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Spanish economy 7th March 2024

Bankruptcy proceedings up 48% in Spain in first two months of year

Informa D&B| In the first two months of 2024, 1,516 insolvency proceedings and 7,871 dissolutions have been registered in Spain, according to data on insolvency proceedings extracted by INFORMA D&B S.A.U. (S.M.E.), a subsidiary of Cesce. These figures represent an increase of 48% for insolvency proceedings, while dissolutions decreased by 1%. The companies in insolvency proceedings in February had sales of around €666 million and employed 5,300 people. Most of…

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Spanish economy 7th March 2024

Iberdrola to provide green energy to all Alcampo centres in Spain through a PPA

Link Securities | The company announced yesterday that it has teamed up with Alcampo to supply green energy to all hypermarkets and supermarkets in Spain through a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA), according to Europa Press. Specifically, the Spanish energy company will provide the retail giant with 3,740 GWh, equivalent to the consumption of 62,000 Spanish families per year, through several of its photovoltaic installations for eleven years. The energy…

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Spanish economy 6th March 2024

Spain: Renewables break record in February, with 61% of electricity mix, and set price per MWh 41% below large European economies

Grupo ASE: Renewables beat the record, with 61.7% of the mix and lowering the price of electricity to 40 €/MWh. Wind has covered 32.2% of the mix, hydro 15.4% and photovoltaic 11.6%, while gas and coal only account for 8.1%. Spanish electricity futures are 15-25% lower than those of the German market, the European benchmark. The daily wholesale market price (POOL) for February was 40.00 €/MWh. This is 46% lower…

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Spanish economy 6th March 2024

Spain: Corporate loans at 4.9% and deposits at 3.6%

The ECB published January bank lending rates the day before yesterday, with a slight fall of -1bp to 5.1% in new corporate loans (third consecutive month of declines) and -13bp to 3.9% in new loans to households (for the second consecutive month). Among the major European economies, Spanish and French corporate loans lead the January tightening (-11bp to 4.9% and -5bp to 4.8% respectively), in contrast to the 12bp widening…

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Spanish economy 6th March 2024

More female chairwomen and board members in listed companies

F.R.| Women are gaining weight in the positions of chairwomen and CEOs of listed companies, although maintaining limited power quotas with respect to men. According to the report Women on boards and beyond 2023, prepared by the index manager MSCI and the consulting firm Clarity on the 2,400 stocks from 49 countries that make up the MSCI ACWI Index, women ended 2023 as chairwomen of 9.1% of boards and CEOS…

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Spanish economy 5th March 2024

Spanish government to create National Productivity Council to address challenge of increasing this indicator

Banca March: Economic growth, salaries and fiscal policy are some of the issues addressed by Spain’s Minister of Economy. As Carlos Cuerpo said, the ministry is comfortable with the GDP growth forecast of 2% for 2024, above the estimates of other international institutions – IMF (1.5%), Eurostat (1.7%), OECD (1.5%) -. On the other hand, he explained that, in order to tackle the challenge of increasing productivity, a National Productivity…

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Spanish economy 5th March 2024

Unemployment in Spain falls by 7,452 in February

According to data published yesterday by the Ministry of Labour, the number of unemployed people registered in the offices of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) fell in February compared to January, by 7,452 people (-0.27%), to 2,760,408 unemployed. In seasonally adjusted terms, unemployment fell somewhat more, by 28,249 persons. In February 2023 unemployment rose by 2,618. Over the last 12 months, unemployment in Spain has fallen by 150,607 persons…

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Spanish economy 4th March 2024

Norwegian Pension Fund raises its stake in Spanish stock market to €12,407 M, up 23% from the previous year

Link Securities| The Norwegian Pension Fund has €12,407 million invested in companies listed on the Spanish stock exchange, according to the 2023 report from Norges Bank Investment Management (Nbim), up 23% from the previous year, Expansión newspaper reports today. Among its investments, it holds 3.36% (3.59% in 2022) of IBERDROLA (IBE), valued at €2,491.2 million; 2.26% (3.36% in 2022) of BANCO SANTANDER (SAN), valued at €1.355.6 million; 2.84% (2.09% in…

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Interviews, Spanish economy 1st March 2024

“Spain has a good energy plan but if things don’t change, it won’t be fulfilled”

José Bogas, ENDESAS’s CEO, explains in Consejeros magazine that “295,000 million of investment is needed for the period 2021-30, and we have many years ahead of us when when we are not investing at this pace. Of these 295,000 million, 118,000 million are for renewables; 85,000 for energy efficiency, but almost nothing has been done so far; 53,000 for networks, which is more than 5,000 every year and we have…

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Spanish economy 1st March 2024

Aena say IAG’s takeover of Air Europa would strengthen Barajas hub and Spanish economy

Link Securities| The president of Aena, Maurici Lucena, has defended the increase in airport taxes by 4.09% from 1 March despite obtaining record profits in 2023, which he has justified, in part, by the “efficiency” in its operations, the newspaper Expansión published yesterday. He argued his position because it complies with the law that regulates Aena and, secondly, out of respect for Aena’s shareholders. In addition, Lucena has expressed his…