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  • Tensions simmer over eurozone QE as investors buy up Spanish debt

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/01/22 Investors piled into peripheral eurozone deficit yesterday ahead of the European Central Bank’s widely expected launch of large-scale bond purchases, even as political resentment mounted over German attempts to water down the programme. Spain made one of its major ever bond sales at a record low rate, drawing investor orders of close to €23bn from around the world. Last year, Spain paid close to 4 % to borrow money for 10 years: yesterday it paid 1.66 %.  
  • New capital goals and Santander share sale heap pressure on Europe’s banks

    SPAIN, 2015/01/13 The biggest eurozone banks have come under renewed pressure to raise additional capital next the European Central Bank set new individual targets and Spain’s Santander responded by selling €7.5bn of shares last week. The ECB, which took over regulation of the eurozone’s 130 biggest banks from national supervisors in November, has given lenders until the end of this week to appeal against the capital ratios it believes they need. The banks have been informed over the completed month of updated ratio targets, which reflect mounting regulatory pressure for them to strengthen capital levels.
  • Goldman Sachs to advise Spain on Bankia stake sale

    SPAIN, 2014/02/15 Spain's bank rescue fund FROB said on Friday it chose Goldman Sachs to advise it on the sale of part of the government's controlling stake in nationalised lender Bankia. The government is taking steps to start selling part of its 68 % holding in Bankia, but will maintain control. Economy Minister Luis de Guindos told Reuters this week that small stakes could be sold during the year before a bigger sale in the medium-term. Bankia was Spain's biggest bailed-out bank, at the height of a deep financial crisis that almost sent the country into default, and new private investment in the lender will help cement a Spanish financial and economic turnaround.
  • The Spanish government believes that employment levels will rise

    SPAIN, 2014/01/05 The Spanish government believes that employment levels will rise additional than was predicted in November, said Economy Minister Luis de Guindos on Thursday. The minister as well noted that banks were expected to increase access to credit. De Guindos told Cadena Ser that employment levels would rise ''significantly''. There are currently 4.8 million jobless in Spain and the government had indicated at the time of drawing up the budget that some 20,000 new jobs would be created, but the minister said that the actual figure would be much higher. De Guindos as well said that labour reform had been completed with the measures adopted in December, inclunding the simplification of administrative procedures for contractual models and flexibility for part-time contracts.
  • Over 90% of public aid to financial sector in Spain

    SPAIN, 2013/09/11
  • Spain Requests EU To Relax 2013 Deficit Target

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2013/03/29 Spain's government requested the European Union to relax its deficit target for 2013 to 6 % of gross domestic product compared to the previous goal of 4.5 %, El Pais reported Friday.
  • Bankia opens -20% on IBEX

    SPAIN, 2013/01/01 Shares in Bankia SA, the bailed-out Spanish bank, opened -20% on Friday, while a possible January 2 delisting is in the works as of last night. Bankia lost almost a fifth of its price Thursday next officials with the country's bank bailout fund said the nationalized lender was worth -4.2 billion euros.
  • Spain Oct. Inflation Unchanged At 3.5% 2012-10-31

    SPAIN, 2012/10/31 更多  
  • Spanish Borrowing Costs Ease On ECB Intervention Hopes 2012-08-22

    SPAIN, 2012/08/22
  • S&P affirms Spain credit rating, cautious on outlook 2012-08-02

    SPAIN, 2012/08/02