Business - Business - Europe News latest news

Selon un recent sondage de Watson Wyatt Worldwide, un chef de file mondial en matière de services-conseils, les employeurs croient qu?il est necessaire d?apporter des changements aux normes comptables en matière de retraite, mais la plupart d?entre eux ne sont pas d?accord avec les changements proposes dans le document d?opinions preliminaires de l?International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). [CANADA - FRENCH]

AFP - The FTSE ended the week sharply lower Friday, with miners suffering the biggest losses amid ongoing concerns over the global economy and disappointing US jobless data.

Russia's stock market fell sharply, in its largest drop since January, as investors sold resource stocks in response to escalating fears for global growth and the sliding price of oil.

AP - German industrial production fell 1.8 percent in July compartede with June, with the three main categories of output showing declines, the ministry of the economy said Friday.

AP - World stock markets fell sharply Friday in the wake of a sell-off on wall street amid mounting concerns about a slumping U.S. economy and its impact on global growth.

The chief executive of the Iceland supermarket chain, has met the leading shareholder in Woolworths to discuss his attempt to buy the company's stores

A raft of bank-owned asset management groups looks set to come on to the market, as institutions hit by the credit crunch search for ways to rebuild their capital bases

Metals companies bore the brunt of heavy selling on Friday as the London market lurched to its worst weekly performance in more than six years

FT.com - Sterling's decline against the dollar showed no signs of slowing this week, but what was more interesting was the reaction of the London market. The FTSE 100 fell 7.1 per cent - its worst weekly performance in percentage terms in more than six years - turning on its head the idea that the UK market performs well during periods of dollar strength.

A Nokia warning that the mobile phone group's share of the handset market will fall in the third quarter piled pressure on European markets