Telefónica’s decision to reduce its reliance on Huawei is in line with the company’s strategy to have several different providers for the equipment for its 5G networks, which is expected to be widely deployed by 2022.
After issuing €1,62 bn at 5 years, €1,31bn at 10 years and €510 M at 30 years, the Treasury ruled out any further debt issuances in 2019. On the other hand, the net issuance amounted to almost € 20 bn, the lowest figure since 2007.
Alejandro Arevalo (Jupiter’s Head of Strategy, Emerging Markets) | One might think that emerging market debt has had difficult year, but it’s been quite the opposite. At the time of writing, the major EM hard currency indices have all returned more than 11% year to date.
José Ramón Díez Guijarro (Bankia Estudios) | The end of the year has served to dismiss some of the doubts that have distorted the decisions of the economic agents during the last months, ballasting the growth rates of the activity. Visibility has improved in the short term, yet uncertainty is here to stay
Banca March | By 2020, 14 countries of the European Union and the Eurozone will ask their banks to raise their capital buffers, in order to cushion future financial shocks.
M&G | The year 2019 is going to close with strong advances of most of the world indexes, above 20% in Europe and the United States.
Alejandro Arevalo (Jupiter AM) | Capitalising on the economic and political diversity available within EM debt will be key to riding the economic slowdown in 2020.
Monex Europe | The euro’s fortunes turned sour in 2019 despite the year starting with a positive outlook.
Bankinter | We maintain the Neutral recommendation. Our valuation for the Spanish stock index points to 10,005 points, which represents a potential of 4.6% as of Dec-20 and an estimated dividend yield for the 4.5% index, the highest among the indexes analyzed.
C. Rendu de Lint (UBP) | On the one hand, we have Mr Hyde: the uncertainty that surrounds the US–China trade talks which is impacting world trade. On the other we have Dr Jekyll: world growth is holding up to the tune of 3% for 2019, which is close to its six-year average.