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Foreign currency adjusted weekly credit growth has been decelerating since the start of April; and turned into negative weekly growth with -0.22% in the week ending by April 19th, due to both commercial and consumer credits of public banks.
Credit expansion has consolidated several months of timid growth and decreases, explained by supply and demand factors. Strengthening the payment capacity of households and companies, in a scenario of accelerating economic activity, will be key to reactivate the demand for credit.
In this publication you will find, on a weekly basis, our selection of the most relevant news regarding financial regulation.
Despite the quarter's negative seasonality, both the number of jobs (up 0.5% quarterly CVEC) and hours worked (up 0.3%) increased. Furthermore, the rate of temporary employment and the unemployment rate both fell (to 16.1% and 11.7% CVEC, respectively).
The CBRT kept the policy rate constant at 50% in line with market expectations. We expect the CBRT to remain tight for longer on high inflation expectations, which would start a sustained path to unwind current regulations and exit from the FC protected scheme to strengthen the monetary transmission mechanism.
This Observatory evaluates the factors that explain the cyclical behavior of GDP in Spain, full-time equivalent employment and productivity up to 4Q2023.