ACS is still looking for the financial muscle to be able to make a counter-bid for Abertis. The company has the capacity to generate cash and has a solid financial situation, but it would need the help of foreign investors to better Atlantia’s bid of 16,5 euros per share.
Nick Malkoutzis via Macropolis | It has taken Alexis Tsipras almost 1,000 days to decide that the best thing he can do is to look forward instead of looking back at the failings of previous governments and the problems his administration inherited.
Markets are currently looking to the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) September policy meeting, scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday. Given the Fed’s statement at its June 2017 policy meeting, the balance sheet reduction should begin gradually at USD 10 billion per month.
The PSI outpaced other European stock markets yesterday, boosted by S&P’s decision to raise Portugal’s investment grade (BBB-) for the first time since 2012: the Portuguese market “celebrated” the milestone with a 1.9% rise.
Víctor Peiro (GVC Gaesco) | The emerging markets are performing well this year and so the context is favourable for revisiting the privatisation process in those countries. Brazil is set to sell off a raft of different assets, including state-owned utility Electrobrás. Several big Spanish companies could be interested in acquiring these assets.
The European Central Bank (ECB)’s non-conventional measures contributed 1,7 percentage points to Spain’s real GDP growth between 2014 and 2016, while also helping to cut the public deficit by 1,9 percentage points over the same period.
Spain’s big utility companies have accused the Energy Ministry of “driving investors away” with their strategy of revealing the next milestones in the energy reform to the large investment banks. The main electricity firms (Iberdrola, Endesa, Gas Natural and REE) saw almost 3 billion euros shaved off their market capitalisation in just one day.
During the first half of 2017, the employment level in the Eurozone came back at its pre-crisis peak level. This was already the case for the first quarter but it has been confirmed for the three months to June, which reflects a catch up when growth is more robust and with less uncertainty”, says Philippe Waetcher, chief economist at Natixis AM.
Fran Wang via Caixin | China’s drive to boost the housing rental market is spurring the revival of plans to let companies offer real estate investment trusts (REITs) to the public.
To have a closer look at where new money is coming from, Carax-Alphavalue focuses on Q3. They think the 2017 picture “is gaining certainty.” They also point that 2017 earnings should be up €101bn, which is the largest variation of the last 11 years excepting €170bn rebound in 2010.