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Pakistan's Russian crude shipment paid in Chinese currency - ministerISLAMABAD, June 12 (Reuters) - Pakistan paid for its first government-to-government import of discounted Russian crude in Chinese currency, the South Asian country's petroleum minister said on Monday, a significant shift in its U.S. dollar-dominated export payments policy.Discounted crude offers respite as Pakistan faces an acute balance of payments crisis, risking a default on its debt obligations. The foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank are scarcely enough to cover four weeks of controlled imports.The first cargo of discounted Russian crude oil arranged under a new deal struck between Islamabad and Moscow earlier this year arrived in Karachi on Sunday. It is currently being offloaded at the port in the southern city of Karachi.Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik, talking to Reuters by phone, did not disclose the commercial details of the deal, including pricing or the discount that Pakistan received, but said the payment was made in Chinese currency.He said the purchase, Pakistan's first government-to-government (G2G) deal with Russia, consisted of 100,000 tonnes, of which 45,000 tonnes had docked at Karachi port and the rest was on its way. Pakistan made the purchase back in April.Pakistan's purchase gives Moscow a new outlet to add to growing sales to India and China, as it redirects oil from western markets because of the Ukraine conflict.Despite being a long-standing Western ally and the arch-rival of neighbouring India, which historically is closer to Moscow, analysts say the crude deal also presents a new avenue for Pakistan at a time that its financing needs are great.Pakistan's Refinery Limited (PRL) will initially refine the Russian crude, the minister said. He had earlier referred to the purchase of the shipment as a trial run to judge financial and technical feasibility.Malik on Monday played down concerns around the financial viability and concerns about the ability of local refineries to process Russian crude given the South Asian country's historical importation of Middle Eastern petroleum products."We've run iterations of various product mixes, and in no scenario will the refining of this crude make a loss," Malik said, adding, "We are very sure it will be commercially viable.""No adjustments (were) needed at the refinery to refine the Russian crude," the minister told Reuters.Energy imports make up the majority of the Pakistan's external payments. Islamabad imported 154,000 bpd of oil in 2022, around steady with the previous year, data from analytics firm Kpler showed.The crude was predominantly supplied by the world's top exporter Saudi Arabia followed by the United Arab Emirates. The 100,000 bpd from Russia in theory greatly reduces Pakistan's need for Middle Eastern fuel.
Cita de: saturno en Junio 11, 2023, 19:45:40 pmNo entiendo bien el proyecto traido por Cadavre ¿Quieren urbanizar todo el planeta? Requalificarlo todo según un patrón urbano y... ¿que todo sea pisito? No, hombre. Primero estos sesudos próceres tienen que explicarnos como Pepe y Mari llegaran al curro en los Madriles en patinete eléctrico desde el pueblo de Guadalajara en el que viven porque una habitacion en Leganes cuesta 3000 eurelios al mes.
Banco Santander, CaixaBank y Banco Sabadell han sellado la venta de Sten (Sistemas Técnicos de Encofrados) al fondo de situaciones especiales estadounidense Sandton Capital Partners. Las entidades financieras salen así del capital de la compañía catalana especializada en la producción de encofrados y andamios para construcción en el que desembarcaron en 2017 en el marco del denominado Proyecto Phoenix.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon warns of pain ahead for commercial real estate*Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told CNBC’s Sara Eisen the New York-based firm will post impairments on loans and equity investments tied to commercial real estate in the second quarter.*“There’s no question that the real estate market, and in particular commercial real estate, has come under pressure,” Solomon said in the interview on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.”*On top of Goldman’s lending activities, it also took direct stakes in real estate that will also face markdowns, Solomon said.Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Monday that his bank will disclose markdowns on commercial real estate holdings as the industry grapples with higher interest rates.Solomon told CNBC’s Sara Eisen the New York-based firm will post impairments on loans and equity investments tied to commercial real estate in the second quarter. Financial firms recognize loan defaults and falling valuations as write-downs that affect quarterly results.“There’s no question that the real estate market, and in particular commercial real estate, has come under pressure,” he said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” “You’ll see some impairments in the lending that would flow through our wholesale provision” this quarter.After years of low interest rates and lofty valuations for office buildings, the industry is in the throes of a painful adjustment to higher borrowing costs and lower occupancy rates due to the shift to remote work. Some property owners have walked away from holdings rather than refinancing their loans. Defaults have just begun to show up in banks’ results. Goldman posted almost $400 million in first-quarter impairments on real estate loans, according to Solomon.On top of Goldman’s lending activities, it also took direct stakes in real estate as it ramped up its alternative investments in the last decade, Solomon said.“We think that we and others are marking down those investments given the environment this quarter and in the coming quarters,” Solomon said.While the write-downs are “definitely a headwind” for the bank, they are “manageable” in the context of Goldman’s overall business, he said.They may be less manageable for smaller banks, however. About two-thirds of the industry’s loans are originated by regional and midsize institutions, Solomon said.“That’s just something that we’re going to have to work through,” he said. “There’ll probably be some bumps and some pain along the way for a number of participants.”In the wide-ranging interview, Solomon said he was “surprised” by the resiliency of the U.S. economy, and he was seeing “green shoots” emerge after a period of subdued capital markets activities.
