Tony Barber - January 6, 2016 7:34 pm
There are occasions in a nation’s business life when, like a landscape photograph, one event freezes the moment and reveals contours of change many years in the making. Such an occasion arrived in France last month when EDF, the mainly state-owned electricity group, lost its place in the blue-chip CAC 40 stock market index to Klépierre, an owner and operator of shopping centres. Out went a gouty old emperor of 20th-century French industry, and in (...)