E.ON seeks to expand its presence in renewable energy since Germany has announced its withdrawal from nuclear. The group plans to spend $ 7 billion in this direction over the next five years.

At the request of Brussels, France is preparing his side to open up to competition dominated field by EDF launching tenders for the renewal of concessions of ten hydropower.

The tenders should initially be made on a case by case basis between 2010 and 2013, and the concessions to be granted between 2013 and 2015. But none of the appeals process for applications has not yet started.

"We are late," said a spokesman for the Department of Ecology, adding that the ministry was trying to recruit consultants to finalize the specifications.

The European Union has asked France to open 20% of its hydroelectric plants to competition. The concessions are to be renewed in the Alps, the Pyrenees and central France.

Hydroelectric capacity of France, which reached about 23,500 MW, is now managed by EDF – which operates 85% of facilities in the country – and GDF Suez, which has said it wants to increase its share market sector.

The Competition Commission said in a statement that an institution is denounced by stating that several banks have influenced the benchmark Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) and Tibor (Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate ) for certain currencies.

Libor is used worldwide as a benchmark to set rates on transactions whose total amount is estimated at 350,000 billion. 

The slightest change in these rates calculated daily based on data from a selected group of banks may have a significant impact on rates charged by banks.

"For these behaviors, traders could obtain a distortion of the reference rate in their favor," said the policeman of the competition in a statement.

The Competition Commission is also suspected that brokers will be concerted on the differences between the buying and selling (spreads) of derivatives products, allowing them to sell financial products to ; disadvantageous terms for their clients. 

Investigations of the Competition Commission with respect to 12 major European institutions, U.S. and Japanese: UBS and Credit Suisse, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, Mizuho Financial Group, Rabobank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Societe Generale and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

INVESTIGATIONS IN EUROPE AND THE United States

U.S. authorities, European and British also seeking banks have underestimated the interbank rates to reduce borrowing costs and try to ease market tensions during the financial crisis.

At the time, Libor rates had increased, but some had found that this increase was insufficient to reflect the actual prices in the interbank market. 

"We are in contact with the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission," said Reuters on Friday Olivier Schaller, Deputy Director of the Competition Commission. "Our focus for now on the problems appeared on the Swiss market. We're just beginning our investigation. "

" We take these surveys very seriously and cooperate fully with the authorities, "said a spokesman for UBS and Credit Suisse

. RBS have refused ; s to comment while no one was immediately available in other institutions for a position

……. .. Suspicions had already emerged in 2011 when a European asset manager sued a dozen international banks, accusing them of understanding to manipulate Libor …… Charles Schwab Corp.

… has also instituted proceedings against eleven major banks for the same reasons. 

In July, UBS announced it had granted immunity in a case of suspected manipulations to Libor in exchange for his cooperation with certain authorities.

Its net income amounted to three billion euros, a result set back from the expectations of 3.18 billion, according to a Reuters poll of 11 analysts from financial.

The amount of its bad loans declined slightly to 4% of all of its claims, against 4.1% in September.

The new car registrations fell 7.6% last month to 179,160 units, show statistics released Thursday by the Committee of French Automobile Manufacturers (CCFA).

They were up 2.8% in October, thanks to commercial offers to individuals.

The figures quoted in November as raw data to comparable number of working days, in November 2011 that counted as 20 business days in November 2010.The decrease primarily relates to small cars. "

Of the first eleven months of the year, the French car market was down 0.3% from the same period in 2010.

And this decline 4.7% only for French manufacturers, whose share of the passenger car market stood at 56.9% over January to November, down 2.6 points compared to last year.

EARLY 2012 will be difficult

Details of sales by manufacturer confirms the continuing difficulties of PSA Peugeot Citroen, whose new car sales to individuals dropped by 15.4%, a decline twice as large as that of the market.

Georges Plassat, CEO of owner signs Andre Minelli or Kookai, was approached by the shareholders of Carrefour and declined the offer this month, said the source told Reuters.

"It has been proposed and he said 'no'.It was during November, "said the source.

"There is still no candidate to succeed Lars Olofsson."

Le Figaro wrote in its Friday edition that George Plassat was approached to lead Carrefour.

"It is courted for months by the main shareholders of Carrefour," the newspaper said.

"He refused the post of CEO before the summer because it was hard to find a successor to lead Vivarte (…) More and more interested in a challenge to his position, George Plassat has not closed yet the door to negotiations. On the contrary, "continued the newspaper.

The major shareholders of Carrefour are the fund Colony Capital and Groupe Arnault, the family holding company LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault.

In the Oise, it is better not to be myopic, but to have a good mutual. Of the forty liberal ophthalmologists present in the department, only five do not require any extra billing their patients. Thus, at Compiegne or Beauvais, all of these specialists is "Sector 2": they have the right to request additional compensation. And they are doing so! At Compiegne, for example, eight ophtalmos charge consultation between 45 and 50 euros.Not to mention the 4 million French people who do not have each other.

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Of course, all specialties are not affected. Outside of Paris, the vast majority of general practitioners, nephrologists, radiologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists and pediatricians are still an area that is to say they respect the social security rates. But in other specialties, the situation is getting worse. According to the latest figures released by Medicare, 56% of dermatologists who have opened an office in 2010 settled in Sector 2, 54% of gastroenterologists, 63% of ophtalmos, 82% of gynecologists, 84% of ENT, or 87% of surgeons.

The growth of gross domestic product (GDP) was U.S. lowered the third quarter to 2.0% annualized, according to the second estimate published Tuesday.

These figures are "in line with the general economic malaise that we see in the world," said Michael Mullaney of Fiduciary Trust.

In early trade, the Dow yielded 0.24% to 11,519.15 points.

The European Commission Wednesday will propose the creation of eurobonds, a system seen by its promoters as a means of achieving sustainable solutions to the debt crisis, but that divides Europeans and has as its corollary a strengthening of fiscal discipline. In a "Green Paper" seen by AFP, the European Commission considers that this pooling of borrowing countries in the euro area could "rapidly reduce" the current crisis.