Hotel Owners Start to Write Off San Francisco as Business NosedivesCity’s lodging business has been squeezed by crime and other quality-of-life issuesSan Francisco’s once thriving hotel market is suffering its worst stretch in at least 15 years, pummeled by the same forces that have emptied out the city’s office towers and closed many retail stores.Hotel owners in New York and Los Angeles are filling nearly as many rooms this year as they did in 2019, according to hotel-data firm STR. Their revenue per available room exceeds what it was before the pandemic.But in San Francisco, hotels are still struggling badly in both occupancy and room rates compared with before the pandemic. Revenue per available room was nearly 23% lower in April compared with the same month in 2019. The city’s lodging business has been squeezed by crime and other quality-of-life issues that have kept many convention bookers away. Tech companies’ embrace of remote work also undercuts business travel to the city and hotel activity. Now, a growing number of San Francisco hoteliers are signaling they may be ready to give up. In recent months, the owner of the city’s Huntington Hotel sold the property after facing foreclosure and the Yotel San Francisco hotel sold in a foreclosure auction. Club Quarters San Francisco, which has been in default on its loan since 2020, may also be headed to foreclosure, according to data company Trepp.Other lodging properties in the city are also vulnerable. More than 20 additional San Francisco hotels are facing loans due in the next two years, according to data company CoStar.In San Francisco’s biggest potential hotel default yet, Park Hotels & Resorts last week said it has stopped making loan payments on debt secured by the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 San Francisco. The two hotels, with nearly 3,000 rooms between them, are in the heart of San Francisco’s shopping and cultural district. Tom Baltimore, chairman and chief executive of the real-estate investment trust, said that “San Francisco’s path to recovery remains clouded and elongated by major challenges—both old and new,” including empty offices, “concerns over street conditions” and lackluster convention bookings. National retailers such as Nordstrom, Crate & Barrel and H&M have closed San Francisco stores. Tech companies are putting their offices up for sublease; and the city’s commercial real estate, previously among the most valuable in the world, has started selling at huge discounts. “The recovery will be slow,” said Jan Freitag, national director for hospitality analytics at CoStar. “I think if you are a CEO or the meeting planner who recommends to the CEO, it’s very easy to say, ‘Let’s just wait on San Francisco for another year.’” Overnight visits to the city were down 31% last year compared with 2019, according to the San Francisco Travel Association. Travel from China and other parts of Asia, previously a big part of the tourist equation, are still lagging though domestic tourism is improving.San Francisco’s hotel market is also heavily dependent on convention travel, and concerns over public safety are prompting groups and associations to shift their business to markets like Las Vegas, said Michelle Russo, chief executive of hotelAVE, a consulting firm. That means slower business for San Francisco hotels today and in coming years, since many groups book convention space years in advance. In part, “because of that, hotels are not worth as much today as they were pre-Covid in San Francisco,” Russo said.Park Hotels’ properties could provide a test case for how much value the city’s hotels have lost. Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 San Francisco together were appraised at more than $1.5 billion in 2016 and generated more than $100 million in net operating income in 2019, according to Trepp. The hotels lost more than $90 million between 2020 and 2022, Park said, and the properties were closed for much of that time. They had been recovering over the past year as group and leisure travel increased, but their owner faced an estimated $200 million in needed improvements to the properties. Park Hotels also needed to refinance its interest-only $725 million loan scheduled to mature in November in order to maintain ownership of the hotels, said Truist Securities analyst C. Patrick Scholes. Rising interest rates are putting pressure on commercial landlords with interest-only loans, as higher borrowing costs make refinancing less attractive. Park Hotels had a 4.1% interest rate on its loan backed by the San Francisco hotels, and refinancing would come with a much higher rate, Scholes said. The two hotels, which employ a combined 1,000 members of the Unite Here Local 2 union, are expected to remain open throughout any coming ownership change, said union President Anand Singh. He said the union has seen recent improvements in San Francisco’s hotel industry, with 75% of membership back to work. “We don’t share the same gloomy assessment of San Francisco that’s bandied about these days,” Singh said. “If these hotels are ultimately sold for a song, then another company is going to come in and reap the benefits of that.”
