Bankinter | The authorities are considering injecting capital into large state-owned banks to the tune of up to $142.39 billion (1 trillion yuan). This operation would be financed through the issuance of special sovereign bonds and would be the first time they inject capital into state-owned banks since 2008. Opinion of Bankinter’s analysis team: It is included in the battery of measures presented this week by the government and the...

Renta 4 | The textile company will launch its Zara Streaming channel on 25 September. Zara began selling clothes via live or streaming internet broadcasts in November 2023 in China. Inditex announced in the presentation of 2Q24 results that it would extend streaming sales to the main European markets in the same month of September. For its launch in Europe, Inditex will count on the participation of the models Cindy...

J. P. Marín-Arrese | Jerome Powell boasts having curbed the recent inflation flare through resolute tightening of monetary policy.  While the need to perform rate hikes seems obvious, it seems far from evident it stood as the paramount driving force. For, as is now clear, the Fed delivered negative rates throughout the inflationary bout and only undertook lukewarm efforts to drain the excess liquidity fearing the danger of a credit-crunch....

The Fed has lowered interest rates by 0.5 points, thus aligning with the market, which anticipated a roughly 70% probability of a 50 basis point cut. As a financial institution noted this morning, “the risk for credit markets is that a 50 basis point cut may be interpreted as an emergency measure. Consequently, the gradual approach and soft landing that have benefited this type of asset could be disrupted. On...

Banca March: In the US, industrial production costs rose slightly more than expected on a monthly basis, limiting the possibility of a 50 b.p. cut by the Fed next week. On a month-on-month basis, producer prices rose by 0.2% in August, one tenth of a percentage point higher than expected and two tenths of a percentage point higher than in July. Similarly, if we exclude the more volatile components such...

Link Securities | The company has been awarded, through its subsidiaries OHLA Building and OHLA USA, two new projects in the US for a combined value of $350 million (about €330 million), according to the portal Bolsamania.com. The largest contract, valued at $228 million (around €214 million) and awarded to OHLA Building, includes the design and construction of new facilities for the correctional and rehabilitation centre in Miami-Dade County, Florida.