The Catalan business community and its organizations still maintain a noticeable distance from the far-right party Aliança Catalana, led by the mayor of Ripoll, Silvia Orriols, despite polls predicting a spectacular electoral rise. Ahead of Junts and…
Today Spain plays its final to win the Football World Cup. Beyond technical criteria, for years there have been several studies attempting to establish some correlation between sport and the economy. In their famous 2004 research on the Olympic Games, Who wins the Olympic Games, economists Andrew B. Bernard and Meghan R. Busse demonstrated that a nation’s total GDP — which combines the size of its population with its per capita wealth — is the best predictor of sporting success. The thesis is that money buys infrastructure, technology, and coaches, while the population provides the critical mass necessary for natural sporting talent to emerge. What do the data from this World Cup say?
Paying $100,000 every month to know in advance Donald Trump’s messages on social media can provide investors with very valuable information about how the markets will evolve in the moments afterward. Regarding this mechanism, which borders on a dubious practice of insider information access, the President of the United States aims to monetize his presidential position even more.
The silver chairs of the Cambra de Barcelona continue to generate controversy, even after the plenary of the entity approved this controversial measure on Thursday. The parliamentary groups of the Comuns and the CUP jointly submitted a request yesterday for an opinion from the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries on various articles of the future Cambres law, a text that has been stalled for more than a decade without reaching the Parlament. The regulation, a proposal prepared by the chambers themselves, was supposed to be voted on in the hemicycle next Wednesday, but this request will clearly delay the process again until September.
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.