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Opposite Trend In The Stock Market

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The shares of Banco Sabadell, which celebrated the merger with BBVA before being announced, correct today on the stock market when the breakdown took place.

Sabadell has set a first price at 0.33 euros, which represented a fall of 18%. However, as the session progresses, these falls have moderated to around 10%, to 0.35 euros.

For its part, BBVA shares that started the day down, rose 2.6% to 3.86 euros and are the most bullish of the Spanish selective.

Opposite trend in the Stock Market: Sabadell plummets 10% and BBVA rises 2.5%.The banks have not reached any agreement for their merger

The rest of the sector shows a mixed trend. On the one hand, Bankinter and Bankia accompany Sabadell on the side of the falls – although in no case do they reach 1% – while Santander and CaixaBank advance positions.

The Sabadell share had already corrected since it touched 0.45 euros last week. Onur Genç’s statements indicating that they would not buy the Catalan entity at any price punished the price, which yesterday deepened the correction with a decrease of 5%.

Nothing to do with the meteoric rise on Monday 16. Although the negotiations were announced at the close of the market, the entity advanced 24.6%, followed by 6.75% the following day.

In the case of BBVA, the reaction was twofold, to the extent that on Monday the 16th the entity announced the sale of the subsidiary in the US for 9,700 million.

It rose 15.25% that day, but on the following day it corrected 4.4%. However, it has regained ground and closed on Wednesday at levels not recorded since February, when the pandemic began to sink the world stock markets.

Does Madrid Benefit From The Capital Effect

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The low taxation of the Community of Madrid on its transferred taxes has once again sparked controversy these days.

Many politicians accuse the autonomy governed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso of taking advantage of the capital effect to allow themselves to lower taxes, something that other communities cannot do because they lack sufficient muscle.

They are not, like Madrid, fiscally doped, say their detractors. The debate has jumped from downward tax competition to centralism and the centrifugal power of Madrid to attract wealth from other autonomies, which in turn has allowed it to have more resources and exploit its fiscal privileges to have a more lax tax policy, according to critics with the leader of the PP.

It is evident that the economic traction of Madrid is marked by the capital effect. Last year he gave the sorpasso to Catalonia as the first economic engine of Spain.

In recent years, it has shown more dynamism, has attracted more companies, created more jobs and has grown more than the rest. But does the Community of Madrid collect more for having the headquarters of large companies?

Does it affect your accounts that more than half a million government officials are concentrated in your territory, generally with high qualifications and better paid than the private sector average?

Nobody debates that the capital effect, the fact of bringing together the decision centers, gives Madrid an invigorating extra.

There is no economic statistic that does not appear first or, at least, on the podium of the territories with the best evolution.

The political tension in Catalonia has favored him to be better portrayed in the rankings. Although the pro-independence pulse has harmed Catalonia more than it benefited Madrid.

A study by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Daniel Hardy, researchers in Economic Geography at the London School of Economics concludes that “Madrid, although not without problems, has managed to create a more malleable society, which has allowed the creation of a more economically dynamic, more open and more internationally connected ”.

But one thing is the Madrid economy and another is its public finances. Ángel de la Fuente, one of the leading experts in Spain in economic financing , argues that the Madrid institution does not benefit from the capital effect.

“It is true that the fact of being the capital means that it has more company headquarters and more qualified jobs. But that does not give better financing to the autonomous community, nor more room to raise or lower taxes ”.

De la Fuente directs the Foundation for Applied Economics Studies (Fedea), from where he periodically publishes reports on community financing.

He explains that the fact that large companies settle in Madrid does not offer great advantages, because the corporate tax goes directly to the state coffers (something that does not happen in the provincial territories).

The personal income tax of its workers goes to the autonomy where they work. For example, employees of a large company based in Madrid, but assigned to factories or businesses throughout Spain, will pay personal income tax wherever they reside, regardless of the company’s registered office.

VAT and excise duties are distributed based on criteria that combine relevant consumption and equity.

This expert admits that large companies have better paid workers at their headquarters. A circumstance similar to what happens due to the fact that the central government, its ministries and all the large public bodies are in Madrid.

