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As every year, real bargains, but also a whole series of nightingales waiting buyer distracted or just looking to be finally removed from stock. First tip: If you are a fan of Bordeaux, Ruez you on maroon 2008! Due to the global crisis, this vintage very good bill has been sold off on the world market did not want. The French supermarket did not let them pass, which was a very good idea. The 2009 being sold today are so high price they are exclusively reserved to the speculation.

For these burgundy, rush upon the opening, even earlier if possible, because deals are going fast! As prices are ultra competitive, especially this year, the first buyers of Bordeaux, the catering professionals, are in their starting blocks.The shops are often open evenings, are you invite! The best way to go on the shelves the day before and discuss with the department manager. A simple phone call to the store is often very effective.

As the maroon represent more or less half of the supply of wine fairs, each company seeks to differentiate itself from other regions. A special effort was made this year on the Rhone, the second region of France of quality wines. The focus should be the 2007 vintage in Bordeaux poor, but very successful in the Rhone.Find a good Burgundy is always difficult, because the region is small, but some retailers have managed to build a genuine partnership with great producers.

Last but not least, do not go to wine fairs shrinking violet! Prepare well for your move and go straight to the goal, because otherwise you will never find the coveted bottles. In all the signs, the best deals are in cold areas, those that are immune to the first sight.Happy hunting!

Dates of wine fairs
• Crossroads of September 7 to 18
• Casino September 7 to 18
• Giant of 7 to 18 September
• Lavinia on 7 September to 6 October
• Intermarche of 8 to 18 September
• Monoprix from September 8 to 19
• Franprix from September 9 to 19
• Auchan September 14 to October 2
• Leclerc from September 22
Système U • September 28 to October 10
• Carrefour Market from September 29 to October 9

Websites
• Savour Club () August 20 to September 22

• ChateauOnline 31 August to 4 October

• Wine and Co from September 1 to October 3

• Vinothek Bordeaux from September 3 to 27

• From 1855 to September 6

• Jean Merlaut 15 September to 15 October

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On Monday, the euro has exceeded a threshold important to the dollar. Crossing $ 1.32 per euro, the European currency has confirmed that his movement assessment started in June was solid. According to technical analysis, once reached this milestone, "there should be a rally towards $ 1.34."

The explanations are manifold, since by definition, when the exchange rate Euro / Dollar rises, it may come from a strong euro, but also a weaker dollar. In this case, currently, the two factors at play.

The euro rises

First, the rise of the euro reflects a growing confidence in Europe.If the euro has fallen more than 20% in less than six months, overwhelmed by the problems of sovereign debt, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Irish, etc.. Have even questioned the existence of the euro, European currency recovers while the EU has proven, with the IMF, she was desperate to save a member of the bankruptcy, and it would be tough on states to put in stringent budgetary policies.

The renewed confidence is also bolstered in recent weeks by a series of rather positive economic statistics in Europe. Especially in Germany.

The dollar drops

On the other hand, the dollar decline. First, the inverse relationship between changes in U.S. equity markets and the greenback continues to hold. But Wall Street has recovered well in July (7.18% on the month for the Dow Jones) and the month of August has begun.In reality, investors are becoming more appetite for risk and sell the dollar in favor of assets or currencies more risky.

On the other hand, the economic statistics on U.S. rather disappointed and shed doubt on the strength of the recovery across the Atlantic. Good reasons to abandon the dollar.

The yen is at its highest in fifteen years

The weaker dollar also largely explains the surge in the yen, which reached a higher Wednesday since April 1985. What open competitive Japanese companies, including the key word for success is export.

For three months, the dollar has lost 9.48% against the yen. A worrying trend: according to calculations by the OECD, a 10% appreciation of the yen would cut growth by 0.2 percentage points in the first year and 0.4 the second and third year."The impact is not significant when the forecast is 2-3% growth per annum over the next two years," relativized in a note Takuji Okubo, senior economist at Societe Generale IPC.

