Italy’s sovereign debt has become a bargain due to the country’s upcoming referendum (December 4th) which may compromise Renzi’s government. Yield premium investors demand to hold 10-year securities versus similar Spanish debt soared to its highest closing level in almost two years in October, according to Bloomberg data.
UBS | We have updated our Upstream major project database. Further cuts to capital investment, responding both tactically to this year’s very low prices but also, increasingly, strategically to a changing market outlook, have contributed to another year of below-trend project development activity.
AXA IM | Recent years have shown the importance of financial linkages across markets and assets. In particular, spillovers were evident during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) when financial turmoil originating in the US mortgage markets spread around the globe and caused an unprecedented crisis.
After a long wait, as a result of Banco Portugués de Inversiones (BPI) shareholders’ voting restrictions and after improving its initial offer, CaixaBank is on the verge of gaining control of the Portuguese lender.
BoAML | Turning to the long term outlook, we still expect that leaving the EU will worsen the UK’s trading terms with EU countries more than it improves trading terms with other countries. Assuming this thesis proves correct, it will come with economic costs. The recent better-than-expected data tell us nothing about that judgment, but political events suggest to us that it is on track.
The concessions made to Deutsche Bank show the discretional nature of the treatment of institutions within the EU. “Unfortunately, this is a deeply-rooted problem which translates into insecurity about “the rules of the game.” And the ultimate consequence of this is a counter-productive mistrust of the European framework,” Intermoney analysts say.
It’s definitely not Telefónica finest hour. Problems with the possible listing of its UK affiliate O2 after the pound’s slump can be added to the fiasco with the IPO of its infrastructure subsidiary Telxius. The company is worried about having its rating cut and it doesn’t know how it can cut its massive 52 billion euros debt pile. But on Monday it returned to the debt market and successfully placed 2 billion euros in 4-year and 15-year bonds.
Diego Salvador (Gesconsult) | N+1 is a financial institution focusing on two business areas: advising on mergers and acquisitions and the management of a venture capital firm. The company is developing a very successful franchise thanks to the purchase of “boutique” investment banks in the US, as well as in countries like Germany, Austria and Japan in the near future. We are confident that it can continue to expand their business inorganically with continued acquisitions in attractive countries like the US.
The volume of global investment in property assets has slipped back for the first time since 2007, according to Cushman & Wakefield. Investment tends to be concentrated in “prime” assets. It’s likely the investment flow will begin to favour “Tier II” cities like Copenhagen or Madrid, say Bankinter analysts.
José A. Santos (Patrivalor) | The stock market value of the 60 Spanish companies analysed totalled 557.375 billion euros at end-September 2016, down 5.5% from end-2015.