French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Friday that she has no reason not to believe that the U.S. is backing a strong-dollar policy. ... is making these statements if doesn’t believe in his statements,” Lagarde told Dow Jones Newswires on the sidelines of ... ’s value. Turning her attention to domestic matters, Lagarde said she believes France could bring its budget deficit below ...

... who committed suicide last July. Photograph: Anne-christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images A morbid one ... weeks ago: French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde Thursday voiced her support for France ... recent spate of suicides at the company. Ms. Lagarde summoned France Telecom CEO Didier ... months. In a statement released after the meeting, Ms. Lagarde said she had “full confidence” that Mr. ...

... of the accounting standard-setting process. French minister Christine Lagarde plans to lobby other G-20 finance ministers meeting ... monitoring board and consulting more widely with stakeholders such as regulators. Ms. Lagarde's objective is a greater role for national governments. Ms. Lagarde stands little chance of convincing the G-20, with most governments accepting that rules must be free ...

... did nothing effective to deal with the cleaning up of balance sheets.     Lagarde wants to "reduce" the Maastricht impact of the latest stimulus This is a strange item in Les Echos, which we admit not to understand fully. Christine Lagarde is quoted as saying that the French governments should try its utmost to account for its new bond- ...

... quot; said Davis, who expects fiscal tightening next year to put some brakes on the recovery. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said France's fourth quarter growth will be "a bit better than 0.3 percent." "I ... indicators, and the elements we have today give us hope," Lagarde said in an interview on French radio Europe-1. Elsewhere, Eurostat said ...

... as a side-effect of holding down the currency. Fresh reserves are mostly being invested in eurozone bonds, pushing the euro higher. French finance minister Christine Lagarde said it was intolerable that Europe should "pay the price" for a dysfunctional link between the US and China. "We want a strong dollar, and we have ...