Link Securities | The Boards of Directors of Colonial (COL) and its 98.24% owned subsidiary, Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL), have agreed to initiate a detailed analysis for their potential merger, whereby COL would absorb SFL. The potential merger would be in line with the group’s strategy of simplifying its structure, one of the key points of which was the takeover bid launched by COL for all SFL shares in August…
Norbolsa | Results for its first half year ending in September and covering the entire summer season show an 18% fall in profit after tax and a 10% drop in fares. On the other hand, the comments for the next quarter are somewhat more positive, pointing out that the fall in tariffs is moderating and will probably be below 5%. In any case, Boeing’s lower aircraft deliveries mean it is…
Money supply in the EurozoneLink Securities | The ECB reported on Friday that the M3 money supply in the Eurozone increased by 3.2% in the month of September at an annual rate, to €16,549 billion. The growth rate exceeded the 2.9% growth rate it had reached in September, which was the reading expected by FactSet consensus analysts. The ECB also published that bank lending to households in the Eurozone increased…
Bankinter: ECB minutes of the meeting of 12 September. The focus in the markets has shifted towards economic growth to the detriment of inflation, which has moderated in recent months. Fears of a slowdown in the US economy have raised expectations that the Fed will cut rates more aggressively than the ECB. This approach has carried over to Europe in the face of a somewhat weaker macro picture than in…
Link Securities | Talgo (TLGO) has taken advantage of the Innotrans trade fair in Berlin (Germany) to seal a strategic agreement with the Pesa group, Poland’s largest train manufacturer, according to Expansión newspaper. In the memorandum of understanding signed yesterday, both companies have agreed to carry out exploratory work to prepare future agreements along three main business lines: i) the tender process for the purchase of very high-speed rolling stock…
CdM | Eurozone private sector activity contracted in September for the first time in seven months, according to preliminary PMI data from Hamburg Commercial Bank and S&P Global, which also shows signs of weakening on the services side. In particular, the advance composite PMI for the euro area came in at 48.9 from 51 in the previous month, its worst reading in eight months. In the case of the services…
Link Securities | Iberdrola (IBE) has inaugurated on Thursday in Brittany the Saint-Brieuc wind farm in France, one of the first two in the country, with 496 MW of capacity and an annual production of 2 million megawatt hours (MWh), as reported on Thursday by Bolsamania.com. This will provide safe, indigenous and emission-free energy to nearly one million people. With an investment of €2.4 billion, the project began to be…
Link Securities | The ZEW Institute published on Tuesday that its index measuring sentiment about Germany’s economy among large investors and analysts fell in its September reading to 3.6 points from 19.2 points in August, down to its lowest level since October 2023. The FactSet analyst consensus expected a much higher reading of 16.6 points. This brings the index to three consecutive months of declines. Meanwhile, the ZEW index, which…
Link Securities | According to the preliminary estimate of the data, released on Tuesday by Eurostat, the Eurozone generated in July a trade surplus with the rest of the world amounting to €21.2 billion (€21.7 billion in June), much higher than the €6.7 billion reached in July 2023 and the €18 billion expected by FactSet’s consensus analysts. In the month of July, exports of goods from the Eurozone to the…
Banco Sabadell: After failing to go ahead with the purchase of Air Europa (AE) in the short term, there is TAP Portugal, which IAG has already winked at. We believe it makes strategic sense mainly because of its positioning in LatAm (market share close to 7%; with less overlap than AE) and because it deepens the concentration of the sector and also generates synergies (between €250-600 million according to our…