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The Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigned Sunday because of a controversy over a fake university degree in computer science listed on his resume.

This is the third time in as many years as the head changes its internet portal.

Yahoo also gave three director seats at a hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb, who should be well positioned to influence the group's strategy.

Scott Thompson was replaced on an interim basis by Ross Levinson, current director of worldwide media division, Yahoo said in a statement.

It's Third Point hedge fund of Daniel Loeb, who discovered the falsification of the CV of Scott Thompson. This company owns 5.8% stake in Yahoo.

The departure of the CEO only four months after taking office should re-questioning the future of Yahoo, which is struggling to revive its growth face stiff competition from groups like Google or Facebook.

On April 10, Yahoo announced its reorganization into three divisions – "consumer", "regions" and "technology", which was one of the first strong measures by Scott Thompson , arrived at the beginning of the year at the helm of the company.

Greece is no longer bound by its commitments to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund after the rejection by voters of parties supporting the bailout, said Tuesday the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left, Alexis Tsipras.

The head of Syriza, which will attempt to form a coalition government after the Conservatives came top of Sunday's parliamentary had renounced, advocated putting banks under the controlled the desired state and an international commission investigating the legality of government debt. 

"The bailout was clearly canceled by the popular verdict," said Tsipras, whose formation was propelled the rand against the odds of the second political force .

The 2013 draft budget, which aims to reduce the fiscal deficit to 3% of GDP, is assured of a majority in the Dutch Parliament after the agreement between the two parties in the outgoing coalition and the three opposition parties, said Thursday news agency ANP.

"My party has given me the green light to the plan that we discussed," said Sybrand van Thursday Haersma Buma, leader of the Christian Democrats in the lower house of Parliament .

Stef Blok, leader of the parliamentary Liberal, has also announced that its base had agreed, as the three opposition parties, Democrats 66, Christian Union VertGauche and, depending on the television channel NOS. 

The ruling coalition broke out during the weekend due to the inability to agree on conservation measures designed to meet the reduction targets budget deficit ; silence as part of the European Union.

The government has sought to obtain a circumstantial majority in Parliament to pass his economic plan before Monday, when it is supposed to present in Brussels.

Discussions were held with the two parties forming the government (the Liberals and Christian Democrats), with three opposition parties (Democrats 66, and the Union VertGauche Christian) and with perhaps one or two other courses. 

With the support of all three opposition parties, the government will have a majority of 77 seats out of 150 in the lower house of Parliament.

The Spanish Minister of Economy admitted on Monday that the country had fallen into recession for the second time since 2009, as investors demanded higher yields to buy debt securities the country.

Official figures on gross domestic product (GDP) of the Spanish first quarter of 2012 will not be published before April 30. The Minister of Economy, Luis de Guindos, however, said that the Spanish economy should be in the first quarter contraction similar to the last quarter of 2011, which was 0.3 % over the third quarter.

Two successive quarters of declining GDP correspond to the technical definition of recession, which was widely anticipated in Spain.

According to the minister, who gave an interview to El Mundo, the decline will however not as serious as feared.

"If you had asked me this question two months ago, I would have thought the first quarter of 2012 would have been much worse than the last quarter of last year. But this does not happen, "said Luis de Guindos

" For now, I see a first quarter like the last quarter of last year. "

These words fall in line with other recent statements by government members, suggesting Spain is in recession again

. The rightwing government of Mariano Rajoy has committed to undertake significant budget cuts. But, the markets, there is concern growing that the recession makes it impossible to goals of deficits and that Spain should seek international assistance in one form or another, to ; like Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

Yields of Spanish debt to ten years have passed Monday morning above 6% for the first time since the beginning of the year, while the Spanish CDS reached new records.

CRISIS MODE

"We returned a crisis mode," said Lyn Graham Taylor, a specialist rates to Rabobank. "It seems increasingly likely that Spain would have to resort to some form of rescue. If there is no intervention (ECB), there will be no ceiling to Spanish yields . They will just keep climbing. "

The Spanish economy is in contraction or stagnation since the bursting of the real estate to ; re in 2008. While housing prices are still falling, the survival of some banks and the new government's ability to control its finances are subject to debate.

