BLOOMBERG Workers at three Total SA refineries in France voted to halt the plants amid discontent over the government’s handling of a proposed labour law. Workers at the Gonfreville refinery in Normandy, Feyzin near Lyon and at Donges, close to Nantes, voted to shut down the facilities, according to Total union members from the Confederation Generale du Travail and …

  Finland / AFP Mobile phone giant Nokia is to cut more than 1,000 jobs in Finland, the company announced on Friday, as part of cost-cutting measures following its merger with Alcatel-Lucent. Once the world’s top mobile phone maker, Finland’s Nokia has been crushed by Samsung and Apple in the smartphone and tablet market in recent years, but earlier this …

  Canberra / Bloomberg German government bonds are stuck in their tightest trading range in more than a year as European Central Bank policy makers maintain a wait-and-see attitude toward inflation and their monetary-stimuluspolicy. Benchmark 10-year bund yields this month have moved within a range of just 19 basis points, or 0.19 percentage point, compared with an average 26 basis points …