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Shift4 (NYSE:FOUR), a global leader in payment processing technology, just announced “Pay with Crypto,” a pioneering solution that allows businesses worldwide to accept cryptocurrencies in one [...]

In the first six months of 2024 overseas investors spent €464 million on buying 800 residential properties in the Lisbon Urban Rehabilitation Area (LURA). The total number of properties purchased [...]

Portugal’s Economists Association has presented a former minister for Industry and Energy with the commendation ‘Economist Emeritus’. Economist Luís Mira Amaral, who already has several [...]

Portugal’s external trade surplus reached a new all-time high in the third quarter of this year, reaching 3.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In nominal terms, it amounted to €8.2Bn, more than [...]

The CEO of Spain’s CaixaBank, Gonzalo Gortázar Rotaeche, has ruled out any plans to make acquisitions in the Portuguese banking market, instead opting to continue to grow organically. The Spanish [...]

The ratings agency Moody’s has improved the ratings of seven Portuguese banks because of “improved operational conditions” in Portugal which led to Portugal’s macroeconomic rating being raised to [...]

Portugal is expected to continue to grow above the European Union (EU) average until 2026, in a cycle of economic convergence that is higher than that estimated for most member states. But this [...]

Almost a year after the ‘green light’ was given by Portuguese MPs, an Emergency Housing Fund remains unimplemented. The proposal to amend the State Budget for 2024 (OE2024) provides for the use [...]

The exports of Portuguese small and medium-sized companies on Amazon surpassed the threshold of 130 million euros for the first time last year. The figure implies a growth of more than 25% in [...]

Employment in the franchising sector continues to grow in Portugal. After increasing 4.8% last year, having surpassed the 185,000 jobs threshold, it is expected to grow “between 2% and 3%” for [...]