Bonds and Gilts

Portugal’s finance minister João Leão has reduced the treasury’s ‘airbag’ by €8.1Bn — the amount set aside to cover unpredictable shocks that may impact government spending or borrowing — in [...]

Interest rates on Portuguese 10-year sovereign bonds have increased beyond 1% for the first time since April 2020. It was the seventh consecutive percentage point increase. The yield on 10-year [...]

The Portuguese State will issue, through its debt and treasury agency IGCP, bonds worth €17.7Bn to finance the public sector. However, the actual estimate for government spending needs this year [...]

The Portuguese Agency of the Treasury and Public Debt Management (IGCP) is not an institution that is in the limelight for most Portuguese, yet it has a vital task is raising around €15Bn a year [...]

Portugal’s largest motorway toll concession company, Brisa (BCR), has issued €75 million in corporate commercial bonds with a maturity date for January 2026. The company informed the Portuguese [...]

Portugal’s famous football club Sporting has already netted €40 million from floating 3,336 shares on the market which were eagerly snapped up by investors and fans. Half of the investors (56.4%) [...]

The former finance minister Maria Luís Albuquerque has left the British investment firm Arrow Capital Partners. It is understood that Albuquerque, who also worked at Portugal’s treasury and debt [...]

The Portuguese construction giant Mota-Engil is to issue €75 million in sustainable debt through non-qualified bonds. The subscription period starts today and takes place at the same time as two [...]

Portugal’s treasury and debt management agency IGCP sold €1Bn in 10-year treasury bonds on Wednesday at low interest rates not seen before the pandemic, despite political and government [...]

Portugal’s socialist government led by António Costa saw its State Budget 2022 voted down by parliamentary MPs on Wednesday. It means that the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa [...]