Link Securities | Repsol has strengthened its offensive in the US to boost its natural gas output. According to sources consulted by el Economista.es, the group has reached an agreement with Australia’s Santos-Oil Search to take a 49% stake in a total of 46 exploration blocks in Alaska. At the same time, the Spanish oil and gas company has acquired a mining area from Abarta in the Marcellus basin and…
Fernando González Urbaneja | We are learning in these uncertain times that it is all bulls up to the tail, that the electoral results are those that are certified by the bodies in charge of controlling the votes. And that often takes time. In Brazil, the electronic system made it possible to verify Lula’s victory on election night itself, albeit by a very small margin, but enough to avoid any…
IEA (*) | The global energy crisis, which will weigh heavily on negotiations at the COP27 Climate Change Conference that starts next week in Egypt, is also undermining efforts to ensure universal access to secure affordable energy, especially in the developing world where populations without access to electricity are once again growing. According to the latest IEA data, the number of people around the world who live without electricity is…
Matt Christensen (Allianz GI) | The COP27 climate summit takes place in Egypt in November, providing a check-in on global progress towards net zero in a year dominated by economic and geopolitical pressures. There are reasons to be optimistic. • The focus of this year’s COP27 is on “delivery” after an eventful year that has also revealed the flaws in our existing energy mix• The financial sector will be in…
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the second round of the presidential elections in Brazil on Sunday with 50.84% of the votes, compared to 49.16% for the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, with 99.10% of the ballot boxes counted. The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), who governed between 2003 and 2010, will once again occupy the presidency of an extremely divided Brazil from 1 January 2023 and for…
Norbolsa | ACS has reached an agreement with Clal Insurance via its subsidiary Iridium for the purchase of an additional 12.11% in the toll motorway concession SH288 in Texas. The cost is approximately 250 million euros. With this deal, the Spanish group strengthens its position as core shareholder in the motorway, now holding 78.38% of the capital invested in the project. This includes the financing, design, construction and operation of…
Link Securities | Iberdrola, via its susidiary Avangrid, Acciona, Ferrovial and EDPR will compete for some of the five areas which will be up for auction in California to install offshore floating wind turbines. This will be the first offshore wind energy auction on the west coast of the US, as well as the first the country will carry out to support the potential development of offshore floating wind energy on…
Allianz GI | The market reaction to the conclusion of China’s Party Congress is telling. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (a gauge of key China stocks listed in Hong Kong) fell more than 7% on the first day of trading after the Congress. The CSI 300 (onshore China’s equivalent of the S&P 500) as well as the broader Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges saw a far more muted reaction.1…
Link Securities | Siemens Gamesa has signed two agreements with Hai Long Offshore Wind Project to supply wind turbines for three offshore wind projects in Taiwan, totalling 1.044 MW. This is the manufacturer’s biggest contract for this technology in the country, according to Europa Press. The agreements are specifically for the Hai Long 2A (300 MW), Hai Long 2B (232 MW) and Hai Long 3 (512 MW) projects and will use…
Renta 4 | Grifols would be facing a class action on the part of 54.000 donors in the state of Illinois, in the United States. The plaintiffs are arguing that Grifols has not complied with the state’s Biometric Privacy Law, since they have demanded that donors provide their fingerprints, not destroy this information and exceed the specific objective for which it was registered. According to the plaintiffs this violated their…