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Airbus has received orders for aircraft Jan. 91, again dominated by the single-aisle A320 family which are largely due to sales performance record of the European aircraft manufacturer in 2011.

The EADS subsidiary, which recorded no cancellation last month, has garnered particular orders for 52 A320s and 32 A319, according to the monthly statement issued Monday.

The U.S. company Spirit Airlines confirmed last Wednesday an order for 75 A320s, valued at seven billion dollars (5.3 billion) at list prices, including 45 units of A320neo, improved version of the single-aisle Airbus flagship, which had already been recorded in 2011.

Airbus also recorded in January an order for 51 single-aisle aircraft from the Colombian company AviancaTaca. 

The company UAE Etihad Airways has on his side past the end of January a firm order for two A330-200F freighters.

Airbus has sold almost twice as many planes as Boeing in 2011, after winning his bet with a more fuel efficient version of its A320. European and delivered more planes than its U.S. rival for the ninth consecutive year, recognizing that it would have trouble keeping the commercial advantage in in 2012.

Airbus, which is 600 to 650 orders this year after a net total over 1,400 units in 2011, suggested that Boeing would win the race this year for the first time since 2006.

Airbus expects to deliver approximately 570 aircraft in 2012, of which 37 have already been delivered to customers in January.

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The French Building Federation says the crisis and the austerity measures will be expensive jobs. Last year, the sector had created 9000, after losing 20,000 in 2010. Volume, the activity is expected to fall 1.9% in 2012, after increasing 1.2% in 2011 and fell 3.8% in 2010.

The construction sector is expected to lose 35,000 jobs in 2012 due to financial crisis and austerity, who "broke" the upturn in the sector in 2011, said Tuesday the French Federation of the building FFB. In 2011, the sector had the opposite created 9,000 jobs, after losing 20,000 in 2010, including acting."The crisis of public debt in euro area and fiscal adjustment policies have shattered the movement of bringing economic recovery and still bears a few months, the quantitative improvement of our markets," said the president of the FFB, Didier Ridoret at a press conference.

Volume, the activity is expected to fall 1.9% in 2012, after increasing 1.2% in 2011 and fell 3.8% in 2010, said Didier Ridoret. It is expected to decline in all areas, with a 2.8% decline in new housing, 1% in the nine non-residential housing, and 1.7% improvement in maintenance. While in 2008 and 2009 the use of the building had been "preserved", "dyke will drop" in 2012 with a script "close to that of year 1990, which will permanently affect the production system," warned the FFB.

The European Commission said it wanted to preserve the stability of the euro area as a whole and said to disagree with the rumors point to a stability pact between the States the strongest. The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (here at a press conference in Brussels April 13, 2011)

The European Commission on Monday rejected categorically any option that would lead to "break" the euro area into several groups, while news reports indicate possible projects in this direction in Germany and France. "The goal is to preserve the unity of the euro area," said a spokesperson for the Economic and Monetary Affairs, Amadeu Altafaj, during a press conference."If the ultimate goal is to safeguard the stability of the euro area, it is clear that fragmentation does not serve this purpose, any proposal must be based on preserving the unity of the euro area," Has he added.

The German press reported over the weekend of a proposed stability pact reinforced for only a few countries of the monetary union and an option to create Eurobonds limited to only those countries benefiting from the best rating (Triple A). The latter project was denied Monday by the German government. The spokesman also assured the Commission preferred the "Community method", which places the center of decision-making institutions representing the European Union as a whole, as the Commission or Parliament, not a group of States .

The German group E. ON community service expects to eliminate nearly 11,000 jobs, or about 14% of its workforce, to reduce its costs after the Berlin decision to phase out nuclear by 2022.

This figure is at the top of the range between 9000-11000 items discussed by the group last August, when the announcement of a restructuring of its operations.

"In the present state of our preliminary assessments, the number of jobs to be eliminated will be in the top of the announced range from 9,000 to 11,000," said the world number one industry by turnover.

The German group had 79,457 employees at the end of September.

The head of the mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Greece said Friday that substantial progress had been made, adding that there were important issues to discuss.

Poul Thomsen said he hoped that the review of the situation in Athens ends soon, stressing that the time had not yet come.

