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…
Spanish construction companies have set their sights on the biggest infrastructure project to be tendered this year in the Iberian Peninsula: the high-speed railway line that will connect Lisbon with Oporto. According to the newspaper El Economista, ACS, Ferrovial, Sacyr, FCC, OHLA and Acciona are outlining the consortiums to bid for the first tenders of the infrastructure, whose development has been structured in three phases to be completed in 2030…
Social Security paid out €11,945.6 million in contributory pensions in February, 3 billion more than the 8,946.9 million in March 2018, a few months before Pedro Sánchez came to government. The average monthly retirement pension shot up from the €1,260 it stood at in December 2022 to €1,372 per month, up 9.7%. And since there were no differences by amount bracket, the maximum pension exceeded €3,000 per month for the…
Fernando González Urbaneja | The mini Cabinet reshuffle is irrelevant: two ministers are leaving, two more are coming in, and none of them will leave their mark on the government. Traditionally we call any change of government a crisis, but this latest one has no more to it than the convenience of the Socialist Party to embellish, at least in appearance, its electoral offer. Two ministers are leaving to head…
Alphavalue / Divacons | The Spanish utility has announced that it will lead the ‘Atmosphere’ consortium, a project that will integrate different companies to innovate in new technologies that can be applied to the critical equipment of green hydrogen generation plants, thus covering the entire value chain, as reported by the company in a statement. The consortium will also include Ingeteam Power Technology, Inerco Ingeniería Tecnológica y Consultoría, ABC Compressors,…
F.R. | Ibex 35 companies have only 3% female CEOs, 9% female board chairwomen and 19% female presence in senior management, according to the Barometer of Gender Diversity in Governing Bodies in Europe, based on the analysis of the main stock market indicators of 16 European markets and the Stoxx600 as of January 1st this year, carried out by ecoDa, the European Federation of Directors’ Organisations to which the Spanish…
Intermoney | The company, through its US subsidiary Flatiron, has been awarded a series of water treatment and broadband network deployment contracts in California, involving an investment of €315 million, according to the financial daily Expansión, among other media. The largest of these will provide drinking water to communities in and around Oakland. Flatiron will upgrade existing facilities and build new ones. The developer of these investments is the East…
Intermoney | Sacyr has received up to 15 bids for its services business, currently in the process of being sold, according to Cinco Días newspaper. Specifically, the businesses affected are Valoriza Servicios, dedicated to environmental activities, and Sacyr Facilities, focused on maintenance of buildings and facilities. The company expects to complete the process in about three months. Cinco Días reports that the sale price for 100% of these businesses would…