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Bankinter's app and website go down from Monday night
Bankinter customers have been unable to access the bank's app and website since Monday night. The lender acknowledged the incident on X at 22:45 and said on Tuesday that both channels were still not working normally, without explaining the cause or giving a time for restoration. According to the bank, card payments are not affected, the incident has not touched personal or financial data, and branches and telephone banking are operating normally.
FinanceInternationalFinectOct 27AI
The average mortgage in Spain now requires earning 2,415 euros net per month, 220 more than a year ago
The average amount of housing mortgages in Spain reached 181,285 euros in August, up 7.7% year on year, according to INE. With an average term of 26 years and an average rate of 3.08%, the monthly payment stands at 845 euros. Applying the banking criterion that the payment not exceed 35% of net income, about 2,415 euros net per month are needed, more than 220 more than a year ago. Euribor closed September at 3.247%.
FinanceInternationalFinectOct 27AI
Gas prices in Europe surge 234% in 2026 as reserves hit historic lows
The Dutch TTF contract, Europe's gas benchmark, is trading around 96 euros per megawatt hour after nearing 97.64 euros, its highest level since December 2022, a rise of about 234% since January. EU storage stood at 74.6% on October 24, versus 82.9% a year earlier, the lowest level for this time of year since 2011, according to IEEFA. The absence of Qatari LNG and the upcoming ban on Russian LNG are pressuring winter supply.
FinanceInternationalEuronews.comOct 27AI
Economic calendar: Conference Board and durable goods orders take focus in the US
Tuesday's session in global markets opened with Asian data: South Korea's quarterly GDP grew 1.0% in the third quarter versus the 0.7% forecast, and China's year-to-date industrial profits rose 15.5%. Attention shifts to the United States, with durable goods orders and the Conference Board consumer confidence index, plus earnings from Boeing, Coca-Cola, UPS, HSBC, Visa and Logitech.
FinanceInternationalXTB.comOct 27AI
The Ibex hesitates again near 19,000 points
The Ibex 35 is again showing doubts near 19,000 points in a week marked by a heavy concentration of references. From Wednesday to Friday, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan will update their monetary policy, with expectations of a pause in rate hikes and messages confirming the increases expected for December. Brent repeats around $115 a barrel, close to its May highs, while markets digest a wave of corporate earnings, with attention on Microsoft and Alphabet.
FinanceInternationalExpansiónOct 27AI
Saudi Arabia to expand its East-West pipeline to carry 10 million barrels a day and rely less on Hormuz
Saudi Aramco is working to expand its East-West pipeline, known as Petroline, to carry up to 10 million barrels of oil a day from the current 7 million, a project that could take two to three years to complete. The goal is to reduce dependence on the Strait of Hormuz amid tensions in the Middle East. Aramco CEO Amin Nasser confirmed the plans, which were also announced by Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman at the WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh.
FinanceInternationalDiario ASOct 27AI
Negative tone in European stocks despite renewed appetite for AI
European stock markets are trading slightly lower, with the Ibex 35 down 0.1% but holding above 19,000 points, while Brent crude extends its decline to $114 a barrel. Anthropic's announcement of its stock market listing strengthens confidence in the artificial intelligence sector after the semiconductor correction. Investors await decisions from the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, as well as results from Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon.
FinanceInternationalCinco DíasOct 27AI
Argentine industry falls 3.4% year-on-year in September and logs three years without improvement
Argentine industry remains in a recessionary crisis, according to the report by the Research Center of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA): in September activity fell 3.4% year-on-year and 0.2% versus August. In the year to date the decline is 3.4%, a 2.8% drop compared with the first nine months of 2025 and 11% versus the same period of 2022 and 2023. Eleven of the 16 sectors in the index fell compared with August 2025.
FinanceInternationalPrensa LatinaOct 26AI
56% of Spaniards had trouble withdrawing cash from ATMs in the past year
56% of those who used ATMs to withdraw or deposit cash in the past year encountered some difficulty, 10 points more than the previous 46%, according to the Bank of Spain's study on cash usage habits. The most cited problem is an out-of-service ATM (43%), followed by a lack of banknotes (33%), and the share of users whose usual ATM closed multiplied by five. 92% reject a cashless world and 57% use cash as their usual payment method.
FinanceInternationalCinco DíasOct 26AI
The back-and-forth on crypto regulation exposes Europe's supervisory tangle
Ecofin approved a watered-down version of the reform that would have placed all crypto firms under ESMA supervision: only "significant providers" would fall under the European body. MiCA sets that threshold at 15 million active users a year, a criterion that, according to industry sources, no exchange would meet. The Council broadened the criteria to three of five conditions. The industry warns of overlaps between supervisors and Parliament has yet to set its position.
