Interest rates

The Governor of the Bank of Portugal (BdP), Álvaro Santos Pereira, has expressed his support for an increase in interest rates at the next monetary policy meeting of the European Central Bank [...]

Interest rates on Portuguese sovereign debt fell on two, five and 10-year bonds, following the lead of Spain and Ireland. According to Lusa, At 8:35 am in Lisbon, interest on10-year bonds fell to [...]

European and US central bankers were reserved over hopes that inflation on both sides of the Atlantic was significantly coming down. Members of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal [...]

By Michael Bruxo [email protected] The Portuguese government approved three measures at a Council of Minsters meeting on Thursday aimed at offsetting the effect of interest rate [...]

Successive rounds of ECB interest hikes have filtered down to Portugal’s housing market putting an extra 40% on the average monthly mortgage repayment to €370. This is according to data from the [...]

The European Central Bank must continue to pursue high interest rates in order to prevent a wage price spiral. This was the key message from the President of the ECB Christine Lagarde who warned [...]

A Portuguese economist who ran the country’s treasury and debt management agency IGCP, has warned that despite forecasts that interest rates will stabilise at between 2% and 3%, high interest [...]

The monthly interest repayments on mortgages has reached its highest level since 2009 according to the National Statistics Institute INE. In May the average monthly repayment stood at €352, up [...]

Portuguese families will have to fork out up to €270 extra per month starting January as mortgage lenders passed on the cost of European Central Bank interest rate hikes introduced to curb [...]

Analysts at bank BPI says that despite the Portuguese housing market showing a high level of resilience, there may be a housing market price correction of 1.5% in 2023. For 2022 overall, BPI [...]