Economía

The same week that the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused the central Government of favoring Catalonia with the proposed financing model, the real data shows that the State invested 2.4 times more in Madrid than in Catalonia last year. The Catalan community received 8.6% of all the investment that the State executed in the country in 2025 and that can be regionalized by autonomous communities, as La Vanguardia revealed yesterday, with official data from the IGAE of the Ministry of Finance.

The strong imbalance between rental demand and supply is fueling the mortgage boom in Catalonia. The community is the only one, along with Castilla-La Mancha, where the granting of financing to buy housing is increasing, according to data published yesterday by the Notarial College of Catalonia.

The National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) has formalized three contracts with the Portuguese technology company Primetag SA, specialized in data analysis and influencer marketing, for “the preparation of a work of analysis and consultation of the audiovisual content that certain influencers publish on their profiles on video sharing platforms, in order to detect possible unidentified commercial communications,” according to the communication published this Friday in the Official State Gazette

Apple has once again been crowned the most valuable company on the planet. The company co-founded by Steve Jobs took the title from Nvidia, ending nearly a year of stock market dominance by the chip giant and reshuffling the hierarchy of the big tech companies.

The battle is on. On one side, the defenders of a green economy, who warn that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the fierce heat wave that has caused at least 12,000 additional deaths in Europe are a reminder of the climate crisis. On the other, the pressures from industry, which is already suffering the consequences of Chinese competition and US tariffs, and is calling for cheaper energy costs.

The increase in State investment in Catalonia last year has not been sufficient, and the community remains at very low levels of budget execution in 2024 and 2025 in relation to its weight in Spain’s GDP and population.

Generation after generation, there is a small habit that unites and connects us all: sitting around a table. And this custom survives intact over time. In Spain, a well-stocked table with friends and family is everyday life turned into tradition and memories. And always with one element that remains over time: bread.

Close vote on the silver seats in the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce that ends with a victory for the measure promoted by Josep Santacreu. The president of the institution has gathered the necessary support to advance the proposal that has generated the most division in the institution in recent months. The entity’s plenary approved this Thursday the expansion of the paid seats with a tie of 29 votes in favor and 29 against, which was resolved positively with Santacreu’s casting vote.

“The services have continued to be the great engine of the Catalan economy.” That is one of the conclusions of the Annual Report on the Catalan Economy 2025 presented this Thursday at the Palau de la Generalitat. With a “gradual recovery of the agricultural sector,” the Catalan economy shows that new face in which the industry has not quite regained the brilliance of previous years. “The weakest increase has been recorded in the industrial sector,” the report states.

The Plenary of the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has approved this morning to extend the activity of the Almaraz nuclear power plant for three more years, until 2030. This is what the owners of the plant, Iberdrola, Endesa, and Naturgy, had requested. This position of the Nuclear Safety Council was mandatory, but it does not yet represent the final step for the plant to extend its operational life. From now on, it is the Government who has to make the final decision.