The Popular Party (PP), which won elections in November against the Socialists in place, has taken a number of measures to reduce the deficit Spanish, one of the highest the euro area.

But confidence in the ability of President Mariano Rajoy of the Government to work within budgetary limits of the euro area was tested when the head Government has unilaterally lowered the deficit target in 2012 beginning in March, which was strongly up the risk premium on Spanish debt. 

The Minister of Economy also said that the government would take further measures to help small and medium enterprises solvent to obtain credit from banks.

Moreover, the government could get involved in finances too spendthrift regions as early as May, said on Monday with the government.

If Spain has largely missed its target deficit for 2011 is largely due to the expense of regions. The 17 Spanish autonomous regions must reduce its public deficit to 1.5% of GDP in 2012, against 2.9% last year.

A law is being voted in parliament to give the central government the power to punish regions that did not comply with the objectives of deficit narrowed.

U.S. stocks closed up again Thursday due to signs of improvement in the situation in Europe and China and the first quarterly results of companies, considered encouraging .

The Dow Jones gained 1.41% or 181.19 points, to 12,986.58 points. The Standard & Poor's, wider, has advanced 1.38% or 18.86 points to 1387.57 points while the Nasdaq composite took 1.3% or 39.09 points to 3055.55 points.

The S & P 500 benchmark fund managers, rose above its 50-day moving average, as if traders felt the recent decline of nearly 5% as an opportunity to catch up with the performance of the index.

The S & P gained more than 10% since the beginning of the year.

The market did not consider the surprise hike in jobless claims last week to 380,000. Economists anticipated 355,000 claims. Some economists said the statistic is not very significant given the Easter weekend.

Bond yields in Italy and Spain fell after a strong demand during an operation launched this week by Italy.

"The decline in bond yields is a signal for investors, here, that things are not as bad as this in Europe," said Brian Gendreau, market specialists at Cetera Financial Group.

Traders also cited expectations of a pleasant surprise on the side of the figures of gross domestic product (GDP) of China, to be released Friday morning. Some are skeptical about this rumor.

"Chinese history is being misinterpreted. The Chinese government researcher who is supposed to have commented on China's GDP has talked about 9% GDP growth for all of 2012 and said he anticipated that 8.4 to 8%, 5% for the first quarter, which is in line with expectations, "said Peter Boockvar, equity specialist at Miller Tabak in New York

. The first results of companies have also published a good effect. Analysts say expectations may have been lowered too much and that the shares may now seem cheap and after the 5% decline that has just recorded the S & P. ​​

Alcoa has continued to benefit from the positive effect generated ; by its results. The value rose 2.7% after surging 6.34% on Wednesday.

Values ​​of raw materials have been sought. U.S. Steel gained 7.5% to 29.36 dollars.

Values, Hewlett-Packard jumped 7.17% to 25.09 dollars. According to Gartner, PC shipments rose in the first quarter thanks to a recovery in demand in Europe.

The title Exonhit significantly lower Thursday at the Paris Bourse after the publication of 2011 results considered very encouraging for the future of the biotechnology company, according to stakeholders.

For the past year, Exonhit reduced its loss to 7.1 million euros, against a loss of 7.7 million in 2010, and indicated that on 31 December 2011, his strated ; Flow was $ 12.9 million, giving it about 24 months of cash.

She also announced today have repaid all its long-term debt.

Turnover dropped to 5 million euros last year, against 8.4 million a year earlier. 

The company claims to have achieved savings in 2011 of two million euros in a full year after abandoning a planned acquisition and cut expenses on clinical Aclarus DX, the blood test of Alzheimer's disease.

Present equally in the market for drugs for neurodegenerative diseases and the diagnosis, Exonhit gives no numerical targets for 2012 merely say "more than ever" confident in achieving its prospects.

