Reuters: Financial Services and Real Estate: Spanish stocks - Factors to watch on Thurssday

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Spanish stocks - Factors to watch on Thurssday Mar 29th 2012, 04:00 MADRID, March 29 | Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:00am EDT MADRID, March 29 (Reuters) - The following Spanish stocks may be affected by newspaper reports and other factors on Thursday. Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy: GENERAL STRIKE Spanish workers stage their first general strike against the new centre-right government's sweeping reform policies on Thursday in a show of how much austerity society will tolerate in the midst of a prolonged economic slump. On Wednesday, the head of Spain's biggest union warned that more protests would follow Thursday's general strike if the government does not back down over a deeply unpopular labour market reform. MAPFRE, BANKIA Spanish banking group BFA, which owns listed bank Bankia , said on Wednesday it had sold 10.36 percent of Mapfre America to the insurer's parent Mapfre for 244 million euros ($324 million) as part of a strategy to sell non-core assets. IBERDROLA The Spanish power firm is searching for a new chief executive, sources said, splitting the dual role currently held by its chairman to meet a pledge to investment fund owners and gain their support against main shareholder ACS. For today's European market outlook double click on. For real-time moves on the Spanish blue-chip index IBEX please double click on For IBEX constituent stocks highlight .IBEX in the command box and press the F3 button on your keyboard For latest news on Spanish stock moves double click For Spanish language market report double click on For latest Eurostocks report please double click on Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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