L’actualité de la crise: SORTIE PAR LE HAUT Billet invité. Sortir par le haut d’une crise qui se poursuit selon des rebondissements sans fin est une question que l’on ose à peine formuler, à laquelle on s’essaye encore moins à répondre tellement elle paraît, à tort, hors de portée. La fort sombre sortie par le bas qui nous est présentée comme inévitable est moins indécise, en dépit de précautions oratoires ou de délais électoraux de circonstance. Visible en filigrane quand elle n’est pas encore revendiquée, elle est composée de plans de réduction accélérés de la dette publique, assortie de sévères mesures d’austérité durables, d’une récession économique prolongée et de l’élargissement d’une financiarisation destinée à renouveler les terrains de jeu de la finance. Le décor est planté, est-il pour autant incontournable ? Nous sommes entrés dans la phase II de la crise. Dégonfler la dette publique devient une nécessité, la dette privée n’ayant pas attendu pour faire de même en raison de l’impécuniosité avérée des débiteurs.
European markets recover, UK paper apologises for Société Générale rumours European markets picked up on Thursday morning after Wednesday’s fall, which was largely prompted by rumours that France was set to follow the US in losing its AAA credit rating. France’s Cac 40 bounced back after plunging 5.45 per cent Wednesday. The French government indignantly denied the credit-rating rumour yesterday, apparently reassuring the markets although economic indicators are still poor with unemployment rising again in May and June to 9.7 per cent. Société Générale’s shares were briefly suspended after losing 22.5 per cent at one point Wednesday and finishing the day 14.74 down. France’s second-largest bank, after BNP, was almost driven out of business thanks to rumours that it was on the brink of collapse. On Thursday evening, after Société Générale boss Frédéric Oudéa toured French media denouncing the report as “pure fantasy”, the paper printed an apology stating that it was untrue. French banks, including Société Générale, are heavily exposed to Greek and Italian debt.
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Les agences de notation, comment ça marche Pas un jour dans l’actualité de cette semaine où ne viennent surgir des sigles aussi cryptiques pour le profane que AAA, AA+, BB+. Ceux-ci sont aussi mal connus que puissants puisque les différentes dégradations de notation (rating) effectuées cette semaine par Standard & Poors (S&P) ont produit des effets extrêmement forts : hausse des taux d’emprunt de la Grèce à près de 10%, baisse de l’Euro, forte baisse des bourses européennes voire mondiales, crise européenne attisée par la peur d'un début de scénario de chute des dominos. En effet, des fameux PIGS (Portugal, Ireland/Italy, Greece, Spain), trois d’entre eux sont touchés par les abaissements de notes et les hausses de taux d’intérêts. Hier déjà, Angela Merkel renâclait à prêter à la Grèce, freinée en cela par une opinion publique majoritairement hostile (n’ayant pas envie que le bon élève allemand, ayant consenti des sacrifices – notamment via les lois Hartz IV – ne paye pour les mauvais élèves de la classe). Quelles solutions ?
Paris property prices rocket A study of Paris and its suburbs compiled by notaries, who are responsible for property conveyancing in France, shows the biggest increase in prices for 20 years. The average price per square metre in the capital is now 8150 euros. The cheapest district is the racially and socially mixed 19th arrondissement on the northeastern edge of Paris at 6 350 euros per square metre. The 6th arrondissement, site of the Jardin de Luxembourg, and the shops of St. Germain des Prés, still associated with France's left-wing intellectuals, is now ironically the capital's most expensive area. It costs over 10 000 euros per square metre in nearly all of central Paris (Ist, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th arrondissements.) Experts say that prices will now stabilise after a springtime peak in sales.
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China takes on the big three ratings agencies The dragon expands its influence. Photo: Reuters With the recent downgrading of the credit ratings of nine euro zone nations by Standard and Poor's - including the cherished triple-A rank for France - the big three ratings agencies have not been winning new friends. And the latest salvos have been fired from a rather unexpected quarter, China, whose own fiscal strength (as we saw here yesterday) is the envy of much of the world. Along with S&P, Moody's and Fitch control more than 90 per cent of the international credit rating market - a dominance that is beginning to irk Beijing. The Chinese central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, aka Mr Renminbi and Euromoney's Central Banker of the Year, is among those unhappy with the big three. Advertisement Mr Zhou warned Chinese companies to rely less on the credit assessments of the three giants and urged them to do more of their own due diligence. "When a company runs into trouble, its credit rating will be ruthlessly downgraded. Enter the Dagong
Hundreds of protestors held in anti-Wall Street New York demo Some of those arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday were released after a few hours, while others could be held for a day or could receive a court summons, police said. Activists belonging to the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement, many of whom have been camped out in Manhattan for two weeks, were detained during their latest and biggest demonstration so far. The movement said it had staked its ground in downtown Manhattan "as a symbolic gesture of our discontent with the current economic and political climate." The anti-Wall Street activists began their campaign by occupying Zuccotti Park, in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, on 17 September and have since held protests outside the New York Stock Exchange and NYPD headquarters. Saturday's protest forced authorities to shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for several hours as police placed protestors in handcuffs while others chanted slogans. According to organizers, around 3,000 people marched outside the bank.
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Dans les coulisses de la crise de l'euro La zone euro n’est pas seule pour affronter des marchés déchaînés qui considèrent désormais que la Grèce, l’Irlande ou le Portugal sont des pays plus risqués que le Vietnam, l’Égypte, l’Argentine, le Maroc… Elle peut compter sur des alliés puissants : ses onze partenaires de l’Union européenne, le Fonds monétaire international (FMI), le G7 ou encore la Chine. Retour, en six dates, sur les coulisses de la crise de la dette souveraine (c’est-à-dire la dette de l’État), une crise que personne n’a vu venir et qui sera au menu de la réunion des ministres des Finances de la zone euro, ce soir, et du Conseil européen des chefs d’État et de gouvernement des 16 et 17 décembre. Et de la soirée Théma, ce soir sur ARTE, où deux documentaires que j'ai réalisé avec Jean-Michel Meurice seront diffusés ;-) Mercredi 18 février 2009 : Berlin murmure à l’oreille des marchés Dehors, il fait un froid polaire en ce 5 février 2009. L’objet de ces rencontres secrètes ?