Search results
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.
Beatriz is an economist at the International Economics & Markets Department. She has a degree in Economics from Universidad San Pablo CEU, a postgraduate degree in Market Research and doctorate studies in Applied Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. With 18 years' experience in the financial sector, before joining CaixaBank she worked in sales trading and bond analysis and strategy at Ahorro Corporación. Her main areas of expertise are global financial markets, particularly bonds and equity.
Mar is a Data Scientist in the Bank Strategy Department. A graduate in Physics and with a PhD in Remote Sensing, after a few years of postdoctorate work she joined the team of data scientists at KDP (a joint venture between AIA and CaixaBank), where she worked for 2 years as an external Consultant for CaixaBank, before joining CaixaBank Research.
The Trump administration’s announcements of tariff hikes have raised the effective average US tariff on imports to its highest level in a century. Although the decision has been suspended for 90 days, with the exception of China, it reflects the destabilising potential of the measures announced and has triggered fears of a further slowdown in the global economy.