Doors to the countryside
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 01/04/15. “Better, faster and cheaper than a taxi.” This is how Uber describes itself, a company dedicated to the transportation of individuals in cities that provides its services through a mobile application and that has just temporarily closed its services […]
Time to buy a home?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 12/28/14. One of the recurring questions I am often asked is when will be the time to invest again in purchasing homes. Even after the crisis, Spain is a country of owners. 70% of Spaniards own an apartment, […]
The bubbles start to burst
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 12/21/14. I commented a little over a year ago that, when we had not yet emerged from the crisis caused by the last financial bubble, the bursting of others was already on the horizon. The reaction of the authorities to the outbreak of the […]
tail wind
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 12/14/14. The economic situation has a habit of chaining together negative news in contexts of crisis and positive news in times of recovery, and it seems that this situation is reproduced again. If at the beginning of the crisis one bad news was followed by another […]
A Nobel Prize for the intelligent regulation of markets
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 10/26/14. The Frenchman Jean Tirole has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics thanks to his work related to industrial organization, the market power of companies and regulation. Tirole is the eighth most economics researcher […]
Sell in 2014, save in 2015
Article by Federico González Aledo, published in Diario de Avisos on 09/21/14. The Spanish market is awakening, after a long and tortuous passage through the economic crisis, to investment. The Ibex has recovered 2010 levels, sovereign debt is trading at historic lows and housing is once again presented as an investment opportunity […]
WAITING FOR THE EPA
Article published by José Alberto León in Diario de Avisos on 07/13/14. The number of affiliates to Social Security (S.S.) in the month of June 2014 in the Canary Islands increased by 1,106 people compared to the previous month, and by 21,925 people if compared to the month of June 2013, reaching […]
EPA HAMMER
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 05/04/14. Despite rumors that in the first quarter of 2014, a seasonally negative period for the labor market, positive interannual job creation rates would be seen in Spain for the first time since the beginning of the crisis, the […]
INDEXED FUNDS OR ETFs?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 05/18/14. I have already mentioned on several occasions that, for a small investor, the best way to save is to invest in stocks linked to a stock index (what in the jargon is known as “index funds” or “passively managed”). This method of […]
DEFLATION?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 04/13/2014. Inflation in the euro zone in the month of March has been reduced to 0.5%, while in Spain the leading CPI indicator places its annual variation at –0.2%. These figures have alarmed economic institutions, considering […]
