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- Spain puts its fuel discount back up to 20 cents for October, then steps it down to 6 by December
- Portugal's new fuel aid reaches every haulier. Earthmoving firms are still left out
- Brussels wants insurers and pension funds backing European tech. Thirteen have already put their hands up
- Hundreds of trucks crawled from Paredes to Coimbra in a protest over diesel prices
- Portugal spent over a million euros on Mounjaro in a single day. That is more than 3,000 pens
- Porto's ring road is shut to lorries by day (and the alternative is now toll-free)
- Berkshire Hathaway makes Howard Buffett chairman as his father steps back
- A Portuguese name from 1824 has just left the Lisbon stock exchange
- Abanca will take the boat as collateral, and front the subsidies that arrive late
- Europe insures a quarter of its disaster losses. Von der Leyen wants an alliance to change that
- Portugal's regulated electricity tariff goes up on 1 October. For most homes that is under a euro a month
- 62 consultation responses have pushed Portugal's 1,050 MVA storage auction back by a month
- From today the Portuguese state hands back 9.8 cents on every litre of diesel
- Nearly half of Portugal's gold sits in London, and none of it is in New York
- Douro growers will be paid for the grapes they don't pick (and the fruit has to stay on the vine)
- Nigeria sent half the LNG that landed at Sines last year
- Cape Verde to Ponta Delgada costs €218. Lisbon to Ponta Delgada, half the flight time, tops €500
- Portugal's deposit-return scheme has taken back 305 million containers in five months
- Your Portuguese mortgage does not move the day the ECB does
- Portugal's 10-cent farm diesel rebate runs again until December (and it only pays in the weeks prices climb)
- Portugal's trade gap shrank by €393m in July. Take one line out and it grew
- The Portuguese school that just finished ahead of HEC Paris and INSEAD
- Portugal is still starting companies. Only construction and tech are starting more
- Fitch lifts Portugal to A+, the fourth upgrade in two years
- Fill the tank this weekend if you can. Diesel in Portugal hits an all-time high on Monday
- €700 million for Alentejo roads and rail, and three years to spend it
- Two banks ran out of state guarantee. Young buyers just got €100m more
- Paid an online shop that has since gone bust? You get up to 30 days to file a claim
- If you drive for Uber or Bolt in Portugal, today is when your rules change
- Every Portuguese region earned more from tourism in July except Greater Lisbon
- Diesel drops 7.5 cents a litre today, petrol adds 1.5
- Portugal's €22bn recovery plan closes today with nothing sent back to Brussels
- Portugal closed 289 company deals to July. That is 28% fewer than last year
- Two consortiums, 262 million euros apart, want to build Portugal's next high-speed rail section
- Beja's Super Tucano line would build for other NATO buyers, not for Portugal
- Portugal caps cash payments at €3,000, and the EU's own limit arrives in 2027
- Every litre of diesel in Portugal carries 11.1 cents of a levy the EU court rejected in 2022
- Portugal's medicinal cannabis exports have grown 762% in three years
- AliExpress's owner is raising 10.2 billion dollars on the market to spend on nothing but AI
- Kevin Warsh gives his first Jackson Hole speech on Friday, at a symposium about payments
- Diesel goes up 3.5 cents on Monday. That is 1.75 euros more for a 50-litre tank
- Portuguese household debt is growing at its fastest rate since records began in 2008
- Monte dei Paschi is bidding for two banks at once, and the tab comes to €34bn
- Markets tracker: gold, the Fed, oil and stocks
- Portugal's external surplus halved in a year. Imports grew twice as fast as exports
- 17,000 foreign-owned companies do 46% of Portugal's exporting
- Portugal's cheap night electricity is moving. Set your washing machine half an hour later
- The €2 carbon charge on Portuguese flights has now raised €266.6 million
- Who signs off Portugal's 13.7% REN stake? The Court of Auditors, and it rarely gets asked
- €880m in competition fines were about to expire. A one-article law changed that today
- Portuguese pay is up 5.1% to €1,835 a month. After inflation it is up 1.8%
- Zara's owner sold out of Portugal's power grid. The state stepped in
- Filling up before Monday will save you about four euros a tank
- Portuguese tourism is 8.1% of the economy. It is also 16.1%
