Johnny Hallyday is still found in the sights of the French tax authorities. According to Duck chained, the singer was notified of a recovery of 9 million euros, after a heavy investigation since late 2010. In January 2011, several searches took place at home and some of his relatives. Yesterday press service of Johnny Hallyday stated that he had "no comment". Interviewed this morning on RTL, the French rocker has refused to confirm that a tax adjustment it was notified in late 2001.  

When asked after the launch of its 2012 tour Tuesday night in Los Angeles, the singer said only: "I can confirm anything because it is you who teach me, I go out on stage, I is my music for me is what is most important. "

According to the weekly satirical, the IRS regrets the existence of "a complex network of companies operating in rather baroque", particularly for a Luxembourg company, Nerthus Invest SA, a shareholder is an entity based in Liberia.

The rocker is well again at the center of a tax case. He who had already seen straightening of some 100 million francs (15 million) in 1975. A sum which he performed fifteen years later. Johnny Hallyday, who has tried several ways to pay less tax in France, was eventually settled in Switzerland in 2007. This is the Swiss tax authorities that he pays taxes on his personal income. But his artistic and commercial activities performed in the Hexagon fall under French law.

This notification to the star falls ill. At 69, after his serious health problems, "the Taulier" was to make his comeback from the Orpheum Theater on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, before starting a huge tour in mid-May in France.

It could also be controversial, right in between the two rounds of presidential elections. Johnny Hallyday has also indicated today that he "meddles never openly political" believing that an artist does not have to decide, "he said in an interview with Republican Lorraine. Close to Jacques Chirac, Johnny Hallyday had taken position for Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 who married in 1996 with Laetitia.  

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Not only the Bank of France there is no crisis but it has quite widely. As a firefighter service in the euro area, as part of the federal European Central Bank, of course, have stepped up its activities last year. So it is about to transfer 3.4 billion euros to the state, whose accounts need it most.

The governor of the Banque de France, Christian Noyer on Friday gave details on the occasion of presenting the results of the institution in 2011. 2.014 billion euros will be paid under the corporation tax, what to add 877 million as a dividend to the State, the sole shareholder. And best of all, it will receive 530 million euros that will correspond to the "emission cap" (sic). This expression, smelling the nineteenth century when paper money took off, means the value of franc banknotes that have not been translated into euros at February 18, 2012, the legal deadline for such an exchange in France.

Our central bank, and ultimately its shareholders, thus benefits from the negligence of the French and tourists who kept their tickets now franc convertible. They are forever lost to their owners, except for numismatists.

"More revenue but also more risk"

But its prosperity, it must above all the inconsistencies of the governments themselves unable to control their finances. The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has indeed brought under the leadership of the ECB to intervene in markets. "Our balance sheet has increased significantly" from 481 to 709,000,000,000 euros (+47%), Christian Noyer said. But these extraordinary interventions of securities purchases are made at rates of efficiency than conventional refinancing operations of the banks money. "We have more income but also higher risk, and therefore the need to build reserves." He says.

The Bank of France has decided to include an allocation of 2.065 billion euros in "fund for general banking risks and regulated provisions", which amounts to nearly 10 billion if we add reserves and capital itself. These provisions have cut gross profit of the Bank which in turn "has reached a historic high, at 5.650 billion euros, up 25% compared to 2010," according to the official.

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The success of the magazine inspires XXI Francois and Jean-Dominique Siegel. The two brothers, son of the founder of VSD, Maurice Siegel, April 5 launch a new "magbook" magazine mid-mid-book, Tomorrow We. Their ambition is to make a "marker of social change."

In line with Current, relaunched in 1970 by the post-68 generation, or the U.S. magazine Wired, established in 1993 to decipher the impact of technology in society, they hope to re-register in the frame of the time. "This magazine is a showcase to build something new, Siegel says Francois. If the stock settles, we will develop a website, a platform for trade and a think-tank. "We Demainmise on this societal positioning to differentiate itself from other" magbooks "turned to the big story (XXI), Foresight (& Usbek Rica) or polar (Alibis).

