S&P advierte a la banca Espaniola que mas constructoras caeran en ese pais, lo cual significara mas perdidas para ese sector.
En un reporte de S&P se mostro que la agencia calificadora incremento los estimados de perdidas a 99.3 billios euros, esta cantidad es mayor en 17.7 billones de euros.
Toda la banca Espaniola a la baja hoy dia.
S&P Warning Hits Spanish Banks
By Christopher Bjork
Shares in Spanish banks traded lower Tuesday after credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s warned that more of the country’s real-estate developers are likely to fail, leading to higher credit losses on lending to the sector.
S&P in a report Monday raised its credit loss assumptions for the banking sector to €99.3 billion between 2009 and 2011, up €17.7 billion from an earlier estimate carried out in September last year. The increase is mainly due to a rise in the agency’s loss assumptions for the banks’ real-estate loan portfolios, as well as more pessimistic forecasts for economic growth in the next few years.
“The drop in housing demand has drained liquidity in the highly leveraged Spanish real-estate sector and affected profitability,” said credit analyst Elena Iparraguirre. “The market has accumulated a large stock of unsold property that will take several years to unwind, in our view, while activity in the sector is still subdued,” she added.
At 0746 GMT, Banco Santander was down 1.6% while BBVA was down 1.2%. The Spanish market was down 0.5%. The smaller Spanish banks were also trading lower.
S&P raised its loan-loss assumption for real-estate exposures to 14.5% for the two year period, up from a previous estimate of 9.6%. And it said it expects real-estate losses to comprise 44% of the system’s total credit losses.
Concern over the health of Spain’s financial system, and particularly of the unlisted savings banks, are among the three biggest concerns investors have regarding the country, along with Spain’s double-digit budget deficit and 20% unemployment rate.
Unlisted and often controlled by regional governments, the so-called “cajas” have borne the brunt of the collapse of Spain’s decade-long construction boom. The Bank of Spain said last week that it would make public results of stress tests on individual banks in the coming weeks, in an effort to dispel market worries about the sector.