Renta 4: The company has announced the sale of its cork flooring business in Sweden and Denmark to the Salix group for a total of €23.7 million. This divestment is part of its strategy to reorganise and optimise the flooring, composites and insulation businesses under a single unit called Amorim Cork Solutions, announced in the first half of the year. Timberman Denmark A/S and Amorim Cork Sweden AB will continue…
Link Securities | The Spanish technology group is bidding for London’s public transport payment system, valued at £1.5 billion (around €1.8 billion), an amount that does not include VAT of 20%, Expansión newspaper reports today. Indra is one of the two finalists in the bidding process carried out by the public body Transport for London (TfL) for the so-called Proteus Contract. Its rival is Cubic Transportation Systems, the US firm…
Link Securities | Iberdrola (IBE) has obtained the production licence from Portugal’s Directorate General of Energy and Geology (DGEG), marking another step towards the construction of Portugal’s largest wind farm, Bolsamanía reported on Monday. The project, located in the districts of Vila Real and Braga in the north of the country, which combines wind and hydro power, has a total investment of around €350 million. With an installed capacity of…
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Eurozone expanded by 0.4% in Q3 2024 compared to the previous quarter, in line with its preliminary reading and marking its highest quarterly growth rate in two years, following the 0.2% increase in Q2 2024. Household consumption (+0.7%), the rise in gross fixed capital formation (+2.0%), and inventories were the largest contributors, with public spending also recording an increase (+0.5%). On the other…
The weekend ends with a focus on France, following the resignation of Prime Minister Michel Barnier due to the no-confidence motion backed by Marine Le Pen’s far-right party. According to Le Pen, the outgoing administration’s plan to bring the budget gap down to 3.0% by 2029 was not credible for the country, and a “reasonable trajectory” based on wealth creation and savings is needed. “We want to absorb the deficits,…
Bankinter: The October Unemployment Rate repeats at 6.3%, as expected. No surprises and no market impact. In any case, it is an excellent historical low level within a slightly downward trend during the last years. Eurostat estimates that in October 10.841 million people were unemployed in the Eurozone. Compared to September, unemployment decreased by 3,000 people in the Eurozone. Compared to October 2023, unemployment decreased by 411,000. By Eurozone countries,…
Intermoney | The Italian consortium SIS, formed by Fininc and Sacyr (Buy, PO €4.4), has begun operating five sections of the A21 Turin highway, totaling 320 kilometers. This contract, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, is expected to generate traffic revenues in excess of €2.9 billion over the 12-year concession period. The concession includes the design and execution of the works to improve these sections, with an…
Alphavalue/ Divacons | The consortium in which the Spanish construction company participates won a contract for high-speed works between London and Birmingham. The contract could be worth more than €1 billion. Ferrovial, together with local company BAM Nuttal, will design and build the tracks between Old Oak Common station in northwest London and Curzon Street in Birmingham, which is being built by Dragados. Trains will be able to run at…
BancaMarch: Michel Barnier, Prime Minister of France, is abandoning plans to increase electricity taxes in the 2025 budget. This decision, which would be a concession to the demands of Le Pen’s party, is not enough. The Rassemblement Nationale has the bargaining power to make the government meet its demands, since its vote would be decisive in the event of a no-confidence motion. Yesterday Barnier struck an appeasing tone, declaring that…
Alphavalue/ Divacons | Air Europa, Spain’s third largest airline, is in talks to sell a 20% stake to Air France-KLM and establish a commercial cooperation. The deal is expected to be valued at less than €100m and is unlikely to trigger antitrust intervention by the EU. Previously, IAG (owner of the two largest Spanish airlines) abandoned plans to acquire Air Europa, probably due to irreconcilable differences between the remedies required…