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Portugal now has to pay investors more interest on sovereign gilts compared to April. In a double auction held by the Portuguese debt and treasury agency IGCP held on Wednesday morning, the state [...]

The amount of building projects granted planning permission fell 7.9% in the second quarter of 2022. According to Portugal’s national statistics institute (INE), 6,200 buildings received planning [...]

Portugal’s Prime Minister, António Costa says he is close to reaching an agreement with the main opposition party PSD on the ‘methodology’ to follow to select the location of Lisbon’s new [...]

Portugal’s insurance company Fidelidade and bank BCP are unlikely to be affected by financial problems reported by the Chinese company Fosun. The Chinese authorities have asked China’s largest [...]

The fast food restaurant company Ibersol closed the first half of the year with profits of €3.7 million — an improvement of €116.2% on the €22.9 million losses it made in H1 2021. Despite the [...]

The Israeli company HiBob has chosen Portugal to set up its new European tech hub. The hub will be located on Lisbon’s Avenida da Liberdade. HiBob, which operates a human resources platform that [...]

The Portuguese civil engineering and construction group Engexpor has won the contract to convert the old Napolitana factory building in Lisbon into a new international school. The school will be [...]

A top director at the Bank of Portugal has been chosen to head Portugal’s stock market regulator CMVM. According to news broken by ECO, Luís Laginha de Sousa, who is at the end of his term at the [...]

Portugal is one of five countries in Europe that is most attractive for investors in logistics. Investment in the real estate segment beat all records in the first half of 2022, exceeding [...]

The British-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce has paid a touching tribute to her late Majesty the Queen who died on Thursday. Essential Business reproduces the statement in full here. What has [...]