France wants to target bonds and derivatives, as well as stocks, with a new tax on financial transactions that the conservative government hopes to introduce before an April presidential election, Finance Minister Francois Baroin said on Tuesday. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government is keen to push ahead with a so-called "Tobin tax" even without its European Union partners, but the daily Le Monde reported on Monday that such a tax could be limited to the purchase of shares. "We want it to be broad -- stocks, bonds and derivatives," Baroin told France's i (full story)