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The political crisis in Italy has pushed interest rates on Portuguese sovereign bonds to 2.4% – the highest since October 2017.   Yields on 10-year Portuguese treasury bonds (Gilts) [...]

Raizecrowd, a Portuguese fintech crowdfunding startup has been the first entity of its kind in Portugal to be registered on Portugal’s securities market commission CMVM.   The fund is now [...]

Portugal’s Prime Minister, António Costa has pledged that his socialist PS government will not raise taxes for the foreseeable future.   Instead, the prime minister says “maintaining [...]

German chancellor Angela Merkel visited Bosch’s new technology centre in Braga on Wednesday. Bosch, which employs around 4,450 in Portugal has formed a team at its technology centre to develop [...]

Shareholders for Teixeira Duarte have approved board of directors results of €-15.36million for the financial year 2017.   The negative results of €15,359,540,30 have been sent to the [...]

The Portuguese Cooperative-style bank Montepio is to invest €11 million in a home for the elderly in Lisbon’s Entrecampos zone.   The building, currently under construction, is on a 13,000m2 [...]

A French property developer is to build a mega-development in Lisbon’s Alcântara by trendy alternative co-work and shopping area LX Factory.   The two buildings comprise offices and housing [...]

Portuguese insurer Fidelidade is broadening its investment portfolio to include beer, clothing and tourism.   Fidelidade is now a shareholder in the Chinese beer brewer Tsingtao. Fidelidade [...]

The Portuguese Hotel Association (AHP) has voiced its opposition to oil prospection at Aljezur. Its opposition to prospection off the Alentejo coast is down to it being a “polluting industry” [...]

Porto property prices per square metre have soared 127% since 2013 according to a study by Porto Municipal Council and Confidential Imobiliário which produces property price indices for Lisbon [...]