Crisis knocks Bouygues sales, holds off making new forecast

PARIS (Reuters) - French conglomerate Bouygues said on Thursday it was unable to give investors new full-year guidance as severe slowdowns triggered by the coronavirus pandemic hit its construction and media businesses.Paris-based Bouygues reported a 9% drop in first quarter sales from a year earlier to 7.22 billion euros ($7.80 billion) and estimated the impact of the coronavirus crisis on sales to be around 750 million euros in the first quarter, of which 600 million euros was in France..