Thursday 20 November 2008

Thursday 20 November 2008

You are watching the latest business report from FRANCE 24. The morning bulletins air at 6:15 (GMT+2) and 9:45 am Monday to Friday, with the evening edition at 20:15 (GMT+2).
BUSINESS REPORTS    
General Motors, a century of American classics Global credit crunch spells uncertainty for Airbus
THE BUSINESS INTERVIEW    
J-P. Fitoussi, Chairman, French Economic Observatory (OFCE) Edmund Phelps, Nobel Prize laureate in Economics
FOCUS BUSINESS    
Industry: secret research Patrick Kron, Alstom chairman and CEO
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 09H00Rolls-Royce plans up to 2,000 job cuts in 2009Rolls-Royce, the British maker of plane engines, said Thursday it anticipated cutting between 1,500 ...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 08H40US seeks 300 billion dlrs from Gulf states: reportThe United States has asked four oil-rich Gulf states for close to 300 billion dollars to help it cu...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 08H20GM launches 'product offensive' in China: state mediaUS automaker General Motors has unveiled an "unprecedented" number of new models in China, where it ...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 08H00Asia-Pacific nations tackle economic crisisTop officials from the Asia-Pacific region were Thursday to urge joint efforts to overcome the world...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 06H20China Internet giant Baidu's stock price dives amid allegationsShares in China's Nasdaq-listed Internet giant Baidu have dived more than a third amid allegations i...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 06H20China says employment situation 'critical'China warned Thursday it was facing serious unemployment problems due to the global economic crisis,...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 06H00US economic woes deepen after data, Fed outlookThe already grim US economic outlook took another turn for the worse Wednesday as data highlighted r...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 05H00Lawmakers clash in debate over automaker bailoutDemocrats in the US Congress proposing an additional 25-billion-dollar bailout for ailing automakers...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 03H00APEC ministers back G20 trade pushAPEC leaders meeting in Peru are to push to revive moribund global trade talks by the end of the yea...
Thursday 20 November 2008 - 01H40IMF approves 2.1 billion dollar loan for IcelandThe International Monetary Fund announced Wednesday that its executive board approved a loan of 2.1 ...
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