Spanish economy

Ferrovial-Toronto

Ferrovial Combines Protection Against Inflation With Exposure To Recovery In The Cycle; Buy. T.P. €28,5/share (-5%)

Bankinter | Exposure to North America and protection against inflation. Ferrovial offers a good combination of protection against inflation and exposure to the recovery in the cycle, via traffic. Of its total cashflow, 80% comes from North America (US and Canada), where the impact of the war in Ukraine will be less. And salaries have capacity to grow. Whatsmore, Ferrovial has a solid financial structure, with net cash in the…


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Feijóo’s Tax Cuts In Times Of Inflation, A Credible Alternative

Luis Alcaide | In the wake of his meeting with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the main opposition candidate Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, recently elected president of the Partido Popular, complained that he had not been heard on his proposals on taxation: a reduction in personal income tax for taxpayers with lower incomes in order to compensate for the greater frequency of the effects of inflation. This is neither a pro-vo¬lu¬tionary nor…


Europe SMEs

Business Late Payments (280 billion) Stifle SMEs

Gerardo Cuerva (*) | For more than ten years, the fight against business late payment has been a priority for the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (CEPYME). It has been developing a strategy of monitoring and recommending good practices aimed at bringing about a cultural change to banish this negative business practice. This strategy has been reinforced in the last year with the creation and promotion of the…


Merlin Properties

The big Socimis, Merlin, Colonial and Lar España, will pass the CPI rise on to tenants

Bankinter | Merlin, Colonial and Lar España foresee passing inflation on to their rents. They give assurances they will enforce contracts, just as they did when inflation was zero or in negative territory. Bankinter’s opinion: Good news for the sector, although it should be viewed with caution. We do not think the increase in inflation is going to be applied across the board. There will be some assets requiring negotiation with…


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Spending On Public Salaries Breaks Records And Reaches Almost 150 Billion Euros

The wage bill of Spanish public administrations exceeded all historical records last year. According to the official INE National Accounts figures published today in the newspaper El Economista, in 2021 the amount of salaries of public sector employees (civil servants along with other categories of public sector staff) plus their payments for social security contributions amounted to 147.363 billion per year. And with inflation soaring, everything points to the fact…


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Núñez-Feijóo Challenges Sánchez

J.P. Marín-Arrese | The new Opposition leader has decided to confront the government on economic policies, which signals a departure from his predecessor’s bitter bickering and acrimony toward Mr Sánchez. Mr Casado practised a scorched earth policy treating the Premier as a mendacious liar, felon and traitor. Such terms of abuse stirred the hearts of hardline supporters but did little to convince mainstream voters of his suitability to govern the…


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Repsol: trading statement for Q1’22 reflects declines in production of 13%, but rises of over 60% in oil prices

Intermoney | After the close of the market on Wednesday, Repsol (REP) published the operating and economic figures from its trading statement for Q1’22. This is ahead of its results due on 28 April. We would highlight: In Upstream: Production in Q1’22 of some 558.000bep/day, which means a 12.6% decline vs Q1’21 and a decrease of 0.6% vs Q4’21. With respect to oil prices, there is a secuential rise in…


Correos

CCOO And UGT Call Strike At Correos For The First Three Days Of June Due To The “Collapse” Of The Service

CCOO and UGT have announced this Tuesday the call for a general strike in Correos for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of June due to the “economic, labour and public service collapse” of the company. They blame this on the “chaotic management and manifest incapacity” of the company’s president, Juan Manuel Serrano, “appointed by the PSOE three years ago”. The unions allege that Correos is on the verge of “technical…


ACS CIMIC

ACS Studies A Takeover Bid For Atlantia

ACS is considering launching an offer to acquire the Italian concessionaire Atlantia, the Spanish company’s partner in Abertis, according to Bloomberg on Wednesday and confirmed late in the afternoon by the Spanish construction company. The group headed by Florentino Pérez has already hired advisors to analyse this operation in which it is considering taking over the Italian company’s motorways jointly with GIP and Brookfield. Atlantia’s capitalisation is close to 15.690…


Endesa

Endesa wins floating solar energy tender for a dam in Portugal; first auction of its kind in the Iberian Peninsula

Alphavalue | Endesa, via its affiliate Endesa Generación Portugal, has won a connection right for 42 MW to install a floating photovoltaic solar energy project in the Portuguese dam Alto do Rabagão. The company said the auction it participated in was the first floating solar energy project for dams in the Iberian Peninsula. The investment required will be 115 million euros, Endesa said. Endesa won the floating solar energy project…