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January 10, 2025
Formal bank commitments to net-zero are facing challenges amid shifting policy perspectives. However, its economic rationale is very much alive for banks seeking (i) growth in green sectors, (ii) strategic alignment with regulatory changes and (iii) helping clients adapt through specialization.
January 2, 2025
President-elect Trump has threatened mass deportations and greater border securitization, which could affect remittances to Mexico and LAC. However, it is a very unlikely scenario because it would affect the U.S. economy that depends on migrant labor force and increase inflation in that country.
December 23, 2024
With 30 editions already published, the BBVA Regional Economic Yearbook is the most detailed and complete report on the economy of the regions of Catalonia. Online access through a digital portal is a new feature this year. The increase in Catalonia’s GVA in 2023 (2.9%) has already brought it back to pre-pandemic levels.
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January 14, 2025
This aligns with market expectations, as outlined by BBVA (2.8%) and REM-BCRA (2.7%), and reflects a slight increase from November's rate of 2.4%. Consequently, the average price increase in the final quarter of the year was 2.6% MoM.
January 14, 2025
Formal employment closed the year with an annual variation of 1.0%, well below expectations and the average of the last three years. Sectors such as manufacturing and construction performed poorly or negatively, playing key roles in this sharp slowdown.
January 13, 2025
The Big Data Private Consumption Index continued to decelerate its year-over-year growth, registering 6.4% in December. This slowdown reflects the waning impact of pension fund withdrawals by households, which had provided a temporary boost through October.
January 13, 2025
Despite the high GDP growth rate of the Spanish economy (3.1% forecast for 2024) and a buoyant employment outlook (2.4% year-on-year growth in Social Security affiliation in December), the pension system has not yet managed to reduce its high structural deficit.
January 13, 2025
Reality is a stubborn beast. 2024 turned out to be yet another year in which greenhouse gas emissions grew globally (2% according to Global Carbon Budget 2024), with energy efficiency gains or the penetration of renewables in the energy mix failing to counter the effect of increased economic activity.
