Press review

Cypress Team

22/01/2010

General Motors stopped the production of HUMMERS

▫mid 2009 GM gets a deal with chinease firm Tengzhong Heavy Industrial

▫Till now no administration agreement to take over the production

Chinese kings of shopping in France

•De-taxed products• of 47 % in 2009•Russians 2nd ( 22%)•15% of the sells of de-taxed perfumes,

luxuries goods•Japaneses 3rd ( 16,7%)•Americans 4th ,Brazilians 5th ,Ukrainians 6th

Apple VS Google

•After the battle with smartphones new opportunity for competition :Research pages

•Apple negotiate with Microsoft to integrate it’s own research application : Bing

Google 65,7% of market VS 10,7% for Bing, source ComScore.

The European Central Bank maintains its main rate at 1%What is the ECB?

•The ECB is the institution of the EU tasked with administrating the monetary policy of the member states taking part in the Eurozone

•It is one of the world's most important central banks

•Banks borrow some money from the ECB when they need financing

Consequences?

•This rate is about the one from witch banks borrow from the ECB and influences directly those proposed to the population.

•The rates already low will be maintained to their level in order to revitalize the real estate market

=> It’s still the time to buy!

H1N1 good for paper industry…• crises boosted consummation of hygienic

products : paper-towel, Kleenex, …

• 2% besides the crises (819 000 tones)

• 10,9% of paper and cardboard

•consummation habits… ?