The world's highest
bridge, in France's Massif Central region, is inaugurated by
President Jacques Chirac
EdF
chief unveils strategy with focus on Europe Pierre
Gadonneix, Electricité de France chairman, has set his sights on a
European strategy, even though this will incur financial commitments
of up to €56bn over three years. 22:24 |
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Wall
Street shrugged off an increase in interest rates on Tuesday
by the US Federal Reserve and news of a record trade deficit
to edge higher by mid-afternoon. Trading was lifted by merger
talk and an upbeat report on the chip sector. 21:35 | Read
President Bush will
meet business leaders and economists at an “economic summit”
in Washington on Wednesday. But behind the scenes, a fierce
argument is brewing over his plans for an overhaul of Social
Security and for sweeping tax reform - which together amount
to a remaking of America's social contract. 21:21 | Read
The
Sunni Arab push against January’s Iraqi poll is not about the
injustice of foreign occupation. If it were, Shia, Kurds and
moderate Sunni would join the fight. It is a function of Iraq's
sectarian struggle, says journalist and author Bartle Bull . 20:22 | Read
Any
successful merger will reduce choice in the market. Users and
investors will therefore require tangible benefits in return, writes
Angela Knight CEO of Britain’s Association of Private Client
Investment Managers and Stockbrokers.
20:44 | Read
Credible
policies will break dollar's fall The recent decline is best
seen as a wake-up call for governments to tackle global imbalances
and strengthen their own economies, writes Raghuram Rajan, economic
counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF. 20:13 | Read
The international
ambitions of al-Manar, the satellite television station owned
by Shia militant group Hizbollah, suffered a setback when a
French court gave Eutelsat 48 hours to end the station’s
broadcasts. 17:51 | Read
If economies are
not to stagnate, new companies have to spring up and old ones
have, occasionally, to disappear. But we all lose something
when old companies go. That is why we should learn from the
survival of IBM. 18:48 | Read
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