According to Raymond Van der Putten, Japan specialist at BNP Paribas, "the yen's appreciation is mainly due to poor growth expectations in the United States."

IN BRIEF – Australian dollar and sterling

The doubling of the surplus balance of trade of Australia and its implications for sustained economic growth, has rekindled hopes of a future market for new rate hike by the Australian central bank, providing support this morning the Australian dollar.

In the United Kingdom, the earnings published by the UK banks have supported the pound sterling, which reached a high of six months against the U.S. dollar.

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The green will not stay very long on Wall Street Wednesday. After starting up in, carried by companies satisfactory results, the markets fall into the red of -0.57% to 10,172 points for the Dow Jones -1.12% to 2198 points and the Nasdaq – 0.80% in 1075 for the S & P.

A reversal following direct speech, much anticipated, Ben Bernanke. The Fed chairman, who delivered his verdict on the U.S. economy before the Senate Banking Committee, said that the takeover of the U.S. economy "continues at a slow pace" and that "the economic outlook remain unusually uncertain" . If no measure of support is mentioned, the Fed is willing to act.

"The market reaction reflects the caution shown by the markets," notes Nick Kalivas, an analyst at MF Global in Chicago."Yet, to some degree, support annocée the Fed would have meant that things were worse than we thought."

These ads are disturbing in any case overshadowed the results published before market trimestreils …

Record earnings for Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo (4.32% to 27.03 dollars) on Wednesday posted a net profit of the group "record" for the second quarter to 2.787 billion dollars, up 12% over a year and above expectations, and reported an improvement in the credit greater than planned. Based on the number of shares, the benefit amounts to 55 cents, while analysts were only expecting 48.Net revenue (turnover) of the fourth largest U.S. bank stood at 21.394 billion dollars, yielding 5% a year.

The U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley (8.05% to $ 24.25) Wednesday announced a net profit group share of $ 1.578 billion in the second quarter, much better than expected, with a turnover also exceeding analysts' forecasts. Per share, net income totaled $ 1.09 and 80 cents without considering the integration of brokerage Smith Barney Citi bought instant credit report.Analysts had expected 46 cents per share excluding special items.

The U.S. giant soft drink Coca-Cola (+2.05% to 54.32 dollars) net earnings up over 16% to $ 2.37 billion in the second quarter, slightly less than expected thanks to higher sales volumes internationally. Reported per share, current earnings is $ 1.02, slightly less than the $ 1.03 expected by analysts, but better than the 92 cents recorded a year earlier.

Apple has released its quarterly after the close of Wall Street. The firm at the apple once again exceeded market expectations in the third quarter of fiscal offset with net income up 78% year on year to 3.253 billion dollars, and sales far beyond forecasts.The securities earn 3.81% to 261.48 dollars.

The U.S. Internet portal Yahoo! posted a group net profit up 51% year on year to 213.32 million dollars in the second quarter, better than expected by analysts, but its sales came out virtually unchanged. The shares dive: -8.88% to 13.85 dollars.

Moreover, the oil giant BP traded on Wall Street Tuesday concluded an agreement with U.S. rival Apache to sell him to seven billion dollars in assets, making a sudden the majority of assignments to which he had hired to offset the cost of the spill. The news was welcomed: securities rise of 3.35% to 36.38 dollars.

Note that the foreign exchange market, the euro retreated against the dollar, traders were playing the card of caution before the release Friday of the results of resistance testing of the 91 largest European banks. In the morning, the euro was at 1.2867 dollars against 1.2881 dollars the previous day.

Jean Arthuis, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and chairman of the centrist Alliance, calls for a revision to bottom of the French tax.

LE FIGARO. – Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday he would keep both the tax shield and the ISF. Defend yourself always the opposite?

Jean ARTHUIS. – Yes. I think we should remove the two devices. The shield is a bad answer to a bad tax, the ISF. This shield has too many defects. It is calculated on income tax, not real income. Its beneficiaries are beyond any possible tax increase. This is clearly not fair.

