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"Tener una casa es un derecho humano": Bruselas presenta un plan para la crisis de la vivienda en LisboaEl comisario europeo de Vivienda, Dan Jørgensen, ha presentado el nuevo plan de Bruselas para responder a la crisis en una de las capitales europeas más afectadas, aunque de momento las medidas se centran apenas en definir qué es una zona tensionada.Por EuronewsPublicado 02/02/2026 - 14:40 CETEn un contexto de crisis habitacional que afecta a gran parte de Europa, incluida España, el comisario europeo de Vivienda, Dan Jørgensen, ha iniciado una gira por varios países para presentar el plan de Bruselas destinado a responder a la crisis, empezando por Portugal, uno de los países más afectados.Tras ser recibido el viernes por el alcalde de Lisboa, Carlos Moedas, el comisario europeo afirmó que tener una casa "es un derecho humano" que no se debe negar a la gente corriente."Es un plan que pretende, sobre todo, crear más viviendas asequibles. Necesitamos ciudades donde la gente normal con trabajos normales -enfermeras, profesores, policías- puedan permitirse vivir donde trabajan", explica Jørgensen. "Para mí, para nosotros, tener una casa es un derecho humano. Tener una casa es algo más que un techo, es la base de tu vida, es lo que te da un futuro".Anunciado en diciembre de 2025, el plan europeo se basa en pilares como aumentar la oferta, atraer inversiones en una plataforma conjunta con las autoridades públicas y el sector privado, y abordar el impacto de los alquileres a corto plazo. En este último caso, se trata de directrices y la última palabra la tendrán siempre las autoridades locales, confirmó el comisario europeo."Vamos a presentar una propuesta sobre alquileres de corta duración que se basará en la definición de zonas tensionadas. Estas tendrán entonces la oportunidad de utilizar distintos instrumentos políticos para resolver el problema. No vamos a obligar a ninguna ciudad a hacer nada, siempre serán las autoridades locales las que decidan si esto es posible o no", explica.Portugal atraviesa una profunda crisis inmobiliaria, en la que los precios de la vivienda y los alquileres han subido mucho. Bruselas calcula que los precios de la vivienda en el país están sobrevalorados en un 25%, el porcentaje más alto de la Unión Europea.
[...] Trump, Milei, Ayuso... rechinan. Son los epónimos fascistoides de la modernidad gaseosa. ¿No les parece curioso que toda esta gente se ponga como un puma cuando se les dice lo que son: fachas? Incluso te ponen una querella o se te disfrazan de judíos. Precisamente, esta fauna es la que está interesada en que tú identifiques modernidad sólida con fascismo, cuando es exactamente lo contrario.]Pues claro. Es que cualquiera no te va a tildar de esto o lo otro. Véase el caso contario:"Deja que los tecno-oligarcas ladren, Sancho, es señal de que cabalgamos", escribió el mandatario haciendo referencia a una expresión española que en la cultura popular se atribuye a uno de los consejos de Don Quijote de La Mancha a su escudero Sancho Panza en la histórica novela del siglo XVII. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c4g0nxq66r7oCon sanchez a full aquí, claro.Trump, Milei, Ayuso o Sánchez son líderes democráticamente elegidos. (Los elons de turno, no.)
