The FAANG, an acronym for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google, are the five companies really moving the US market. As a matter of fact, it is entirely dominated by Apple. And this firm’s expectations are what drives its share price.
Banco Popular’s management team, chairman Saracho and his CEO, Sanchez Asiain, will meet with the ECB tomorrow, according the economic press. It doesn’t seem as if there is any urgency behind the meeting, but rather that it is part of a routine monitoring process, aimed at analysing the bank’s current situation and options.
The CEO of Acerinox reiterated current week the risks which the European steel sector has been highlighting for years, given that the arrival of steel from China is detrimental to their interests. He said he expects the company’s 2017 results to be significantly higher than those of 2016, driven by the recovery in prices and in demand.
The CEO of Italgas Paolo Gallo has said it is interested in acquiring Gas Natural’s distribution business in Italy. This operation would reflect the consolidation trend expected in the Italian gas market, allowing Italgas to raise its domestic market to 40% from the current 30%.
Both JP Morgan and Bank of America announced that their trading revenues, specifically those from fixed income operations, had declined substantially over the year so far in interannual terms. European banks like HSBC or Deutsche could suffer the same problem.
Various world-renowned experts are increasingly doubtful that the stock markets’ level is sustainable. But there is still huge euphoria. While money remains cheap, in relation to the expectation of gains, speculation will continue.
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.
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 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.