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The suspense is at its peak. Who win the tender for Autolib ', the future electric car service self-service in Paris and its suburbs? The union joint Autolib ', which includes Paris, 36 suburban cities and the Region Ile-de-France, the answer will announce Thursday. Are still in contention: Bolloré, a consortium of Veolia and the SNCF, RATP Development, Review and Vinci Park.

To believe what the union last October, the Bolloré Group is the favorite. Of "extensive discussions" have already been held with teams from Vincent Bollore. The group is all about the Blue Car to win the race. This small electric car has been specially modified for Autolib '. It has two doors for four seats.Veolia for its part, offers Peugeot Ion while the consortium relies on a Smart.

1000 stations, 3,000 vehicles

The principle of Autolib 'will be the same as the Velib': guests can take a car to a recharging station and deposit it in another. According to Annick Lepetit, Transport Assistant City of Paris, the monthly subscription fee would be 15 to 20 euros. For a short-term rental, it will take between 5 and 7 euros for half an hour.

The financial stakes are high for the group that wins the tender. The contract in question involves the management of 1000 charging stations, 700 in Paris, including 250 in parking. Nearly 3,000 vehicles will be offered to customers. Only the building charging stations at a rate of 50,000 euros per station, will be borne by cities.

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The gurus of Silicon Valley have been upstaged by Moscow. At the conference "The Web", held in Paris this week, the discussion with Alexander Tamas, a partner of the Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies (DST) was one of the most run. A success that reflects the immense curiosity about the Russian capital. And for good reason. Unknown two years ago even, it seems to be everywhere they need to be social network Facebook, the publisher of online game community via Zynga commerce service online social Butts, who has just rejected a Google's bid for an estimated $ 6 billion.

The end of the year will be more dynamic than expected. The Bank of France has again increased its forecast by 0.1 percentage points of growth for the fourth quarter, to 0.6%. The gross domestic product (GDP) grew sawtooth since the beginning of the year after 0.2% in the first quarter, it accelerated to 0.7% in the second, then slowed to 0.4 in the third %.

INSEE remains less optimistic than the Bank of France (BoF), and expects a growth of 0.4% between October and December and 1.6% on the year. The BoF is based on its index of business climate. In industry, the index stood at 107 in November, against 104 in October. He found some pre-crisis levels. In services, it rose 2 points to 98.

"In November, industrial activity has generally accelerated", says the institution. "The forecasts portend a continued production growth in the short term.(…) The activity in services has increased in all sectors and particularly in temporary employment. "Finally, the numbers have increased" significantly, "notes the BoF.

"The index of the Bank of France is clearly above the other indicators of the same type and will need to be confirmed by future publications," Dominique Barbet shade, markets economist at BNP Paribas.

Trade deficit down

On the other hand, the trade deficit narrowed in October to 3.431 billion euros against 4.378 billion the previous month, according to Customs. However, this is a temporary phenomenon. "The sharp reduction in trade deficit due mainly to lower oil imports, particularly related to social movements in October, which slowed the activity of ports and refineries, 'the Customs.

Exports amounted to 32.389 billion euros on the month. They are "stagnating, both towards the European Union to third countries", says Customs. Imports, they, fall back sharply to 35.820 billion euros, due to lower energy imports.