The transaction enabled the world's first social network to raise $ 16 billion (12.6 billion euros).

Banks consulting group had set Thursday at $ 38 IPO price of the securities at the highest range of introductory, valuing the company at $ 104 billion (82 billion euros).

The action was trading at 42.05 dollars in the first few exchanges. At 3:33 p.m. GMT, three minutes after the first listing, the stock was trading at 40.64 dollars.

Building on the success of the operation, the company had increased by 25% the number of securities being sold to raise it to 421 million.

Friday, some 82 million shares changed hands during the first 30 seconds of official exchanges.

The group's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, 27, rang the bell to mark the symbolic start of trading on the Nasdaq, since the California headquarters of Facebook.

Become in eight years a major U.S. fortunes, Mark Zuckerberg retains control of the company after the introduction.

The UK economy fell into recession at the beginning of the year, fueling fears that the private sector employees join the ranks of job seekers when State removes some 700,000 civil service posts as part of its austerity measures.

But following the methodology of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the number of unemployed fell by 45,000 in the first quarter to $ 2.625 million.

The unemployment rate actually fell to 8.2%, while the consensus gave unchanged at 8.3%. 

The number of unemployed youth, a very sensitive politically, also declined to 1.02 million, bringing the unemployment rate for those aged 16-24 to 21.9%.

British companies have also increased their workforce for the first time in a year, according to a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (ICPD). The CIPD warns that the changing economic landscape could make it difficult in the short-term improvement on the labor market.

The bank had to spend in provisions for doubtful debts of 970 million euros in the quarter, up 43% over the same period last year, to account degradation of credit quality in the country, hit by a deep economic recession.

Fears of a deteriorating economic situation in Italy, where Intesa makes 80% of its activity, is one of the elements cited by Moody's to justify lowering the massive credit rating of Italian banks Monday. 

Moody's lowered the rating of Intesa Monday to A3, the same level as the Italian sovereign debt.

Intesa announced that its ratio of "core Tier 1", financial strength, was 10.5% at end-March, against 10.1% at the end of last year – one of the highest in Italy.

The bank expects a stable overall operating profit in 2012, excluding special items.

Like other Italian financial institutions, Intesa ended the year 2011 in the red, with a loss of 10.1 billion euros over the years, having moved from significant impairment of goodwill to its balance sheet clean, hard hit by the crisis of the euro.

The title was down nearly 2% in the Milan Stock Exchange.

The Nikkei gained 0.23% or 20.53 points, to 8,973.84. In contrast, the Topix broader, yielded 1.70 points (-0.22%) to 756.68.

China cut Saturday the amounts that banks must hold in reserve, thereby increasing their lending capacity of 400 billion yuan (48 billion euros), a measure taken to e avoid the risk of a sharp slowdown in the second largest economy.

In Greece, the leader of the radical left, Alexis Tsipras, Monday refused to participate in negotiations of the last chance to form a national unity government, paving the way for the organization likely new legislative elections in June. 

Action Nissan sold 1.99%, investors apparently not been impressed with the predictions of the manufacturer, which saw operating profit grow by 28 , 2% this year.

"In Europe, we also want to focus more on growth," said Guido Westerwelle before the German deputies in the Bundestag.

The minister was however opposed to increased spending, saying the pact for growth, particularly desired by the new French president Francois Hollande, was not to imply that " better use of resources "from the EU. 

Guido Westerwelle city "trips financed by Europe in the romantic hotel spas" as an example of waste in Europe.

The minister said the EU should invest 80 billion euros of unused structural funds in projects aimed at stimulating growth and competitiveness.

He also wanted to push the European Central Bank (ECB) to provide better access to credit for small and medium enterprises.

The former head of the liberal FDP, which form a coalition with the Christian Democrats (CDU / CSU) Chancellor Angela Merkel, European growth was linked to a liberal ralisation of domestic and foreign markets. 

Francois Hollande Angela Merkel will meet Tuesday, hours after his inauguration, to discuss the crisis in the euro area and the measures needed to stimulate growth in Europe presqu'entiè ; LY dive into recession – with the notable exception of Germany.

This will be their first face to face interview, while Angela Merkel has avoided meeting Francois Hollande during the presidential campaign, where she supported his opponent Nicolas Sarkozy.

