Difficulties in recruiting qualified workers, external shocks and fear of changes in the labor law. These are some of the warnings left by IMF, which commends banking and fiscal consolidation.

The consumer confidence indicator increased in May, for the third consecutive month and to the highest value of the series.

The matter concerns the special regime for deferred tax assets, which foresee the State's entrance in the banks' capital as a compensation for this benefit.

Portuguese debt interests increase, affected by the political tension experienced in Italy. The Portuguese ten-year rate is standing at maximums of seven-months.

The value for the banking evaluation stood at an average of 1,171 euros per square meter in April of this year, the highest amount since June of 2010.

Pierre Moscovici sees some important imbalances, namely the high level of external debt, both public and private, and vulnerabilities in the banking sector and segmentation of the labor market.

The State lent 430 million euros to Novo Banco this year, but Ricardo Mourinho Félix says the negative impact of these "significant impairments" will not be repeated in 2019.

EDP has sent a requirement to the regulator to know if the representatives of China Three Gorges can be present in the company's meeting during the takeover bid.

The Finance ministry lent the Resolution Fund 430 million euros for an injection in Novo Banco, an amount that should stand below the maximum amount of 450 million euros that was foreseen. 

The list is made by IMD World Competitiveness Centre, which increased Portugal's place in the ranking because of the improvement in the economic growth and in the business and governmental efficiency.

Small investors will only be able to buy shares from Sonae's retail portfolio when the new company is listed in the Lisbon stock market.

Portuguese public debt according to Maastricht, the definition that matters to Brussels, reached 126.4% of GDP in March, according to data from the Bank of Portugal.

A deleveraging in families and private companies help decrease the Portuguese economy's indebtedness in March. Assuming its weight on GDP, debt retrieves to the smallest amount since 2010.

As a lawyer, Siza Vieira cooperated in a law that made a Chinese takeover bid on EDP easier. As a minister, he met CTG. Lastly, he asked to be excluded from intervening in the electricity sector.

The interest rate on housing loans increased for the second consecutive month to 1.031%. With this new increase, home interests reached levels that had last been registered in 2016.

The bank headed by Paulo Macedo wants to sell two NPL portfolios this year. "The proceedings are well under way", CGD stated in the conference call for the quarterly results.

The Chinese agency Dagong improved Novo Banco's rating, but kept it in a speculative investment grade. 

The Catalan group continues to reinforce its stake on the Portuguese bank by purchasing more shares in the market. It only needs a little over 6% to fully own BPI.

The 792 million euros' injection in Novo Banco will be concluded in the next couple of days, Ricardo Mourinho Félix assures. The injection is a reinforcement, after the bank's record losses in 2017.

The CEO of Lloyds Bank compliments Portuguese bank's efforts to solve the NPL issue, but advocates for the need to do more. Internationally, the high level of NPL creates "uneasiness", he says.

The Portuguese Executive changed the Securities Market Code, namely an article related to the joint liability for the voting rights of shareholders from companies that are connected with each other.

Portuguese debt interests worsen, in sync with its peripheral peers, conditioned by the perspective of a debt pardon of 250 billion euros by the ECB from an Italian partisan coalition. 

The company head by Manso Neto concluded a 15-year contract with a company in the industrial and commercial segment for the sale of energy produced by a wind project in Texas.

Associação Mutualista will not search for possible candidates to purchase Montepio's insurances in a near future, given that the regulator rejected the deal with the Chinese from CEFC.