"The year 2012 will Exonhit to that of expanding our portfolio of diagnostic products, its own or in collaboration, while maintaining a solid financial structure," said the pre Chairman of the Executive Loïc Maurel, said in the statement of results. 

At 11:10, the action Exonhit lost 9.36% to 1.84 euros in large volumes, showing a market capitalization of 62.78 million euros. At this price level, the title was up 73.6% since the beginning of the year, after a loss of 48.29% last year.

At Bryan Garnier, Sebastien Malafosse the analyst points out that the market "expects a start-up Exonhit as it invests in its future development rather than focus on reducing of its cost structure ".

The views of the steps taken in 2011, he continues, "the road is still long for Exonhit and maturity of 24 months of cash could happen quickly."

With other analysts, however, it notes that the action has Exonhit, like those of other biotechs, gained much ground in recent sessions, so the decline of this morning can also be explained by profit taking.

The deficit of state budget has decreased by 0.9 billion euros in January over one year to 12.5 billion through the sale of 4G mobile frequencies. View of the Ministry of Economy and Finance at Bercy.

The deficit of state budget has decreased by 0.9 billion euros in January over one year to 12.5 billion euros, thanks to the windfall of allocating 4G mobile frequencies, said Friday the Budget Ministry. The state expenditure were however up to 31 January from a year earlier, but this progression, "consistent with the prediction," is due to "an increase in the rate of recognition" earlier this year, ensures Bercy in a statement.

Expenses (general budget and levies on revenue) reached the end of January € 32.8 billion against 26.3 billion the same date of 2011, the departments' management in 2012 to start faster. " According to the ministry, "the expenditure has not been late and has already reached its cruising speed", and so do not see a skid. As for revenue (net of refunds and rebates), they improve to 23.4 billion against 20.5 billion at January 31, 2011. The net tax revenues are up as expected from one year to another, almost 8%, particularly with regard to corporation tax (33.6%).

The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended on a sharp rise from 2.01% Thursday, buoyed by optimism about employment in the United States and the level of participation of private creditors to Greek debt exchange.

After three sessions of declines, the Nikkei index is back above the 9,700 point mark, gaining 192.90 points to 9,768.96 and the Topix broader, took 13.45 Points (1.63%) to 836.16.

The trend was also supported by a Wall Street Journal suggesting that the Fed is considering a new approach to bond buybacks.

Values, the technology has benefited from a presentation by Apple's new version of its iPad tablet.

Toshiba took 1.77% and 4.1% Electronics Renesas.

Salzgitter, the second German steelmaker, on Monday issued a pretax profit increased fourfold, as expected by investors, but warned that the year 2012 would not as favorable as 2011, a forecast that is significantly reducing its share price.

The title fell by 5.16% to 42.97 euros at 8:22 GMT, while the Dax gave up 0.69% and the sector index Stoxx 600 Basic Resources yielded 1.47%.

Salzgitter said he expects this year to at least stable sales and a positive taxable income, while explaining that it would be "difficult" to do as well in 2011.

Last year, pretax profit rose to 201.6 million euros against 49 million in 2010, a result consistent with its forecast in Reuters poll, which gave 196 million . 

ThyssenKrupp, the German number one steel, has plunged into the red last three months of 2011 and was told last month unable to provide reliable predictions for all of its 2011 fiscal year -2012, which ends in September, due to economic uncertainties.

The Swiss watchmaker Swatch plans to create 1,000 jobs worldwide and generate a turnover of 8 billion Swiss francs (6.64 billion euros) this year, said Sunday its CEO Nick Hayek told Der Sonntag.

Nick Hayek regularly manifests its opposition to the strong Swiss franc, which penalizes exports Helvetic.

"We want as close as possible to the threshold of 8 billion francs," he told the Sunday newspaper.

"This will be possible if there is no economic or political disaster, and that exchange rates remain stable or improve."

In early January, Swatch Group announced a turnover of more than seven billion francs, after a double-digit growth in sales of watches and jewelry division.