The highest paid public employees and civil servants are in the capital and on average earn more than the private sector. They pay more personal income tax, consume more (VAT) and develop more wealth.

“This does not guarantee better regional financing either,” says De la Fuente. The financing system is complex, not very transparent and generates inequalities, but it seeks to guarantee certain equity.

All the communities contribute 75% of their regulatory collection to the common stock market (calculated as if they did not affect taxes), and although they keep 25%, which could favor Madrid,

De la Fuente provides data: If 100 is the average financing per capita adjusted among all the communities —which take into account aspects such as the school-age population, the degree of aging of the population, geographic dispersion

Madrid would be the territory with the highest fiscal capacity with an index of 132.9, but the reality is that its final financing per adjusted inhabitant stood at 100.7, practically the average.

This expert recalls that the figures are calculated with a model that measures the income that communities would receive without having legislated to lower or raise taxes.

But whenever a territorial debate is opened, different sensitivities and disparity of criteria arise. Francisco Pérez, director of the Valencian Institute for Economic Research (IVIE), thinks the opposite of De la Fuente.

“There is undoubtedly a capital effect from which Madrid benefits,” he explains by phone. Pérez uses a recent study published by the IVIE entitled Madrid: capital, knowledge economy and tax competition to defend his position.

The 196-page document analyzes in detail “the advantages that Madrid obtains in its economic development due to its status as the country’s capital and how these can act to the detriment of equality between regions”.

Pérez insists that the dynamism of Madrid, the leading role of its private sector and the role that the public sector has played in the last decade allow the region to play with a certain advantage.

Remember the importance of the General State Administration being concentrated in Madrid, unlike what happens in Germany or the EU. He gives as an example that more than 60% of State contracts are for Madrid companies, which makes the State Administration a magnet to attract firms to the capital.

The authors of this study, led by Francisco Pérez, analyze the effect of tax competition that, in their opinion, the Community has developed in recent years.

“Madrid stands out as the autonomy that has most used its regulatory capacity in certain taxes to introduce tax benefits, especially in personal income tax, wealth tax and inheritance and gift tax, especially in the last two taxes,” the document states , which calculates in more than 4,100 million the resources that this autonomy has stopped collecting last year due to the tax cuts.

“These tax cuts are easier to assimilate by regional budgets thanks to the dynamism and levels of income and wealth in Madrid,” explains Pérez.

This tax strategy involves “tax competition for the tax bases of other communities, by influencing tax bases such as property, which are more mobile, especially those of taxpayers with higher levels of income and assets.”

Diego Martínez, professor of Economics at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, does not see a clear answer to this debate.

“There is not enough academic evidence to clearly determine that the Community of Madrid has better financing than the rest due to the capital effect,” he says. And remember that in the work on fiscal balances, the incidence method (the one advocated by most academics, but which is reviled in Catalonia) barely shows a positive balance for Madrid

Work Life Balance vs Work Life Integration

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Similar to the millions of people with demanding jobs, the inevitable end of the year exhaustion has hit you. Some relief might have come while looking at best odds and casino games but, at some point everyone needs a break right? Perhaps you are probably thinking, if you compartmentalize better, then you should be able to feel less exhausted as well as have some semblance of balance in your work and personal life.

Sorry to break it to you, but experts are challenging this idea that finding balance lies in the ability to compartmentalize and separate our work and personal lives. Rather, the right way to go about feeling at ease with our responsibilities is to find synergies between what we have to do for work and what we have to do in our personal lives.

The idea is that the moment we falsely think about work and personal life as belonging in separate boxes, a binary of opposition is created which instead of keeping our lives in a cycle that flows and is in flux, conflict and competition is created, making it harder to maintain the balance we are in pursuit of.

Work/Life integration is now being purported as the most effective approach because it brings work and life closer together and it reroutes our mindset away from pursuing an ideal balance between our work demands and personal lives. Here are a few of the tenets of the work/life integration approach and why it is regarded as being more beneficial –

1.     Mindset Shift

Work/life balance suggests that we should be able to rigidly separate our duties and activities into clearly defined time periods. The problem with this is that it is unrealistic. Work/life integration proposes that we move away from trying to attain this rigid ideal and discard the mindset that sees us holding on to a perception of intrusion, which can often lead to frustration. This means that when work obligations, for example, arise while dealing with a personal matter, avoid engaging it as an intrusion, instead make a decision to accept it as the current state of your day and carry on giving focus to what you assess as most important at that point in time.