New York City to delay enforcing new law against Airbnb hostsNEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - The City of New York will delay enforcing a new municipal law that Airbnb Inc (ABNB.O) said could limit the number of people who can host rentals in the city, a Friday court filing showed.The short-term rental company filed a lawsuit against the city on June 1 over the law it called a "de facto ban" against short-term rentals set to go into effect on July 1st.Under the law, hosts must be permanent occupants of the units being rented and must register with the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) before posting rentals.The office will not issue fines against hosts or booking services until Sept. 5, according to the filing.The office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Airbnb charged that the law would make it harder for hosts to do business by requiring that they comply with numerous zoning regulations, dwelling laws, and housing maintenance and construction codes."We hope the city will use the extra time to collaborate with us on a sensible alternative solution that will benefit Hosts, tourism, and the local economy," said Airbnb's attorney, Karen Dunn, a partner at Paul, Weiss, in a statement.Airbnb said that in the first week of July, more than 5,500 short-term rentals are reserved to host more than 10,000 guests in New York City.Shares of the company rose 5% to $122.71.
Cita de: volem volente en Junio 12, 2023, 18:28:12 pmCita de: saturno en Junio 11, 2023, 19:45:40 pmNo entiendo bien el proyecto traido por Cadavre ¿Quieren urbanizar todo el planeta? Requalificarlo todo según un patrón urbano y... ¿que todo sea pisito? No, hombre. Primero estos sesudos próceres tienen que explicarnos como Pepe y Mari llegaran al curro en los Madriles en patinete eléctrico desde el pueblo de Guadalajara en el que viven porque una habitacion en Leganes cuesta 3000 eurelios al mes......P.S: Por cierto, ¿qué diferencia hay entre un piso cerrado (segunda vivienda) y un coche apagado?
HOTEL101-MADRID VALDEBEBASEl verdadero negocio tras el nuevo megahotel junto a Barajas: vender 'golden visas' a ricos asiáticosEl desembarco de la cadena filipina Hotel101 en Madrid se basa en vender las habitaciones a fortunas del sudeste asiático que así pueden conseguir el preciado permiso de residenciaLa noticia cayó como un bombazo el pasado 27 de abril: un desconocido grupo filipino iba a levantar un megahotel de 736 habitaciones en Valdebebas, justo al lado de la Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid y con vistas privilegiadas al futuro circuito de Fórmula 1 proyectado en la capital.Fue la propia cadena Hotel101, filial del conglomerado asiático Double Dragon, la que desveló la noticia a través de sus redes sociales, un comunicado en el que dio detalles como la ubicación y el número de habitaciones, y en el que hizo referencia a la "alta demanda de inversión inmobiliaria en Madrid impulsada por la golden visa española". La pregunta era inmediata: ¿qué tiene que ver un hotel junto al aeropuerto con este permiso de residencia? A primera vista, podría parecer que nada, pero la realidad es que la viabilidad de este proyecto se basa más en vender permisos de residencia a fortunas asiáticas que camas a turistas.Según han reconocido desde la cadena filipina, su modelo de negocio va más allá de la hotelería y tiene un claro motor inmobiliario, ya que se basa en construir el hotel, vender las habitaciones y quedarse con la gestión. Un tipo de inversión bautizada como condotel, al ser un híbrido entre un condominio y un hotel, que en el caso de Madrid tiene como principal reclamo conseguir la dorada tarjeta. "El modelo de negocio de Hotel101 es el mismo en todo el mundo. Específicamente, para el próximo Hotel101-Madrid, prevemos que los ingresos se generen en varias partes del mundo, principalmente en el sudeste asiático. Será opcional para los compradores de unidades inmobiliarias solicitar una golden visa con su compra de las unidades de Hotel101", explican desde la cadena.En su comunicado del pasado abril, la compañía ya desveló que preveía alcanzar unos ingresos de 143 millones de euros. Con el puro negocio hotelero, para llegar a ese ingreso anual necesitaría una tarifa media por habitación superior a los 450 