- Montijo finally has a long-distance coach stop of its own. The fare to Coimbra starts at €4.49
- The EU's new car-scrapping rules start today. The parts that reach your driveway come later
- Novobanco made €367.2m in six months, 15.6% less than a year ago
- Norway's oil fund just bought eight Spanish shopping centres. Sonae Sierra gets to run them
- Portuguese industry sold 6.5% more in June. Its payroll shrank
- Five Braga charities are up to 95% through their builds and could still lose the EU money
- Only two bidders are left in the race to sell CP its 300 km/h trains
- Fuel gets cheaper in Portugal on Monday (the state kept two cents of it)
- Portugal's competition authority clears Fnac's owner to take over 11 Staples stores
- easyJet agrees to a £5.7bn takeover by Apollo
- Portugal approves €1.6 billion to rebuild its electricity distribution grid
- Do bottles without the Volta symbol vanish on Monday? No, and the agency has said so
- Portugal's debt pile grew by 5.2 billion euros in a single month
- 45,500 fewer unemployed in three months, and a jobless rate not seen since 2011
- The US and Japan bought yen together for the first time since 1998
- Portugal's development bank just opened a €1.5 billion credit line for companies
- €2,519 million in six months, and Portugal's five biggest banks still earned less than last year
- Filling up this week? Diesel costs a little more, petrol a little less
- Solar covered 19% of Portugal's electricity in July, more than any other source
- Portugal's tourist accommodation took 786.6 million euros in June (on fewer foreign nights than last year)
- BPI made €239 million in six months, down 13%, and the reason sits in the footnotes
- Electric cars are now a quarter of Portugal's market and diesel is fading fast
- Semapa booked 570 million euros, and 516 million of that came from selling Secil
- Portugal's budget slipped into deficit by June, and old health-service bills did it
- Caixa Geral de Depositos is selling its Brazilian bank and turning back towards home
- Portugal's inflation slowed to 3% in July, but energy is still running at 8.7%
- BMW is cutting up to 8,000 jobs, and Germany has stopped being surprised
- EDP made 732 million euros in six months, with renewables and grids doing the pulling
- Portugal's economy looks to have grown again in the second quarter after a flat start to the year
- TAP's final bids land today, and only Air France-KLM and Lufthansa are still in the race
- Portugal's economy slows this year and 2027 barely lifts it, warns the Competitiveness Forum
- Galp made 812 million euros by June and is raising the dividend on top
- Euro banknotes are getting their first redesign since 2002, and the ECB wants your vote
- Six in every ten venture dollars went into giant rounds this year
- Intel was losing the AI race and is somehow making money from it anyway
- Google spent so much on data centres that its free cash flow went negative
- Portugal ranks fourth in the EU for renewable electricity, and Austria is still miles ahead
- Should Portugal's minimum wage jump to €1,050 now? Unions think so
- Foreign investment hit a record in Portugal — and Montenegro says the country has never been friendlier to investors
- Catalyxx picks Sines for its first renewable-chemicals plant — €120 million, work starting this year
- Germany's Hennig is building a factory in Figueira da Foz, with more than 600 jobs promised
- Portugal is heading for another record tourism summer — and now revenue beats bed counts
- KKR is in the race for Dstelecom, Portugal's wholesale fibre network — and the price could hit €400 million
- Destroying unsold clothes is now illegal in the EU — and Portugal's factories stand to gain
- Diesel in Portugal jumps 13.5 cents on Monday — the biggest hike of the year
- Anthropic could go public as soon as October — beating OpenAI to Wall Street
- Angolan investment in Portugal has nearly doubled — and now tops what Portugal holds in Angola
- Apple is worth more than Nvidia again — and the 5-trillion mark is in sight
- The IMF gave Portugal's banks a pass — and SMEs may feel the squeeze
- Food prices in Europe now have a bigger enemy than war — this summer's heatwaves
- Coca-Cola halted Fairlife production in the US — ransomware reached the factory floor
- Fuel prices in Portugal rise fast and fall slowly — the government now wants answers, and may cap margins
- Trade Republic now issues Portuguese IBANs — and pays 3% to rattle the banks