2.     Less Compartmentalizing

Work/life integration requires a massive shift in our current work structure, no doubt, and for the most part, it will take more than just you or me to have it working as it ought to. But small changes are possible even as we can push for a bigger cultural change. Where work/life balance says group tasks into different rigid boxes and time periods, work/life integration suggests that it is okay to take 5 mins out to schedule that doctor’s appointment, instead of waiting until “after work hours”. Make small manageable changes and open your schedule to more flows and interactions.  

3.     Let Go of Guilt

We are by now very used to following the rigid work/life balance approach so changing gears to an approach that in many ways will see us deprioritizing the importance we commonly ascribe to particular tasks, e.g. work-related obligations, can come with its fair share of guilt. The work/life integration approach can be viewed as more democratic because it beseeches us to move through our day accounting for daily tasks as they come, a far cry from the approach that requires compulsory segmenting which is usually titled in favour of work related tasks.

Many people still swear by the work/life balance approach, and that’s fine but increasingly more people are looking for alternatives to how they can go about feeling a lot less pressured with daily obligations. The work/life integration might just be the right approach, and you won’t know until you try.

How Are Etoros Most Popular Investors Investing In Spain

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World stock markets are experiencing a hectic final stretch of the year. Shaken since March by the coronavirus pandemic, investors have regained faith in the heat of the vaccine news, sparking volatility and creating new trading opportunities, although we already know that past returns do not guarantee future returns.

Pharmaceuticals such as Pfizer or Moderna announced vaccines with an effectiveness greater than 90%, while Astrazeneca lowered this threshold to 70%. And the reading of the markets could not have been more positive.

The prospects of leaving the virus behind and returning to normality and growth are spurring the worst hit sectors, such as banking, tourism or energy. An exit to the upside that investors can take advantage of to look for the expected Santa Claus rally.

Indeed, the best investors continue to make a profit, as reflected by eToro’s ‘popular investors’ , thanks to their knowledge, experience and long-term vision of the markets.

In this sense, ‘copy trading’ is the perfect alternative to take advantage of all that set of tools and experiences that make the most popular investors shine, although it is always important to make well-informed decisions and understand the risk of all operations.

Therefore, the number of followers should not be the only criterion to take into account of a ‘popular investor’. Elements such as understanding the markets, long-term orientation or the use of simple instruments are also important.

In the Spain and Latam region , according to eToro data , the most popular investors are already taking advantage of this market recovery. One of them is MarianoPardo , whose return in November is 11.27%. Check here MarianoPardo’s portfolio.

Despite the complex environment, its overall performance for the year exceeds 60% and is supported by a highly technological portfolio, where the highest positions are for Alphabet , Google’s parent company, with 6.01%, Microsoft ( 6%) or Amazon (5.42%).

Other technology companies are also important for this investor, such as Netflix, Adobe, Alibaba or Apple, although it also incorporated mass consumption companies, such as Coca Cola or Nike .

Another of the most popular investors is Nuria García López (NuriaGL1), whose returns for the year exceed 6.5%. In this case, its portfolio is considerably smaller in terms of the number of securities and has posted positive returns in practically every month of the year (except two). Check here the portfolio of Nuria García López.

The profile is totally different and include increased investments FedEx , with 4.79% inverted, BroadridgeFinancial (3.61%) or Invitae Corp . (3.61%).

With a return on his portfolio of 18.68%, Jordi Barrufet Balcells (ValueFund) also stands out among the most popular investors in Spain . As in the case of Pardo, their investments do have a more technological profile in this case. Check here the portfolio of Jordi Barrufet Balcells.

Thus, the greatest weight in its portfolio is for Facebook (5.31%), followed by Amazon (5.2%) and Tesla (5.2%), although another mass consumer company such as McDonalds also reaches a percentage of the 5.2%.