Like the latter, We Demainsera distributed in large networks of library. On an initial run of 30,000 copies, most books will be reserved for rays of Fnac, Virgin, Relay and large newsagents, and those of Carrefour hypermarkets, Auchan and Leclerc no fax payday advance. The title is based on the publisher Le Cherche Midi and its distribution network Interforum (Editis). Tomorrow we will start at 12 euros, and will cost 15 euros, the same price level as other "magbooks".

Create a "label"

The project was fully funded by the GS Group, owned by Francois and Jean-Dominique Sylvain Attal and Siegel, who oversees GS Press, governed and publisher of the monthly Info-Driver and two television quinzomadaires for Auchan and Leader Price. Jean-Dominique Siegel Demainun We hope to do the "label" that will generate a new economic model. Without advertising startup, the title is meant to seduce "brands involved," for traditional advertising or through partnerships, but also to attract investors.

A decree and a decree signed by Xavier Bertrand were published in the Official Journal on Thursday, trying to implement a solution against excess fees the most excessive.

As expected, the Minister of Health proposes to anesthetists, surgeons and obstetricians in sector 2 (free prices) to limit their excess fees to 50% beyond the "tariff Safely." It also requires them to perform at least 30% of acts without overshoot. Nothing compulsory volunteers receive in exchange for partial support of their social contributions. In parallel, complementary health (mutual, private insurers, pension funds) are imposed the obligation to repay the overruns to keep certain tax advantages.

The device must be expanded in the coming days. Another decree to impose additional pay as overruns in other medical specialties. With one difference: the doctors involved will commit to not charge more than 20% above the tariff Safely, on acts alone techniques (imaging, minor surgery …). They can not in practice on clinical procedures and consultations.

Paradox: the device does not fully satisfied neither the doctors nor the supplemental insurers, not patients. While appreciating a "real breakthrough", the CSMF, the first organization of private practitioners, regrets that "practitioners of a sector is left out payday loans lenders." Even the tone of the union side, the Bloc, the majority among the surgical specialties. A sector physicians are those who do not have the right to introduce overshoot. They should stick to Safely rates. But Medicare itself recognizes that such rates, frozen for years because of funding, will not match the cost nor the time nor the level of expertise and legal risk of surgical procedures .

Mutuality French, meanwhile, feared windfall: many surgeons already practicing anesthetists or overruns "moderate". They could grow to the the 50% tariff beyond Social Security, and receive in addition to the lightening of their burdens. Conversely, in areas with a concentration of very large excesses (Paris, Lyon, Paca …), the Mutual fears that the track is "unattractive to practitioners" and therefore ineffective. For patients without supplemental coverage (less than 10% of the population), the problem will remain the same for them.

The solution is partial, imperfect, its success is not guaranteed. She still deserves to exist, after years of fruitless negotiations between doctors, health insurance and mutual agreements signed no tomorrow, and threats of intervention policies ever implemented.

Sad "bonus day". Not sure that traders and bankers Monday through Societe Generale, the light step, the square of Defence. They know the day their individual bonus for 2011. And they know they will not be at the party. Both because the trend since the 2008 crisis is for restraint and because the results of the bank financing and investment fell sharply last year, even swinging into the red in the fourth quarter. Frédéric Oudéa, CEO of the bank, has already warned that the envelopes of traders' bonuses would be halved compared to the previous year.

The ritual of Friday

Same rate at BNP Paribas. Given that less than 2 billion euros in premiums had been paid last year to market operators by French banks, the overall should be around 1 billion. Like other years, French banks have cut more bonuses that JPMorgan and other Goldman Sachs. Employees of BNP Paribas have been their fate on Friday. The French leader always announces bonuses on the eve of the weekend. "It allows teams to take advantage of Saturday and Sunday to celebrate the contrary or to digest the news," suggests a veteran of the bank. Credit Agricole will follow this advice by performing the ritual on Friday.

