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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MADRID 000236
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/WE AND EEB/IFD/OMA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EWWT PTER SP
SUBJECT: MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL UPDATE - FEBRUARY
25-29
MADRID 00000236 001.2 OF 002
Table of Contents:
EFIN - Mortgage Issuance Down by a Third in December
EINV - Sovereign Wealth Fund Offers to Buy Real Estate Firm
EINV - 2007 Corporate Profits Announced
EINV - Prisa Group Aims to Expand in the U.S
ETRD/EINV - Ambassador Aguirre Remarks on NAFTA, Trade, and
IPR
EFIN/PTER - New Wave of ETA Extortion Letters to Basque
Businessmen
EWWT/PTER - GOS Wants to Expand Cargo Radiation Scanning
Program to 28 Marine Ports
Mortgage Issuance Down by a Third in December