Big Tech shares slide for third day with AI stocks under pressureNasdaq drops as once high-flying companies pull market lowerUS tech stocks fell on Thursday, as weak jobs data piled further pressure on a market reeling from a big sell-off in the software sector.The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.3 per cent, on course for its third consecutive session of heavy losses and its worst week since US President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs rocked markets last April. The blue-chip S&P 500 was down 1 per cent.A private labour market survey for January from Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Thursday showed job cuts in the US jumped last month, the worst start to the year since 2009.“You have a bigger macroeconomic story here about a weak labour market,” said Kristina Hooper, chief market strategist at Man Group. The Challenger data, alongside separate figures showing US job openings fell to their lowest level in more than five years in December, “have caused concern about growth this year,” Hooper added.Index heavyweight Alphabet trimmed an early tumble to be 0.9 per cent lower, despite strong quarterly earnings, as its plan to double capital expenditure to as much as $185bn intensified concerns about when Silicon Valley’s vast AI expenditure will generate returns.“Google’s results were really good in terms of demand for Google products,” said George Pearkes, macro strategist at Bespoke Investment Group. But “the market is getting a natural correction and a test of the AI story,” he added.Qualcomm fell 8.2 per cent after the chipmaker signalled on Wednesday that a shortage of memory chips could limit the production of smartphones. Amazon and Tesla lost 4.5 per cent and 2.8 per cent respectively. Amazon is set to report earnings after the bell. Microsoft declined 4.8 per cent.Software stocks and chipmakers have been hit particularly hard over the past few trading sessions, as investors worry that new coding tools, including those released by AI group Anthropic last week, will upend sectors such as law, publishing and advertising.The software worries ricocheted through the market, helping pull down the stocks of private credit groups Ares and Blue Owl, which have been major lenders to software companies in recent years. Both groups reported earnings on Thursday morning, with Ares down 10.1 per cent and Blue Owl down 3.6 per cent, having earlier hit its lowest level since 2023.The Vix, a measure of market volatility expectations popularly known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge”, reached its highest level since late November.The drop in stocks sent investors into safer corners of the market, including Treasury debt. The two-year Treasury yield, which moves with interest rate expectations, hit its lowest level in a month, falling 0.08 percentage points to 3.48 per cent.
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Bitcoin falls below $65,000 to wipe out ‘Trump rally’Cryptocurrency returns to November 2024 level as it is swept up in tech stock sell-offBitcoin had rallied after Donald Trump’s election victory, rising to a record high last summer of more than $125,000 © ReutersBitcoin sank below $65,000 on Thursday for the first time since 2024, wiping out all of the gains it had made since Donald Trump was elected to his second term as US president.The world’s biggest cryptocurrency dropped 7 per cent to just above $64,000 as digital tokens were swept up in a sell-off in tech stocks. Bitcoin has lost more than a fifth of its dollar value this year.“Sentiment has deteriorated sharply,” said Jasper De Maere, a strategist at trading firm Wintermute. “The crypto market still feels tired as we see little appetite from anyone to step in convincingly at these levels.”Liquidations of leveraged bitcoin bets contributed to the downward spiral as traders who used significant leverage in their positions were forced to sell in order to meet margin calls — further depressing prices.The price of ether, the second-largest coin, fell 11 per cent to $1,891, taking its decline this year to 36 per cent.Bitcoin had rallied after Trump’s election victory, buoyed by his vow to make the US “the crypto capital of the world” and roll back a regulatory crackdown on the crypto industry.Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has helped pass industry-friendly legislation while regulators lifted crypto enforcement actions, driving bitcoin’s price to a record high last summer of more than $125,000.But since then, it has retreated as the wave of enthusiasm sparked by Trump began to wane and investors instead turned to precious metals as a long-term store of value, driving a record-breaking rally in gold and silver. Legislation governing the crypto industry in the US has also stalled this year.The declines gathered pace this week amid an equity sell-off sparked by investors’ worries over the impact of AI on tech companies.Shares in Michael Saylor’s bitcoin-hoarding company Strategy were 16 per cent lower on Thursday, down more than 29 per cent so far this year.Bitcoin’s price drop has left the company with billions of dollars in paper losses. Saylor bought his 713,502 bitcoin for an average price of $76,052 by issuing equity and debt.On X, Saylor posted “HODL” in the middle of the price spiral, a widely used crypto market slang term meaning “hold”. Strategy is set to report earnings after market close on Thursday.Crypto exchange Gemini, co-founded by the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, said on Thursday it would lay off 200 employees and wind down some operations to cut costs. Its shares have fallen 80 per cent since it went public in September.On prediction market platform Kalshi, traders began making bets last month on how low the price of bitcoin would fall this year. It shows a roughly 85 per cent chance that it will fall below $60,000.
Amazon stock slumps as it prepares $200bn AI spending blitzCapital expenditure forecasts for 2026 exceed Wall Street’s expectationsAmazon has cut tens of thousands of white-collar jobs to reduce costs © BloombergAmazon shares slumped 10 per cent on Thursday after it announced plans to spend $200bn on capital expenditure in 2026, roughly a third more than Wall Street had forecast, as it increases its bet on AI.The Seattle-based tech giant said that capex would climb from nearly $130bn in 2025, having ploughed cash into the build-out of data centre infrastructure this past year.Amazon’s commitment for the coming year exceeds rivals including Google and Microsoft.Shares in the group fell more than 10 per cent in after-hours trading in New York.