After a long wait, as a result of Banco Portugués de Inversiones (BPI) shareholders’ voting restrictions and after improving its initial offer, CaixaBank is on the verge of gaining control of the Portuguese lender.
BoAML | Turning to the long term outlook, we still expect that leaving the EU will worsen the UK’s trading terms with EU countries more than it improves trading terms with other countries. Assuming this thesis proves correct, it will come with economic costs. The recent better-than-expected data tell us nothing about that judgment, but political events suggest to us that it is on track.
The concessions made to Deutsche Bank show the discretional nature of the treatment of institutions within the EU. “Unfortunately, this is a deeply-rooted problem which translates into insecurity about “the rules of the game.” And the ultimate consequence of this is a counter-productive mistrust of the European framework,” Intermoney analysts say.
It’s definitely not Telefónica finest hour. Problems with the possible listing of its UK affiliate O2 after the pound’s slump can be added to the fiasco with the IPO of its infrastructure subsidiary Telxius. The company is worried about having its rating cut and it doesn’t know how it can cut its massive 52 billion euros debt pile. But on Monday it returned to the debt market and successfully placed 2 billion euros in 4-year and 15-year bonds.
Diego Salvador (Gesconsult) | N+1 is a financial institution focusing on two business areas: advising on mergers and acquisitions and the management of a venture capital firm. The company is developing a very successful franchise thanks to the purchase of “boutique” investment banks in the US, as well as in countries like Germany, Austria and Japan in the near future. We are confident that it can continue to expand their business inorganically with continued acquisitions in attractive countries like the US.
The volume of global investment in property assets has slipped back for the first time since 2007, according to Cushman & Wakefield. Investment tends to be concentrated in “prime” assets. It’s likely the investment flow will begin to favour “Tier II” cities like Copenhagen or Madrid, say Bankinter analysts.
José A. Santos (Patrivalor) | The stock market value of the 60 Spanish companies analysed totalled 557.375 billion euros at end-September 2016, down 5.5% from end-2015.
UBS | Santander updated the main targets of its 15-18E business plan. The new 11% Group ROTE18E figure (previous 13%) is largely aligned with our existing forecasts, to which we make modest changes.
The US money market remains subject to material dislocations. To start with, there is the reform of the money market funds (MMF) that was agreed in 2014 and will come into effect on 14 October 2016.
Earlier this week, OHL sold 4.425% of Abertis (43.83 million shares) at 13,65 euros/share via placement with institutional investors. With this operation OHL will reduce its debt and also free itself up from its previous strategic commitment to Abertis in Brazil, which prevented it from expanding in a country which will have privatisations in the coming quarters.