Mapfre has successfully placed subordinated bonds with 236 institutional investors from different European countries. The UK and Ireland took up 22% of the total issuance, France 16%, Germany and Austria 14% and Italy 13%.
Despite Republicans still had no deal on their health care bill to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday’s midnight, the House of Representatives must vote later today to “repeal and replace” the law. Much to the disappointment of many observers, the Trump administration has given priority to this topic over tax cuts and infrastructure spending.
CIE Automotive ended 2016 eliminating any doubts on its capacity to meet the objectives in its 2016/2020 Strategic Plan. In fact, it has brought forward its target of doubling Attributable Net Profit by one year to 2019.
French elections will likely serve as a way to take the populism temperature, as well as being the next step towards de-globalisation. As the Dutch general elections showed, the populist drive may prove to be not as strong as anticipated by the polls. But most of the media is presenting the French elections in this way. Furthermore, it has to be considered the fact that the pollsters underestimated the force of populism last year in the UK.
Lu Bingyang and Coco Feng via Caixin | China’s state-owned train maker has started work on a plant in Chicago, a year after clinching a $1.3 billion contract to supply rail cars to the Chicago Transit Authority.
Daniel Kapellmann | Whereas it took some 10 years to negotiate and enforce a mechanism to strengthen commercial bonds between Canada, the United States and Mexico, today, after 23 years in existence, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may be overrun in just a couple of months.
Fernando Rodríguez |Bankia’s stock market gains after the news that it will takeover BMN exceeded market consesus. But the future of Bankia’s stock price in the short-term will depend on the small print and the ratios of the merger.
Benjamin Cole | The econosphere is again rumbling about Chinese debt and China banks, evidently forgetting the long serious faces made many times about Chinese debt and China banks in the recent past. But China keeps growing. Japan is another story that defies Western orthodox macroeconomics.
Peter Isackson | The fact that something that contradicts official accounts sounds like a possible conspiracy theory doesn’t mean it may not be true.
Fran Wang via Caixin | China signaled it isn’t ready to reimpose restrictions on coal production, following price spikes several weeks ago when rumors surfaced that the central government might revive supply-reducing curbs.