The rating agency Moody’s make this night a massive reduction of the note assigned to the Spanish banks, similar to the one held last Monday with the Italian banking.

The firm, according to financial sources, has begun to release to the next cut banks, as is required in these cases.

This reduction will take place on Monday after Moody’s downgraded from one to four steps the note of 26 Italian banks because of their vulnerability to the difficulties facing the eurozone.

Three months ago, in mid-February, the agency announced that it placed the rating on review of 114 European financial institutions in 16 countries, of which Italy and Spain were the most affected, with 24 and 21 entities respectively.

Moody’s justified then this action by the “negative impact and prolonged the crisis in the euro area”, combined with deteriorating credit quality and the challenges faced by banks and securities firms with significant activity in the capital market.

If Moody’s fulfilled his threat, the image of Spanish banks would be hit again, at a time when you’re having a hard punishment by plunging stock Bankia and the impact of the new financial reform.

This reform, which was approved on June 11, raises again the provisions to be made by the industry to consolidate their real estate assets in almost 30,000 million euros.

In this regard, Moody’s said this week that financial reform adopted by the Spanish Government and the nationalization of BFA were “positive” actions, but still left to institutions and creditors “vulnerable” if there are more problem loans.

He added that such actions confirmed the availability there to offer support to public institutions, although the amount and form of aid are “uncertain.”

“This burden will likely increase the already high public debt of Spain,” noted the agency, which expected to exceed 90 percent of GDP in 2014, almost triple the 36% in 2007.

On 30 April, Standard & Poor’s (S & P) downgraded after eleven Spanish financial institutions to do the same days earlier with the national sovereign.

Also another agency, Fitch cut its rating on February 13 Banco Santander, BBVA, CaixaBank and Bankia.

The German airline Air Berlin has set a target for this year to improve its operating result in more than 200 million euros through its efficiency improvement program “Shape & Size”, which has yielded benefits in the first quarter.

This was announced today at a press conference in Malaga the CEO of the airline for Spain and Portugal, Alvaro Middelmann, which has submitted the flight schedule for summer.

In the summer of 2012, the number of destinations that offer the company will remain stable compared with last summer.

Middelmann noted that Spain, with its traffic redistribution center of Palma de Mallorca, “will continue in 2012 a very important and strategic market” for Air Berlin.

He stressed that in the past nine years, “no other carrier has made an offer as wide from Mallorca,” both by the number of flights and the diversity of destinations, said today Air Berlin said in a statement.

From Palma de Mallorca, the company offers, along with its Austrian partner airline NIKI, more than 500 flights a week to 44 cities in Europe, thereby strengthening its position as leader of the largest resort airport in Europe, according Middelmann.

Through German centers in Berlin and Düsseldorf can be reached from Mallorca, specified, 22 other destinations in Europe and around the world, so the total number of destinations available from Air Berlin will be 66 in 18 countries .

From Malaga airport, the firm along with NIKI fly to 40 destinations, three domestic, 17 Germans, 16 the rest of Europe and 4 international.

Middelmann indicated that increased international destinations linked to the Malaga airport in cooperation with Etihad Airways is one of the most important news for summer 2012.

The Japanese electronics group Toshiba announced today that it has stopped producing TVs in Japan as part of its strategy to revive this sector deficit, which in the past fiscal year 2011 it reported losses of some 488 million euros.

The group has left the local manufacture of televisions in the arrest of the last factory in Japan where produced, the Fukaya, located in the province of Saitama, north of Tokyo, said a source from Toshiba to Kyodo.

The manufacturer of the Regza range of televisions faced last year to a sharp decline in sales of appliances in Japan a full turn in the summer, the transition to digital terrestrial television.

The group also faces stiff competition from companies such as South Korea’s LG and Samsung, the latter a world leader in sales of flat TVs, which is coupled to a strong yen decline in profits outside.

It is expected that the company continues to produce televisions at its plants in Indonesia, China, Poland and Egypt.

Fukaya’s factory, which began operations in 1965, will remain as the basis for development, planning and servicing, while workers will be relocated to other centers of Toshiba.

Last fiscal 2011 the company won 73,700 million yen (720 million euros), 46.5% less than in 2010, while sales fell 4.6% to 6.1 trillion yen (about 59,600 million).

Toshiba attributed the slowdown to the appreciation of the yen, the impact of the earthquake in March last year in Japan and autumn floods in Thailand as well as the weakening of European and U.S. markets.

The drop in TV sales, competition and the appreciation of the yen have also affected other Japanese giants like Sony Electronics or Panasonic, who recognized the need to restructure an industry that last fiscal year they reported significant losses.

Hitachi also plans to leave in late September its domestic production of flat screen televisions to take it to other parts of Asia such as China or Taiwan, to cut costs.

Portugal Telecom (PT) earned a net profit of 56.5 million euros in the first quarter of this year, thanks mainly to its operations in Brazil.

