Business News & Financial News

Spanish economy 24th September 2026

New Record: 50.4% of the Spanish Stock Market is Owned by Foreign Investors

International investors consolidate their position as the largest owners of the Spanish stock market, reaching a new historic high, while retail households regain part of their lost ground. These are some of the main conclusions of the BME Report on the Ownership of Listed Spanish Shares, prepared by the BME Research Department using data as of year-end 2025 and, for institutional investment, as of June 2026. The stake of international…

In Europe 21st September 2026

AfD Also Prevails in Mecklenburg, Where the CDU Is Left Out of the Regional Parliament

The CDU falls by 8.2 points in Berlin and nearly eight in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where it is reduced to 4.9% and obtains the worst regional result in its history. By failing to clear the electoral threshold, this will mark the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic that it is left out of a regional parliament. Alice Weidel’s prophecy is beginning to come true. Following the victory of…

World economy 17th September 2026

Fed raises interest rates by 0.25 percentage points.

Francisco Uría (Spanish Institute of Analysts).At the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held on September 15–16, 2026, it was decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%–4.00%. The decision was adopted unanimously, with a vote of 12 in favor and zero against. This marks the Federal Reserve’s first rate hike since July 2023, and the first decided since…

rosa garcia consejera caixabank acerinox ence

“Many companies complicate CSRD implementation more than necessary”

Rosa Mª García Piñeiro, board member at Caixabank, Acerinox, and Ence—serving as chair of the sustainability committee for the latter two and as a committee member at Caixabank—explains that “the directive does not set the materiality threshold. The company decides it based on its own criteria. There is nothing in the legislation that prescribes what is material and what is not. The auditor-verifier may have one opinion, the company may…

“We are one of Europe’s leading R&D investors: €1.45 billion last year”

“We need to approach negotiations with the U.S. on terms that are completely different from those currently being proposed”

Says Antonio Bonet, president of the Club of Spanish Exporters and Investors. He points out that “Europe has a single tariff applied by all member states, but the U.S. applies a tariff to each country, meaning it can decide that the tariff applied to Spanish black olives is higher than that for Italian olives, as it did at one point. So there is a part of the negotiation between Europe…

…in the last week