ACS’ renewable energy subsidiary, Saeta Yield, plans to increase its dividend by 1% to 0,76 euros per share in 2017 compared with a year earlier. This is mainly due to the firm’s strong recurrent cash flow generation.
It looks as if sentiment has turned negative on the Autos sector over the last month. As reported by Carax-Alphavalue, “this has been as brutal as the previous month’s surge, confirming if needed how volatile investor perception can be on the sector”. The Autos sector is last month’s worse performer with a near 3% drop.
Fernando Rodríguez | The MifidII obliges the 100,000 professionals who inform and advise on finances in Spain to be accredited as being technically qualified to do this job by January 2018. Spain is the only country in Europe which doesn’t have any regulation in place regarding professional qualifications.
A decent rebound in eurozone equities in recent weeks brought up concerns that the market might already be overvalued by now. Julius Baer’s research clarifies that “valuation is not the main driver of our asset allocation as earnings definitively remain more important”. However, valuation is easy to observe and thus attracts quite some attention. One of the measures they are following is the equity risk premium.
The balancing acts which are devised in Frankfurt oblige us to once again take a look at the present and future of inflation in the Eurozone, focusing our analysis on the prices chain. “The ECB did this exercise and the conclusions favour the institution’s caution,” they explain.
The Greek government has given authorisation to local firm Energean Oil and Gas and Spain’s Repsol to explore and operate hydrocarbon deposits in the region of Aitoloacarnania, in western Greece.
Non-subsidised Spanish housing prices grew 0.9% on as quarterly basis and 2.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2017, according to the statistics on the tax valuation of houses published by the Public Works Ministry. Minister Iñigo de la Serna flagged that it’s the eight consecutive quarter with price rises, although he ruled that there is an overheating in the sector.
Telefonica’s Movistar has informed its clients that from June 15 it will put an end to the roaming surcharges for all its tariffs across Europe. This means that all clients with a contract, or prepaid or Fusion will have the same tariffs as they do in Spain when they travel to the EU, Iceland, Norway or Liechtenstein.
Caixin |Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded China’s sovereign credit rating for the first time since 1989, warning that the government’s focus on maintaining growth will increase the country’s debt burden and erode its financial strength.
Nick Malkoutzis via Macropolis | The stock phrases came thick and fast after Monday’s Eurogroup. “Great progress,” “very close” and “an agreement in a few weeks” were a few of the perennial quotes trotted out again by officials following a failed attempt to settle differences over Greek debt relief.