Sep 21 2016
LISBON Europe's largest tech event, the Web Summit, will double in size when it is held for the first time in Lisbon in November to tackle everything from hot new startups to the race to make driverless cars, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
Aug 09 2016
LISBON Portugal is set to begin phasing out support for utilities generating renewable power, a top government official said, as Lisbon tackles high electricity prices that are hampering efforts to bolster its struggling economy.
Jan 28 2016
LISBON, Jan 28 The asset quality of Portugal's
banking sector is stabilising, and recent resolutions at two
lenders - Novo Banco and Banif - have little spillover to other
local banks, allowing Fitch Ratings to maintain the sector's
stable outlook.
Nov 09 2015
MONFORTE, Portugal Shades of Oscar-winning classic "Cinema Paradiso" run through the life of Antonio Feliciano, a sprightly 75-year-old who fears he may be the last of Portugal's traveling film projectionists.
Nov 09 2015
MONFORTE, Portugal Shades of Oscar-winning classic "Cinema Paradiso" run through the life of Antonio Feliciano, a sprightly 75-year-old who fears he may be the last of Portugal's travelling film projectionists.
Jun 25 2015
LISBON, June 25 The Bank of Portugal urged
central banks in Portuguese-speaking Africa to raise supervision
standards to the European banking union's tougher requirements
to avoid capital cost hikes for European banks in Africa.
May 28 2015
LISBON A Greek exit from the euro would not mark a return to the debt crisis of 2012, but it would create risks of contagion and change the nature of the monetary union, which was supposed to be permanent, a senior Moody's rating analyst said on Thursday.
Mar 04 2015
LISBON, March 4 An attempt by Isabel dos Santos
to orchestrate a merger of two of Portugal's largest banks has a
better chance of success than past attempts by Africa's richest
woman to shake up Portugal Inc, analysts and industry sources
say.
Feb 13 2015
LISBON, Feb 13 Portugal's pulp and paper maker
Portucel should double or even triple its capital
expenditure this year, with more borrowing likely as it enters a
new cycle of growth after buying tissue producer AMS, whose
output it wants to quadruple by 2017.
Jul 18 2014
LISBON One of the holding companies of Portugal's Espirito Santo banking clan filed for creditor protection in Luxembourg on Friday and the business empire's problems also spilled over to Angola where the central bank said the local unit of Banco Espirito Santo would need more capital to deal with bad loans.