Precisely, the government released the shield fiscal measures to finance the pensions …

Yes, but suddenly the complexity increases. Daring to break the taboos and radically simplify tax by removing the shield and the ISF.To finance this deletion, I propose to create an additional income tax (IR) to 45% and increase the scale of taxation on capital gains and real estate. I will table an amendment during consideration of the budget 2011, in the fall.

This option does not penalized Does not those with high salaries but little fortune?

No. The rate of 45% is a marginal rate, which would apply that beyond 100,000 euros per share. RI takes into account family responsibilities. And there is a 10% reduction on wages. In fact, it is mostly capital gains on shares or real estate, which enrich.

Should we raise taxes?

France can not escape the tax increases. Because the plan proposed by the Government alone will not reduce the public deficit to 3% of GDP in 2013. The growth assumption of 2.5% is unrealistic and inadequate conservation measures.It lacks about 50 billion euros. Besides reducing costs, I propose that VAT in particular the restoration and renovation for housing increased from 5.5% to a rate between 10% and 12%. To restore our competitiveness and combat unemployment, it would even raise without waiting the standard rate of VAT, currently 19.6%. Funding for Medicare and family policy must no longer weigh on earnings. VAT must take over.

At the risk of penalizing low-income households?

Is there any greater injustice than unemployment? By maintaining too high levies on production, is pushed to the relocation. All taxes are ultimately paid by the consumer. For a company that sees its tax increase raises its price. The additional VAT on imported goods will.

Should we cut more in the niches?

Yes.The tax shelters cost 75 billion euros. They are undermining the social compact, by making the tax illegible, unfair and inefficient. In addition, the pricing becomes artificial. Ultimately, we must consider deleting the niches, and especially stop creating new ones. Without the increase of the reduced rate of VAT, the government will have great difficulty in meeting its commitments, that is to say an economy 10 billion in two years. The overall ceiling should be lowered.

The government is strong enough on public spending?

During the hearings the Committee on Finance, I had the impression that some ministers were not always aware of the savings. However, it will be necessary to act with determination.Hack 66 billion in credit assistance amounts to touch on sensitive issues such as individual housing (PLA) or subsidies Réseau Ferré de France (RFF). I would add that it is not easy to force parastatal structures to decrease by 10% of their operating expenses. These organizations, ranging from museums to Météo-France, served as space flight for public expenditure.

Should we freeze the salaries of civil servants?

Despite job cuts, the state's payroll increased from 860 million in 2009. This increase is due to wage concessions and changes of the index. Strict moderation is essential.

As a senator from Mayenne, what do you think the value of blocking the funds that the State grants to local communities? This gel can be leveraged to conduct the review of local public policies.Do we really redo roundabouts standards expensive? Especially, the proliferation of standards must end. Premier promised. Despite this, the agricultural modernization law gives the government a right of limitation on the school lunch menu!

France will she one day a zero deficit?

It must. An overburdened state is in the hands of its creditors and threatens the solidarity between generations. This national independence is at stake.

With the football World Cup, TF1 maintains its primacy in terms of both audience and advertising. In the final between the Netherlands to Spain on Sunday night, the first private channel totaled 63.1% audience share and 14.1 million viewers together with peaks at 17.4 million at the end meeting. For the private channel, it is "a record audience for a football match without a French team. It is also the third best year for hearing TF1. Stephane Deverge, director of sports pole TF1 Publicité, also welcomed "the prime-time audiences who, throughout the competition, gathered 8.2 million viewers on average."

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Money does not buy happiness, it is often said. Gallup conducted a global study whose results appear to confirm the adage. According to the study, published in the American Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, whose findings were released by the Christian Science Monitor, the U.S. is perhaps the richest country in the world, but they are far from be the happiest.