In this case, at BNP Paribas atmosphere was dark, but not excessive because the teams were prepared for the worst. "There was less of rabies in 2011, tells a room operator markets. Last year, some had returned home just after their announcement. "This year's very bad news for these professionals used to receive a bonus big part of their annual compensation, is the proliferation of" zero bonus. "

With respect to compensation, banks have long been criticized not only the excesses but also having transformed these so-called variable premiums in almost due. Even in failure mode, it was very rare to receive no bonus. This year, according to several sources, the losses in activity rates have resulted in an upsurge of "zero bonus" at BNP Paribas. "This suggests new carts, reflects a trader. When one has no bonus is that generally has three months to prove himself … "

"It may even be less than zero!" Adds another: according to our information, in fact, BNP Paribas has had this year the right to retain the deferred compensation in case of performance-cons. Societe Generale should not escape the same trends. This year the main challenge of the bank is not so much to retain the talents of a successful social in France. Not easy to find 880 volunteers to start when it's so cold outside.

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The French system of press distribution does succeed in extricating himself from the dire straits in which the combined decline of newspaper sales and investment capacity of the publishers place for several years?

The French model is very specific. The market is shared between two messaging: Presstalis (ex-NMPP) and Messengers Lyons Press (MLP). The two coexisted for setting up the system, based on the principle of cost sharing distribution between publishers, under the rule of law Bichet 1947 that guarantees pluralism of the press. Presstalis distributes 75% of volumes in France, including all of the national daily press, the rest being transferred to MLP, its competitor centered on magazines.

Cost Sharing

In recent years, the MLP gained more market share by offering attractive rates. And at the same time, Presstalis sank into difficulties. Faced with significant structural costs, late in the modernization of its network, the messaging has been facing a severe crisis in 2009. Despite a savings plan of 86 million euros from 2010 to 2012, it would still lose 15 million in 2011.

Meanwhile, the structural decline of print media sales, estimated at 6% last year and probably similar in 2012, continues to affect the entire industry. NMPP has had to adjust its restructuring plan, adopted in December by the two cooperatives that comprise it. At the same time, certain securities of Mondadori France (Grazia, Top Health and Biba) and The Point have announced their departure from Presstalis for MLP.

Presstalis responded, saying the defections compromised, at the worst time, its turnaround plan. Hence his attempt, rejected by the new Regulatory Authority for distribution of the press, to freeze these departures securities. But Presstalis is returned to the charge by offering a longer notice periods for transfers of title to better anticipate the loss of customers.

Messaging supports the approach of the Supreme Council of the messaging of the press to share the cost with the MLP distribution of the national daily press, it is only to ensure the load while the flow of major newspapers are considered "structural "for the entire network. The recovery system will depend on the ability of actors to agree to divide equally the costs, while modernizing the network, including reconciliations between operating depots (wholesalers), now too many. The latter provide the newspaper distribution in 29,500 retail outlets.

The salary, all countries are not on the same wavelength. The annual survey of international recruitment firm Robert Walters (*) shows the differences. In 2011, it was better to work in Germany or Brazil in the UK.

Germany, China, Brazil, Australia have indeed seen increased hiring and salaries of managers. The United Kingdom registered a decrease in compensation of 10%. In France, the pay increase was zero. The observation conceals extremes.

"In the first quarter, experienced managers have benefited from the carrier dynamics and wage inflation, making up two years of stagnation, and that in all trades and all sectors, says Antoine Morgaut, CEO Continental Europe and Latin America by Robert Walters. September marked the return of uncertainty. Recruitments were maintained in a market where demand frameworks has become structural, but overall the catch was interrupted. "

Premium experts

Only to take their game, the experts benefited from strong market demand shortage. Some, such as actuaries, consolidators, internal auditors, risk managers in banking, compliance officers, … SAP specialists have seen their wages increase to 25%. In middle management growth reached 10% on average. "Every year the valuation of experts working on niche markets is increasing," says Antoine Morgaut.

Meanwhile, salary ranges have tightened over the 10 years of experience and senior management, although with few peaks. A qualified actuary in 2011 (7 to 12 years of experience) for example has won between 75 and 115K € (**), a bank compliance officer (over 12 years experience) € 80 to 150K, a manager program in real estate from 60 to 110K € (6-10 years experience).

