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Spanish economy 9th June 2021

Acciona Energia Starts Marketing Its IPO

The CNMV has approved the prospectus for the partial placement of Acciona Energia. The placement syndicate starts marketing the IPO this week. The transaction is aimed at institutional investors. The Spanish multinational expects to place around 25% of capital (30% if the green shoe is added). Acciona will significantly reduce corporate debt after the capitalisation of intra-group loans. Acciona Energía is born with an installed capacity of 11,000 MW and…

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Spanish economy 8th June 2021

Summer Of The New Normal Will Create More Than 438,500 Jobs, At 2015 Levels

Randstad Research forecasts that the summer campaign will generate 438,550 contracts in Spain, 20.7% more than last year, although still 29.5% below the amount clocked up in 2019. The figure predicted for this year’s summer campaign is on a par with that of 2015, when 437,873 contracts were signed. When the historical series is analysed, it can be seen that, since 2012, the volume of summer contracts has not stopped growing.

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Spanish economy 7th June 2021

The Government, Good Governance And The Indra Case

Fernando González Urbaneja | The government’s contempt for the forms and procedures it imposes on other market players is insulting. And what is the CNMV doing?
The government, the Moncloa, has imposed a change in the chairmanship of INDRA, a listed company in which the state controls 19%, without explanation or justification…

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Spanish economy 7th June 2021

Public Works Tenders In Spain Could Rebound 41% This Year To 2010 Levels

Seopan, the employers’ association of large construction companies and infrastructure concessionaires, estimates that public construction tenders in Spain will grow by 41.5% in 2021 to 20.17 billion euros, which would mean almost 6 billion euros more than a year earlier and recover the levels of 2010.Moreover, taking into account the current pace, it calculates that awarding could close the year with an increase of 12.4% to 7.9 billion euros, which would mean 877 million euros more than in 2020 and return to 2011 values.

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Spanish economy 4th June 2021

Every Spaniard Wastes 77 Kilos Of Food A Year

Portocolom AV | One out of every three pieces of food ends up in the rubbish bin, which is equivalent to around 1.3 billion tonnes of food. That is enough to feed all the undernourished people in the world several times over. In Spain, each person throws away 77 kilos of food a year, 42% of which is generated in households. But food waste is not only a social or humanitarian concern, but also an environmental one. When we waste food, we also waste all the energy and water it takes to grow it, harvest it, transport it. And if the food ends up in landfill and rots, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Spanish economy 3rd June 2021

Over 115,000 Companies (7.6% Of The Business Fabric) Disappeared In Spain Due To The Health Crisis

Randstad Research | Just before the start of the crisis, in February 2020, the number of companies was 1.48 M, i.e. 89,000 more than today. This loss means a drop of 6% in the number of businesses. If the comparison is made with April 2019, in order to avoid seasonality, the situation is even worse, since the fall in the number of companies is 7.6%, with a reduction of 115,014 companies.

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Spanish economy 2nd June 2021

Spanish Utilities To Lose €800-1Bn With The Cut In Windfall Profits, 5% Of Their EBITDA

On Tuesday, the Ministry for Ecological Transition presented a draft bill to the Council of Ministers to put an end to windfall profits, i.e. to put an end to the over-remuneration of nuclear and hydroelectric power in order to reduce consumers’ electricity bills, which have risen considerably, among other things, due to the increase in CO2 emissions.According to government sources, the proposal would respect the European regulatory framework (where there should be no discrimination by technology) and would be similar to that existing between 2006/2009, with the reduction of a part of the CO2 “dividend” to non-emitting plants prior to 2005 that sell energy on the market.

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Spanish economy 1st June 2021

In The OECD, Only Iceland And Mexico Will Take Longer Than Spain (Three And A Half Years) To Recover From The Crisis

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Spain’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow by 5.9% in 2021 (5.7%; previous estimate), and by 6.3% in 2022 (4.8%; previous estimate). Thus, it will take three and a half years for Spain to recover its pre-crisis level of GDP per capita. Only Iceland and Mexico, of the 38 OECD member states, will take longer to recover it.

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Spanish economy 1st June 2021

Airbus Transforms Its Madrid’s Plant In The City Of Getafe Into Europe’s Third Largest Aerospace Facility

The European aerospace group Airbus has established its third largest industrial complex in Madrid, specifically Getafe, a city at the south of the region, becoming the company’s third centre after Toulouse and Hamburg. This involves an expansion of the Getafe centre – now renamed Campus Futura – which concentrates activities for the design, manufacture and assembly of electronic structures and equipment for space systems and civil and military aircraft.

Net wealth of European households lost in the crisis recovered; now is over seven times disposable income

Spanish economy 31st May 2021

The Pandemic Cuts Household Income By 3.3% And Companies’ Gross Operating Surplus By 18%

The impact of the pandemic on household accounts has been more moderate than that suffered by companies because most of the protective measures implemented by the government have been aimed at the former. In this respect, analysts at Funcas explain that the decline in the gross disposable income of households in 2020 was 3.3%, lower than that of GDP (-10.8%) and consumption (-12%). Meanwhile, the gross operating surplus of companies fell by 18%, the biggest drop in the entire historical series, and their gross disposable income fell by 17%.