Hay Derecho Joven Editors and Javier Cuairán García) | While Mr. Jordi Sánchez, president of the Assamblea Nacional Catalana, and Mr. Jordi Cuixart, president of the Ómnium Cultural, known as the Jordis were sent to preventive prison without bail, Josep Lluís Trapero, the Mayor of the Catalan police Mossos, was granted provisional liberty without bail.
The IMF has just upped its forecast for global growth by one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.6% and 3.7% respectively for this year and the next. The message from the supranational organisation is relatively positive: over 75% of the world is seeing an acceleration in its rate of growth.
For the moment, Russia considers what’s happening in Catalonia as an internal issue and the country’s television channels are focusing on the violence in the region, without getting to the political issue itself. For the time being. Except if the problem stops being a domestic one and – for whatever reason- becomes an international one.
Wang Tao via Caixin | The much-anticipated 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China began on Wednesday, with its general secretary, Xi Jinping, delivering a quinquennial report setting the tone for the party’s ideology and policy agenda for the coming years.
Two observations in oil market deserve closer attention these days, says analyst Norbert Rücker, Head Commodity Research at Julius Baer: the US official weekly petroleum market report, and the increased geopolitical uncertainties coming from Kurdistan’s independence vote and the US pressure on the Iran nuclear deal.
ACS has launched a competing bid for Abertis, via Hochtief, at €18,76 per share. It fits in with our forecast scenario that ACS would offer a higher price than Atlantia (€16,50/share, combining cash and shares which cannot be sold before February 15 2019) in its counter-bid for the Spanish concessionaire.
The capital hikes carried out by Spanish companies totalled 4.114,7 billion euros in September, almost four times more than a year earlier and the highest figure in that month since 2012. This is according to data analysed by the Economic Studies Department of rating agency Axesor.
James Alexander | Not quite the line you will see across most of the market or amongst so-called monetarist economists. In fact, implied by actual nominal growth and expectations for nominal growth monetary policy is too tight. Nominal GDP growth is running at 3.7% YoY and falling, while the best measure of inflation around, the implied GDP deflator is running just below 2%.
Yesterday, Colonial held its “Investor Day” during which it said it expects gross revenues from rentals to rise 2.9% to €279 million in 2017 from a year earlier. The real estate firm will also launch a new share buyback plan, worth €100 million,
Jean Bastian via Macropolis | China’s emerging footprint in neighboring countries such as Serbia, FYR Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: all three countries are land-locked states which offer a different set of opportunities and challenges for the extension of China’s Balkan Silk Road.