Energy transitions issues have taken hold of the French presidential campaign. Some, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Benoît Hamon are reducing it to the stigmatization of nuclear energy, they propose to abandon through the closing of power units in safe technical condition. Others, like Emmanuel Macron or François Fillon, propose a diversification of the electricity mix but are hostile to shale gas exploration. All of them think energy saving investments are the panacea to reduce unemployment, but without defining convincing financial solutions, due to the diversity of the situations.

France is not an isolated case. The American presidential ...

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Nothing happened in 2016 as expected. The Chinese economy didn’t fall into a major crisis. Its currency, the yuan, as its financial markets, stabilized after the previous summer bumps. Growth, even if it has been lower than in the past years, was still strong, at around 6.5%. This figure would make envious most of the emerging countries, not to say a word about developed ones. National debts, and notably state-owned enterprises and local authorities ones, have been refinanced without affecting the banking sector. Trade surplus and the central bank huge reserves protect the country from any wariness coming ...

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Current transformations of the Chinese economy and the growing implication of its businesses in the world market will necessitate the creation of a high level financial hub where will be processed its transactions with foreign countries. This hub is already found: it will be Shanghai.  Yuan internationalization, launched almost ten years ago, in a general indifference, and even a denial, as in France, is going on and even is accelerating. Monetary bumps occurred last year when China central bank decided to modify its intervention procedures with a certain clumsiness caused by its inexperience, are now part of the past. The ...

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