"We're not yet at the stage of conclusion," he told reporters.

"I hope we will soon conclude on a positive note, but we're not there yet."

The number of Americans entering the unemployment fell to a low of five months last week, and growth figures for the second quarter were revised upward, leaving the markets expect a recession is ultimately not to fear.

The number of jobless rose to 391,000 last week, against 428,000 the one before, said Thursday the Labor Department. This figure is well above expectations, as economists on average had forecast 420,000 jobless.

The Labor Department noted, however, that its adjustments for seasonal variations may have overstated the decline in enrollment.Revised data will be published next Thursday with the first estimate figures this week.

Commerce has meanwhile announced that growth in gross domestic product (GDP) reached 1.3% in the second quarter, according to final figures.

Its previous estimate was counting on only 1.0% growth.So a return to the first estimate, which already provided 1.3% before being downgraded.

Analysts had expected an upward revision, but not as pronounced, with a final figure of 1.2%.

Consumer spending and the trade figures have finally proved better than expected.

GDP figures "suggest that the U.S. economy entered the third quarter in a position a little better.These encouraging news is reinforced by the decline more marked than expected jobless claims, which casts further doubt on the likelihood of a return to recession, "said Joe Manimbo, an analyst at Travelex Global Payments in Washington.

CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM

Political tensions between the United States the Democratic administration and the Republican side, a majority in the House of Representatives, coupled with the impact of the debt crisis in Europe, have eroded confidence and fears of a return of U.S. U.S. recession.

The cautious optimism of economists now expects a further contraction of GDP will be avoided.Production companies continue to grow because, although at a slower pace since the beginning of the recovery.

In detail, the revised figures show, in fact more of a slower growing economy as a future recession.

Export growth is better than initially estimated at 3.6% instead of 3.1%.That of imports, however, is lower at 1.4% against 1.9%.

The trade deficit is lower, and foreign trade contributed to GDP by 0.24 percentage point.

These data support Wall Street, which evolved up to 1600 GMT, while the dollar went further against the yen and the price of Treasuries retreated.

U.S. debt is regarded as a safe investment and attractive in times of uncertainty, but less coveted when the economy recovers.

All indicators are not provided to green the U.S., and the gloom is still required from contractors, according to a study by the Institute "Business Roundtable" and published on Thursday.

According to the report, the outlook for business had deteriorated for the third quarter, and the number of those planning to cut jobs over the next six months more than doubled, from 11% in the second quarter to 24%.

They are more than 65% against 87% three months ago, to provide an increase in sales and only 32% instead of 61% plan to increase their investments.

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For almost three weeks as global stock markets loosen. The CAC 40 has lost 22% since July 22. After a strong rally Thursday, the Paris Stock Exchange Friday widened its losses. Bank stocks were particularly severe since Wednesday because of speculation about a possible loss of the triple A rating of France. Societe Generale, which lost nearly 15% Wednesday, asked the AMF to investigate rumors that she believes she suffered.

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The clap of thunder: the loss of "AAA" American

Standard and Poor's downgraded by one notch on July 5 the U.S. debt rating of "AAA" to "AA +". A historic first for the country. In fact, the agreement reached in extremis August 2 to Congress to raise the ceiling of the debt and avoid default has not satisfied the rating agency.It is estimated that the compromise between Republicans and Democrats is not nearly enough to reduce debt astronomical U.S., which reached 14,300 billion.

Given the position in the global economy of the most powerful and safe haven status of the dollar, the main international reserve currency, the S & P's decision could be devastating for the entire global finance. The announcement did not fail to create a renewed tension in the exchanges.Ironically, investors remain confident in the ability of the United States to honor their debts: U.S. borrowing are still very popular and their rates have not risen.

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The context of substance: the fears of another recession

The markets are worried about the health of the global economy. As well as one side of the Atlantic than the other, the news is bad. United States doubts about the strength of the economy are stronger every day, with the accumulation of worrying signs. There is talk of increasing the risk of the economy falling back into recession, the "double dip recession." GDP grew by only 1.3% in the first half and unemployment remains very high level of 9.1%.But the S & P's decision to degrade the American note is likely to further seal the U.S. economy. For focusing on the debt problem, it prevents the state to implement the fiscal stimulus that would be needed in the short term to strengthen the recovery. So the Fed that holds the ammunition last, that of monetary stimulus. She has pledged Tuesday to keep rates near zero until 2013 and continue to buy treasury bills as those they would hold to maturity.

