Ratings agency Fitch has warned that a property bubble is evident in the centres of Spain’s large cities. But it makes it clear that it does not anticipate any generalised bubble in housing prices in the country in the short-term. This is due to the high level of stock which still has to be absorbed and the restrictions on buying a home.
The capital hikes carried out by Spanish companies totalled 4.114,7 billion euros in September, almost four times more than a year earlier and the highest figure in that month since 2012. This is according to data analysed by the Economic Studies Department of rating agency Axesor.
Financial institutions, companies and households have continued to adjust the debt accumulated in the first half of the year. In the case of non-financial companies and households, their level of debt is increasingly closer to the European average, against a backdrop of greater economic growth and preference for home ownership.
In Spain banks stocks, particularly Santander, play an unusually important role in driving the index Ibex35.To understand the prospects for the Spanish banks (and ipso facto, the overall index), it is crucial to have a handle on the health of the domestic real estate market,” confirms Goldman Sacha experts.
Shares in biotech company Oryzon Genomics continued their advance today, after the company said on Tuesday that it plans to move its headquarters from Barcelona to Madrid.
Spain’s services sector, about 50% of the country’s GDP, was boosted in September thanks to new business at the fastest rate in more than two years, according to Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).
Bankinter |The variation in the number of jobless in September (according to the Social Security register) was apparently slightly higher (worse) than forecast: +27.900 vs +21.500 expected vs +22.801 in September 2016. (That said it was slightly better than the 26.087 registered in September 2015).
Spanish bond prices are not reflecting the risk of Catalan secession simply because the foreign economic press doesn’t rate the likelihood of it happening, nor the conflict which will follow 1-O.
All the figures and statistics related to education in our country paint a picture which is not just bad, but catastrophic…For example, the number of young Spaniards who don’t even have a high-school education, 35%, is double the OECD average.
Housing prices have grown 16% since end-2014, according to the Bank of Spain. This is after a decline of 37% in nominal terms (45% in real terms) since their peak at end-2007.