Independent agents and e-commerce giants jump into the fray, causing toughercompetition Shanghai leads Chinese cities in many areas, from per capita income to the number ofskyscrapers. Now it has a new feather in its hat: its residents spend more than any otherChinese on cross-border online shopping. During last year’s Black Friday promotion in the United […]
The number of bankruptcies among publicly traded U.S. companies has climbed to the highest first-quarter level for five years, according to a Reuters analysis of data from research firm bankruptcompanynews.com. Plunging prices of crude oil and other commodities is one of the major reasons for the increased filings, and bankruptcy experts said a more aggressive stance by […]
La présidente brésilienne est fragilisée par les manifestations monstres de dimanche, qui dénonçaient la corruption gangrenant son parti. Laborieusement réélue à la tête du Brésil en octobre, Dilma Rousseff (Parti des travailleurs, PT) parviendra-t-elle à achever son mandat ? La question n’est plus taboue depuis la mobilisation sans précédent de dimanche, quand 900 000 à 1,7 million de manifestants, selon les […]
Matteo Renzi veut faire figurer dans son « jobs act » l’instauration d’un salaire minimum légal autour de 6,5 à 7 euros nets par heure. Petit à petit, le salaire minimum légal gagne du terrain en Europe. Après l’Allemagne au 1er janvier 2015, mais aussi la Roumanie, l’Albanie et la Serbie en 2014, voici que l’Italie s’apprête elle […]
Alexis Tsipras couldn’t have picked a more symbolic place to show his voters that he is a prime minister like no other Greece has seen before — — and that he is truly serious about standing up to the Germans. On Monday, right after he was sworn in, he was chauffeured in his sedan to […]