In addition, Barrufet, living up to his nickname on eToro (ValueFund), has 5.2% of his positions in Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company of billionaire Warren Buffet and the most popular icon of value investing.

In all cases, these are popular investors in Spain with very different approaches to the market. The copy trading strategy allows you to benefit from your decisions, always understanding that they have a risk.

One of the disruptions that eToro and social investing has brought is its Popular Investors (PI) program. Users can register in the program and start trading, so that eToro measures their returns and level of risk and their strategies can be copied by other users of the platform.

This content is for informational purposes only and cannot be considered investment advice or recommendation. Past performance is not an indication of future performance. CFDs are leveraged products and carry great risk to capital.

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Britain’s Disappearing HGV Drivers

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Now more than ever, British businesses have come to rely on an efficient supply chain. The pandemic may have put a dent in consumer spending, but certain goods are still a necessity.

And what forms the backbone of an efficient supply chain? Heavy Goods Vehicle Drivers (HGV) play a pivotal role in the economy and the functioning of society.

HGV training equips aspiring truck drivers with the essential skills and knowledge needed to operate heavy goods vehicles safely and efficiently.

Yet, Britain’s HGV Driver numbers are in decline.

The Crux of the Matter

An aging workforce, low unemployment, and problems attracting skilled younger people to the Heavy-Duty Goods transport (HGV) sector are just some of the factors attributed to the decline in HGV drivers.

The findings published by the Freight Transport Association (FTA), now known as Logistics UK, last year estimates the number of HGV drivers was down by 5% year on year from 2017.

This translates to 59 000 shortages as 64% of storage and transport businesses face severe skills shortages. But it’s not just Britain facing a decline in numbers. The report indicates a 21% HGV driver shortage across Europe.

The Pressure is On

With seasonal demand set to increase over the next two months, fleet managers look set to have their work cut out for them creating a reliable commercial fleet. Time constraints, seasonal pressure, backlogs, and shortage of skilled HGV drivers all add to the pressure.

“A breakdown should be the least of their worries,” says a representative from Fleetcover – the fleet insurance specialists. “We get the tight margins and high turnover, in short, all the dynamics involved in running a logistics business.”

Where to From Here?

Perhaps more tellingly is the age demographics within the HGV industry, where some 60% of drivers are aged 44 and older, with only 19% under the age of 35. Exacerbating the situation is the lack of young people considering HGV driving as a career option to fill the gap by those leaving the industry.

Managing director at Paragon Software Systems, William Salter, asked logistic professionals how best to plug the HGV industry’s skill gaps. And this is what they came up with.

● Address the poor public image of the sector. The industry needs to present itself as innovative and technology-driven to make it more appealing to the younger generation.

● Make logistics financially rewarding. Wages in the logistics industry are simply not good enough to attract younger applicants.

● Create an appealing career path. A framework for the industry needs to be created, which recognises industry standards and qualifications.

● Improve working conditions. Long hours, inflexibility, loneliness, and low pay were all key factors in the decline of ‘new blood’ into the HGV sector. These issues, along with a lack of quality driver facilities, need to be addressed to make the role more appealing to a younger audience. More alarmingly is the stress and risk factors associated with the job.  

● Engagement with the education sector. Engage with Educational facilities to increase the visibility of the range of jobs on offer.

Hope on the Horizon

So, what is the solution? According to industry insiders, increased wages and an overhaul of the HGV industry’s image would go a long way to solving the problem.

Which casino games have the best odds?

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Many people play casino games just for fun. But if you are looking to improve your chances of winning, it is a good idea to understand which casino games have the best odds.

Poker

Poker is one of those games where the odds of winning vary dramatically. Unlike some casino games that are based solely on luck, there is an element of skill involved with playing poker. Random cards are dealt, but how you play those cards determines whether you win or lose a hand. So, poker can potentially have excellent odds, but only if your skills are good. If you want to win a casino poker game, you should ensure you brush up your card-playing skills and poker-face before you begin placing stakes. Also, you should play at a table that meets your budget and skill level, so that you do not get bitten by any card sharks. Whether you are playing at a brick-and-mortar casino or an online casino, as long as you are a good poker player, the return to player can be one of the highest of all casino games. After all, every game of poker must have a winner.

