According to Genç, the main risk for the entity in Turkey does not lie in the recent dismissal of the Turkish Central Bank governor, but in foreign currency operations, something that the entity can handle “without problems” as it is a long-term investor. The main risk for the entity in Turkey does not lie in the recent dismissal of the Turkish Central Bank governor, but in foreign currency operations.
Public debt could rise to 120% of GDP in 2020, due to a reclassification of €35 billion of the Sociedad de Gestión de Activos Procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (SAREB), the so-called “bad bank” in Spain, reports Expansión. In fact, Eurostat has forced Spain to digest the 35 billion of debt. With this accounting change, the level of Public Debt over GDP, which increased by more than 20 points over 2020 to 117% (1,311,298 M€) from 95.5% in 2019, would rise by about 3 additional points to 120%.
Scope Ratings | The dismissal of central bank governor Naci Ağbal worsens the crisis of confidence in Turkey’s monetary policy, further undermining macroeconomic stability. This is credit negative for Turkey’s B/Negative sovereign ratings. Saturday’s announcement of the sudden change in central-bank leadership, shortly after a market-friendly, above-expectation 200bp tightening of rates on Thursday, underlines Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s wish for looser monetary policy in support of unsustainably high growth.
IAG Group announced on Tuesday that it has signed a revolving credit facility with a syndicate of banks for an available amount of $1.755 billion. The facility will be in operation for a period of three years plus two one-year extension terms at the convenience of the lenders. The credit line is available to the Aer Lingus group airlines, British Airways and Iberia, each of which has a separate borrowing limit within the overall credit facility. IAG continues to have a strong liquidity position, with an estimated total of €10.3 Bn at March 31.
Greg Wendt , Scott Sykes & David Daigle (Capital Group) | Global M&A activity hit $484.5 billion for January and February, up 33% compared to last year. M&A is not just a big deal in small cap. It can impact companies across equity and bond markets. With that in mind, Wendt and a few other Capital Group portfolio managers shared their views on 5 key questions about the M&A boom.
Spain’s government is confident that it can recover around 40 M international tourists this year, half the level recorded in 2019, when almost 84 M foreign tourists were counted. In this recovery, the health passport prepared by the EU for the summer will be a key factor. In fact, the tourism sector expects to recover around 7.5 M foreign visitors once the passport comes into force, which, added to the 19 million that arrived in Spain in 2020, leave the figures still far from those forecasts of 40M.
According to a strategic report published by its UK subsidiary, Santander acknowledges that the fact of avoiding a ‘divorce’ without an agreement helped to eliminate a significant source of uncertainty during the first quarter of the year. However, this will not prevent an impact as the year progresses.
CaixaBank Research (Adriá Morron and Alex Ruiz) | Since the lowest point recorded last March, the main index for the US equity has risen almost non-stop by around 70%. In recent weeks, this rally has also been accompanied by dynamics in certain US equity segments that are reminiscent of events followed by major stock market adjustments in the past. Is the US equity market decoupling from economic fundamentals?
Endesa, Enagás and Mapfre are the three Spanish companies that offer the highest dividend yield, 9.7%, 9.5% and 7.5%, respectively. According to the analysis prepared by the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU), and reported by the Europa Press agency, these three companies are followed by Red Eléctrica, Naturgy and Zardoya-Otis, with a yield of over 5%.
Abengoa would have demanded the Solvency Support Fund for Strategic Companies from the Spanish government, a tool designed to help companies affected by the pandemic, for the rescue of its company Abenewco 1, to which it transferred the most valuable assets and activities of the broken parent company. The group would try to preserve these assets and to keep operating a subsidiary in which almost 13,000 employees are still working.