- Glovo Portugal is getting a new owner — sold to a US fund as part of the Uber-Delivery Hero deal
- Portugal's airports handled 7.1 million passengers in May and broke the record again
- Portugal's economy sped up in the second quarter, says the finance minister. The recovery-fund bill is what slows everything else
- Fertiliser prices went through the roof, so Brussels just handed Portugal €162 million
- Meta plans to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027
- Banking jobs in Portugal hit highest level since BES collapse: 782 new posts in a year
- SK Hynix jumps 13% in Nasdaq debut after biggest foreign IPO in US history
- Portugal exports up 5.1% in May, but the year's trade deficit keeps widening
- Delta rescues Mocoffee: 3 million euros to save Azambuja capsule factory
- European Tech Champions Initiative: Portugal joins EIB fund aiming to mobilise 80 billion euros
- Portugal's space sector is worth €1.2 billion — and every euro generates another €1.17
- Portuguese wine: AEP brings buyers from six European markets to Porto
- Portugal's GDP grows 2.2% in the second quarter as Católica lifts 2026 forecast
- New company creation in Portugal falls 4.1% — but construction is booming
- Grupo Paulo Duarte: UK's ICG buys 33.5% stake and commits up to 200 million euros to build an Iberian freight giant
- Portugal's tax authority set a decade record: 641,000 garnishment orders and 1.55 billion euros recovered in 2025
- COTEC Innovative Status 2026: 1,171 Portuguese companies recognised
- Portuguese companies more profitable in early 2026, Bank of Portugal data show
- IKEA arrives in Coimbra: "small but mighty" store opens this month
- South Korea's exports surge 70.9%, the fastest growth since 1978
- Portugal is growing faster than the eurozone in 2026 (and the market likes it)
- Portugal's economy at mid-2026: inflation rising, tourism holding on
- Wall Street ends the half-year at record highs and drags European savings up too
- Short-term rentals keep booming: new companies surge by double digits
- Gold loses its shine: the metal slips to lows on rate fears
- Tourism on a high: the money is flowing back into hotels
- Portugal's economy: growing above average, but with bumps along the way
- ECB raises rates for the first time since 2023: and Euribor?
- Oil on alert: the strait that moves the price of petrol
- Portugal's economy finds momentum at the start of 2026
- US inflation jumps and the world is talking about higher rates again
- Gold strings together a fourth month of losses: fever broken?
- Brussels sees Portugal growing less in 2026 — but no hard stop
- The ECB lines up another rate hike and Euribor bites again
- OpenAI's mega-round reignites fears of an AI bubble
- PSI near a 16-year high: Lisbon's stock market is having a moment
- Brent at a yearly low: is relief at the pump on the way?
- Bank of Portugal: economy holding up, but inflation still nags
- Oil returns to pre-crisis levels and gives fuel prices some slack
- European stocks fall on AI-bill jitters; gold hovers near highs
- ECB raises rates to 2.25% and Euribor follows
- Inflation holds at 3.3%, and energy is still calling the shots
- Gold loses its shine: far from January's record as Iran tensions ease
- IMF trims Portugal's growth forecast to 1.7% — but sees the books balanced
- Bank of Portugal: economy growing 1.8%, but inflation keeps nagging
- The chip shock: AI's bill reached the shops and rattled the markets
- IMF trims Portugal's 2026 growth forecast (again) to 1.7%
- Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs and points the finger at AI
- Google joins the Dow Jones, and Verizon shows itself out
- Inflation steady at 3.3% — but energy is still burning
- Mercadona opens its 73rd Portuguese store — and 64 jobs
- Gold stumbles and the Fed changes its tune: what to watch this week
- Markets This Week: The Fed Scare Still Hangs in the Air
- Bank of Portugal holds growth at 1.8% — and flags inflation
- Markets are jittery — and now the talk is raising rates, not cutting them
- Gold down, dollar up: the wrap on a jittery week
- Portugal was "economy of the year" — but there's a cliff edge marked June 30
- The ECB raised rates — its first hike since 2023
- Portugal's economy in 2026: growing, but inflation keeps biting
- Stocks party, oil sinks: the day the tension eased
- Gold's wild ride — and what it says about your savings
- OpenAI announcement: the record $122B round and IPO, explained