Link Securities | Eurostat published on Friday that, according to the preliminary estimate, the Eurozone consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.6% in the month of April compared to March, slightly more than the 0.5% expected by the FactSet consensus of analysts. On a year-on-year basis, the eurozone CPI rose 2.2% in April (2.2% in March), also above the 2.1% projected by analysts. As for the main components of inflation in…
Alphavalue/DIVACONS | The aerospace and defence company closed a deal to acquire certain assets of Spirit AeroSystems, completing a key part of the struggling supplier’s split with Boeing. The transaction is expected to close in 3Q25, pending regulatory approvals. Airbus will provide Spirit with a $200 million interest-free credit facility to ensure the continuity of its programmes, while it will receive a $439 million payment from Spirit as compensation. The…
Link Securities | Iberdrola, through its subsidiary ScottishPower, has installed the first monopile of its East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm, digital portal Bolsamania.com reported on Friday. This is the company’s third project within its East Anglia Hub complex, located in the North Sea (UK). It is IBE’s largest park and the second largest in the world, which will involve an investment of £4 billion. At 84 metres high, weighing…
Intermoney | The ECB’s wage monitoring report continues to show that pressures on negotiated wages will ease over the course of the year. The ECB’s wage monitoring report continues to indicate that pressures on negotiated wages will diminish over the year. In particular, it pointed to a growth rate of negotiated wages, including exceptional payments spread over time, of 4.8% in 2024 (with an average coverage of 48.8% of employees…
Singular Bank: According to Eurostat’s final reading, in March the year-on-year rate of change of the Eurozone’s headline CPI moderated slightly to 2.2% (compared to 2.3% in February), its lowest since November 2024. This year-on-year increase was mainly explained by the contribution of services (up 1.56pp), followed by food, alcohol and tobacco (0.57pp) and non-energy industrial goods (0.16pp), in contrast to the negative contribution of energy (down 0.10pp). In a…
CdM | German investor confidence has worsened significantly in April as a result of “erratic changes” in US trade policy, according to the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), reports Europa Press this morning. Specifically, the German investor confidence figure stood at -14 points in April, compared to 51.6 in the previous month, which is the worst reading of the index since July 2023, after suffering the biggest monthly…
Link Securities | The European Union (EU) plans to revive its bid to buy more US gas, betting that US President Donald Trump is more open to negotiate after temporarily suspending the tariffs from taking effect, POLITICO reported on Monday. The bloc plans to resume talks on increased purchases of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) and will offer specific proposals to address Trump’s position on transatlantic trade, three European officials…
Deutsche Bank | The most pessimistic fears have been mitigated, but US tariffs have created great uncertainty about steel demand, given the complexity of breaking down the impact on end markets. In our new baseline scenario we reflect this situation (although without reaching a full-blown recession) and we cut our assumptions about demand and prices in the sector, reducing our EBITDA forecasts for 2026 by 7% on average. We also…
CdM | The company has won two new contracts in Sweden to supply a total of 170 electric buses, with a combined volume of both operations exceeding €100 million, as reported by the CAF group. On the one hand, the Swedish operator Nobina Sverige AB has selected Solaris to supply 89 electric buses to be used in Stockholm, a new order that joins other recent orders from this same operator…
Deutsche Bank | Airbus (ABS) has released its orders and deliveries for March 2025. The company delivered 71 aircraft and recorded 211 gross orders, delivering a total of 136 aircraft in the first quarter of 2025. March 2025 deliveries are the highest in any March since 2022, supporting the view that Airbus’ industrial performance is improving. This could bode well for the rest of the year, if tariffs do not…