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The official figures will be at noon. But information BFM suggest the outlines of this publication. Namely a difficult 2010, despite a January under good auspices. In fact, "we can expect good numbers in the coming weeks before a turnaround due to falling orders," anticipates does one on the radio station.

The first weeks of this years new register and the continuity of orders made last fall, boosted by the fact scrap bonus. But the whole year is expected to decline by 20% in terms of global vehicle sales. With forecasts of a little less pessimistic (-10%) for the German Volkswagen Polo and his new saving account payday loan .

EDF and Veolia will react to new policies

After intervention by Christine Lagarde, who believes that the dual function of Henri Proglio as President of EDF and the Board of Directors of Veolia could not last "forever", the series Policy should react to investors in securities EDF and Veolia Environment. Regarding the latter, information on the atmosphere that weighs the Management Board to have been unveiled by the Parisien this weekend.The services of the fraud control have also searched the premises of a subsidiary group of utilities in December 2009 as part of an investigation into possible price fixing, according to Capital.

April NextRadio TV Group and must publish their annual results after market close.

Sodexo must hold its general meeting at 16:30.

The values of the banking sector, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Dexia will also be monitored after their heavy falls on Friday.

The businessman Stephane Courbit, combined with the advertising group Publicis, consider buying a 70% shareholding in France Television Advertising by the Tribune. Its proposed takeover could even be validated in the coming days, "understands the daily.

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New blow for Laurence Parisot. Three weeks after the dramatic departure of the federation food (Ania), one of two Deputy Managing Directors of the MEDEF, Jean-Charles Simon, slams the door. The surprise decision, reached Tuesday and disclosed by Le Figaro, fell very ill for the president of MEDEF, which run for another term in June-July. In eighteen months, the employers' organization has lost three Directors General after the dismissal of Jacques Creyssel, the former right hand of Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, Pierre-Henri Ricaud had held only three months.

This new episode revives criticism about management of the sponsoring employers. Jean-Charles Simon shared the position of No. 2 with Helen Molinari, a near Laurence Parisot. Relations between them have continued to deteriorate. In point of exploding during a meeting.According to several employees, Jean-Charles Simon had taken part in Helen Molinari, he regularly accused of "walking on their beds." "A scene of incredible violence", according to a witness who said he was "disgusted". For the MEDEF, Jean-Charles Simon has conducted Tuesday "while only one end of a dramatic incident."

"I did not publicly insulted Helen Molinari, contests Jean-Charles Simon. "He just said that the remarks of Helen Molinari were false, and he left," said one director.As for the release of the MEDEF which emphasizes "support to internal teams whose competence is recognized and which have been proven by these unusual methods, the starter found that" this appalling response augurs poorly for the ability to listen, change and professional management. "Atmosphere …

"No authority over his troops'

According to him, Jean-Charles Simon Laurence Parisot had warned in November that he wanted to leave the MEDEF. "The conditions for exercising my mission were not met," says he, citing failures "in decision-making and organizational roles in her duet with Helen Molinari. "This duality organized could not function, and Tuesday's meeting has shown that Laurence Parisot had no intention of changing anything.I have drawn the conclusions by resigning. "

These eddies successive revive the rumors about the possible candidacy of rivals meet Laurence Parisot, beginning next summer. They are also beginning to worry the Executive's approach to appointments on pensions – the issue that President Ania, Jean-Ren? Buisson, was precisely the charge on behalf of the MEDEF, until his departure. "All this shows that Parisot has no authority over his troops observed a government source. Our main contact employers is low, it's not good to address pension reform. "

In this context, the cancellation of the general assembly next month, announced Wednesday by Les Echos, almost unnoticed. This appointment is not required by the statutes of the MEDEF, Laurence Parisot, but was accustomed to rise early each year a great "show" for debate, discussion and advocacy.His removal was due to "simple economic reasons," says the MEDEF, which has granted a reduction of contribution to its members.

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At 7 o'clock on Monday, the Nikkei 225, unweighted average of 225 blue chips of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, ended the first meeting of 2010 on a gain of 1.03% (108.35 points) at 10,654.79 points, with less than 1.3 billion shares traded. Note that the Tokyo Stock Exchange was put into operation Monday a new system of data processing, faster than before. Some investors were cautious, wary of possible malfunctions, said couriers.

The index nippon has benefited from a weaker yen against the dollar and the rebound of Japan Airlines (JAL) of 34.85%, with the announcement of a loan from the state. According to press reports, the Development Bank of Japan will double its credit line Surla airline, to 200 billion yen, or about 1.5 billion euros.

The first Japanese airline, ordered to quickly find an American partner, decided to partner with Delta Air Lines and join the SkyTeam alliance at the expense of American Airlines and Oneworld, said the biggest Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun in its online edition Monday night.

Conversely, the company Mizuho Financial, the second listing the most active in terms of volumes on Monday, has surrendered 1.81%. Other financial value, Mitsui Financial Group dropped 1.13%.

The broader Topix index was in turn earned 8.16 points (0.90%) to finish at 915.75 points.

Less enthusiasm elsewhere in Asia

Considering the Asian region as a whole, the S & P Asia 50 operates up to 0.37%. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong lost 0.29%, to 21,809.36 points, when Shanghai fell back from 0.14% to 3432.64 points and Singapore fell by 0.22%, to 2891.3 points.In another sense, the Australian Stock Exchange rises 0.12% at 4876.3 points. In India, the Bombay Sotck Exchange 500 takes 0.68%, to 6888.95 points.

Crude prices were up Monday in electronic trading in Asia for the first meeting of the year, while Russia has suspended its oil exports to Belarus, transit-key deliveries to Europe , dealers said.

The barrel of light sweet crude for February delivery took 61 cents to 79.97 dollars a barrel, while that of Brent North Sea at the same maturity, gained 53 cents to 78.46 dollars.

Note that the north of Asia suffered a snowstorm unprecedented weather services of South Korea have indicated that record snowfalls have nailed the aircraft on the ground and caused chaos on Monday the country's roads.Schools were closed and transport were disrupted Monday in northern China after two days of snow that must be followed by extremely cold temperatures as low as -32 °.

For the record, Wall Street closed down last Thursday: The Dow Jones lost 1.19% and 0.92% on Nasdaq.

The International Energy released Friday its monthly report, raising its forecast for demand in 2009 and 2010. The decline in global demand for black gold caused by the global recession would be less strong than expected this year.The IEA now foresees a decline of 1.6% over one year to 84.9 million barrels per day (bpd), while she was counting so far on a contraction of 1.7%.

For 2010, the IEA now expects demand to 86.3 million barrels per day, up 1.7% year on year, while it previously expected a more moderate increase of 1.6 %.

The "risk" that still weigh on industrialized countries, including the continued weakness of demand in the United States is offset by the strength of the recovery in emerging markets.

China and India are the resumption of global demand

"The early indicators better than expected in China and India, whose economies continue to benefit from government stimulus plans" should indeed be the global demand for oil, rising by 3.6% in 2009 to China.The IEA, however, surprised the "apparent discrepancy" between a limited consumption of gasoline and rising sales of cars in the country.

The IEA has estimated that the final price of a barrel of oil reaches $ 76 by 2014, at constant exchange rates, against $ 60 provided in its previous report. Friday, the price was changing between 70 and 71 dollars.

According to the scenario more gloomy global growth of 3% in 2014, oil demand should grow by an average of only 0.5%.