In 2012 the uncertainties, companies should be ungenerous earlier this year. Salaries will follow inflation, the bonus will be measured, rarely more than 15%, and very individualized, "because we can not afford to lose excellent employees or pass very good profiles," says Antoine Morgaut. Overall, the variable will range between 5% and 30%.

Results which are crippling the morale of the French managers: 48% now feel a loss of purchasing power. And comparing global employment should not give them a smile. According to a range of functions held by Robert Walters, France is down-banding, just ahead of Spain. The gap with Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium reached 20% to 30%. The DRH China and Australia, the Brazilian financial controllers are placed at the top and widen the gap.

"Sedimentation of frustration is high among French executives. At the slightest tremor positive they monnayeront shortage. The most spoiled in the coming years will undoubtedly experts, "said Antoine Morgaut.

* Salary Survey 2012 Study

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Nearly 22% drop for the CAC 40 since the beginning of the year. It the finding bitter than do today small shareholders after exercise 2010 already very morose terms stock. Consequences: these individual shareholders a society often individuals are disoriented face financial markets irrational very volatile and sealed by concerns recurring on debt crisis eurozone. What confirms elsewhere study Investment stock conducted among investors assets.

Conducted last October by the Institute OpinionWay with just over 800 individual operators, the survey did feel a great pessimism on the part of respondents.If 87% believe that investment in business is quite good or very good for the shareholders in general, 60% are quite worried or very worried about the financial markets in general and of their portfolio in particular easy payday loans. Over 42% also state that their opinion regarding the financial markets has worsened, despite the measures of financial regulation put in place following the 2008 crisis. 75% also believe these measures ineffectual.

Concerns salon Exchange

Consequence of this pessimism toward the stock market investment (listed shares, mutual funds, options, certificates, warrants), individuals felt it was urgent to wait. Overwhelmingly self (80% fully manage their own portfolio), these investors have mainly invested any additional amount over the last six months (54% of them).

Nokia unbeatable? The group may well see its market share erode quarter after quarter, it nevertheless remains the world leader in its sector. A position he owes much of its sales of cheap phones in emerging markets. Thus, in the third quarter, the Finns no longer had "only" 23.8% of the world with just over 105 million mobile phones sold worldwide. Good performance for a brand "dying" in the eyes of observers sometimes a little harsh with the former star of mobile telephony.

To retain his title, the Finn will still fight hard. He also put a lot on its Windows Phone, the range Lumia, marketed since November 14 in six countries including France fast cash without a hassle.

She says Windows Phone should benefit from new smartphones from Nokia. The Finn is expected to expand its range and offer new Windows Phone cheaper. It will still wait until the second half of 2012 to attend a turnaround, and it provided that Microsoft manages to attract enough developers to make its ecosystem attractive to consumers. For now, it has only 35,000 applications. One-tenth of what is available for Android.

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Asian markets exhibit beautiful colors on Monday morning. At the close, the Nikkei in Tokyo gained 1.05% to 8603.70 points, while the Japanese government reported this morning with a GDP increase of 1.5% in the third quarter, supported by a rebound in exports and consumption. Japan is thus related to growth after three quarters of recession. The action Olympus, down from the revelation of corporate scandals, also rebounded to 17.39% on hopes of non-radiation title

In China, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong ahead of 2.27% to 19,571.36 points and the Shanghai composite index of 1.82% to 2526.15 points.Securities Want Want China Holdings Ltd (7.85% to 7.56 Hong Kong dollars) and Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holging Corp (1 paydayloan.91% to 21.30 Hong Kong dollars) will be integrated into the index Hang Seng early December.

The markets also monitor developments in euro area at the front of the sovereign debt crisis. In Italy, former European Commissioner Mario Monti has been appointed new Prime Minister last night and must form a new government who will redressser the country's finances.

Tokyo ready to increase its aid to Europe

Japan has also said this weekend be prepared to increase its financial aid to Europe when the European countries have expressed their willingness to fight against their debt problem with a united front.