CaixaBank Research | In Spain, the richest 1% of the population earns 8.6% of the country’s income while this figure reaches 20.8% in the US. Are such high levels of inequality desirable or detrimental? Ultimately such a question must be answered by each country according to its own social preferences and values.
Is the fact that the state owns a stake in a company, with the corresponding voting rights, an obstacle for it or not? AlphaValue has arbitrarily established the level of 15% as a sufficiently big enough quota to be able to offer an opinion about the strategy which may not coincide with the best interests of other shareholders.
The M&A market in Spain has been very active over the last two years. There is a lot of cash around, but what is lacking are some good deals.
More than 93% of German companies believe that the economic situation in Spain is ‘good’ or ‘satisfactory’, 25 points higher than two years ago. This is according to the bi-yearly survey “German Companies in Spain” published by German Chamber of Commerce for Spain in collaboration with the IESE Business School.
JP Morgan’s Asset Management arm will take a position of control (over 50%) via its investment vehicle Sonnedix in a 660 MW photovoltaic project in Spain. The investment will be for some 500 million euros.
Degussa | Gold is a “good” that has a truly global demand, and its price is determined by numerous factors. One of those is the market interest rate. The reason is obvius: Gold does not have an “inherent interest rate”. The holders of gold have to bear “opportunity costs”.
Shares in Siemens health division, Healthineers, made their stock market debut last Friday (delayed due to technical problems) at 28 euros each, closing at 30,20 euros, implying a revaluation of close to 8%. They are trading at 32,04 euros/share today, Wednesday.
Just a couple of years ago, deflation was a concern for US economists. And, although it’s true that this threat has almost disappeared, rises in prices have shown themselves to be surprisingly elusive.
Inspired by game theory, JP Morgan’s analaysts Marko Kolanovic and Bram Kaplan have analysed February 2018 market turmoil against the one that ocurred in August 2015 as both sell-offs had a striking similarity. The conclusion is that if equities follow 2015 flow patterns, new market highs may come soon.
ACS has won a contract worth 1 billion euros, related to one of the biggest hydroelectric projects in Canada’s history, boosting its presence in North America, its main market.