 Société Générale successfully filed a suit in the UK against Associated Newspapers (the "Mail on Sunday"'s parent company) for "substantial damage to its reputation and prejudice to its trade".Bearish pressure, influenced by speculation but also by investor suspicion, continued to affect Société Générale's share price through to the end of 2011.Over the year, the share lost 57.22 percent of its value, the third-worst CAC 40 performance of 2011 (after Veolia and Peugeot).