Blackjack

Blackjack’s odds are not too dissimilar to poker because you receive random cards and must use a certain amount of skill in choosing whether to stick or not. The skill level is not as high as poker, though. Also, not every game of blackjack has a winner. The object of the game is to beat the dealer by having a hand that comes the closest to 21 without going bust. The dealer relies on luck just as much as the players, so the odds of either the dealer or the player winning are pretty even. Typically, the advantage to the dealer is about 1%, meaning you have a 49% chance of winning.

Slot Games

Slot games can have good odds, as long as you know what to look for. Most slots have a return to player rate of between 92% and 97%. While you cannot be sure of winning, if you look for a slot game with an RTP of 96% or more, it means there is a higher payback percentage, and you have a better chance of winning.

Roulette

The roulette wheel is synonymous with casinos, and the game offers good odds for players. There are several ways to bet on roulette. You can wager on whether the ball will land on red or black, which gives you odds of 50/50. Alternatively, you can lower your odds but potentially increase your pay-out by betting on specific roulette wheel numbers or ranges of numbers. Although you can use elements of skill in deciding which bets to place, the game itself is random and involves an element of luck. So, the odds for winning at roulette are around 50%.

Craps

You play the table game craps with dice. While one person rolls the dice, the other players make bets on the results of the roll. The odds of winning are nearly 50%. During the first roll of the dice, known as the “coming out”, the shooter wins if the dice tally to seven or eleven. If another number is rolled, that number becomes “the point”, and the shooter needs to hit that point before rolling a seven to win. There are numerous types of bets you can make playing craps, but the simplest is choosing whether a shooter will win or lose the roll. By making more specific wagers, your chances of winning drop but the potential pay-out amount increases.

How to Help Family Abroad Prepare for Emergencies

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There is no doubting the fact that emergencies can happen to anyone, and they don’t always pick the most convenient time to happen either. For example, what would someone do if they encountered an emergency while they were overseas? Well, for one thing, they would probably need to find some financing in a hurry. Luckily for them, there are many methods for sending money overseas that will serve their purpose well for them, especially if you are concerned about family or friends in India. Here are just a few options to consider:

PayPal

PayPal has to be one of the most popular ways to send money internationally. This system will allow you to send money to over 200 countries with the option of at least 25 different currencies. Indeed, there are even some situations where you could even reload a cell phone for someone overseas as well. Naturally, PayPal isn’t a free service. You should be aware of some of the fees of these types of transfers. When it comes to sending money this way to India, you have several options. You could do a bank deposit with these new PayPal funds simply by knowing your recipient’s bank information and the beauty of this method is that they don’t even need to have a PayPal account to accept the funds. You also can arrange for cash pickup with as low as a $2.99 charge, and they can pick it up at a number of different locations throughout India. If you need to calculate the exchange rate, you can just use Xoom’s Fee Calculator.

Wire Transfer

Another way to send money to India would be through a wire transfer. You can do this in just a few easy steps. First of all, you pick out the wire transfer company you want to use, and then you start your transfer. You can pay for the transfer in USD with a credit card or debit card, or you can even consider online banking to send the money if you want.

Compare your rates. Make sure you are dealing with a company that has solid reviews regarding giving their customers a real and fair mid-market exchange rate. After going through this process, your money should be locally delivered to your recipient in India.

Western Union

Another great way to transfer money to India would have to be through Western Union. This tried-and-true method makes the process fairly easy. All you have to do is simply select the amount. Once you have entered in your desired amount, you will have several options for how to get the money there effectively.

How to Accurately Measure the Impact of PR on Your E-Commerce?

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Monitoring your PR performance is the most critical step in measuring how effective your PR strategies are. Measuring your performance requires you to have your business goals in mind because that is the only way to check if the approach you put in place has yielded the desired results.

How can you measure your PR performance?

Through measuring and monitoring your social media platforms

You have been creating lots of content to promote your brand. The main goal for the various communication campaigns was to get your target audience talking about you and the products or services you bring to the table.

