http://en.elconfidencial.com en.elConfidencial.com - The influential newspaper in Spain en-us http://en.elconfidencial.com/images/logo_couk.gif http://en.elconfidencial.com Wed Oct 17 12:00:08 UTC+0200 2012 Carlos Sánchez.- The statistics give a clear picture: these are bad times for Spain’s industrial sector and things are not getting better. The figures don’t reflect the prevailing economic situation at a specific ... Carlos Sánchez E. S. / M. L..- From the Moncloa, the headquarter of the Spanish government, pressure is increasing on the major Spanish banks, following their initial rejection, to participate with capital in the ‘bad bank,’ ... E. S. / M. L. Eduardo Segovia.- The fiscal amnesty launched by the Spanish government in order to regulate capital gains hidden from the tax authorities will have a paradoxical result. It will be successful when it comes to the capital that will ... Eduardo Segovia Eduardo Segovia.- ·Credit flow is like the circulatory system in a human body; one can be doing very well, but if the blood is not flowing, there is a problem,” Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in an interview ... Eduardo Segovia Eduardo Segovia.- The Spanish government will not only benefit from the new bond purchase program, announced by the European Central Bank on Thursday – known as the outright monetary transactions, OMT. ... Eduardo Segovia Eduardo Segovia.- The Spanish government’s plan for the so called ‘bad bank’ to attract a majority of its capital from private investors seems to be running into trouble already.  ... Eduardo Segovia Marcos Lamelas.- The US casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands, holds an extra board meeting for two day on Thursday and Friday in Nevada to decide whether Eurovegas, a huge hotel and casino complex, will be placed ... Marcos Lamelas Eduardo Segovia.- The Spanish central bank is experiencing an escape by its most valuable assets, its servants, which has accelerated over the last weeks. More than 20 have left since the beginning of the year, which is about 10 percent ... Eduardo Segovia Eduardo Segovia.- In the second quarter of the year, Spain’s economy shrunk by 1.3 percent year on year. However, these may not be the most negative numbers. In a year, about 801,000 jobs disappeared, which equals a loss ... Eduardo Segovia E. Segovia / Agencies.- Spain’s economy continued to shrink during the second quarter, even at a higher speed, with a decline of 0.4 percent compared to the previous quarter and a year on year decline of 1.3 percent.  ... E. Segovia / Agencies Eduardo Segovia.- The government has increased the amount available for state guarantees by over €40bn in 2012, which are primarily used to guarantee emissions from financial entities or the FROB, the state backed bank rescue ... Eduardo Segovia Eduardo Segovia.- The 150,000 savers most small savers who are trapped with preference shares in one of Spain’s four nationalized banks will not have any possibility to get all their money back, if the government approves ... Eduardo Segovia Eduardo Segovia.- The ‘bad bank’ is not only a solution that will help the financial entities to get rid of their toxic assets. It could also help save a large number of other companies that suffer from the effects ... Eduardo Segovia Eduardo Segovia / Agustín Marco.- When it comes to cash flow, the situation in Spain is complicated but not desperate. According to sources close to the Ministry of Economy, the Treasury currently counts on liquid assets of about €25bn, ... Eduardo Segovia / Agustín Marco Marcos Lamelas.- Spain used to have one of the highest concentrations of banks in Europe. The financial crisis, however, has forced a change at a high speed. Since 2009, a total of 45 savings banks have merged or have been taken ... Marcos Lamelas