In Europe, Spain and Italy posted increases of 0.2% winded and 0.3% in the second quarter. France does no better: After starting the year with a bang, French growth was zero in the second quarter and unemployment started to rise.The global recovery is no longer as strong as it appeared in 2010.

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The contagion of the crisis of debt in the euro area continues

The markets are finally tormented by the fear of contagion from the crisis in Greece to Italy and Spain, heavily indebted, and which together account for 30% of European GDP. Therefore, the rates at which these two countries were borrowing at record levels. In fact, the second Greek rescue plan developed in July is still not enough to reassure markets. Although eager to pass the baton to the relief fund, the ECB has once again agreed to put out the fires and expressed its readiness Sunday to buy the debt if the Spanish and Italian investors withdraw.To make matters worse, the note of Cyprus has been degraded by the three rating agencies. According to Fitch, the island now needs a rescue package of the EU.

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EuropaCorp, the production company of Luc Besson, Thursday reaffirmed its goal of a return to balance for the current year, despite a sharp decline in sales in the first quarter.

The group of film production and distribution, which has suffered a loss of more than 30 million euros in the previous year, in particular, suffered from the sharp decline in revenue in French cinemas.

In the first quarter (April-June), they reached 2.1 million against 5.6 million in the corresponding period of 2010, despite the release of "The Tree of Life", Palme d'Or at Cannes.The latest installment of director Terrence Malik has exceeded 800,000 entries at the end of June, EuropaCorp said in a statement.

Throughout the first quarter, its sales totaled 19.2 million, against 23 million during the same period last year, down 16.5%.

The television business in France, however, pulls out of the game with a jump of 60.5% of its revenue to EUR 6.1 million, bolstered by the signing of agreements for the distribution on the small screen "Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec".

The group reaffirms its objective to return to profitability by the end of the year with the implementation of its strategic plan which includes a reduction in overhead costs and more rigorous management and the development of productions for television.

Before the publication of results, the stock closed Thursday at 3.20 euros to balance a market capitalization of 65 million euros. Since the beginning of the year it was down almost 30%.

The current account deficit of France fell in June to 3.4 billion euros from 5.5 billion in May, by improving the balance of trade in goods, the provisional figures published show Wednesday by Banque de France.

The deficit of trade in goods fell to 5.8 billion from 7.5 billion the previous month.

In addition, the surplus in services trade increased to $ 1.5 billion from $ 0.8 billion.

The balance of revenues decreased slightly to 3.1 billion euros from 3.4 billion in May while the deficit on current transfers remained stable at 2.2 billion.

The financial account showed net outflows of direct investment rose to 6.2 billion euros from 2.8 billion in May.

French direct investment abroad stand for the month of June to 7.3 billion and investments of nonresidents in France to 1.1 billion, the Bank of France said in a statement.

Portfolio investment recorded net inflows of 69.8 billion euros residents reduced their holdings of 41.9 billion while non-residents to make purchases of French securities to 27.9 billion.

Other investment posted net outflows of 49.0 billion after net inflows of 24.3 billion in May.

Oil prices have closed on a fall of almost 6.5% Monday in New York, the black gold with world stock markets suffered as the decision of Standard & Poor's to lower the credit rating of the United States.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), the September contract on the U.S. crude (WTI) ended on a loss of 5.57 dollars, or 6.41% to 81.31 dollars a barrel.Meanwhile, Brent yielded 5.19%, or 5.68 dollars to 103.69 dollars.

Brent, which displays and a decline of more than 10 dollars since the beginning of August, fell below its moving average of 200 days.

"The consequences of the deterioration of the U.S. S & P, also degrades the world oil market," said Phil Flynn, analyst at PFGBest Research.

The S & P's decision has exacerbated investor concerns about the state of demand for crude in the United States, world's largest consumer of oil.