European equities first quarter results so far beat analysts expectations for revenues, showing that a recovery in demand is driving sales. In fact, analysts at Carax-Alphavalue show themselves “struck” by the Q1 releases with frequent mentions of better top lines due to emerging market demand, for which read China.
Air Europa and Ryanair have formed an alliance under the terms of which the former will supply the latter’s long haul flights. Following the agreement, Ryanair’s website will sell the flights the Spanish airline offers from Madrid to 20 destinations in 16 countries in America. This is a market where Iberia is the traditional leader.
Brussels is not concerned about the Spanish banks, even despite the problems of a systemic lender like Popular, in the process of being sold. The Spanish banks have shown that they have done their homework and restructured their balance sheets since receiving a European bail-out in 2012.
The annual growth rate of the outstanding balance of securities representative of the debt issued by Eurozone residents has slowed, rising 1.4% in March compared with a previous 1.3%. As far as the outstanding balance of listed stocks goes, this grew 0.9% in March compared with 0.7% in February.
Brazil has written a new page of corruption. President Michel Temer was allegedly caught on tape authorizing businessmen to bribe former House Speaker Eduardo Cunha. This new political instability could have the potential to derail ensuing recovery.
Gavin E.L. Hall | After the WannaCry cyber-incident of May 12, comments focused on whether the attack was preventable and if it presents increased vulnerability for public sector organizations. Such analysis does, however, gloss over an essential question: What do we want the role of the government to be?
The Energy Ministry this week held its macro-auction to award installation licences for up to 3.000 MW of renewables plants in Spain. The auction represents an investment of over 3 billion euros and Forestalia, Gas Natural and Endesa ended up with the majority of the MW.
J.L.M. Campuzano (Spanish Banking Association) | At the end of the day, we have zero or negative real long-term interest rates. Why? The most simple answer has to do with the relation between supply and demand. And everything leads us to think that there is more demand than supply in the fixed income markets.
Enel is Spanish Endesa’s main shareholder with a 70% stake. Spain’s Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda minister, Álvaro Nadal, has accused Enel of “playing politics for the Italians to the detriment of Spanish consumers and workers.”
Banco Popular said on Tuesday that in the context of the strategic options for the bank unveiled during its AGM, including a combination of businesses, several entities have expressed interest in exploring a possible operation of this kind.