The global study was conducted among 136,000 people in 132 countries between 2005 and 2006. His basic premise: there are two definitions of happiness. On the one hand, happiness linked to a sense of well-being. On the other, that which is derived from specific moments of joy.If the first definition depends largely on personal income and wealth of the state in which one lives, the second responds rather to how psychological and social needs of all are met, the researchers said Gallup.

Yet with the highest GDP per capita in the world (46,400 dollars per capita, according to the CIA), the U.S. can only 16th in the ranking prepared by Gallup in regard to the general welfare, and only in 26th position out of 132 in terms of moments of satisfaction. The Americans were upstaged by the Danes, who are happiest with a general point of view, and by New Zealanders, who are champions of the moments of joy. Far from the United States, Denmark is the 31st worldwide in terms of GDP per capita ($ 36,000 in 2009) and New Zealand 51st (to 27,300 dollars), according to CIA data.

The importance of social relationships

"While enriched with a sense of general satisfaction on his life, it is perhaps not as big an impact than we imagine how we appreciate each moment," says Ed Diener, a researcher at the University of Illinois and in Gallup. The researcher stresses the importance of "quality of social relations" in the lives of everyone. He cites, for example, Costa Rica, despite income levels below those of South Korea, would have a population happier.

One issue that has also gained ground in France. To determine the limits of GDP as an indicator of social progress, President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 mandated a committee chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize in economics.Its report, delivered in late 2009, believes that there is often "a gap between declared, first, the usual measures of major socio-economic variables such as growth, inflation, unemployment, etc.., And, Moreover, widespread perceptions of these realities. " The Committee also questioned "the relevance of these data as a tool to measure societal well-being."

The adage has limits

For example, northern Europe and Anglo-Saxon beautiful lie on top of the global economic scale, these areas have nothing to envy of Latin America, which is relatively well positioned in the rankings of Gallup . This reasoning, however, limits. "Many if not most people want and run after money for most of their days, in fact, admit the authors of the study.Unsurprisingly, the countries of Africa's poorest arrive back of the pack, and this, in the two rankings of happiness!

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It is almost a trade post for post. In an internal memo, Europe 1 has announced the arrival of Nicolas Demorand its antenna in the coming year. The former host of the morning will be at France Inter radio microphone generalist Lagardère from 18.30. He succeeds Patrick Cohen, recruited by France Inter to replace Nicolas precisely Demoranc morning.

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The spill "will push us to rethink our energy and environmental policy," said Barack Obama last June 14 during his fourth visit to the polluted beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. "We remain the largest importers of oil, or we can make the investments that we would become the world's leading exporter of renewable energy." This sentence, Bush had decided long before the "September 11 ecological. It is dated March 19, 2009. For when he took office, the successor of George W. Bush's climate and the "transition energy" one of its priorities.Obama was then referred to the creation of 5 million jobs through green energy and 150 billion dollars invested in ten years to stimulate private effort.

The deal is simple: the U.S. and 2% of the world population, consume nearly 22% of the world's oil. They are well produced 7.1 million barrels per day last year (8.5% of world production), but must import about 60% of their needs.

A carbon market

Since the beginning of his mandate, Barack Obama defends climate energy bill, stalled in Congress. Precisely for Obama rally Republican senators, one month before the spill, had conceded the oil lobby to lift the ban on oil drilling in Atlantic and Pacific instant payday loan. Before declaring a new disaster in six-month moratorium.Giving due to 32 oil companies that had filed an appeal, a judge in Louisiana quashed yesterday, this moratorium. The White House immediately announced its intention to appeal.

The Democratic majority hopes tying a new version of the bill by the month of July. The text, in its latest release, provides a carbon market to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from industry and, among other provisions, the nuclear revival.

No matter that the oil spill as an excuse to create an energy tax, has won Sunday's Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, where every vote counts.

Barack Obama is still riding the wave sticky to push his advantage. It should meet on Wednesday a group of Senate Republicans and Democrats to find a new compromise on the law.Without waiting for Congress, the Administration Obama has already made progress in diversifying its energy sources.