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Good news for Safran. Its subsidiary, Turbomeca has been chosen by Beijing to power the Chinese version of the new civilian EC175 helicopter jointly developed with Eurocopter, said its CEO Lutz Bertling. So far, the new helicopter is equipped with American engines Pratt & Whintney, and double engine choices are few things on the helicopters.

According to Voices, the American engine could not get the green light by U.S. authorities for exportrer in China some of its technologies.

This agreement confirms the thrust of Saffron to China. Last month, the group associated with GE in CFM International, has been chosen to equip the C 919 Chinese, the future Chinese medium-haul aircraft, a rival of Airbus A320 and Boieng B737.

Abrupt return to earth to investors who started the session on Wall Street in the red. The unemployment figures in December were worse than expected. The U.S. has destroyed 85,000 jobs in December as the monthly report of the U.S. Department of Labor. The euphoria was not to go because the unemployment rate remains at 10%. Half an hour before the release of U.S. unemployment figures in December, all future pointing upward. Markets expect that job losses have continued into December. Some also not ruled the possibility of new posts.

Now, the Dow Jones fell by 0.4% to 10,563 points, the S & P lost 0.40% to 1137 points while the Nasdaq lost nearly 6% to 2295 points. The day before, the Exchange had ended in the balance.

Values follow

As for values, General Mills lost 1.02% to 70.57 dollars.The group is expected to announce some numerical predictions.

Barclays (1.18% to U.S. $ 20.63) receives a statement of recommendation from UBS from "neutral" from "buy."

Delta Airlines (-0.55% to $ 12.61 million). Information published by the Wall Street Journal announced that the U.S. airline American Airlines, together with the company TPG Capital, now propose to invest 300 million dollars more in Japan Airlines, for a total of 1.4 billion dollars.

The carnage continues at the head of easyJet. After the departure of its chairman Colin Chandler and his CFO Jeff Carr, the British low-cost announcement Wednesday in a statement the departure of its CEO Andy Harrison June 30, 2010. It is seeking "new challenges". He especially wants to leave a vessel marked by the power struggle within the board. Andy Harrison had promised to stay at least until late May to offset the departures of other leaders.

In the aftermath, the leadership announced the departure of its interim President David Michels on 1 January. At that time, it will be replaced by Michael Rake, BT's current president and former chairman of KPMG.David Michels, who is temporarily acting in the position since the departure last April by Colin Chandler, will resume his post as first independent director.

The upheaval at the head of EasyJet explained by conflicts between the team leader and founder Stelios Haji-Iannou, holder of 38% of the carrier. While the former wish to pursue a growth strategy of the fleet, Stelios Haji-Iannou said it would be unwise to embark on this adventure in a recession.

These two new departures lead to renewal of any team in the space of one year. Five of the eight leaders are gone. In his statement to the London Stock Exchange, easyJet hopes that "these appointments will ensure continued strong leadership." In markets, the news is unwelcome. By late morning, the title loses 1.96% to 4.08 euros.

Despite an increase in job seekers during several months, the CEO job Pole Christian Charpy said on LCI television on Monday morning that the number of unemployed would remain "below the 3 million mark registered in Class A". He said that increasing numbers of people from Pole to register job is way slower than earlier this year.

In September, the number of jobseekers who have not worked (Class A) increased by 21,600 at 2,574 million, a surge of 25.1% in one year. By cons, if we add those who have a reduced activity (categories A, B and C), this number stood at 3.745 million (+20.8% yoy) and 3.972 million households in the overseas.Thus, the number of unemployed could exceed 4 million if one takes into account all categories.

From "many months" to return to the situation a year ago

"I hope that from the end of this year the trend will change but it will take many months to return to a situation that had been there even just a year – 1.9 million unemployed cons 2.5 million registered job center today. Indeed the number of unemployed still increasing each month at the rate of "20,000 to 25,000," he said. The figures on the number of job seekers for the period of October will be published Thursday.

This declaration takes place just before surgery, at 11.30 President Nicolas Sarkozy before 1700 agency managers and area job center, the new agency created by the merger of Assedic and ANPE, which is far from keep all its promises. The unions believe the poorly prepared.A counselor supports an average of 94 people (a record) in the direction. Employment center uses private companies to complement the Convention and proposed reclassification Custom (PRC) which has only retrenched, where "there, we guarantee a counselor for 50 to 60 people, according to Christian Charpy.

Candidates for acquisition of Areva T & D sharpen their arguments, while the final submission of bids will take place next Monday.

Toshiba, long neglected in this competition is taken more seriously. He muscled his offer by joining two funds: the Japanese INCJ (mostly state-owned nippon) and a fund of Abu Dhabi Taqa. The latter's arrival in the bidding takes on particular importance, while a French consortium (Areva, Total, GDF Suez and EDF) supported by state battle for months to try to sell EPR Abu Dhabi.

Both funds, which provide additional financial strength to Toshiba, hold 40% of the future entity. The Japanese plans, if carried in case of IPO Areva T & D in five to seven years.The prospect of a listing of Areva T & D new version in Paris would be very well received by NYSE Euronext, which suffers from a lack of major operations and would target an ally of Toshiba on this issue. Such a listing would also be the "guarantor" of a French base of activity, in keeping with the country's global headquarters.

The Japanese, who was inspired by the offer from General Electric, has not forgotten to highlight the character "industrial" in its offer. It builds on the geographic – Areva T & D is absent from Asia and Toshiba contributes nearly one billion euros in sales in China – and synergies in research and development and procurement of raw materials.Main downside: Toshiba, owner of Westinghouse, is a very serious competitor Areva in the construction of nuclear reactors.

French base

For his part, General Electric has also revised its copy. Minority shareholder alongside the investment fund CVC in its initial offer, the U.S. conglomerate will position itself in the majority partner in the new offering will be delivered Monday. A decision making more industrial project and facilitate the granting of bank guarantees to Areva T & D when signing contracts.

The project also provides for GE in France to maintain the headquarters of a subsidiary of Areva and introduce the next five years the stock market. Industrial side, GE is the map of complementarity, it would include T & D to access the North American market, albeit less buoyant than Asia for transmitting and distributing electricity.A flat, however, GE sold it eighteen months a part of its T & D, raising questions about the strategic importance of such an event for the American conglomerate.

The presidents of Alstom and Schneider are also mounted to the wall for defending their joint bid. On Thursday, before the National Assembly, they reaffirmed that there would be no site closures or socially, in case of redemption. Schneider may be a cluster "distribution" of 5 billion euros. It would then match its two main competitors in the field, ABB and Siemens. Not enough, a priori, drawing the ire of Brussels. With the "transmission", Alstom is the world leader in this sector. Problem with this offer: it implies a separation of Areva T & D, an idea which irritates its management.

"Alstom defends its bid for Areva T & D