marketindex:ftse 100

Qataris stake their claim to a place at the top table of global dealmaking | World news | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/24/qataris-take-seat-top-table-dealmaking?CMP=twt_gu

... many see much of the real power residing with Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani (known as “HBJ”), a cousin of the emir whose position is thought to stem from his support for the 1995 coup.

HBJ is prime minister and foreign minister, chief executive of the QIA, and chairman of its subsidiary Qatar Holding – said to be the emir’s personal investment vehicle in a country where personal and state wealth are blurred.

One analyst says: “The current emir is a large man who does not look in perfect health. It is not clear what HBJ’s position will be once Tamim is in charge.”

How £50m in UN food aid for starving went to buy wheat from Glencore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/06/un-food-aid-glencore-xstrata

More than £50m of World Food Programme aid to feed the starving has ended up in the hands of a London-listed commodities trader run by billionaires, despite a pledge by the United Nations agency to buy food from “very poor farmers”.

Crise des dettes souveraines : we’re all going to die ! | Yovan Menkevick
http://reflets.info/crise-des-dettes-souveraines-were-all-going-to-die

Etape 1 : quelques repères Vous avez aimé la crise des subprime de 2008-2009 ? Vous allez adorer la crise européenne de la dette de 2011-2012. Si, si, vous allez voir, c’est mieux qu’un film catastrophe des années 70 : le scénario est parfaitement huilé, les acteurs sont bons, le suspens insoutenable. Mais avant de faire quelques annonces à la Cassandre qui ne manqueront pas d’en agacer certains, un p’tit graphique sympa pour piger la tendance boursière des derniers mois. Ca c’est le CAC 40 :  Whoulala, mais c’est un casse-gueule effroyable que nous avons là depuis cet été, mais qu’arrive-t-il à la bourse française ? Y’a comme qui dirait une défiance, de la spéculation à la baisse, une tendance baissière. Bon, pas grave, je me dis que ça doit être un peu différent chez nos amis d’outre-atlantique. Alors je compare les deux courbes : Alors là ! Si je m’attendais à des similitudes, à certains moments, je ne m’attendais pas à deux courbes parfaitement s

FTSE 100 directors’ earnings rose by almost half last year | Business | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/oct/28/ftse-100-directors-earnings-rose-by-almost-half

Total earnings for directors of FTSE 100 companies increased by 49% last year, far outpacing pay claims for workers outside the boardroom.

A FTSE 100 executive typically received an average of £2.7m in 2010, according to the research by Incomes Data Services, which analysed payouts of salaries, bonuses and long-term incentive plans the last financial year.

For chief executives, the average total pay deal was £3.8m – an average rise of 43.5% – while IDS calculated that finance directors received an average increase of 34.1%,to take their average to £2m, while all other directors received an average increase of 66.5%, to take their average to £2.2m.

#finance

Addicted to tax havens:
The secret life of the FTSE 100
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/doc_lib/addicted_to_tax_havens.pdf

Of the 100 biggest groups listed on the London
Stock Exchange, 98 use tax havens. ActionAid’s
research shows just how embedded the use of tax
havens is in the structures of nearly all Britain’s
biggest companies.

Tax havens and the FTSE 100 : the full list | News | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/11/ftse100-subsidiaries-tax-data#
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/oct/11/ftse-100-subsidiaries-tax-havens?intcmp=239
#Cartographie des 100 plus grosses entreprises britanniques s’accordant quelque répit, loin du vacarme des mégapole, dans les #paradis_fiscaux

L’article pas du tout anxiogène du jour : le Parisien. Article quasi-guilleret, en fait : « journée noire… bourses… ont toutes plongé… dans le rouge… sillage… perdu… effondrement… en chute… relative accalmie… dévissé… sillage… lâché… regain d’inquiétudes… n’a pas réussi… endiguer… nouvelles préoccupations… ». Et dans ce vocabulaire de film d’horreur, des chiffres en centièmes de pour-cent pour se donner un air sérieux.

Les Bourses s’affolent, les banques dégringolent et l’or caracole
http://www.leparisien.fr/economie/en-direct-les-bourses-s-affolent-les-banques-degringolent-et-l-or-caracol

C’était attendu. Au lendemain d’une journée noire, les Bourses européennes ont toutes plongé dans le rouge vendredi, dans le sillage du Nikkei, qui a perdu 2,51% à Tokyo, et de l’effondrement de la Bourse de Séoul, en chute de 6,22%.

Après une semaine de relative accalmie sur les marchés, les indices américains ont dévissé jeudi soir dans le sillage des Bourses européennes et du secteur financier. Le Dow Jones a lâché 3,68% et le Nasdaq 5,22%. Au regain d’inquiétude vis-à-vis des économies européennes, que le couple franco-allemand n’a pas réussi à endiguer, se sont ajoutées de nouvelles préoccupations concernant l’économie américaine.

Autre signe de l’anxiété des investisseurs : l’or, valeur refuge, a battu deux fois son record ce vendredi matin. A l’inverse, les cours du pétrole, plombés par les inquiétudes sur l’économie du 1er consommateur mondial d’or noir, ne cessent de chuter.

Anxiety keeps the super-rich safe from middle-class rage | Peter Wilby | Comment is free | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/18/super-rich-middle-class-rage

That is the most important point about what has happened to incomes in Britain and America during the neoliberal era: the very rich are soaring ahead, leaving behind not only manual workers – now a diminishing minority – but also the middle-class masses, including doctors, teachers, academics, solicitors, architects, Whitehall civil servants and, indeed, many CEOs who don

#Japan earthquake: Japan warned over nuclear plants, #WikiLeaks cables show - Telegraph
►http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8384059/Japan-earthquake-Japan-warned-over-nuclear-plants-WikiLeaks-cables-show

Japan was warned more than two years ago by the international nuclear watchdog that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes, leaked diplomatic cables reveal.

#Japon #nucléaire #cablegate

Japan earthquake: Japan warned over nuclear plants, WikiLeaks cables show - Telegraph
►http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8384059/Japan-earthquake-Japan-warned-over-nuclear-plants-WikiLeaks-cables-show

Japan was warned more than two years ago by the international nuclear watchdog that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes, leaked diplomatic cables reveal.

#japon #nucleaire #wikileaks

UK firm’s partner ’wanted Peru to curb priests in mine conflict areas’ | Business | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/31/wikileaks-bhp-billiton-peru-mining-communities

A mining company in Peru part-owned by a British FTSE 100 company agitated for the removal of teachers and Catholic bishops to new posts away from “conflictive mining communities”, according to a leaked US cable obtained via WikiLeaks.

An executive of the company, in which BHP Billiton has a one-third stake, urged diplomats to persuade the Peruvian government and church to “rotate” such professionals out of sensitive areas, the secret document said.

The US and Canadian ambassadors, who hosted a summit of foreign mining executives in Peru in August 2005, requested specific examples of “anti-mining” teachers and bishops “who engage in inappropriate activities” to take to government and church leaders, the cable claimed.

#Pérou #cablegate