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bancos 4grandes

In Spain, Spanish economy 2nd October 2024

Bank of Spain sets up countercyclical capital buffer to strengthen solvency, shareholder remuneration policy not affected

Bankinter : The Bank of Spain (BdE) is to establish a countercyclical capital buffer (CCB) to strengthen the solvency of the sector. The CCB will be 0.5% of Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs) from 4Q 2024 and may reach 1.0% in 4Q 2025 (standard level for systemic risks). Bankinter’s research team’s opinion: Increasing capital requirements is not good news for the sector, but the impact is limited because: (1) The BdE…

bbva sabadell

In Spain 1st October 2024

UBS, advisor to BBVA, announces during takeover bid that it holds more than 3% of Sabadell

UBS, which is acting as an advisor to BBVA in the takeover bid for Banco Sabadell, has declared to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that it holds a 3.15% stake in the capital, mostly through various financial instruments. However, according to the newspaper La Información, this seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. UBS is reportedly in a position to add more than 7% of Sabadell’s shares…

bolsa reloj espana 2

In Spain 30th September 2024

High probability of a positive fourth quarter: Ibex 35’s 7% cushion

Renta 4: We continue with positive statistics, this time suggesting a positive fourth quarter, as we can see in the two charts below. The first chart looks at the occasions when a momentum indicator registers certain positive parameters, noting that 2, 6 and 12 months later there have been positive performances by the S&P500. The second shows that when the S&P500 has not recorded monthly declines of more than 5%…

Sacyr2

In Spain 30th September 2024

Sacyr awarded concession of Atacama and Antofagasta airports

The General Directorate of Concessions of the Ministry of Public Works of Chile has awarded the concession for the Northern Airport Network of Chile, which includes the airports of Atacama and Antofagasta, to the consortium made up of Sacyr Concessiones (70%) and Cointer (30%). The concession involves an investment of approximately €260 million for the expansion, improvement, and maintenance of the two airport infrastructures, which will enhance service quality and…

Spain has highest proportion of contracts of 6 months or less

In Spain 30th September 2024

Spain Leads Long-Term Unemployment in EU: 585,000 Unemployed for 4 Years

In Spain, one in five unemployed individuals has been searching for a job for more than four years without success. This means that 585,000 people have been unable to find employment for over four years, placing the country, alongside Italy, at the forefront of long-term unemployment in Europe.According to data from the Quarterly Labor Market Observatory for the second quarter of the year, prepared by Fedea and BBVA, the incidence…

Telefonica novisima

In Spain 29th September 2024

Telefónica prepares to bring minority partner into newly created fibre-optic subsidiary with Vodafone

Banco Sabadell: According to press reports, Telefónica will launch in the coming weeks the process to bring a minority partner into the newly created fibre-optic subsidiary with Vodafone. The information indicates that the new partner would enter with a stake of around 40%, and Telefónica would be left with a majority stake of around 50% (thus leaving around 10% in the hands of Zegona, owner of Vodafone Spain). We recall…

Infla

In Spain 27th September 2024

Spain’s preliminary CPI drops to +1.5% year-on-year in September from +2.3% in August

According to the preliminary estimate from the National Statistics Institute (INE), the CPI slowed down in September in Spain to 1.5% year-on-year, decreasing below the minimum reached in June 2023 (1.9%) to mark the lowest figure since March 2021. The increase in the core inflation rate also moderated, in this case by three tenths (compared to eight in the CPI), down to 2.4%, the lowest since January 2022. The INE…

Social homes in Spain

In Spain 27th September 2024

House sales rise again, up 19.4% in July

With the advance of July, the sale and purchase of homes returns to positive rates after the year-on-year declines of 6.1% and 21.5% in May and June, respectively. The year-on-year increase in home sales in July is due both to the rebound in transactions for new homes, which rose by 38.6% year-on-year, the largest increase in three years, reaching 11,302 transactions, and to those involving used homes. The latter increased…

europastry

In Spain 26th September 2024

Europastry submits documentation again to try to start trading with valuation close to €1,500m

Norbolsa | The company seems to be trying again to go public, where today it will present the necessary documentation to do so. In addition, it seems that Criteria Caixa would be willing to subscribe shares in this operation, as announced on 21 June. We recall that Europastry is one of the largest bread and pastry production companies in Europe; valuations are around €1,500M; on the other hand, remember that…

grifols edificio

Spanish economy 26th September 2024

CNMV issues warning to Grifols, Gotham and General Industrial Partners fund for very serious breaches of law

Bankinter: The National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) has issued a warning to Grifols (GRF), Gotham and the General Industrial Partners (GIP) fund for very serious infringements. In the case of Grifols, according to the CNMV, the group provided information “with inaccurate or untruthful data or which omits relevant aspects in accordance” with accounting standards in the annual reports for 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well as in the accounts for…