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The FTSE rebounded after the assurance to finish the day up 25 points at 5066 while the German Dax and French CAC both ended the day marginally higher.
Here's the details: FTSE 100: up 19 points at 5685, + 0.35% DAX: up 45 points at 6568, + 0.7% French CAC: up 15 points at 3114, + 0.5% Dutch AEX: up 1.34 points at 302. 61, + 0.44% 8.08am: City analysts predict that this morning's Dutch debt auction could show that investors are more nervous about lending to the Netherlands, following the government's collapse on Monday.
Here's a summary: FTSE 100: up 0.78% (up 43 points at 5709) French CAC: up 2.4% German DAX: up 1.2% Dutch AEX: up 1.18% 4.26pm: Under more (civilised) questioning from MPs, Mark Rutte reveals that the government is planning to provide the Dutch parliament with a draft version of the letter it will send to Brussels by April 30, outlining its 2013 budget.
Among the country's top firms, listed in the CAC 40, only three have foreign bosses, and one of them Carlos Ghosn at Renault has taken French nationality.
But it is the internationally minded Mr Viehbacher's departure from Sanofi, and Mr de Puyfontaine's return from London, where he was running the Hearst publishing group, to take the helm at Vivendi, that tells the underlying story.The French are proud of their CAC 40.
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THE once-familiar lineup of CAC-40 bosses is getting less so, as one after another is moved, fired or defenestrates himself.
Two-thirds of firms in the CAC-40 index have a long-standing anchor investor usually the state, a family or a mogul.
Boards of directors remain overwhelmingly French, despite the fact that non-French investors own around 40% of the shares in the companies that make up the country's CAC-40 index.
Germany's DAX fell by 6.8% and France's CAC-40 declined by 5.5%.
Even before the passage of the new law, 22 of the companies in the CAC-40, the French blue-chip index, had such arrangements, according to PhiTrust, an investment fund that, along with Proxinvest, a proxy-advisory service, has helped to organise opposition to the Florange law.
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