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Companies, Relevant News Item 26th April 2023

FCC results better than expected: €96.9m profit almost double estimated €51m

Bankinter : Better than expected 1Q23 results in Sales, EBITDA and PBT. The main figures in the quarter compared to the market consensus (Bloomberg): Revenues €2,026M vs. expected €1,889M; EBITDA €332M vs. expected €315M; and PBT €96.9M vs. expected €51M. By activities, the performance is generally good in all areas, but the positive evolution of Water (+16.6% year-on-year in Revenues) and Construction (+55.7% year-on-year) stand out. Net debt stands at…

Relevant News Item, World economy, World politics 25th April 2023

Chile, world’s largest producer, to nationalise lithium industry

Alphavalue / Divacons | Chile’s President Gabriel Boric announced the nationalisation of the lithium industry, especially important for electric car batteries. State-owned Codelco will determine investments and exploitation by private companies. Chile is the largest producer of lithium. While it is claimed that this will not affect current contracts, it is a stark reminder of the insecurities for mining companies, and not only in Chile.

Relevant News Item 24th April 2023

Price volatility kills off one in ten electricity companies in Spain

Price volatility in the electricity market is having ruinous effects on independent electricity suppliers. So far this year, a dozen have gone under, at a rate that is not far short of one per week. This can be seen in the permanently updated census of electricity retailers kept by the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC). The smaller distributors are falling victim to the tsunami of prices in the electricity…

Ibex, Markets, Relevant News Item 22nd April 2023

Ibex 35 closes week at 9,415 points after dropping 0.37% on Friday

Nicolás López (Singular Bank) | Friday’s session closed in Europe with a mixed tone and slight variations in the main stock market indices. After the rises of the last few weeks, which have brought the indices back to their highs before the banking crisis, investors have been cautious in general as they wait for new references. In particular, the results season that has just started and the central banks’ meetings…

Relevant News Item 21st April 2023

Record gap between US1M and US3M IRRs

While the US 3 month IRR has recovered all after the SVB effect … it is striking that the 1M IRR has continued to fall. The spread between the two has reached 140bps earlier this week … the last time it reached this level was in October 2008 … coinciding with the Lehman crisis.

Relevant News Item, Spanish economy 5th April 2023

Iberdrola sells Mexican government a large part of its business in the country for €5,478 million

Iberdrola announced on Tuesday a major sale of natural gas assets in Mexico, putting an end to several years of tensions with the country’s government. As the company, headed by Ignacio Sánchez Galán, informed the CNMV late in the afternoon, the subsidiary Iberdrola México and the state fund Mexico Infrastructure Partners (MIP) have signed an agreement of intent whereby a trust headed and managed by MIP will acquire 8,539 MW…

Relevant News Item, World economy 4th April 2023

What risk premium do analysts use for your country? From Venezuela’s 29% to the Netherlands’ 5.6%

Pablo Fernández | We sent a short email (see exhibit 1) on March, 2023 to more than 15,000 email addresses of finance and economics professors, analysts and managers of companies obtained from previous correspondence, papers and webs of companies and universities. We asked about the Risk-Free Rate (RF) and the Market Risk Premium (MRP) used “to calculate the required return to equity in different countries”. By March 31, 2023, we…

Relevant News Item, Spanish Politics 31st March 2023

Moncloa vetoes ABC newspaper on Sánchez’s Beijing trip

ABC newspaper denounces that “La Moncloa has once again vetoed ABC: the Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallès, has excluded this newspaper from the group of media accompanying the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on the official trip to China that began this Thursday. Despite the fact that ABC applied for accreditation in due time and form, like other media that have been admitted, the Secretary of State…

European economy, Relevant News Item 20th March 2023

Eurozone inflation in February confirmed at 8.5%, but underlying climbs to record 5.6%, ECB says it will remain above 2% until 2025

The eurozone’s year-on-year inflation rate stood at 8.5% in February, down one tenth of a percentage point from January, according to Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, while the underlying rate, which excludes the effect of energy and food, climbed to a record 5.6%. In this way, the year-on-year inflation rate in the euro area accumulates four consecutive months of deceleration and stood at its lowest level since May 2022, before…

Relevant News Item 15th March 2023

China reopening already noticeable: industrial production and retail sales up 2.4% and 3.5% in February

Bankinter : Several positive data in China. While Retail Sales (Jan+Feb) improve to +3.5% year-on-year, as expected vs -1.8% previously, Industrial Production (Jan+Feb) improves to +2.4% year-on-year vs +2.6% esp. and +1.3% previously. Also, the Unemployment Rate (Feb) rebounds to 5.6% vs 5.3% esp. and 5.5% previously. Finally, the PBoC injected the largest amount of liquidity since December 2020 via a medium-term credit line. Specifically, it amounted to CNY 281…

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