Bankinter | ACS has won a contract to build a factory for electric car batteries for Ascende Elements, with a budget close to $1 billion. This contract is the second one that ACS’ US subsidiary Turner has won this year in the electric batteries market. Bankinter analyst team’s view: This is positive news for ACS which continues to show how strong its business is and the growth capacity of its…
The Government is preparing a plan B so that the two magistrates it has appointed to the Constitutional Court (TC) can take office even if the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) does not appoint its own. The measure would be implemented via amendments to the text of the reform of the Penal Code, according to PSOE sources. A third of the TC magistrates have had their mandate expired since…
For the first time in history, the Labour Inspectorate has called three days of strike action to protest against the “serious shortcomings” of a body that has still not been strengthened despite the commitments made by the government. A year and a half ago, the Ministries of Labour – on which it depends – and Finance and Public Function – responsible for the management of public employees – signed an…
Renta 4 | Repsol has 2.000 Mw of renewable projects under construction, of which approximately 59% are located in Spain, 35% in the US and 6% in Chile. The company wants to hike its renewable energy generation to 7.500 Mw to 2025. The Spanish oil and gas firm is developing a new photovoltaic energy plant in Villena, with an installed capacity of 300 Mw. Whatsmore, the company is continuing to…
Bankinter |Iberdrola’s Strategic Plan contemplates investments of 47 billion euros in 2023-2025, while maintaining generous shareholder retribution in this period (11 billion euros in dividends for shareholders and minorities). This will mean that the group’s Net Debt will go from 45 billion euros at end-2022 to 57.5 billion in 2025. The restructuring of the debt envisages a reduction of the listed debt from 55% currently to 52% in 2025. The…
The government has mobilised 416 million euros up to November under the Digital Kit programme, which represents 13.5% of the 3.067 billion euros budgeted for the initiative, financed by the European Union through the Next Generation EU funds. According to a reply registered in the Congress of Deputies, to which Europa Press has had access, the implementation of digitalisation solutions in the companies benefiting from the aid will be channelled…
The share of foreign investors in Kingdom of Spain government securities has decreased from the level of 48.79% at the end of 2019 to 41.04%, which is 7.75 points higher. In December 2019, non-resident investors held a portfolio of Spanish securities for an overall amount of 480.094 billion euros, which represented 48.79% of the total debt issued by the State. They now stand at 499.376 billion euros. The strong effort…
Morgan Stanley | The Spanish Banking Association (AEB) has reached an agreement with trade unions to raise salaries by 4.5% in 2023. This figure compares with the 5% increase in costs which analysts had in their models for 2023-2024. It also compares with the estimates for a 25% growth in NII in Spain in 2023. Although this agreement only applies to Santander, BBVA, Sabadell and Bankinter, Álvaro Serrano believes that a…
Bankinter | The big hotel chains are confident that the tourist boom will last until, at least, the end of the year. That said, many of them are already seeing a reduction in the demand growth curve which anticipates a cooling in consumption in the medium-term. Meliá in particular expects to exceed 2019 figures this Christmas, also anticipating a revival in the urban hotel business at end-year or the start…
The former Minister of Industry in the Socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will today present in Madrid his book “El virus interminable” (Ediciones B). In it he analyses the mistakes made during the pandemic and the pending issues in the event of a new health crisis of this type in our country. On this occasion, the newspaper La Razón interviewed him. Q- Could the management of the data…