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The Corner has a team of on-the-ground reporters in capital cities ranging from New York to Beijing. Their stories are edited by the teams at the Spanish magazine Consejeros (for members of companies’ boards of directors) and at the stock market news site Consenso Del Mercado (market consensus). They have worked in economics and communication for over 25 years.
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Social Security debt rises by €90,000 to €106,000 million with Sánchez governments

And this year the State will once again come to the rescue of the pension system with an injection of €43,000 million in order to be able to meet the promised payments. At the end of September, the Social Security coffers accumulated a debt of €106 billion euros, almost four times more than the €27 billion it had at the end of 2017. And that is before taking into account…


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New threat to Grifols: Sanofi buys INBRX-101, biotech company Inhibrx’s best asset

Morgan Stanley | Sanofi has announced the purchase of INBRX-101, the best asset of the biotech company Inhibrx, which is a recombinant alpha-1 augmentation therapy for treating alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), a protein produced in the liver that protects the lungs. This drug could pose a real threat to Grifols’ alpha 1 franchise (GRF), which currently accounts for 12% of sales and 20-30% of gross profits. In addition, the acquisition…


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FCC, Italy’s Webuild, and US firm Aecom to carry out several projects on Toronto’s underground network for €1.362 million

Link Securities| FCC has been awarded a new contract in Canada to build new tunnels and stations in the Toronto underground network, a project that the infrastructure department of the province of Ontario estimates at up to €1.362 million, the digital portal CapitalBolsa.com reported. Specifically, the Spanish construction company will build, in consortium with the Italian company Webuild and the US company Aecom, three kilometres of twin tunnels on Papa…


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Spain has fourth worst debt figure in Europe, 110% of GDP, and public deficit at 4.3%

Eurostat has released data on public debt and deficit at the end of the third quarter of the previous year for the euro area and the EU-27. And in both statistics, the Spanish economy has not fared very well in relation to its European neighbours: Spain ranks fourth among European countries with the highest debt-to-GDP ratio (at the end of the third quarter of last year). This is part of…


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Técnicas Reunidas awarded $2.15 billion contract to produce ethanol, propane and butane in Saudi Arabia

Yesterday, Técnicas Reunidas informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that Saudi Aramco, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has awarded a joint venture formed by the Spanish company TRE and the Chinese group SEG (Sinopec Engineering Group) the development of new Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) fractionation facilities in Saudi Arabia. The works will be carried out on the basis of two EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contracts; one…


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Almost 294,000 precarious civil servants “emerge” as Government raises public employment by 10%

The number of public administration workers has risen by 10.7%. This is after the statistics compiled by the Civil Service Department added 294,000 workers with temporary or very short-term interim contracts, as well as trainees. Although the adjustment was made when these competences depended on the Ministry of Finance, it only became known when they were transferred to the Ministry of Digital Transformation, headed by José Luis Escrivá. The new…


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IAG to invest €6 billion in Spain over next five years to introduce new lower-emission aircraft, among other goals

Link Securities| The holding company IAG plans to invest €6 billion in Spain over the next five years to renew its fleet and advance its commitment to decarbonisation, Expansión newspaper reported on Friday. This is one of the messages conveyed by the airline group’s CEO, Luis Gallego, to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at their meeting in La Moncloa. IAG has already invested another €5 billion in the last five years….


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Home sales in Spain fall by 15.1% in November, 9.3% for year as a whole

Alphavalue / Divancons| Home sales and purchases recorded a 15.1% drop last November compared to the same period last year, to a total of 46,888 transactions, their lowest figure for this month since 2020, against a backdrop of higher interest rates. These figures put the annual cumulative fall in transactions up to November at 9.3%. By type, 19% of the dwellings transferred by sale and purchase were new and 81%…


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Eurozone government debt falls to 89.9% of GDP, deficit moderates to 2.8%

CdM| Eurozone government debt has fallen to 89.9% of GDP in the third quarter of 2023. According to data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, this figure reflects a fall of four tenths of a percentage point from the figure for the second quarter of last year (90.3%), while the public deficit fell to 2.8% from 3% in the previous quarter. In the European Union, government debt also declined from…


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Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility sees Aena being authorised to raise airport taxes by 4.09% as “inexorable”

Link Securities| The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, sees it as “inexorable” that Aena (AENA) will be authorised to raise airport taxes by 4.09% as of 1 March, according to the newspaper Expansión. “It is a listed company and we must apply the rules that we have given ourselves, for legal certainty”, he said during his speech at an event of the New Economy Forum. This increase,…