CdM | It is well known that in order to take a company public, it is advisable to hire a good press campaign, distribute some money among banks and underwriters, etc. But there are times when haste leads to a rush to force the machine and fall into ridicule. A Madrid business newspaper has published a report on the renewable energy companies expected to list on the Spanish stock exchange in the coming months, comparing the capital valuations of some with others that add capital and debt, which, to say the least, is misleading.

On 8 April, the Parliament approved the first Climate Change Law in Spain, which aims to comply with the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. After the Climate Change and Energy Transition Bill has been approved in the Parliament it will pass to the Senate where it will be reviewed and processed to be definitively approved, unless an unexpected setback arises.

According to the document of more than 200 pages in which the reforms and investments of the Plan that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, presented to the Parliament on Wednesday, the three types of contract would be ‘stable’ for all activities, another ‘temporary’ for those that are of this nature and one ‘training’ for insertion, in particular, in the labour market.

CaixaBank Research | New technologies have indeed favoured the growth of Spain’s labour productivity in the past and that they could do so again in this new technological era we are entering. An initial analysis of the relationship between the degree of penetration of new technologies and labour productivity shows that there is a positive correlation between the growth of the two variables in the past 20 years. In addition, this correlation appears to be more pronounced among economic activities in the services sector.