Apôtres et s'arrêta dans la plaine. Il y avait là un grand nombre de ses disciples, et une foule de gens venus de toute la Judée, de Jérusalem, et du lit… more »

Business this week - Feb 11th 2010

Global markets had a rocky time amid worries that the loss of confidence in Greece's ability to tackle its debt crisis alone would spread to other euro-zone countries, particularly Spain and Portugal. Nervous investors awaited news of a possible Greek ba… more »

Politics this week - Feb 11th 2010

Speculation rose ahead of a European Union summit in Brussels that Greece would be offered some sort of financial assistance to help it avoid default on its sovereign debt. Greek public-sector workers went on strike for a day to protest against the gover… more »

Evangile dominical / Sunday's Gospel

2010-02-07 | by Son [mail] | Categories: Almanach
Evangile de Jésus-Christ selon Saint Luc 5,1-11 Un jour, Jésus se trouvait sur le bord du lac de Génésareth : la foule se pressait autour de lui pour écouter la parole de Dieu. Il vit deux barques amarrées au bord du lac ; les pêcheurs en étaient desc… more »

Business this week - Feb 4th 2010

2010-02-06 | by Son [mail] | Categories: Almanach, US, Company news, UK, Industry news
Toyota’s recent troubles worsened. The company has recalled millions of cars in the United States, Europe and China because of potentially faulty accelerator pedals. This week it launched a PR offensive to assure customers that it could fix the problem b… more »

Politics this week - Feb 4th 2010

China reacted angrily to America’s plan to sell $6 billion-worth of weapons to Taiwan. It suspended military contacts, threatened sanctions against American companies involved in the arms sales and said it would review co-operation on international issue… more »

2008 R&D spending by company

2010-02-05 | by Son [mail] | Categories: Company news, Statistics
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