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El sector de la construcción y el comercio entre los más afectados

Las autoridades priorizan el control político y la estabilidad social al cambio de modelo económico

2.592 trabajadores abandonarán la entidad, la mayoría por prejubilaciones y bajas voluntarias

Afirman que asumirán la nueva tasa del Ayuntamiento de Madrid sin elevar el coste directo al cliente

GAMBLERS seem to think Donald Trump is a 3-1 outsider to win the election on Tuesday. The Predictit market has Hillary Clinton on 77% (where 100% is certainty). But what does that really tell us? On June 21, two days before the British referendum on the EU, Betfair was implying odds of 75% for Remain and 25% for Leave. This was despite quite a large number of polls that showed Leave ahead. As we know, Leave won 52% to 48%.

The idea of looking at betting markets is that “smart money” can assess all the information far more efficiently than opinion pollsters or newspaper columnists. It’s efficient market theory for politics. But what are the gamblers assessing? They are looking at the same poll as everyone else. in the EU referendum, some people seemed to believe that despite the polls, a status quo bias would ensure that Remain won (such a thing had been seen in previous referendums). But that wasn’t the case. Instead, as I feared in my Continue reading

Los analistas creen si el republicano es elegido presidente de EE UU se abriría un periodo de incertidumbre y volatilidad

El economista y exbanquero lanza una fundación para luchar contra su dolencia aportando fondos y su experiencia como gestor

FOR decades, when asked to imagine the technology of the future, the stock answer has been flying cars. In reality, the passage of time has brought us innovations of a sort we never foresaw: the ability to send information instantaneously to the other side of the world, to look up any known fact with the click of a button, and to swap faces with a cat. Meanwhile, cars have remained earthbound and transportation technology—planes, trains and automobiles—has retained its familiar form.

Until now, perhaps. Last week Uber, a ride-hailing app, released a 97-page white paper. Its title was “Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation”, and it proposed a programme called Elevate. But the two words that everyone took away from the report were the same ones that have always come to mind when the future is mentioned: flying cars.

Within the next decade, Uber aims to launch a network of flying cars that will turn a two-hour road trip into a 15-minute flight. And it…Continue reading

La riqueza de los hogares españoles cae tres veces lo que ganan en un año

El S&P 500 encadena nueve jornadas consecutivas en rojo. La volatilidad de los mercados se dispara un 50% ante la posibilidad de que gane Trump