euros, además de generar gran actividad con el negocio de restauración y bebidas, según calculan los expertos consultados por este medio. Estos números se antojan casi imposibles para un hotel de este tipo, que, por su ubicación, junto al recinto ferial de Ifema y al aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas, previsiblemente se orientará a eventos y negocios. En cambio, el negocio inmobiliario de venta de las habitaciones con el reclamo de lograr el preciado permiso de residencia sí abre la puerta a conseguirlos rápidamente. El problema, según explican los expertos consultados por El Confidencial, es que, con el marco normativo actual, en España no se puede registrar cada habitación a nombre de los compradores, requisito indispensable para hacerse con la golden visa.Problema de registroLa parcela donde va a levantarse el futuro establecimiento es suelo terciario, es decir, terreno destinado a usos hoteleros, comerciales o de oficinas. En este tipo de solares, no está permitida la división horizontal, requisito indispensable para que un registrador ponga a nombre de un particular cada habitación, según explican desde el área de Urbanismo del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.El dueño de esta parcela es Metrovacesa, que lleva años tratando de encontrar una salida a esta bolsa de terreno. Una historia no exenta de polémica, ya que enlaza directamente con una investigación judicial por la presunta existencia de una trama inmobiliaria que habría expoliado patrimonio de fundaciones ligadas a la Iglesia católica. La causa apunta ya al arranque del juicio con, al menos, una decena de acusados. Desde la promotora controlada por Banco Santander, no han respondido a las consultas de este medio respecto a la posibilidad de hacerse con la golden visa mediante la compra de habitaciones de Hotel101 y cómo podría hacerse.Desde la cadena filipina, defienden su propuesta, asegurando que es un "producto ideal para los solicitantes de la golden visa, ya que no reduce el inventario de viviendas en España, porque están diseñadas para funcionar como un gran hotel, y traerá actividad económica a Madrid a través de nuestra inversión en la compra de terrenos y en la construcción del hotel, y, luego, con la actividad económica, los impuestos y el empleo que genera". La normativa española sí permite hacer la división horizontal sobre terrenos residenciales, es decir, en los destinados a viviendas, pero el coste de estos suelos es muy superior al de un solar terciario. Esta diferencia, por ejemplo, hace que los nuevos formatos de coliving solo permitan estancias temporales y que deban acompañarse de servicios, ya que superar esa línea supondría entrar en suelos de uso residencial."En los terrenos terciarios de Valdebebas, se puede trocear la actividad y vender la gestión, pero nunca la propiedad", explican fuentes municipales. "El terciario de Valdebebas admite numerosos usos desde el planeamiento de 2013, puedes hacer un hotel y al lado un restaurante, pero siempre como actividad complementaria al hotel, forma parte del hotel", añaden. Hotel101-Madrid aspira a ser uno de los cinco mayores establecimientos hoteleros de Madrid, con una oferta de servicios compuesta por un futuro restaurante 24 horas, que operará un concesionario especializado, piscina, gimnasio, centro de negocios y un local comercial que se dedicará a tienda de conveniencia. El terreno sobre el que se levantará es una parcela de casi 6.600 metros cuadrados.La normativa española, en esencia, permite comprar la residencia con una golden visa a los extranjeros que inviertan más de 500.000 euros en vivienda, más de un millón en empresas nacionales o más de dos millones en deuda pública. Un marco que el Ejecutivo de Pedro Sánchez ya ha dicho que debe revisarse, tras haber tenido que confesar que dos de cada tres de estos permisos han sido concedidos a ciudadanos chinos y rusos.En concreto, el 45% han sido visados expedidos a favor de ciudadanos chinos y el 19,6% a patrimonios rusos, según los datos revelados por el Gobierno tras una consulta de Más País, que el pasado febrero presentó una proposición de ley sobre esta materia. Las golden visa también han sido cuestionadas por la Unión Europea, por considerar que se conceden sin revisar el origen de los capitales invertidos.