Peter Bofinger, one of five "wise men" who advise the German government on the economy, has also decided Friday to allow more room for countries suffering from the debt crisis. 

"The problem countries kill themselves to save," he told an Austrian newspaper. "We must stop this, even if deficits rise in the short term."

The Luxembourg-based group says that demand has increased in North America in the automotive, construction and appliance.

"Europe remains our main challenge and, in the first quarter, we announced the extended shutdown of several factories in the line of our strategy is to re ; lay on demand from our site competitive, "said Group Chief Executive Lakshmi Mittal said in a statement. 

"Despite the impact of seasonal factors in the first quarter, our mining remains a key growth area and we have set ourselves the objective of further increasing production in 2012."

ArcelorMittal said its steel shipments expected to remain at a similar level to the first quarter but that all segments are expected to improve their profitability. It does not say whether these gains will come from rising prices, costs down, or both.

The group reaffirmed its target of a gross operating profit (EBITDA) rose in the first six months of the year compared to the second half of 2011, when he was 4 , 1 billion dollars (3.17 billion euros).

In the first quarter, EBITDA totaled $ 1.97 billion, well above the Reuters consensus among 11 banks and brokers, who gave it to 1.71 billion. This result was up by 15% over the previous quarter and 24% annual rate.

The net profit amounted to 11 million, instead of the 78 million expected.

ArcelorMittal has also reported that it had signed an agreement to sell its 23.48% in Enovos International SA, for the benefit of a fund managed by AXA Private Equity Group, for a purchase price of EUR 330 million.

Sunday's parliamentary elections have left Greece in a political deadlock in the absence of a parliamentary majority for the only two parties represented that support the bailout, the Conservatives New Democracy (ND) and the Socialist Party (PASOK).

The leader of the Radical Left (Syriza), now the second largest party in parliament behind Greek ND, said Tuesday that the obligations of Greece towards the EU and the IMF in the part of the bailout were null and void. 

Alexis Tsipras, whose training has greatly benefited from the unpopularity of austerity measures required by the plan, has three days to form a government after the cessation of leader ND, Antonis Samaras last night.

Germany, Europe's largest economy, has made the most of financial guarantees under the rescue plan, which requires Greece to achieve specific goals in terms budget savings.

"The terms of the agreement must be respected. I do not think we can, or that we had to negotiate again, "said Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament and member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) …

…… "It can only be paid if the conditions are met," said Gerda on his side Hasselfedt, member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Bavarian partner of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Chancellor Angela Merkel

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. payment of a portion of 11.5 billion euros, without which Greece will go bankrupt, is packaged in a new series of budget cuts to be voted by the Hellenic Parliament by the end June This period may however be challenged by the political vacuum created in the vote on Sunday.

MARGIN OF FRANCE IS THIN

Results in Greece and the victory of socialist Francois Hollande in the second round of French presidential illustrated Sunday the growing rejection of European voters face the austerity measures ; defended by Germany out of the eurozone's debt crisis.

The promises of Francois Hollande curb line austerity defended in Berlin, however, may be tempered after the release, scheduled for late June, an audit of the state of public finances, asked the Court of Auditors by the future president. 

In Berlin, Peter Altmaier, elected leader of Christian Democrats (CDU) to be close to the German Chancellor, said that the next French government would have that a very limited room for maneuver in fiscal policy due to "insecurity" of the Economy and Finance of France.

"The economy of France and the country's finances remain in a precarious state," he told reporters, admitting disappointed by the election of Socialist the French Presidency.

"Any country that tries to pursue a policy stimulus by increasing its deficits would quickly back to the markets and interest rates would increase," he added. "There is no flexibility."

Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande will meet next week, after handing over power at the top of the French state.

The austerity policy conducted in Greece for two years under pressure from international donors in the country was heavily censored Sunday by voters who sprayed the positions of both parties proponents of strict neo-Nazis and sent to parliament.

New Democracy (right), one of two parties with the PASOK socialist who signed with the European Union a commitment to continue the policy of austerity and reform, has become, as expected, the first party of Greece. But his score historically low, between 17 and 20% of the vote, should make the creation of a stable government impossible, according to preliminary comments.

The austerity censored

PASOK (Socialist), whose former boss George Papandreou had sought a loan from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in May 2010, rolled out of the poll, with a score between 14 and 17% against 43.9% in 2009, punished for having accepted the terms of drastic austerity attached to aid.

