The Spanish stock exchange operator BME allows Holaluz to list on the stock exchange again from tomorrow, Tuesday. The Catalan company will rejoin the BME Growth market – the stock market for SMEs – once the ministry's procedure for Ecological Transition, which could have resulted in its disqualification as an energy marketer, has been archived.

The fast fashion giant Shein is preparing for one of the most anticipated stock market debuts, although it is doing so far from its best days. After frustrated attempts to land on the London and New York stock exchanges – mainly due to doubts from Beijing regulators – the Singapore-based Chinese company will begin trading this Tuesday on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

The stock market entries of the two competitors leading the race of commercial artificial intelligence – Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI (ChatGPT)– are touching. While the market entry of Dario Amodei's leading company is assumed to occur this fall, Sam Altman's tech company "will be a listed company in 2027, or even sooner", according to the company's chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, as reported last Wednesday in a meeting with employees.

The fashion e-commerce portal Shein presented this Monday on the Hong Kong stock exchange the conditions for its initial public offering. The platform expects to raise up to 1.513 billion euros, on a valuation of 23.122 billion, a substantially lower amount than the peaks recorded in 2022. At that time, shortly after a boom in e-commerce driven by the pandemic, the company founded in China, but headquartered in Singapore, was close to 100 billion dollars in value, about 85.6 billion euros.

Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree has debuted on the Shanghai stock exchange – on the STAR market, popularly known as the Chinese Nasdaq – with a 460% revaluation of its shares. At the close of Wednesday's session, the company's stock reached 845 yuan (108 euros), more than quintupling the initial amount of 150.8 yuan (19.3 euros) set in its initial public offering.

The artificial intelligence has been the engine of stock market success in recent years. The tech companies leading the AI market have reached unimaginable heights, to the point where the club of companies worth more than a trillion dollars is no longer an exclusive affiliation. Nvidia exceeds $5 trillion in market capitalization, while both Alphabet (Google) and Apple are above four trillion.

Grifols' results evolution has served to reduce tension among investors, who have not fully calmed down since the publication of the Gotham City Research report against the Catalan company in January 2024. The share price of the plasma-derived medicines giant remains far from the levels it held before the attack, but the good performance of its accounts has been enough to question some of the most critical theses regarding its value. Among them, those of some of the short-selling investors who had accumulated positions in the company's capital, and who have been reducing or withdrawing them in recent months.

The Ibex-35, the main Spanish stock market index, broke the 20,000-point barrier for the first time this Tuesday. The index of the country's large companies thus culminates the chain of records it has been linking throughout 2026. At the close of the session, it only needed a moderate acceleration – of 0.21%, already outside of trading hours – to rise above historic highs and end the day above 20,023 points.

The largest Chinese chip manufacturer, Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT), debuted this Monday on the Shanghai stock exchange, marking the second-largest IPO in the Asian giant's history. At the close of the session, the company's shares had appreciated by 466%, almost multiplying its initial quotation by six. Early on Monday, the technology company's shares had a unit price of 8.66 yuan (1.12 euros), while at the end of the day their value rose to 49.5 yuan (6.41 euros).

After a few days of calm and records, turbulence returns to the stock markets. The announcement by the US President, Donald Trump, that the ceasefire with Iran is over has caused an avalanche of sales and declines in all European stock exchanges.

The Catalan company for auxiliary tourism and travel services ByteTravel has debuted on the SME stock exchange, BME Growth, after almost two years listed on BME Scaleup. It is the second company to make the leap from one market to another. The stock market debut began with an increase, reaching 4.84 euros, with an increment of 7.56% and a capitalization of almost 135 million. The company's CEO, Axel Serena, rang the traditional bell at the Barcelona Stock Exchange, accompanied by the managing director of BME Growth and BME Scaleup, Jesús González Nieto, and the president of the Barcelona Stock Exchange, Fausto Agelet.

The president of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Carlos San Basilio, has argued that the Spanish stock market should grow in listed companies and diversification. "We should have an Ibex-50, with companies with high capitalization and liquidity, and that could be a market as diversified as possible," he stated during his intervention at the summer course of the UIMP and APIE held this week in Santander.

