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As the end of appointment of Pierre Gadonneix head of EDF had fed the speculative discussions for several months, the succession of Didier Lombard, head of France Telecom should not give rise to so many vicissitudes. St?phane Richard, the current number 2 of the French incumbent operator, has already announced its intention to become the new CEO as soon as the mandate of Didier Lombard will end in 2011."If the board is willing, if the shareholders agree and if the little pigs did not eat me by then I will become CEO at that date," he said in an interview with the daily Progress on Friday.

"Organizing the systematic mixing of people didn't make sense"

Asked about the atmosphere prevailing within the group after the wave of human tragedies that rocked France Telecom in recent months, St?phane Richard hopes that "the pressure was released (…) with the possibility for employees to express themselves . The Director General in charge of France operations has also qualified as "inept" the principle of mobility managers every three years."Organize brewing methodical individual has no meaning (…) this represents significant costs for interest difficult to collect," he said.

In early December should be made public the results of the survey on psychosocial risks launched by France Telecom with its 102,000 French employees. The firm Technologia, which was assigned to the case, expects a turnout particularly high 75% or about 76,000 responses.

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Despite an increase in job seekers during several months, the CEO job Pole Christian Charpy said on LCI television on Monday morning that the number of unemployed would remain "below the 3 million mark registered in Class A". He said that increasing numbers of people from Pole to register job is way slower than earlier this year.

In September, the number of jobseekers who have not worked (Class A) increased by 21,600 at 2,574 million, a surge of 25.1% in one year. By cons, if we add those who have a reduced activity (categories A, B and C), this number stood at 3.745 million (+20.8% yoy) and 3.972 million households in the overseas.Thus, the number of unemployed could exceed 4 million if one takes into account all categories.

From "many months" to return to the situation a year ago

"I hope that from the end of this year the trend will change but it will take many months to return to a situation that had been there even just a year – 1.9 million unemployed cons 2.5 million registered job center today. Indeed the number of unemployed still increasing each month at the rate of "20,000 to 25,000," he said. The figures on the number of job seekers for the period of October will be published Thursday.

This declaration takes place just before surgery, at 11.30 President Nicolas Sarkozy before 1700 agency managers and area job center, the new agency created by the merger of Assedic and ANPE, which is far from keep all its promises. The unions believe the poorly prepared.A counselor supports an average of 94 people (a record) in the direction. Employment center uses private companies to complement the Convention and proposed reclassification Custom (PRC) which has only retrenched, where "there, we guarantee a counselor for 50 to 60 people, according to Christian Charpy.

A decline in new listings in unemployment in the United States and the optimistic forecasts of telecoms equipment manufacturer Cisco has propelled the Dow Jones-immediately above the 10,000 points, a day before the report on employment in October the government. The flagship index of the NYSE is 2.08% at 10,006 points and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.40% to 2105 points.

New entries in weekly unemployment in the United States declined to 512,000 new applications for benefits, while analysts predicted 522,000. Moreover, the productivity of U.S. companies (excluding agriculture) increased in the third quarter, 9.5% annual rate. It is the largest increase in six years. The market expected a 6.3% increase. These publications, better than expected, reassured investors.

On Wednesday, the Dow Jones gained 0.31% Wednesday, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.09%.

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Net earnings from Cisco down 15% in first quarter (ended in late October), $ 2.1 billion. The group said however that he thought back to growth of its business to the next quarter.

Qualcomm posted a profit of $ 803 million in the fourth quarter, down 9%.

Microsoft will cut 800 additional positions, plus the 5,000 announced in January. These cuts will take place in the world.

The media group News Corporation has announced a profit in the first quarter of fiscal 2010 of $ 571 million. Earnings per share amounted to 22 cents against 18 cents expected by analysts.

JPMorgan has an agreement with the regulator of financial markets, the SEC, to terminate proceedings in a case of influence peddling to local elected officials in the United States.JPMorgan will pay $ 25 million and 50 million dollars to the local authority, county of Jefferson.

The Iraqi Oil Ministry has awarded Thursday to a consortium led by Exxon Mobil exploitation of oil field west Qourna-1.

Research in Motion announced a buyback program of action for an amount up to $ 1.2 billion. It will start on November 9th and will be valid for a period of twelve months.