European stock markets end in order dispersé

PARIS (Reuters) - European shares ended Wednesday in a dispersed, many investors have however benefited from their decline in the morning and early afternoon to make purchases with it, demonstrates the willingness of fund managers to increase their exposure to actions.

The pan-European index STOXX 50 gained 0.04%, after being down much of the session. In Paris, the CAC 40 is pressed into the green and took 0.30% to 3708.49 points. Same in Frankfurt for the Dax gained 0.20%, while in London, the FTSE has remained in the red and has lost 0.22% .

"There is no reason to reconstruct the portfolios now. Markets overflowing with cash, low volatility encourages investment and valuations remain attractive," says Roland Kaloyan (Société Générale CIB) .

The good results

U.S. banks JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Group have enabled European banking sector to reduce its losses, its index will not lose more than 0.37% in closing. This is, however, one of the largest declines sector of the day with the index of natural resources in mind (-1.31%) .

Société Générale, red lantern CAC-40 dropped 2.84%. The bank warned that its fourth quarter results inscribe an impairment of goodwill (goodwill) up to 384 million euros related to the 50% stake it holds in the broker Newedge.< / p>

On the foreign exchange market, the euro / dollar stabilizes after fluctuated with conflicting statements from European leaders. Ewald Nowotny, a member of the Board of Governors of the European Central Bank, had said that the fluctuations of the euro does not constitute a "major concern" .

Past President of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker had instead estimated yesterday that the exchange rate of the euro was at a "dangerously high" .

side of the bond market, the stable end Bunds. An auction 4 billion euros of 10-year paper has generated good demand, better than when a similar program in November, thanks to a recent rise in yields allemands.

Spain has awarded its side Paper short (12 and 18 months) and benefited from a sharp decline in financing costs on this occasion. It was the same for Portugal.

On the oil market, Brent and WTI Texas are slightly higher, supported by an unexpected drop in U.S. crude stocks and the closure of an oil platform in the North Sea. Gains were limited, however, OPEC anticipating a further decline in demand this année.

Wilfrid Exbrayat for service français

Farmers angry at the Ministry of Agriculture

Une hundred farmers have spilled straw and pallets and lit a few fires Wednesday, January 16 in the morning near the Ministry of Agriculture in Paris to protest the new constraints to the implementation of European regulation against the nitrates.

Arrivés aboard several trucks to the call of the Regional Federation of Farmers' Unions (FRSEA) Ile-de-France, protesters were blocked by a line of gendarmes at the corner of the street Varenne, the seat ministère.

Selon one of the protesters, trucks manure were trapped on the upstream Champs-Elysées.

Appel the mobilization France

Ils were destined Minister Stéphane Le Foll including the Federation demanding the resignation, the president Damien Greffin judging minister "arrogant" with farmers. National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA), currently campaigning for the elections to the Chambers of Agriculture scheduled for late January, called its members to mobilize throughout France mercredi.

En region, angry demonstrations began on Tuesday night in Rennes and Le Mans, where tires and manure were dumped in the city center and in front of a supermarket. But prefectures prime targets had been protected and prohibited access .

"arbitrary political decisions"

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Sarkozy threatened by an investigation of the file margin Karachi

PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is under threat of an indictment in a judicial investigation of the case outside Karachi for "violating the secrecy of the investigation," The Monde.

said Thursday

The newspaper said on its website that three judges of the court of Paris were seized last November of a complaint filed against the former head of state June 18, 2012 by counsel for several families victims of the attack in Karachi (2002), Mr. Olivier Morice, for "violating the secrecy of investigation and instruction," and "breach of confidentiality" .

The complaint also seeks former communication adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace, Franck Louvrier and former Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux.

It followed a statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic, 22 September 2011, while newspaper articles evoked the possible involvement of Nicolas Sarkozy in the financial aspect of the Karachi affair, says The Monde.< / p>

"With regard to the case known as Karachi, the name of the head of state does not appear in any of the facts of the case. He was quoted by any witness or actor of this file (...) . It appears in the pleadings, "could be read in the communiqué.