The results are much lower than the same period in 2011, 129.7 million, although they benefited from extraordinary transactions of sale of live operator Telefonica and the entry of PT in another Brazilian company, Oi.

Consolidated revenues also rose dramatically to 1,716 million euros, almost double that in the period of 2011, financial adjustments in Brazil, even discounting the amount outstanding, representing a 2.7 less than in the first quarter of last year.

The results of the former monopoly telecommunications Luso handily beat analysts’ forecasts, although its gross income in Portugal fell by 5.2% (37 million),

According to information released today by the Commission on Securities Market (CMVM) Lisbon, PT increased its EBITDA (earnings before tax, amortization and interest) by 59.9 percent to 571.7 million euros .

Amid the severe economic crisis in Portugal, PT achieved their higher incomes, 60 percent in international markets, focusing on Brazil, which also correspond 227.3 million of EBITDA.

Gross profit of the operator arising in other markets, especially in Africa, amounted to 36.8 million, 37.3 percent more than in the first quarter of 2011.

The operator recorded investments of 259 million euros (120 in Brazil and 115 in Portugal) dedicated mainly to the expansion of telephone networks of third generation in the South American nation and fourth in their domestic market.

Its subsidiary Lusa Mobile, TMN, kept the customer base of 7.4 million, a slight increase of 0.6 percent, while its cable television operator Portugal, Meo, won 26.9% of subscribers , to 1.1 million.

Also fixed the subsidiary achieved a significant increase in customers, 11.9%, bringing its total to 1.14 million.

The Constitutional Court declared admissible the application lodged by the central government against the decision of the management of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) that ran the auction of drugs.

The Government decided to submit to the High Court a positive conflict of jurisdiction on the ground that it invaded the state law and reduced the range of services.

The approach of this conflict led to the suspension of this rule in Andalusia.

The executive said, when the Cabinet agreed on 30 March, was brought, that his decision was endorsed by the assent of the Council of State which questions the adequacy of competence order of the resolution regional.

The Board made the first such public auction on 19 March and she wanted to lower the price paid to public health by pharmaceutical drugs.

With the first of the auction, the regional government was awarded by public auction for certain generic drugs that were the need to dispense when the patient comes with a recipe that includes only the active ingredients, and thus save on the bill pharmaceutical.

In its resolution, the TC agreed to refer this request and the documents submitted to the Junta de Andalucía for within twenty days supply the documents and arguments it deems appropriate.

The mechanism set up in Andalusia, according to the central government clearly violates State powers and modifies the core portfolio of services established by the state, excluding benefits that could be accessed by applying the basic rules.

After presenting the petition to the High Court, the Executive launched a “procedure” to review the drug prices offered by four pharmaceutical companies that participated in the auction.

The Andalusian Government Executive considered the PP has moved beyond merely judicial and exerted pressure on the laboratories that were submitted to the auction of drugs.

The regional government charged that the contentious administrative declared admissible, sought a challenge to achieve rapid freezing of the measure.

The Constitutional Court also agreed to communicate this resolution to initiate this conflict to the High Court of Justice of Andalusia if challenged or is challenged that decision, in which case the process would be suspended until the decision by the High Court.

The Spanish Minister of Economy, Luis de Guindos, said today that Spain has taken “all measures” to return to growth and stabilize its economy, and called for cooperation and a joint response of the euro area to support the country.

“Spain has taken all the measures considered appropriate for effectively conviction, do we have to do to return to economic growth and stabilize the Spanish economy,” said De Guindos on arrival at the Eurogroup meeting which analyzes the situation in Spain today.

“From here we need the cooperation of the entire euro zone, a joint response, and I hope that tonight at the Eurogroup well defined,” he underlined.

The Minister of Economy and Competitiveness stressed that Spain has taken measures in the workplace, in the financial consolidation of banks profound, improvement in the medium and long-term fiscal position of the country and “we have done everything we had to do from the standpoint of the new government that takes four months and also with political stability, “said.

De Guindos attributed the dramatic rise in the risk premium to political instability in Greece and financial reform passed last Friday in Spain and provisions that will require millions of Spanish banks to sanitize and clean up their balance sheets “brick” ( real estate).

“The rise in risk premium has been quite widespread, as the fall in stock market and banks,” said the minister.

“Europe is living a moment right now complex crossroads, particularly in relation to the Greek theme and that is where we do have to make decisions,” said De Guindos.

These decisions “are important from the standpoint of political will to Greece to take measures that have to take,” added the minister.

In his opinion, political instability in Greece is now the largest element of uncertainty in capital markets.

“That’s where we need to act, find solutions and support,” he said.

Greece “has to meet commitments,” but political instability prevents you meet them and that is having an influence on other markets, he assured.

In this regard, said that the Eurogroup should give an answer to this problem in today’s meeting.

“I do not want to talk about a possible exit from the euro Greece, all I mean is that there are commitments from Greece, regardless of what their government, whatever the outcome of elections,” said.

“Greece has to give an answer from the point of view of the commitments are adequate counterpart funding that has been getting,” he underlined.