Banco Sabadell | The Q3’22 results show a very strong recovery in activity with capacity in line with expectations (81% vs ~80% estimated). However, the big surprise comes in the shape of the strong trend in prices (RASK 8,57 vs 7,79 BS(e) and 7,08), the highest level in the history of IAG. On the costs side, there is a surprise with fuel (32% of costs) which is -6% vs revised…
Spain’s industrial sector slowed in October as a result of a sharp rise in production costs and a slump in demand across the Old Continent, where figures “clearly indicate that the manufacturing economy is in recession”. Spain’s Purchasing Managers’ Index fell by 4.3 points to 44.7 in October, both the worst figure among the major European countries and the biggest decline of all. And the worst figure since the coronavirus…
Today Banco Santander’s executive chair, Ana Botín, pointed to the strength of Latin America (where the bank first expanded internationally 75 years ago) and said that the region is well placed to weather the crisis. Banco Santander opened a representative office in Havana in 1947, and then in Argentina and Mexico. It has invested more than €35 billion in the region, primarily since the 1990s. Today, Santander has €415 billion…
Pedro Sánchez has managed to get the European Parliament to introduce a last-minute amendment to the regulation that establishes the conditions for granting funds to member states. The amendment, which according to sources in the European Parliament “makes it possible to continue receiving NextGenerationEU funds even if the government fails to fulfil its commitments to Brussels”, corrects the text drafted by the European Commission, according to the Spanish daily El…
Renta 4 |According to press reports, Iberdrola’s US subsidiary Avangrid is preparing a plan via which the group is looking at divesting in some renewable assets (total or partial) to strengthen the balance sheet ahead of its investment plan over the next few years. This amounts to 14.6 billion usd until 2025, including the purchase of PNM (6.5 billion usd) if the courts allow that to materialise. The divestments could…
Renta 4 | ACS, in agreement with Atlantia, have decided to write-off 1 billion euros of Abertis’ debt, allowing its own funds to increase by 40% and providing it with some support to tackle new investments. Valuation: News with no impact. We do not rule out that they continue to make moves which allow Abertis to obtain funds or assets which increases its position in the motorways business. Reiterate HOLD….
German inflation in October was 11.6%, well above expectations, Italian inflation was 12.8% and French inflation was 7.1%, all higher than expected and higher than last month. The components will be released mid-month, but some regional figures in Germany show that the big contributors to price increases continue to be energy costs and food. In Spain, inflation slowed yr-on-yr in October to 7.3% on lower electricity, gas prices. Also, in…
ifo| Somewhat fewer German companies are planning to raise their prices soon than in the previous month, finds the ifo Institute’s latest survey. For the economy as a whole, the ifo price expectations for the coming months fell to 51.5 points in October, down from 53.8 points* in September. Trade and manufacturing in particular are planning fewer increases, while price expectations are rising among service providers and in construction. “The…
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the second round of the presidential elections in Brazil on Sunday with 50.84% of the votes, compared to 49.16% for the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, with 99.10% of the ballot boxes counted. The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), who governed between 2003 and 2010, will once again occupy the presidency of an extremely divided Brazil from 1 January 2023 and for…
In Spain, almost 9,000 ‘squats’ were reported in properties between January and June this year, almost half of them in Catalonia, according to the latest data provided by the Ministry of the Interior and collected by Europa Press. Specifically, the total number of complaints for occupation of property registered by the State Security Forces and Corps amounted to 8,857 in this period. Of these, 3,770, 42%, took place in Catalonia,…