Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Unemployment around the world : How the recession hurts

Goldman Sachs : Desperate to be different

East Asian economies under pressure

Agriculture and agrifood : securing and building the future : proposals for sustainable and healthy agriculture

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Agriculture et agroalimentaire dans la MRC d'Arthabaska [rédaction, Michel Dumas, Sonia Dumoulin, Mario Roy] 2008 (16 pages):

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Agriculture et agroalimentaire dans la MRC de Bécancour un moteur pour l'économie, un secteur en mutation, des enjeux et des défis / [rédaction, Michel Dumas, Sonia Dumoulin, Mario Roy] - Dumas, Michel, technicien agricole - 2008, 16 pages
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Agriculture et agroalimentaire dans la MRC de Drummond un moteur pour l'économie, un secteur en mutation, des enjeux et des défis / [rédaction, Michel Dumas, Sonia Dumoulin, Mario Roy] - Dumas, Michel, technicien agricole - 2008 , 16 pages
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Agriculture et agroalimentaire dans la MRC de l'Érable : un moteur pour l'économie, un secteur en mutation, des enjeux et des défis [rédaction, Michel Dumas, Sonia Dumoulin, Mario Roy] - Dumas, Michel, technicien agricole [*5 doc.] - 2008, 16 pages
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Agriculture et agroalimentaire dans la MRC de Nicolet-Yamaska : un moteur pour l'économie, un secteur en mutation, des enjeux et des défis / [rédaction, Michel Dumas, Sonia Dumoulin, Mario Roy] - Dumas, Michel, technicien agricole - 2008 , 16 pages
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Agriculture et agroalimentaire dans la région du Centre-du-Québec : une position géographique avantageuse, un sol et un climat propices à la plupart des cultures, une industrie de transformation riche et diversifiée - 2008, 16 pages
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Agriculture et agroalimentaire québécois : assurer et bâtir l'avenir : ce qu'on nous a dit [rédaction, Jean Dionne... et al. ; édition, Chantal Tremblay] - 2008, 165 pages
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Agriculture et agroalimentaire québécois : assurer et bâtir l'avenir : études complémentaires [rédaction, Jean-François Aubin... et al. ; édition, Chantal Tremblay] - 2008, 318 pages
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Agriculture et agroalimentaire québécois : assurer et bâtir l'avenir : propositons pour une agriculture durable et en santé [ressource électronique] : rapport de la Commission sur l'avenir de l'agriculture et de l'agroalimentaire québécois ; Commission sur l'avenir de l'agriculture et de l'agroalimentaire québécois - 2008, 274 pages
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Agriculture De bonnes terres sacrifiées

U.S. Planning to Reveal Data on Health of Top Banks

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Counting the toll

THE ECONOMIST : Business this week Apr 8th 2009 From The Economist print edition
America’s unemployment rate rose to 8.5% in March, its highest level in 25 years. More than 5m jobs have been lost since the recession started in December 2007.
A big drop in producer prices and retail sales in the euro area caused some analysts to predict that the European Central Bank will loosen monetary policy further. On April 2nd the ECB reduced its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, less than expected, to 1.25%.
THE ECONOMIST : Business this week
Apr 8th 2009
From The Economist print edition

Sour charity
New York state’s attorney-general accused Ezra Merkin, a hedge-fund manager, of placing clients’ money with Bernard Madoff without telling them. There was no suggestion that Mr Merkin, a prominent Manhattan philanthropist, who invested money for many non-profit organisations, including New York University, knew Mr Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme.


Indian police widened their investigation into alleged fraud at Satyam Computer Services, one of India’s biggest technology companies, arresting three executives in its finance department for an “active role” in the crime. Satyam’s chairman resigned in January after admitting he had overstated profits and hidden liabilities at the company.


The European Commission sent a “statement of objections” to Visa Europe (a separate entity to Visa) regarding the transaction fee paid by retailers’ banks to the banks of their customers. Europe’s antitrust regulators are pushing for change at big credit-card companies, accusing them of acting as a cartel when setting fees. The commission recently reached an agreement with MasterCard to reduce its fees on cross-border payments.


Berry good
Research In Motion’s quarterly earnings cheered investors. The BlackBerry-maker’s profit rose by 26% compared with a year ago, to $518m, and revenue soared by 84%. It added a net 3.9m subscribers, bringing the total number of those who use the popular e-mail device to 25m.


A judge in Hong Kong ruled that Richard Li, the chairman of PCCW, had done nothing wrong when he handed out shares to investors ahead of a vote on his buy-out offer. Shareholders at the telecoms company voted in favour of Mr Li’s proposal, but Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission insists his actions affected the outcome.
The Pentagon proposed capping purchases of Lockheed Martin’s F-22 fighter jets and said it would cancel orders with the company to supply VH-71 presidential helicopters. The programme would have cost taxpayers $13 billion.
PartyGaming reached a settlement with American authorities, agreeing to pay $105m to avoid prosecution for providing online-gambling facilities to American residents. The company, which has its headquarters in Gibraltar, was a darling of the London Stock Exchange after a share offering in 2005, but in October 2006 Congress passed a law that clamped down on internet gaming and PartyGaming’s share price slumped.


HSBC reported that existing shareholders had responded well to its rights issue and bought 96.6% of the shares on offer; the remainder were sold in the market. The bank, one of the few global financial institutions not to request state aid during the crisis, raked in $18.5 billion in new capital through the public offering.
Royal Bank of Scotland said it would cut 9,000 jobs worldwide. Meanwhile RBS’s remuneration report was rejected by 90% of shareholders at the annual meeting. The report included Sir Fred Goodwin’s contentious annual pension of £700,000 ($1m). The bank’s former boss, whose aggressive approach to cost-cutting earned him the nickname “Fred the Shred”, resigned when the bank had to be bailed out.

Ford announcement : debt-for-equity swap programme


The Economist Wednesday April 8th 2009
Ford announced that after a successful debt-for-equity swap programme it had reduced its outstanding automotive debt by $9.9 billion, from $25.8 billion at the end of last year. General Motors and Chrysler are negotiating with their lenders and bondholders to reduce their debt in order to avoid bankruptcy.

The IMF : Mission: possible