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In 2022 all households had to allocate a greater percentage of their income to paying their electricity and gas bills. However, the additional effort required to pay for energy consumption was not the same for everyone. In this article, we estimate that effort based on internal CaixaBank data.

We analyse the support measures for households, the productive sector and those aimed at reducing electricity bills designed by the Spanish government to alleviate the effects of high inflation in 2023.

The major changes in relations between blocs that are taking place in 2022 are driving profound structural transformations in areas such as technology, defence and energy policy. Furthermore, gas, a key component of the energy transition, has recently become a political weapon, putting the many countries and industries that rely on this energy source on high alert.

We describe where the Spanish housing market currently lies using the "real estate clock”, a tool which shows how house prices and sales in Spain evolve over the course of the cycle. 

Since its implementation on 15 June, the so-called Iberian «gas cap» mechanism has brought about a major shift in the way the Spanish electricity system operates. In this article we analyse the effect it has had on electricity prices and some externalities it has introduced.

The tightening shift in the Fed’s monetary policy in an attempt to combat inflation already seems to be having a negative impact on the country’s real estate sector. The key question here is: will we see a controlled slowdown or will it be a hard landing?