Link Securities | The steel multinational ArcelorMittal (MTS) has ruled out that the explosion recorded on Tuesday in the batteries of its factory in Gijón, in which three workers were injured and are hospitalised with a guarded prognosis, will affect its production, according to the newspaper Expansión. It could, however, happen that some rolling mills such as plate, rail or wire rod, which are fuelled by coke gas, may have…
The umpteenth retrospective revision of Spain’s growth data released this Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE) has once again improved the picture for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023, and has rescued €36.4 billion of last year’s GDP that the initial measurement had not detected, therefore raising the real economic growth for 2023 from 2.5% to 2.7%. According to this new statistical correction, the National Gross Domestic Product approached…
Alphavalue/DIVACONS | Avangrid announced that the Maine Public Utilities Commission, the “Maine PUC”, granted the application for a waiver of approval requirements for a change in Avangrid’s ownership in connection with Iberdrola’s acquisition of the remaining 18.4% of the issued and outstanding shares of Avangrid common stock that it does not currently own. In Maine, this transaction will simply revert to the 100% of Iberdrola’s previously authorised shareholding that it…
The Fed has lowered interest rates by 0.5 points, thus aligning with the market, which anticipated a roughly 70% probability of a 50 basis point cut. As a financial institution noted this morning, “the risk for credit markets is that a 50 basis point cut may be interpreted as an emergency measure. Consequently, the gradual approach and soft landing that have benefited this type of asset could be disrupted. On…
Bankinter | Iberdrola is finalising an agreement with a large investment fund or group of funds to launch a subsidiary specialising in the data centre business. It intends to turn this subsidiary, which it has initially christened CPD4Green, into the largest European hub to house data centres and processing for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Its intention is to close the operation of incorporating a partner before mid-2025. Iberdrola’s objective, unlike other…
Link Securities | According to the preliminary estimate of the data, released on Tuesday by Eurostat, the Eurozone generated in July a trade surplus with the rest of the world amounting to €21.2 billion (€21.7 billion in June), much higher than the €6.7 billion reached in July 2023 and the €18 billion expected by FactSet’s consensus analysts. In the month of July, exports of goods from the Eurozone to the…
Alphavalue / Divacons | The CEO of the Catalan bank, César González-Bueno, said yesterday that BBVA’s takeover bid for the bank “has derailed” and “makes no sense”. At the VII Foro de Banca (Banking Forum) organised by El Economista, he declared that the chances of the merger are “very low” and that he sees no justification for the operation. However, he acknowledged that it is possible that the National Markets…
The Bank of Spain (BdE) raised its growth forecast for this year by five tenths to 2.8% yesterday, while calling for transparent and prompt fiscal consolidation. It also announced that the total public debt of Spain’s administrations decreased by €8.931 billion in July compared to June (-0.5%), reaching €1.616 trillion, the second-highest figure in historical series. This is slightly less than 108% of GDP. The decrease in public debt in…
Alphavalue / Divacons | Between 2008 and 2023, Spanish exports have grown by almost 50% in real terms and their weight in the GDP has increased by 13 percentage points, from 26% to 39%, an “extraordinary growth” which has been generalised by products and destinations and which has been higher than that of other large Eurozone economies, according to the latest blog published by the Bank of Spain. Thus, in…
Banco Sabadell: After failing to go ahead with the purchase of Air Europa (AE) in the short term, there is TAP Portugal, which IAG has already winked at. We believe it makes strategic sense mainly because of its positioning in LatAm (market share close to 7%; with less overlap than AE) and because it deepens the concentration of the sector and also generates synergies (between €250-600 million according to our…