Elon Musk seeks to break down the doors of Wall Street. In an update to the IPO prospectus of his technology giant, SpaceX, the world's richest man has specified that it will issue 555 million shares at a unit price of $135. In this way, Musk's space and artificial intelligence insignia seeks to add about $75 billion to its capital, an amount that would consolidate it as the largest initial public offering (IPO, the technical name for a company's stock market debut) in history, surpassing that of the oil company Saudi Aramco in 2019, which raised just over $29 billion.

The war has begun and Elon Musk has fired first. The mega IPO of SpaceX, the all-encompassing technology company of the world's richest man, has opened the doors of Wall Street to generative AI. Although it is known for its rockets and defense contracts, SpaceX has housed xAI since February of this year, the company within the South African's conglomerate that manages its consumer artificial intelligence, the chatbot integrated into the X social network, Grok. Musk's public offering sets the path for the rest of the sector: a historically high capitalization target —$1.75 trillion— and billions raised to add to the immense computing investments that will be needed to cover growing demand. Following behind are Anthropic, the creator of Claude, which has the fourth quarter marked in red, and OpenAI, of ChatGPT, which left behind the legal problems with Musk and already has a clear path to join the New York stock exchange.

The distrust of investors with Grifols once again punishes the company's stock during earnings season. After the Catalan pharmaceutical company published its quarterly accounts at the close of Thursday's market, with a 22% increase in profit, up to 73 million euros, it opened Friday's stock session in a clear downward trend. Around twenty minutes to eleven in the morning, the Catalan multinational's shares are the worst in the selective index, with a decrease of more than 4%. Around midday, however, the analysis firm Moody's improved its assessment of the company's debt, painting a positive immediate future. With this new reading, the stock has rebounded slightly. After one in the afternoon, it lowered the value by about 2%, to 8.98 euros.

The Spanish defense and technology company Indra has begun trading on the stock market this Wednesday with an increase, hours after the departure from the shareholding of Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E) was announced, the company of brothers Ángel and Javier Escribano, who until Tuesday controlled 14.5% of the capital.

Banking has suffered a black day on the stock market. Financial institutions have painted European main indices red, dragged down by forecasts of economic contraction due to the war in Iran. All countries have seen their banks lose momentum since the opening, but the Spanish state is among the main victims. The Ibex-35, much more heavily weighted with banking stocks than the rest of the relevant EU indices, has fallen by nearly 2.4% this Monday, and is once again moving away from the 18,000-point threshold that marked its rally since the start of 2026. Far from these figures, the German Dax 40 has survived the declines in the stock prices of Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, and has stopped its freefall at -1.2%; while the French Cac 40 has dropped by nearly 1.7%.

After Iran announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, oil and gas prices have plummeted in the markets. Specifically, on Friday afternoon, the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil – the benchmark in Europe – fell by more than 10% and stood at around $89. Futures for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude—the benchmark in the United States—stood at around $83, almost 12% less than on Thursday. At some points during the conflict, the price of a barrel of Brent had touched $120. Despite Friday's drop, the price of oil remains above the $72 it stood at just before the attack by the United States and Israel on Iran.

Monday of strong tension in international financial markets. The failure of peace negotiations between Iran and the United States during this weekend has transferred geopolitical tension directly to the trading floors, which have once again turned red. Donald Trump's order to block the Strait of Hormuz –and his direct threat to sink any Iranian ship that ignores the siege– has set off all alarms about global supply.

In a year like 2025, with record stock market gains, the main executives of the Ibex companies, the main benchmark of the Spanish equity market, overwhelmingly earned very significant incomes, further widening the gap with the average earnings of their staff. The link between remuneration and stock performance contributed to boosting the incomes of many senior executives. A clear example was Manuel Manrique, president of Sacyr, who topped the rankings by earning 32.6 million euros, 384.59% more than the previous year, thanks to a bonus for the company's stock market rise since the pandemic. As a consequence of this plan, this executive, one of the founders of Sacyr, multiplied his remuneration of around 6.7 million from 2022, 2023, and 2024. The fact is that Manrique's remuneration was 628 times the average earned by the company's staff, which is around 52,000 euros, according to the directors' remuneration report published by this company.