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The Spanish economy continues to advance at a dynamic pace, maintaining relatively high growth both from a historical perspective and in comparison with most developed economies. On the international stage, the economy is showing resilience as the effects of two major opposing forces – geopolitics and artificial intelligence – fully manifest. The optimism surrounding AI in the US stock market and its comparison with the dot-com bubble is one of the topics analysed this month, as well as the reasons why housing is one of the main concerns of European citizens. In Spain, we also address the Treasury’s funding needs and the relationship between company size or job tenure and wage incomes using anonymised internal data.
We are living increasingly longer and healthier lives – excellent news for all of us. However, this longevity, combined with a persistently low birth rate, is reconfiguring the demographic structure of our societies. In our latest Dossier, we analyse this important demographic shift, as well as its impact on growth, public finances, and savings and interest rates. We also analyse in depth other topical issues, such as the adjustment of the ECB’s monetary policy strategy and operational framework, the European Union’s 2025-2028 budget and the feasibility of it increasing defence spending to 5% of GDP. In the sphere of the Spanish economy, we lay out the causes of departures from employment and the evolution of the incomes of the middle class in recent years.
After a year in which demand for housing exceeded all expectations, in 2023 we predict that the number of sales will adjust significantly, mainly due to the impact of higher interest rates. House prices, which tend to respond rather slowly to any fall in demand, will slow markedly although we expect them to maintain a slightly positive growth rate in 2023 (albeit adjusting in real terms due to high inflation). The supply of housing, which is insufficient to meet structural demand due to the creation of new households, will remain very limited as a result of the economic slowdown, high construction costs and waning demand.
The pandemic has inevitably brought about major changes in our consumption habits. Faced with the impossibility of going to a store in person, online shopping channels have gained a lot of share in 2020. According to an analysis of CaixaBank’s internal data, this growth has not only been significant but also widespread among companies of different sizes and sectors, and has encouraged many of them to use e-commerce as a sales channel for the very first time.
Spain’s real estate market started to slow down by mid-2022 with the change in monetary policy. For the time being, and despite the fact that the ECB has already raised its benchmark interest rates by 4 bp, the pace of this slowdown is proving to be gentler than anticipated, leading us to improve our forecasts for the sector in 2023. However, looking ahead to the coming quarters, we still expect a marked dip in the number of sales from the high figures recorded in 2022 as well as a slowdown in house price growth, especially in 2024, within the context of higher interest rates for longer. Nevertheless, there are several factors that will continue to support the sector and make a sharp correction such as the one seen in 2008-2013 unlikely, including a resilient labour market and significant inflows of immigrants.
Tuesday saw another volatile session in the financial markets. Risk appetite rebounded from the Asian session on hopes of Trump's willingness to negotiate tariffs with some partners, which extended into the European session and the start of the US session. Asian and european stocks rose and while eurozone government bond yields rose slightly.
On Thursday, in the last session before the Easter holidays, stock markets posted gains both in the U.S. (S&P 500 +1.4%) and in Europe (Eurostoxx 50 +0.9%). Yesterday, European stock markets were still closed but U.S. markets opened back with losses (S&P 500 -2.2%).
Jornada de apetito por el riesgo en los mercados europeos. La consecución ayer de un acuerdo entre las autoridades europeas y el Gobierno griego para desbloquear 10.000 millones de euros del tercer rescate heleno fue el principal catalizador de esta dinámica constructiva.
Las bolsas europeas vuelven a frenarse a pesar de las mejores previsiones de crecimiento de la Comisión Europea para la eurozona, pero con un decepcionante dato de pedidos de fábrica en Alemania.
Las bolsas europeas han registrado ligeras caídas ante la reunión del BCE de este próximo jueves. Se espera que el banco central no anuncie medidas de estímulo adicionales tras conocerse la mejoría delas condiciones de crédito en la eurozona. En España, el Ibex35 ha sufrido un mayor ajuste (-1,05%) que sus homólogos europeos por los informes de analistas que han avanzado cierto pesimismo sobre la campaña de resultados de la banca, que comienza hoy.
Markets continued to exhibit a mixed performance as investors weighed data releases and increasing COVID-19 infections. European stocks and sovereign yields declined after euro area industrial production had posted a lower-than-expected rebound in May (+12.4% mom and -20.9% yoy). Yet, in FX markets the euro rose towards $1.14.
A week-long losing streak in global stock markets ceased on Friday as better than expected earnings results outweighed a worsening of coronavirus cases in the US and Europe. In Europe, the Eurostoxx50 ended the session 1.7% higher despite new coronavirus retrictions in some cities, while the S&P 500 edged up very slightly.
In the last session of the week, inflation and GDP releases centered the stage in European trading floors. HICP inflation for October surprised on the upside in most euro area countries as well as Q3 GDP figures for Germany (+0.2 q/q instead of the expected contraction). Today aggregated figures for the euro area will be released.
En 2025, el yen se depreció de forma sostenida frente al euro, pese a las políticas restrictivas del Banco de Japón y las políticas ligeramente expansivas del BCE. Esto se debe a varios motivos: el diferencial de tipos todavía negativo, la incertidumbre política y fiscal de Japón o la debilidad estructural del país nipón, que depende en exceso de importaciones de energía y otras materias primas. Esta dinámica se ha moderado a inicios de este año, en parte afectada por las especulaciones de una intervención coordinada entre Estados Unidos y Japón sobre el yen y el giro en el panorama político.