Business

05/19/2015, 12:15 Time
Jose A. Martin

April 2015: annual inflation at 0.0% in the euro area

Also at 0.0% in the EU

USPA NEWS - Euro area annual inflation was 0.0% in April 2015, up from -0.1% in March. In April 2014 the rate was 0.7%. Eur...

05/18/2015, 17:37 Time
Jose A. Martin

European Commission approves acquisition of TSB by Sabadell

A spin-off of Lloyds Banking Group

USPA NEWS - The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of TSB Banking Group plc, a...

05/05/2015, 16:04 Time
Jose A. Martin

BBVA changes its structure to accelerate transformation and boost results

Carlos Torres Vila, new dolphin

USPA NEWS - The Board of Directors of BBVA named Carlos Torres Vila president & COO at a meeting held Tuesday in Madrid, re...

05/05/2015, 15:54 Time
Jose A. Martin

Recorded unemployed fell by 118,923 in April in Spain

The historic largest decline

USPA NEWS - The number of recorded unemployed at the Spanish Public Employment Services fell by 118,923 in April. This is t...

05/03/2015, 11:11 Time
Jose A. Martin

Banco Santander made a profit EUR 1.717 billion, 32% more than a year earlier

First quarter 2015 results

USPA NEWS - Banco Santander made attributable profit of EUR 1,717 million in the first quarter, 32% more than the same peri...

05/02/2015, 11:01 Time
Jose A. Martin

Spain mobilizes for employment

Labor Day

USPA NEWS - The two main unions in Spain, UGT and Comisiones Obreras (CCOO its acronym in Spanish) held May 1 the Internati...

04/30/2015, 11:38 Time
David Franciamore

FIAT CRYSLER RETURNS TO $101.2M PROFIT IN Q1

PROMISES THAT PROFIT MARGINS TO IMPROVE

USPA NEWS - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles promised investors Wednesday that its profit margins will improve this year in North ...

04/30/2015, 11:00 Time
David Franciamore

ITALIAN UNEMPLOYMENT CLIMBS TO 13%

THE RATE RISES TO 43% FOR THE YOUNGER

USPA NEWS - Italy's unemployment rate climbed to 13% in March, up 0.2 of a percentage point on February, according to prel...

04/30/2015, 09:08 Time
Jose A. Martin

BBVA earns €1.54 billion in the first quarter

Gross income increased 16.2%

USPA NEWS - BBVA posted a net attributable profit of €1.54 billion between January and March of 2015, up 146.2% from a ye...

04/29/2015, 21:43 Time
David Franciamore

GOPRO EARNINGS CLIMB IN FIRST QUARTER

$363 MILLION IN REVENUE

USPA NEWS - Shares of GoPro jumped 13% in morning trading after the high-definition camera maker reported first quarter res...

04/29/2015, 21:38 Time
David Franciamore

TWITTER SLIDE CONTINUES AFTER PLUNGE ON TUESDAY

DISAPPOINTING FIRST QUARTER

USPA NEWS - Shares of Twitter sunk for a second day after the social network disappointed Wall Street with its first quarte...

04/27/2015, 19:59 Time
Ekkehard Boldt

Financial Integration in Europe 2015

€ area improved

USPA NEWS - Financial integration in the euro area has improved steadily and has reached a level close to that before the ...

04/27/2015, 17:15 Time
Jose A. Martin

Almost 10 million part-time workers in the EU would have preferred to work more

Two-thirds were women

USPA NEWS - Among the 44.1 million persons in the European Union (EU) working part-time in 2014, 9.8 million were underempl...

04/23/2015, 11:53 Time
Jose A. Martin

Brazil and Spain seek to double trade exchanges and bilateral investment

In ten years

USPA NEWS - The Vice-President of the Republic of Brazil, Michel Temer, and the Minister for Economic Affairs and Competiti...

04/22/2015, 11:48 Time
Jose A. Martin

Unemployment rates fell in the majority of the EU regions

34.8% in Andalusia

USPA NEWS - Just over half of the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union recorded a decrease of at least 0.5 percentage point...

04/21/2015, 12:20 Time
Jose A. Martin

Export Activity of Spain reached the highest level since 2007

More optimistic perception of companies

USPA NEWS - The Synthetic Index of Export Activity of Spain (ISAE its acronym in Spanish) stood at +25.9 points in the firs...

04/20/2015, 18:14 Time
Jose A. Martin

SMEs stand to make significant gains from the TTIP between the EU and the US

New round of negotiations

USPA NEWS - Two days after the celebration in Europe of demonstrations against the TTIP, the European Commission -taking ad...

04/15/2015, 16:23 Time
Jose A. Martin

The European Commission accuses Google of abusing its dominant position

It could punish 6,000 million euros

USPA NEWS - The European Commission has formally accused the Google search engine for abusing its dominant market position,...

04/12/2015, 16:29 Time
Jose A. Martin

Spain, confirmed as a founding member of AIIB

It will have 41 members

USPA NEWS - The Chinese Ministry of Finance confirmed this weekend Spain joined as a founding member of ADB Investment in I...

04/07/2015, 17:20 Time
Jose A. Martin

The Spanish Stock Exchange traded €85.6 bn. in March

The best month of March since 2008

USPA NEWS - The equity trading volume on the Spanish Stock Exchange in March was €85.6 billion, up 32% year on year, repr...

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