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Northern mirage

30 May 2008 By Pierre Briancon

The French telecom company has lost E7bn in market cap in a month, after saying it was contemplating a bid for its Scandinavian counterpart. Now it is trying to raise E10bn to finance a deal with few synergies and no industrial logic. Valuedestruction days are far from over.

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