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Yet another case of less than stellar lending choices has been levelled at state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos. This time it has been revealed that CGD lent €125 million to Angolan tycoon [...]

The interest rates on Portuguese debt has achieved a new historic low after the ratings agency Fitch increased the country’s outlook to ‘stable’. It means that the interest paid to investors via [...]

Portugal’s Visabeira Group, which operates in the hotel, ceramics and crystal glassware sectors, has sold off properties worth €70 million. The oad is part of its ongoing reorganisation and [...]

As his five-year tenure in Brussels ends, Carlos Moedas, the European Union Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation expresses the need for a Capital Markets Union during a lunch [...]

Political Economist Richard H.K. Vietor, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School visited Lisbon in May as a speaker at the conference ‘Portugal: Where [...]

Greenfest, the largest sustainability festival in Portugal, will be held in Braga between 6-9 June 2019. Greenfest is the national stage for showcasing and sharing best practices, ideas and [...]

The US ratings agency Fitch, which is currently examining Portuguese debt, is considering increasing Portugal’s rating. Fitch analysts are forecasting the outlook for Portuguese debt to pass from [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Finance, Mário Centeno, hit out at the European Central Bank today over its interference in the question of whether and how Portugal should reform its financial supervision [...]

Overseas investorsInternational investors considering operating in the Portuguese market should seek local partners. This was a widely held opinion at Portugal GRI 2019 which saw investors, [...]

Staff, crew and travel agents celebrated the relaunch of Air Canada’s three-times weekly seasonal Rouge service from Lisbon to Montreal’s Montréal-Trudeau airport on Friday. The service from [...]