That does not end there. You must come back and measure how well received your content was (or not). Was it good enough? Did you connect with your audience? Did it stir up interest in them? Have people been talking? If your content stirs up a conversation, that is a good sign because it means you have grabbed their attention. With a few more cards, you should earn their trust.

The only way to know the impact of your social media PR strategy is by reading the comments of your audience, the number of likes and retweets. All these are a way to measure success or failure in the social media arena.

The traffic on your website

SEO comes in handy. Having all the right keywords positioned correctly on your web page and blog is vital. Your comment section should tell you how you are doing. You might utilize SEO tricks, but if your content is boring you are in for failure.

To understand your performance better, it is essential to look into the demographics in terms of age, gender, location and the device used most in accessing your website. This information will help you confirm which social media platforms add to the traffic. Such tools will help you notice new, returning and existing customers hence making your PR performance crystal clear.

Polling your sample target audience

To measure the impact of Performance PR activity, a market survey comes in handy. To achieve the best results, it is best to survey before and after campaigns. The rationale here is to create awareness and see the perceptions people have of your brand.  

It is vital to conduct the surveys during and after the promotion campaign. By so doing, you will be in a position to check on the impact the campaign had in promoting awareness.

Your backlinks number

As it is, backlinks are the best way to achieve high SEO rankings. They enhance high search engine ranks. With such high ranks, you can rest assured your campaign yielded fruits as more people got a taste of what you can give them. The key thing is to have some relevant and engaging content; otherwise, it might prove difficult to have any backlinks.

Ranking high for transactional keywords

If your keywords don’t rank high, it might affect your website because most of your content will remain inaccessible. It is vital to ensure total and proper usage of keywords because that’s how you increase organic traffic. By continually measuring your keyword rankings, you are able to tell how much traffic your website is going to get based on those keywords’ volumes.

Monitoring the media

It is vital to see how you are doing in the media (on- and offline). It is crucial to know what your target audience thinks of your promotion campaign. By so doing, you will know how your brand is perceived.

To wrap

Your PR impact is vital and must be taken with the seriousness it deserves. By keeping the above strategies in mind, measuring the effect of PR on your e-commerce should be easy.

Garamendi On The Breakup Of BBVA And Sabadell

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BBVA and Banco Sabadell announced earlier this Friday the breakdown of the negotiations started 11 days ago to merge the two entities . Investors have responded to the news with the massive sale of Sabadell shares, after learning that BBVA’s offer was lower than expected by the Catalan bank.

However, the economic world does not consider the operation lost: the president of the CEOE employer, Antonio Garamendi, trusts that the negotiations will return to good course: “There are courtships that are later resumed,” he said in an interview on TVE.

“It has surprised us all”, recognized the leader of the entrepreneurs. “We were entering the church and we had no wedding. But there are courtships that are later resumed ”, he added.

Garamendi recalled that for the economic world and financial institutions “these mergers are on the right track”, referring to the numerous calls from national and European institutions to reduce the overcapacity of the banking system to create more solid entities.

In October, the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, insisted that “greater digitization and consolidation, national or cross-border, would strengthen the banks in the euro zone.”

Weeks before, after knowing the merger negotiations between Bankia and CaixaBank, the Governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos, emphasized the need to reduce the number of entities to face the low profitability of the sector.

The CEOE chairman has avoided speculating on the reasons for the breakdown between Sabadell and BBVA, but he has recalled the importance that shareholders play in these merger processes.

“It seems that it has been due to a problem in the exchange and in the valuation of the shareholders. It is true that, regardless of management, the shareholders are in the bank and they have to be watched over ”.

But the most anticipated response of the day was that of the markets, which inflated the price of the two entities after the start of the negotiations. The Sabadell, which had seen its stock market value skyrocket by 32% in recent days, dropped 18% this Friday after the opening of the Ibex, a fall that moderated throughout the morning until falling around 13 %.

However, BBVA, which had recorded 19% in the same period , has responded well to the news of the suspension of the talks, gaining 2.6% on the Stock Market, ranking as the second fastest growing value in the world. Spanish index.

The Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Reyes Maroto, has also spoken, who has indicated that “he could not say” if the breakdown of the talks between BBVA and Sabadell for their merger is “good or bad news”.

But he has insisted on the need for Spain to have a solvent financial system, unlike what happened in the 2008 crisis. “Anything that strengthens the financial system is good.

The more robust the financial system, the better it will be for Spain ”, he told RNE. In any case, Maroto has stressed that the Spanish financial system is “one of the best in the world” and has valued the response and “great responsibility” that banking has shown in the health crisis, by putting itself at the service of society and help save businesses and jobs.

BBVA And Sabadell Break Their Merger Accomodations

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11 days after BBVA and Sabadell announced that they were opening official talks to merge, the two entities have broken the negotiations that were held until the early hours of this Friday.

The reaction of the Stock Exchange has been clear at the opening of the day: the Sabadell has set a first price at 0.33 euros, which represents a fall of 18% while it was inhibited from trading. After starting to fluctuate , it was down 12% .

For their part, BBVA shares started falling, but soon turned green with a rise of 2% , to 3.84 euros.

Without reaching the end of the technical analysis ( due diligence) , Sabadell considered that the price that BBVA was willing to pay did not value the potential of its business and the loss of independence that the sale entailed.

“Banco Sabadell has decided to end these talks as the parties have not reached an agreement on the eventual exchange ratio of the shares of both entities,” as the bank notified the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) this Friday .

For its part, BBVA has also informed the CNMV that “the talks related to a potential merger operation with Banco Sabadell have concluded without an agreement having been reached”, without giving further details.

After these two announcements, which will have deeply displeased supervisors who see mergers as a way to strengthen banks in the face of the crisis, now the key is the reaction of the markets.

The Sabadell has risen 32% since the announcement of the talks, although it started from very low prices. BBVA has risen 19% in this same period.

The valuation differences between the two banks were very relevant. BBVA had planned to make the payment through an exchange of shares, so it is likely that the president of Sabadell, Josep Oliu, would have demanded a vice-presidency and Carlos Torres, the head of BBVA, would have refused.

Financial sources commented this Thursday afternoon on the serious differences and mutual distrust that had arisen in the talks, to the point that they could end in rupture.

Regarding the vice-presidency of Oliu, these sources indicated that Torres did not want to introduce the rival executive due to the uncertainty that exists over the BBVA-Villarejo case . If Torres were to be imputed by the National Court and had to give up the presidency, it could end up in the hands of Oliu.

Sabadell assumes the rupture saying that the bank “will develop a new business plan that will prioritize the domestic market as a formula to increase efficiency in the use of the Group’s capital and resources, thus increasing profitability and creating value for shareholders. ”.

As for BBVA, if Sabadell’s plan did not come out, analysts believe that it could carry out a buyback of its own shares to boost the price, as well as expand its presence in the capital of Garanti, its Turkish subsidiary, of which it controls 40 %. However, this option would increase risk in a very geopolitically unstable region.

The Bank of Spain warned of this danger a few weeks ago, which is why it was more in favor of the merger with Sabadell. It should not be forgotten that the CEO, Onur Genç, is Turkish and held this position at Garanti.

In this return to the origins, Sabadell insists in the note that “without prejudice to the fact that the main axes and objectives of the plan will be made public during the first quarter of 2021, Banco de Sabadell is in a position to anticipate that it will contemplate.

Among other measures, the expansion of the efficiency and transformation program in the retail market ( retail banking) in Spain ―with a neutral impact on capital― and will analyze with its advisors strategic alternatives for creating value with respect to the Group’s international assets, including TSB “.

In an act of realism, Sabadell admits the poor future of TSB, which has had serious computer problems that led to the temporary blocking of accounts. Additionally, UK regulatory requirements have delayed the bank’s return to profits. The market values ​​this entity at zero.

Finally, Sabadell claims to have “a solid franchise in Spain and is the leader in the customer satisfaction index in the SME segment”.

The Catalan entity announces that it will focus “on these segments with the highest added value and profitability” and that it will implement its new plan “improving both its efficiency and the organic generation of capital”. The market will be the one to judge the consequences of this divorce.

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