Banks granted around €30,206 million in credit and loans to Spanish families and companies last February, the lowest amount granted in a month since August 2021, which represents a year-on-year fall of 15.88% and breaks the upward trend it has been showing since the Covid pandemic. The fall coincides with the almost vertical rise in the Euribor and is explained in its entirety in mortgages, whose production has plummeted by…
Bankinter | Argentina has been ordered to pay between €8 and €18.2 billion for the expropriation of YPF in 2012, Repsol (REP) will not receive any money. Repsol was compensated years ago with €5,000 million in bonds from the Argentine government and will not receive any new compensation for the application of this sentence. The compensation will be received by the law firm and funds that have financed the lawsuit,…
The second vice-president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz has finally formalised the announcement of her candidacy for the presidency of the Government. Yesterday, Sunday, the presentation of her new ultra-left political platform, under the name Sumar, took place. The choice of the party’s name, which means ‘add up’ or ‘sum’ in Spanish, could not have been more appropriate, bearing in mind that no fewer than fifteen political forces will be…
ABC newspaper denounces that “La Moncloa has once again vetoed ABC: the Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallès, has excluded this newspaper from the group of media accompanying the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on the official trip to China that began this Thursday. Despite the fact that ABC applied for accreditation in due time and form, like other media that have been admitted, the Secretary of State…
Fernando González Urbaneja | Listening every day, every hour, to the statements of the ministers takes us to a happy world: everything is going well; everything is historic; impressive achievements. But with the coda that the PP and Feijóo are the worst, capable of ruining everything. So much propagandist mumbo-jumbo that embraces the strategy of information flooding, pounding and pounding. The latest instalment corresponds to the public deficit data for…
Morgan Stanley | Our analyst, Laura Metayer, believes that the Hospitality & Other solutions division is Amadeus’ fastest growing segment (AMS), which is made up of its centralised reservations product (CRS), leading a €1.8bn market, and the newer hotel management system (PMS) in a €2.2bn market. The analyst team estimates that the hospitality IT market, with a size of €7.4bn MSe and growth of >8% CAGR, is moving towards a…
Link Securities | In an interview with the Financial Times, reported by Expansión, Inditex (ITX) Chairman and CEO Marta Ortega outlined a continuity in management based on improving the shopping experience and the efficiency of the group’s operating model, while maintaining the focus on sustainability. Ortega said that the product is the lifeblood of the group and where she can offer the most value, while she is on top of…
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.4% in March compared to the previous month and cut its year-on-year rate by more than 2.5 points to 3.3%, its lowest value since August 2021, according to advanced data published on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).This moderation in the year-on-year growth rate of the CPI places inflation at its lowest level since August 2021, when a rate of 3.3% was…
Technically, for statistics in Spain to consider a person unemployed, he or she has to meet the administrative requirement of being registered with the SEPE (State Public Employment Service) and be in a position to immediately enter the labour market, which means that millions of unemployed people are lost in the statistics of job seekers. The official unemployment rate stands at 12.8%, which includes three million unemployed people, according to…
Link Securities | TCI, the British fund that has become Cellnex’s main shareholder with 9% of the company, is increasing pressure on Bertrand Kan, who on Monday was relieved of the presidency of the company, to leave the company’s Board of Directors immediately. The fund believes that Cellnex must urgently focus on electing a new CEO, and among the possible candidates, the newspaper Expansión highlights in today’s edition that Marco…