Patrick Drahi is said to be looking for private investors to join his company in the purchase of the North-American Charter. Altice's deal could be worth around 200 billion euros.

Portuguese hotel businesses have earned 1.3 billion euros in the first semester of 2017.

Even so, the Portuguese economy continues growing above the Euro Area average. This rise has been happening for nine months now, which hadn't happen since 2001.

Large demand from foreign investors, race towards short renting, low remuneration of banking deposits and the fact that most businesses are paid in cash: these are some explanations for this boom.

Next Wednesday, there will be a new short-term debt auction. Portugal attempts to place up to one billion euros in Treasury Bills on three and eleven months' maturities.

Altice made a 440 million euros' offer to purchase Media Capital and the administration of TVI's owner has a favorable opinion on the takeover bid.

The decree law regulating the credit recovering funds has been published in the Portuguese Official Journal, effective immediately.

If landlords want to increase rents, they will have to warn tenants by means of a registered letter, at worse 30 days before the day of the update.

If the unemployment rate continues to stand below the expectation for the end of the year, Centeno gets a 340 million euros' margin for the Portuguese State Budget.

Dirk, who is not a trained enologist, has conquered the Portuguese wine industry. Some of the best Douro table wines come from the family company Niepoort, which continues growing.

Portuguese inflation stood at 0.9% in July, in line with what happened in the previous month.

Mário Centeno dismisses the possibility of a debt restructuring. The Finance minister stated, in an interview to El País, that the right path is to "tame the market".

The trade balance deficit increased again in July of 2017, surpassing one billion euros. In the first semester of this year, the trade deficit ascends to 6.3 billion euros.

Former BES' emigrant clients will receive 75% of the investments they made on the bad bank, within an average period of three years. In return, they will drop the lawsuits against Novo Banco.

Unemployment rate falls to 8.8% in the second quarter of 2017. In just three months, 102.3 thousand job positions have been created.

Creditors such as Pimco sent a letter to Novo Banco and the Bank of Portugal calling for an "urgent" meeting. They are not willing to accept the terms NB is offering. Sale to Lone Star is at stake.

Investment had decreased in July, but the balance continues to be positive in comparison to last year. The largest slice continues to be invested in real estate, especially by the Chinese.

Around four billion euros were granted by Portuguese banks to new housing credit in the first half of 2017. This is a new maximum of seven years.

OECD's composite leading indicators point to a sable growth momentum in the next six to nine months in Portugal, without foreseeing any strong changes in the cycle. But there is a red flag.

"The tenders are to encourage investors to attend and prices should be higher than secondary levels previous to the tender", criticized Ever Capital, which invested five million euros in Novo Banco.

In the end of July, the European Central Bank held 28.6 billion euros in debt securities from the Portuguese Government. During that month, the monetary authority acquired 517 million euros in debt.

Portuguese public administrations are among those who spend less per inhabitant in leisure, culture and religion. Portugal also spends less in comparison to total expenditures. Or to GDP.

All in all, there are over 1.7 million Portuguese emigrants in Europe. They are younger, more educated and more employed than Portuguese citizens living in Portugal.

Pepper Group wants to make the most of Portugal's economic recovery and car loans' improvement. The CEO of the Australian group who purchased Banco Primus told ECO he wants to start taking deposits.