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World economy 18th March 2024

DIA closes 60% of shops in Brazil due to persistent negative results, focus now on more profitable São Paulo area

Renta 4| According to a Relevant Fact issued in the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) and a letter from its CEO, Martín Tolcachir, DIA has announced the closure of 343 of its 590 shops in Brazil, in addition to three warehouses. The Company takes the decision as part of the strategic review of the business in the country, already announced at its results conference on 29 February, and as…

World economy 16th March 2024

EIA now forecasts world crude oil demand to average 103.2 M b/d in 2024: favourable environment for Repsol

Renta 4| The US Energy Information Administration revises its supply and demand and crude oil price estimates for 2024. In its March edition of the Short-Term Energy Outlook, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said it expects Brent crude oil prices to average 88 usd/b in the second quarter of 2024, up 4 usd/b from February, estimating Brent crude oil prices to average 87 usd/b in 2024, up from 82.4…

World economy 15th March 2024

OHLA wins contract worth over €50 million for water treatment plant in Panama

Link Securities| Spanish construction company OHLA (OHLA) announced on Wednesday that it has won a new contract in Panama that includes the design and construction for the expansion of a water treatment plant in Mendoza, west of Panama City, in the district of La Chorrera for more than €50 million. The existing plant, with a treatment capacity of 160,000 m3/day, will be joined by a new plant with a purification…

World economy 14th March 2024

BoJ turning to a swifter exit, pushed by further delays in Fed cuts

Alicia García Herrero (Natixis)| The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has been in the limelight since major central banks in the world, as specially in Fed, started hiking rates. For months, as Japan began to see a rapid increase in inflation, financial markets started to put depreciating pressure on the Yen and upward pressure on the yield of Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs), capped by the Yield Curve Control (YCC) introduced by…

World economy 13th March 2024

Avangrid to build new wind farm with total capacity of 153 MW and 34 turbines in Illinois

Alphavalue/DIVACONS| Avangrid, the US subsidiary of Iberdrola (IBE), will build a new wind farm with a total capacity of 153 MW in Illinois (United States), the company announced on Tuesday. Specifically, this project, called “Osagrove Flats”, will be located in La Salle County, the company’s fifth wind farm in the state of Illinois, and will have a total of 34 wind turbines. On the other hand, Bloomberg report that Iberdrola…

World economy 12th March 2024

Biden approves budgets that would reduce deficit by $3bn over next 10 years, but would not limit high debt levels

March Bank| The US president’s budget plans seek to increase spending as well as tax revenue through increases in corporate income tax, a higher minimum rate for businesses, and at the personal level, a new minimum rate for billionaires. In higher tax revenues, an estimated $4.9 trillion is expected to be raised over the decade, including $1.4 trillion from the increase in the corporate tax rate to 28% and $502…

World economy 11th March 2024

Productivity gap widens between US and Eurozone

BancaMarch : The year-on-year rates for the fourth quarter of 2023 are a clear example of divergence, with -1.2% in the eurozone and +2.6% in the US. In the longer term, the growth differential between the two regions has also been observed. Comparing output per hours worked since 2019, the US grew by more than +6% compared with +1% for the euro area as a whole. ECB member Isabel Schnabel…

World economy 8th March 2024

Iberdrola launches takeover bid to acquire 100% of US subsidiary Avangrid

Iberdrola has decided to launch a takeover bid to acquire the 18.4% stake in Avangrid, its subsidiary in the United States, which it does not yet own, for some $2,486 million, as announced to the CNMV (Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission). IBE is offering a cash price of $34.25 per share, representing an implied premium of approximately 10% over the volume-weighted average share price (VWAP) of the shares during the…

World economy 8th March 2024

Fed chairman confirms policy rate spike but will not cut rates until confident inflation is close to 2%

BancaMarch: Federal Reserve Chairman has confirmed the peak in official interest rates. Jerome Powell, has kept his January speech unchanged, indicating that monetary policy will change course at “some point this year”, without specifying a date. He also emphasised the risks of bringing forward the cuts too soon, resulting in a return of inflation and the need for an even tighter policy. Thus, the Fed will not cut rates until…

World economy 6th March 2024

China’s 5% target confirmed in the Two Sessions, but how to get there?

Alicia García Herrero (Natixis)| Not surprisingly, the Chinese government has set a high growth target of 5% for 2024, mirroring last year’s. The move is consistent with the market expectation, but achieving the goal is not without challenges, at least when using the early indicators for the first quarter, especially PMI numbers. China’s official manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs stood at 49.1 and 50.8 on average, respectively, over the past three months…

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