Friday, March 20, 2015

The Paris Bourse finding colors, Lafarge bounces – BBC

The Paris market finds in color this weekend. In mid-session, the CAC 40 in advance of 0.52% to 5063.50 points. Yesterday, the index had almost finished at equilibrium.

Lafarge stands after reached an agreement to save his merger with Holcim. After days of negotiations, the cement groups reached an agreement last night. About the governance of the future together, one of the last days of stumbling, Bruno Lafont, CEO of the French group will be co-chairman of the board of directors. However, it will return it to propose the name of the future CEO. Furthermore, the exchange ratio was revised in favor of Holcim.

Greece remains in the news after he committed Thursday to send “in the coming days” of new reform proposals detailed its European partners.

After a working meeting in Brussels with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Francois Hollande and European officials, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the finance ministers of the eurozone was ready to meet as soon as possible to study these reform projects.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange finished up 0.43%, the Nikkei increasing by 83.66 points 19,560.22, a new high of fifteen. Some analysts predict a correction of the Japanese stock market phase, even if the overall sentiment remains positive, many investors are convinced that companies will increase their profits during the fiscal year that starts in April.

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Lafarge (3.24% to 64.32 euros) and the Swiss cement producer Holcim announced that their boards had reached agreement on the revised terms of their proposed merger, providing for a new exchange ratio and the appointment of the CEO of Lafarge as non-executive co-chairman of the new company board.

Zodiac Aerospace (-7.89% to 30.54 euros) has issued a warning on its operating profit for the first half due to additional costs to curb production delays of aircraft seats for Airbus and Boeing, the aerospace equipment but hopes to resolve the problem before the end of its financial year ended 31 August.

Auplata (-6.37% to 1.47 euros) , the largest producer of French gold, wants to raise $ 5 million through a capital increase to finance the extraction plant cyanide mine Thank God (Guyana) .

The concession of the railway line at high speed between France and Spain TP Ferro, co-owned by Eiffage (-0.61% to 53.72 euros) and ACS has initiated negotiations with its creditors to avoid bankruptcy.

Havas (0.13% to 7.42 euros) reported an improvement in its operating margin in 2014 in favor of an acceleration of growth in business and a master of its labor costs. The advertising group posted last year an operating profit of 263 million, giving a margin of 14.1%, an improvement of 30 basis points.

(With Reuters).

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