The Picture 500 of Credit and Caución shows an impairment of six sectors in Spain

The Picture 500 of Credit and Caución, that includes near of half thousand of forecasts detailed of behaviour of 14 sectors in 34 markets, has registered in the month of December fifteen changes in front of the forecasts of September. Fourteen are impairments and an improvement of the forecasts to global level.

Six of these 14 impairments give in Spain. It treats of the forecasts of sectorial behaviour of Automotive sector/transport, Paper, Services, Textile and Machinery/Engineering, that happen to ‘desfavorables', and the steel, situated already in the last level of the scale. Portugal also shows an impairment in three of these sectors: Paper, Machinery/Engineering and Steel. Together with Italy, where this month there are not changes, these three markets present the global image more complex to do businesses, with only three of the 14 sectors analysed in forecasts of favourable or good behaviour.

However, the deterioration leaves see also in other markets apparently solider. In Low Countries, the sector of durable consumption raisin to the last level of the scale, a symptom of the fall of his internal market. Feeding also retreats a level in Low Countries and the United Kingdom.

In two markets of Asia, Singapore and Thailand, there is an impairment of the sector of electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers, whose forecasts situate in levels ‘desfavorables'. In Hungary, however, this same sector goes out of these levels to reach favourable ‘perspectives' of behaviour.

The value of these forecasts is that they have been realised by the analysts of risks that value directly the risk associated to the companies in each market, when a Spanish company ensured by the Company wants to close a commercial operation in the external markets. Credit and Caución is the only Spanish operator of the insurance of integrated cheese cheese credit in a global operator of face to the external trade, the Group Atradius, that has direct presence in 45 markets and coverage in any country of the world through centres of experience that analyse and subscribe the risk from the nearest team to the buyer.