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Spanish Banks’ Bailout, Hasta la Vista…

THE CORNER TEAM | Madrid and Dublin celebrated cutting their bailout umbilical cord on Thursday, renouncing to extend the aid after their aid programmes will end. This means they will be able to enjoy economic, budgetary and funding conditions like most other sovereign countries. To finally fund themselves normally on the markets, without paying an extra penalty. However, there is still homework to do: in the case of Spain, the country needs restructuring its local savings banks.


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Greece and the Euro: Syriza, the last man standing

ATHENS | By Nick Malkoutzis at The Agora | Until a few days ago the only thing connecting SYRIZA and Texas was the lone star on their flags. But, suddenly, the US’s second-largest state seems to have provided a defining moment for Greece’s second-largest party. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras chose a speech at the University of Texas in Austin on November 4 to put minds outside of Greece at ease with regard to his party’s plans should it come to power after the next general elections.


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‘IMF expects extra dose of austerity for 2015’

LISBON | By Diário de Notícias via Presseurop | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that austerity measures taken until now are sufficient to fulfill the deficit targets set for this year and the next, but anticipates more cuts for 2015, writes Diário de Notícias.


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Spain in Pictures: The road to recovery continues

NEW YORK | By JPMorgan analysts | The Spanish economy has been showing clear signs of recovery since the summer, although from very low levels and we see no time for complacency for Rajoy’s government, a risk investors are already highlighting. There are some pending structural reforms in the fiscal, legal and pension sectors, while, in the banking sector, we would encourage a final cleanup to prevent a Japanese-style downturn, regarding which the October deflation data may be a warning. In our view, a more stable legal environment is also necessary for investors in regulated sectors, where banks and utilities are likely to be most affected.


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Experts Not Convinced By Spain’s Labour Reform

MADRID | By Francisco López | There are increasingly more voices doubting the effectiveness of the labor reform that’s apparently making the Minister of Industry so proud. Qualified labour market experts argue that such reform has been a fiasco and it has not served nor it will serve to meet its main target: the creation of productive employment.



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German exports: Don’t lash out at ‘Made in Germany’

LISBON | By at Diário Económico via Presseurop | The European Commission has opened a “thorough investigation” into Germany’s export surpluses, which stand accused of damaging the Eurozone’s balance. However, working towards banking union would be wiser, writes Diario Economico’s director.


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Spanish and Italian inflation wrap-up: Services and food driving inflation down

LONDON | By Barclays analysts | Taking into account today’s downward revision in Spanish HICP, we now revise our October French HICP forecast from -0.2% m/m (0.6% y/y) to -0.1% m/m (0.7% y/y). The Italian final October HICP inflation rate was revised up by 9bps to 0.76% y/y. We note that historical subcomponents indices have been revised since the beginning of the year (although not the headline index). This nonetheless does not alter our view that euro area HICP inflation rate should come in unchanged at 0.7% y/y. If anything, we see slight downside risk to our 116.99 HICP ex tobacco projection.



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Globalvia and Sacyr Win €35m Dublin Motorway Contract

DUBLIN | The Corner Team | Globalvia, the infrastructure investor and operator owned by the global infrastructure group FCC and Bankia (formerly Caja Madrid), has been awarded a €35m contract for the operation, maintenance and renewal of 161km of motorway segments in the Greater Dublin area in Ireland alongside Sacyr.