Avlo Spanish low cost ave opens services 23rd June 2021 - Avlo, the Ave low cost, opens this Wednesday with 4 daily services, but only for the Northeast corridor of the high speed.

After a delay of one year and 3 months, the Avlo will finally begin to circulate to offer a high-speed economic alternative between Madrid and Barcelona.

The official debut will be on a train that will depart on Wednesday 23 at 5:35 from Figueres-Vilafant to Madrid, while in the opposite direction the first convoy will depart from Atocha station at 6: 20, with a final in Barcelona-Sants.

Initially there will be 4 daily services in the so-called Northeast Corridor of the high speed, where in addition to Madrid, Barcelona and Figueres the Avlo also stop in Guadalajara, Calatayud, Zaragoza, Lleida, Tarragona and Girona.

However, according to Renfe, this amount could be increased according to the evolution of the demand for the service.

Avlo Spanish low cost ave opens services 23rd June 2021

In addition to the traditional Ave services, Renfe will offer a total of 40 daily trains (20 for each direction) between Madrid and Barcelona, totaling 16,000 seats.

The delay in the start-up, imposed by the pandemic, led the French operator SNCF to anticipate Renfe with the launch of its low-cost service Ouigo, which debuted a month ago with the same route.

Avlo trains have a single class, where tickets are sold from 7 euros (or 5 euros in the case of children under 14).

Avlo Spanish low cost ave opens services 23rd June 2021: This rate includes the free transportation of a cabin suitcase and a handbag or backpack.

To be able to carry luggage larger than 85×60×35 cm, you must pay a surcharge of 10 euros (or 30 euros if the change is made at the station).

Other services, such as choosing a seat, changing or cancelling the ticket, also involve a surcharge on the final fare in the order of 8 euros.

Strollers can be carried free of charge, as well as bicycles (but only those that are foldable).

Each convoy will carry 438 passengers, 20% more than the Ave 112 series trains running the same route. It is not that the lines are closer together, but that the Avlo service does not have a cafeteria car.

Avlo Spanish low cost ave opens services 23rd June 2021

In any case, there are vending machines for soft drinks and snacks to relieve hunger during the trip.

The interior of the cars is decorated in soft, raw tones, with details of Renfe's corporate purple in details such as the hallway carpet and there are orange touches like the armrests.

Since the tickets are nominative, to buy them you have to register at www.avlorenfe.com or in www.renfe.com and enter personal data.

The new low-cost trains are certified in sanitation, disinfection and cleaning, with protocols certified by AENOR and SGS, a world leader in inspection, verification, testing and certification.

Avlo Spanish low cost ave opens services 23rd June 2021

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One of the largest fund managers in the world shares 4 ways to bet on accelerating economic growth, and the perfect way to take advantage of each theme

After a couple of months of turmoil in the stock markets and a high liquidation of shares, these have returned to record highs. The Swiss investment bank UBS includes in a report some advice to the uncertainty of investors so that they can obtain higher returns.

According to a recent report from the firm's investment office, valued at more than $ 1.1 trillion, "there are factors in the market that support our view that there is still room for excellent returns."

The reason they allude to from the firm's main investment office is that the markets are currently reacting to low bond yields and strong earnings around the world. Meanwhile, investors are being rewarded for taking risks thanks to a high equity risk premium.

These are the four tips that UBS offers for investors to bet on the niches that should work best:

(1) Reflation

UBS points out that investors can benefit from faster economic growth and higher inflation in two different ways. In particular, they suggest that rising inflation and yields will help banks, while energy stocks will rise alongside oil and fuel prices.

They also see companies with pricing power as potential winners in this context. "Companies with pricing power should preserve or even improve margins and profits, even if their costs are rising," says the UBS report. The firm also believes that companies with medium or small capitalization are better bets than large ones, since they are more exposed to the strengthening of the economy.

However, as bond yields slowly rise, stocks in companies with high capitalization value should perform better than those in the growth phase, they say. Within this section, UBS is also optimistic about the shares of Japanese companies, because they are currently cheap due to the slow process of vaccination in the Japanese country.
(2) Reopening

The process of economic reopening, after the worst months of the pandemic in much of the world, is another key factor for UBS. According to the Swiss bank, many of the profits are still not being included in the prices. The report points out that there is still room within the cyclical and emerging markets in the US thanks to continued growth, ample liquidity and a weak dollar.

"As Asia's economies reopen more fully, we expect a number of beneficiaries from this reopening in six industries (capital goods, building materials, consumer services, transportation, banking and metals and mining) who should benefit from both the reopening and the reflation," they foresee from the firm.
(3) Commodities

UBS also predicts that oil prices should remain above multi-year highs for the rest of the year, and forecasts investment returns of between 10% and 15% in diversified commodity indices over a period of six months to one year.

"We also believe that this is a good time for investors to consider the role of commodities in their investment portfolios, both as beneficiaries of further growth and as hedges against the risk of persistent inflation," they say. In the same direction, they foresee that the increase in the price of raw materials will support the currencies of the currencies of the producing countries, such as the Australian dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Norwegian krone or the Russian ruble.
(4) A new way of entering into shares of technology companies

Big tech companies have been disadvantaged in recent months and Mark Haefele, chief investment officer for UBS ' global wealth management division, believes there is not much reason to rush.

"We expect yields to resume their gradual escalation, and believe that antitrust measures developed in the United States could pose an overall short-term risk to technology stocks," Haefele said in a recent note to customers.

The prospects for technology, in a broad sense, are much more promising. The expert believes that instead of betting on companies like Apple, investors should look for opportunities in private equity investments of technology companies that are in the initial phase.

"Global technology acquisitions within investment capital amounted to 82 billion dollars (about 68 billion euros) during the first quarter of 2021, an all-time high for one quarter, and 144% more compared to the first quarter of 2020," he recalls. He adds:"Compared to listed shares, capital investments in technology companies are less concentrated in a small number of companies."

This means that for those who can participate in this type of investment there are many more companies to bet on (almost half a million, compared to the 8,100 shares of the listed technology companies), as well as greater potential growth if they put their money in an early-stage company that becomes successful.