FinanceInternationalCinco DíasOct 26AI
European retail investors will be able to buy Anthropic shares in the IPO
Anthropic, creator of Claude, filed its initial public offering prospectus with the US market regulator, with the listing set for November 16. Retail investors will be able to buy in Australia, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and certain European Economic Area states. To sell in the EU it must register the prospectus in a member country and use the European passport. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley coordinate the deal, with 22 banks participating.
FinanceInternationalCinco DíasOct 26AI
Hilton opens a four-star DoubleTree hotel in Madrid's Salamanca district
Hilton opened a DoubleTree-branded hotel on Príncipe de Vergara street in Madrid's Salamanca district on Monday, following a 15-month phased renovation. The four-star property has 155 rooms, a bar, a restaurant, a gym and 12 meeting and event rooms. With the opening, the chain now has six four-star hotels in the city, where it competes with Marriott, which has seven five-star hotels in the city center with rates of between 500 and 1,000 euros.
FinanceInternationalCinco DíasOct 26AI
A cautious investor's savings also depend on AI: funds, tech debt and valuations
An article describes how a cautious saver, with no stocks or cryptocurrencies, is exposed to artificial intelligence through his pension plan and index fund. In Spanish equity funds, 31% is invested in technology stocks. Meta plans to spend between $135 billion and $145 billion on data centers and will issue non-voting shares; Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and SpaceX have issued more than $180 billion in debt this year. OpenAI is negotiating a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from the $1.4 trillion proposed weeks earlier.
FinanceInternationalLa Voz de GaliciaOct 26AI
Why France has become the textbook example of debt problems
France has become the main victim of rising bond yields worldwide, according to an analysis. Its net debt will exceed 111% of GDP this year, according to IMF forecasts, with a deficit close to 5% of GDP and nominal growth projected at 3%. Last week, the 10-year yield briefly topped 5% for the first time since 2002, and the spread against Germany stands at around 1.5 points, the highest since the 2012 euro crisis.
FinanceInternationalEl ConfidencialOct 26AI
Soybeans fall to two-month low on expectations of higher Brazilian exports to China
Agricultural commodity futures fell after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's election victory in Brazil, which sent the real down 11% and improved the country's export competitiveness. Sugar dropped more than 5%, its biggest intraday decline since May; arabica coffee fell as much as 4.1% and soybeans up to 2.3%. Brazil is the world's largest exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and cotton, and accounted for nearly 80% of China's soybean imports in the first nine months of the year.
FinanceInternationalBloomberg LíneaOct 26AI
South Korean economy grows three times faster in Q3 thanks to chips
South Korea's GDP grew 1.0% in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, according to preliminary figures from the Bank of Korea, above the 0.3% the central bank had forecast in August. Growth was supported by a 2.3% rise in exports, driven by semiconductors, machinery and electrical equipment, and by a 4.1% jump in infrastructure investment. Year on year, the economy grew 3.4%.
FinanceInternationalRFIOct 26AI
South Korean economy grows three times faster in Q3 thanks to chips
South Korea's GDP grew 1.0% between July and September compared with the previous quarter, according to preliminary figures from the Bank of Korea, above the 0.3% the central bank had forecast in August. Growth was supported by a 2.3% rise in exports, driven by semiconductors, machinery and electrical equipment, and by a 4.1% increase in infrastructure investment. Year on year, the economy grew 3.4%.
FinanceInternationalFrance 24Oct 26AI
South Korean economy grows three times faster in Q3 thanks to chips
South Korea's economy grew three times faster than expected in the third quarter, driven by growing demand for semiconductors, according to central bank data published this Tuesday.
FinanceInternationalSWI swissinfo.chOct 26AI
US prepares restrictions on tech investments tied to Cuba, including biotechnology
The US Treasury Department presented on October 22, 2026, a draft of restrictions on certain US investments in sensitive technologies linked to countries of concern, including Cuba, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. The proposal, published in the Federal Register on Monday, October 26, implements the COINS Act approved in December 2025 and adds biotechnology alongside semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, supercomputing and hypersonic technologies. It is not yet in force: Treasury will receive public comments until December 7.
FinanceInternationalDirectorio CubanoOct 26AI
Dollar rises to 843 pesos and euro slips to 929 in Cuba's informal market
Cuba's informal currency market closed on Monday, October 26, with the U.S. dollar at 843 Cuban pesos (CUP), five pesos more than the previous day and 30 more than a week earlier, according to CiberCuba's exchange rate index. The euro fell one peso to 929 CUP, though it is up 23.5 pesos over the week. The MLC stood at 597 CUP as an indicative value. The Central Bank of Cuba's official rate (Segment III) remains at 743 CUP per dollar and 832 per euro.
FinanceInternationalCiberCubaOct 26AI