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Top 14: Biarritz is good at home against Agen

PARIS (Reuters) - Biarritz had a difficult start to the match but held out Friday in his stage Aguilera to win 16-11 against Agen, which records and its eighth consecutive defeat in the league of France rugby.

The Lot-et-Garonne have yet glimpsed hope to end the series since Black led 8-0 after 18 minutes of play after a test of their third line Tongan Opeti Fonua and a penalty from David English Seymour.

But

Biarrots quickly regained couleurs.

Flyhalf Julien Peyrelongue scored the first penalty in the 22nd minute, before hooker Arnaud Heguy test scores a half-hour, transformed by Peyrelongue.

Just before the break, a new penalty opener BO allowed the Basques to regain the locker room with the score advantageous 13-8.

The second period has not changed much in the case .

Peyrelongue are yet of his boot to register a third penalty in the 64th minute and his South African counterpart could only reduce the gap by scoring a penalty turn for Agen to 76e.

Biarritz and remains in seventh place in the Top 14 but no longer, with 36 points, two points behind Grenoble receiving Castres, ranked fourth, samedi.

Toulon, championship leader, host Racing Metro on Sunday, ninth, while Clermont, his heir, will host the eve Montpellier.

Toulouse, ranking third, moves Saturday Mont-de-Marsan.

Chrystel Boulet-Euchin, edited by Helen Duvigneau

ALGERIA. One French and five Japanese abducted in southern pays

Un French and five Japanese abducted by Islamist rebels in southern Algeria, according to diplomatic sources and local. Information that has not yet confirmed the Algerian authorities.

L'Algérie shares a border with Mali, which occurs at the moment the French army.

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The Malian army sends reinforcements in Mopti, wait a attaque

BAMAKO (Reuters) - The Malian army has sent reinforcements in the Mopti region where it is expected to attack Islamist rebels who control since April last two thirds of Mali, it was learned Wednesday source close to the Ministry of Défense.

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government forces and Islamist insurgents clashed in the region on Monday, after eight months of status quo.

"We have deployed technical resources and reinforcements on the front," said a military official in Bamako. He did not elaborate on these renforts.

"We believe that the Islamists want Sévaré attack," he added, referring to a town located less than 10 km from Mopti, where government forces are stationed and where the main airport région.

Malian authorities believe the Islamist coalition, which includes Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Ansar Dine and Mujao (Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa), brought their fighters bastions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu to launch an assault against Mopti.

It is unclear whether the insurgents really want to move to the south where it is a show of force before the planned peace talks in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso voisin.

CITY STRATÉGIQUE

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Talks between the Malian government and rebel groups were open Thursday, but authorities announced Wednesday that they were repoussés.

Bamako, thousands of students marched through the streets to demand a solution to the political crisis that has persisted since the coup last March. They blocked the two main bridges over the river Niger.

Tuesday evening, the Malian army announced that it had postponed the day Islamist attack in the region Mopti.

Mopti, 450 km northeast of the capital, occupies a strategic position. The city, one of the most northern forces still controlled by regular houses, besides the airport, an important military base malienne.

group Ansar Dine announced last week it had ended a cease-fire because the project of the international community to deploy a West African desert in the north to hunt rebelles.

Tuareg rebels backed by radical Islamists sometimes allied to AQIM, seized in April 2012 from the north by taking advantage of the disorganization of the army and the political vacuum created by the military coup in Bamako.< / p>

In December, the Security Council of the UN has approved plans to deploy a contingent of West African troops in the north to hunt jihadist groups. The operation should not be launched by septembre.

Guy Kerivel for the French service, edited by Gilles Trequesser

A young man shot dead in Clichy-sous-Bois

PARIS (Reuters) - A young man was gunned down Sunday afternoon in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, we learned source policière.

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or authors were fleeing gunfire early soirée.

A person who heard gunshots called the police who arrived on the spot while the relatives of the young man had been taken to hospital, where he décédé.

At the scene, police arrested two members of the family of the young man holding a gun but not the authors of the fatal shootings, it was précisé.

The family belongs to the community of people and travel is sédentarisée.

Asked BFM-TV, a union official Unsa Police, Christophe Crepin, said the young man was 19 years old and had received a discharge of rifle thorax.

Jean-Baptiste Vey, edited by Jean-Philippe Lefief