Economists posting their LsIf a Chinese property market falls in the forest, could it not make too much of a noise?The philosopher Zeno of Elea concocted paradoxes so devious that nine have stuck with us since their invention some 2,400 years ago. The one everyone knows, the dichotomy paradox, goes something like this: it’s impossible to complete an infinite number of actions, and walking from A to B requires an infinite number of actions — because when one reaches the midpoint, another midpoint is left to reach, in a process that must repeat infinitely. Thus, it is impossible to walk from A to B.To Zeno’s longstanding list of nine such paradoxes, analysts at Goldman Sachs add a tenth, the “L-shaped recovery”:Yeah, meditate on that one for a moment.More interesting than its title is the case put forward by Goldman’s team in this 14-page report:CitarWe see persistent weaknesses in the property sector, mainly related to lower-tier cities and private developer financing, and believe there appears no quick fix for them. As such, we only assume an “L-shaped” recovery in the property sector in coming years. Based on our estimates, the property weakness will likely be a multi-year growth drag for China, but it could be less painful in 2023 (-1.0pp to headline GDP growth) than in 2022 (-2.2pp).Now, it’s no secret that China’s property sector, once responsible for a third of the country’s economic activity, is suffering from a protracted crisis of confidence among homebuyers, who are no longer willing to make down payments on apartments they suspect will never actually be built by developers suffering from a severe liquidity crunch. And surging youth unemployment this year has further dented the property sector’s prospects.In short, this time really does look different from previous real estate market downturns in China. And Goldman’s team recognises this dilemma:CitarThe ongoing property cycle is different from previous rounds, as policymakers appear very determined not to use the property sector as a short-term stimulus tool, due likely to heightened concerns on falling demographic demand, a shift in policy focus to support strategically important sectors, and weaker housing affordability. We believe the policy priority is to manage the multi-year slowdown rather than to engineer an upcycle, and do not expect a repeat of the 2015-18 cash-backed shantytown renovation program.It almost seems like what we’re talking about here isn’t a recovery at all, but rather a long-term fall for one of the Chinese economy’s most vital drivers with little chance of policy support to help turn things around. And, if so, that’s a pretty meaningful development!So why the paradoxical framing device?The truth is China analysts face a gauntlet of fraught choices with every report they publish on the country and its corporates: is this bearish forecast going to get us accused of being anti-China? (Maybe.) Does it matter to my price target that Chinese tech stocks still haven’t recovered? (Apparently not.) Could an offhand reference to a “Chinese pig” get me fired? (Quite possibly!)Make no mistake, it’s hard out there for a China analyst, and it’s only getting harder. But investment banks aren’t doing themselves any favors attempting to sugarcoat the country’s increasingly dire economic straits, and their analysts can make it easier on themselves by not tying themselves in knots trying to come up with overly clever descriptions of a simple economic phenomenon.Just call a slump a slump.
We see persistent weaknesses in the property sector, mainly related to lower-tier cities and private developer financing, and believe there appears no quick fix for them. As such, we only assume an “L-shaped” recovery in the property sector in coming years. Based on our estimates, the property weakness will likely be a multi-year growth drag for China, but it could be less painful in 2023 (-1.0pp to headline GDP growth) than in 2022 (-2.2pp).
The ongoing property cycle is different from previous rounds, as policymakers appear very determined not to use the property sector as a short-term stimulus tool, due likely to heightened concerns on falling demographic demand, a shift in policy focus to support strategically important sectors, and weaker housing affordability. We believe the policy priority is to manage the multi-year slowdown rather than to engineer an upcycle, and do not expect a repeat of the 2015-18 cash-backed shantytown renovation program.
Cita de: volem volente en Junio 12, 2023, 18:28:12 pmCita de: saturno en Junio 11, 2023, 19:45:40 pmNo entiendo bien el proyecto traido por Cadavre ¿Quieren urbanizar todo el planeta? Requalificarlo todo según un patrón urbano y... ¿que todo sea pisito? No, hombre. Primero estos sesudos próceres tienen que explicarnos como Pepe y Mari llegaran al curro en los Madriles en patinete eléctrico desde el pueblo de Guadalajara en el que viven porque una habitacion en Leganes cuesta 3000 eurelios al mes.A ver, podemos empezar de nuevo con el debate de la Agenda 2030 ... Imaginen una ciudad con millones de habitantes donde la economía va "como un tiro". Todos sus habitantes tienen derecho -por supuesto- a tener uno o varios coches. Como todo va tan bien lo normal es que cada adulto tenga dos coches: uno pequeño para ir por la ciudad y otro grande y potente para viajar. Los más ricos tienen otro descapotable, otro para los días de postín.