In total, the two parties that formed the pillars of the Greek party system since the fall of the colonels' dictatorship in 1974, do not even reach the 37% needed for a majority of parliamentary seats (151), which bodes ill for opportunity to continue the current policy. "It is a political earthquake that strikes the government parties," said the chain Mega, Panos Panagiotopoulos, a tenor of the New Democracy, the conservative party claiming the top spot. The leader of PASOK, Evangelos Venizelos, who negotiated over the past months the agreement to erase debt and the second international aid plan in the country, acknowledged Sunday night that the formation of a national unity government pro-European, he has expressed its wish to take the country out of the impasse would be "difficult".

The radical left party Syriza, winner of the elections

Winner of the poll, the small party of the extreme radical left, Syriza, led by Alexis Tspiras, becomes the second largest party in Greece, with a score between 15.5 and 17.5% instead of 4.6% in in 2009.  

First surprised by the ras-tidal, activists gathered at party headquarters have not posted too noisy joy, puzzlement and questions about the future of the country appears to the fore the concerns of activists, according to a photographer at the scene. The party requesting the suspension of debt service, deletion of part of the public debt, adding a clause pro-growth in the memorandum.

Officially it does not demand the release of the euro in Greece, PASOK but during the campaign has often been accused of being the party of the output of the euro. In terms of seats, the conservative New Democracy would win 108 seats, PASOK and 38, face two disparate blocks left and right of rejecting austerity. The party of the radical left Syriza get 47 seats. The campaign was dominated by the challenge to the austerity policies conducted under the leadership of donor countries.

9.8 million voters

Approximately 9.8 million Greek voters voted Sunday to renew Parliament in an election dominated by the implosion of the old two-party political system and, at the risk of challenging the recovery efforts of countries within the euro area . Under the Constitution, the mandate to find an alliance government is first given to the leading party, before moving on failure to include two, within a period of ten days.

Illustrating the exceptional climate that prevailed throughout the campaign, thirty neo-Nazis broke into Athenian six polling stations during the day, where they have engaged in intimidation against leftist activists, along the minor party far left Antarsya. Police confirmed two incidents, attributed to the small group Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn), which entered parliament for the first time in modern history of the country, having obtained between 6 and 8% of the vote according to exit poll .

This neo-Nazi party, long semi-clandestine and known for its attacks against migrants, denounced the MoU signed by Greece with its creditors, and refused repayment of public debt. Entered parliament as a shock in a country that has suffered severely the yoke of Nazi occupation and a military dictatorship from 1967 to 1974.

Entered the stock market in 2006, the airline announced in July the payment of an ordinary dividend of 3 pence per share in the wake of the release by the group improved its re results.

In total, the group will restore a total of 15.9 million euros.

However, he ruled out any possibility of paying a special dividend, as it did before its competitors Ryanair and EasyJet. 

The financial director of Ryanair, Aer Lingus' biggest shareholder, has welcomed the announcement of a payment, while calling it "pathetic", arguing that a combination of 50 million euros have been ; more appropriate to the billion euros in cash for which the carrier is sitting.

"If we were at Christmas, I would call stingy," said Howard Millar.

Some analysts said that shareholders might be disappointed, but justify the cautious attitude of Aer Lingus in the context of uncertainty that surrounds it.

M6 Group has produced a quarterly revenue up 3.6% to 355.1 million euros, against 345 million euros expected by the Thomson Reuters consensus I / B / E / S , driven by non-advertising revenues as media rights or distance selling.

At 10:10, the title earns 7.5% to 12.40 euros, the second largest increase in the SBF 120 (1.23%) behind Technicolor (10.26%).

"All the poles were better than expected," said Gilbert Dupont in a note, confirming its board to buy the title with a target price of 18.5 euros. 

"Despite this publication better than expected, we maintain our forecast at this stage, given the lack of visibility on the advertising environment," said the interim, however.

The only channel M6 does not record it, a 1.5% growth in advertising revenues in January-March, limited by the combination of sluggish economic conditions and an unfavorable base effect.

In a note, Goldman Sachs said it anticipated a 0.5% increase in advertising revenue from the M6, citing a consensus even reporting a decrease of 0, 6%.

Digital channels (such as W9) whose advertising revenue increase of 16.0% helped the group garner advertising revenues of 202.5 million, a record first quarter according to M6.