* Corporate tax rate could be as low as 7.5 pct vs 24 pct (Adds impact on corporate tax rate, German support)

LISBON (Reuters) - President Anibal Cavaco Silva thanked Portugal's patron saint for a long-delayed approval of Lisbon's bailout review last week, but the head of state could claim a share of the credit for himself.

President Anibal Cavaco Silva thanked Portugal's patron saint for a long-delayed approval of Lisbon's bailout review last week, but the head of state could claim a share of the credit for himself.

LISBON, May 23 (Reuters) - President Anibal Cavaco Silva thanked Portugal's patron saint for a long-delayed approval of Lisbon's bailout review last week, but the head of state could claim a share of...

* Forex impact of 100 mln euros due to weaker Brazilian real

LISBON, May 23 (Reuters) - Portugal Telecom (PT) said on Thursday its first-quarter net profit halved from a year ago amid a deep recession at home and due to a strong foreign exchange impact on its Brazilian revenues, but it still exceeded market ex

German ministers signed agreements with Portugal and Spain this week designed to get young people into jobs, but critics say the measures fall short.    

LISBON, May 22 (Reuters) - Portugal will rely on stock market listings for some pending privatisations and is readying incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to go public in their...

LISBON, May 22 (Reuters) - Portugal will rely on stockmarket listings for some pending privatisations and is readyingincentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to gopublic in their search for financing.

LISBON, May 22 (Reuters) - Portugal will rely on stock market listings for some pending privatisations and is readying incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to go public in their search for financing.

BERLIN, May 22 (Reuters) - German state development bank KfW will help establish a Portuguese financial institution to help economic growth and boost job creation in the crisis-stricken country, the finance ministers of Germany and Portugal said in a

LONDON, May 22 (IFR) - The Portuguese government plans totap nearly all of its state-owned pension fund to ease it overthe hump of a hefty EUR27.5bn of financing needs over the nexttwo years,...

Portugal could well be the next cause for alarm, and if the economic situation does worsen, its banks have no obvious route to fresh money

Interest rates on government debt for a number of European countries– notably Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain– shot up considerably during 2010-2012. Those yields have fallen significantly from their peaks, though these five c

While we are told day after day that not only is Europe 'fixed' but that Cyprus was not a template, it seems the bankers in the peripheral nations are a little less confident (never mind their record amount of reach-around-based domestic bond buying)

Heads of Millennium BCP and Banco Espírito Santo separately urge Europe’s leaders to moderate their stance on the eurozone periphery

LISBON, May 16 (Reuters) - Vodafone will double the size of its fibre optic network in Portugal to cover 1 million homes by 2015, it said on Thursday, as it seeks to more effectively compete against Portugal Telecom and the soon-to-be-merged duo of Z

LISBON, May 16 (Reuters) - Vodafone will double the size of its fibre optic network in Portugal to cover 1 million homes by 2015, it said on Thursday, as it seeks to more effectively compete against Portugal Telecom and the soon-to-be-merged duo of Z

LONDON (Reuters) - The Portuguese government and JP Morgan Chase & Co are attempting to resolve a tussle over potentially costly derivative contracts sold by the U.S. investment bank to state-owned companies.

The Portuguese government and JP Morgan Chase & Coare attempting to resolve a tussle over potentially costly derivative contracts sold by the U.S. investment bank to state-owned companies.

LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - The Portuguese government and JP Morgan Chase & Co are attempting to resolve a tussle over potentially costly derivative contracts sold by the U.S. investment bank to state-owned companies.

LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - The Portuguese government and JP Morgan Chase & Co are attempting to resolve a tussle over potentially costly derivative contracts sold by the U.S. investment bank to state-owned companies.

In a number of posts recently I have highlighted the impact of declining workforces on economic growth and the way the policies pursued to address the Euro debt crisis are having the impact of accelerating the movement of young people away from the p

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras, Portugal's Galp and Brazil's OGX won Brazilian onshore oil and gas exploration blocks in a frontier region of Brazil's Parnaiba Basin at an auction on Tuesday conducted by o

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oilcompany Petrobras, Portugal's Galp andBrazil's OGX won Brazilian onshore oil and gasexploration blocks in a frontier region of Brazil's...

LISBON, May 14 (Reuters) - Portugal will not replicate adeal that allowed Cyprus to sell its gold reserves under itsbailout, Bank of Portugal Governor Carlos Costa said on Tuesday,adding that its reserves were unchanged at 382.5 tonnes.

LISBON, May 14 (Reuters) - Portugal will not replicate a deal that allowed Cyprus to sell its gold reserves under its bailout, Bank of Portugal Governor Carlos Costa said on Tuesday, adding that its...

Mired in an economic crisis, Portugal is selling off its assets, including an eight-room co-op at the Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street that the country has owned for 40-plus years, according to the New York Post. John Burger and Guida De Carval

* Spain's Rajoy says banking union is credibility test for European Union

* Spain's Rajoy says banking union is credibility test for European Union

* Spain's Rajoy says banking union is credibility test for European Union

LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - A subsidiary of offshore oil and gas construction firm Heerema Group said on Monday it was selling a stake of up to 5 percent in Portuguese retailer Jeronimo Martins.

The premiers of Spain and Portugal Monday expressed support for a quick push to create a banking union in the euro zone, joining a chorus of other European Union leaders after a top German official expressed reservations on the matter.

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government said on Sunday its EU and IMF lenders had concluded work on the latest bailout review, indicating there were no outstanding obstacles for Lisbon to receive the next 2 billion euro tranche of the rescue package

Portugal's government said on Sunday its EU and IMF lenders had concluded work on the latest bailout review, indicating there were no outstanding obstacles for Lisbon to receive the next 2 billion euro tranche of the rescue package.

Portugal, which is entering the last year of a three-year European Union aid program, will likely need further help from Europe at a time when core countries in the region, such as Germany, are fast losing enthusiasm about providing financing to aili

Brussels Beat: Recent positive developments don't necessarily herald a seamless transition to full market financing. Nor do they say very much about the country's economic prospects.

LONDON, May 9 (IFR) - Portugal is plotting a return toregular bond auctions after winning back its traditionalEuropean investor base in a sell-out EUR3bn 10-year bondsyndication this week, its...

Unemployment in Greece climbs to 27%, with 64% of 16- to 24-year-olds out of work, while in Portugal the jobless rate rises to 17.7%

The jobless rate in two of the euro zone's crisis-hit members continues to rise, with youth unemployment surging in both Greece and Portugal.

LISBON (Reuters) - When Nelson Craveiro lost his minimum wage job selling soft drinks last October due to Portugal's raging economic crisis, he dared not imagine that his fluent German would soon get him a better-paying job without the need to emigra

When Nelson Craveiro lost his minimum wage job selling soft drinks last October due to Portugal's raging economic crisis, he dared not imagine that his fluent German would soon get him a better-paying job without the need to emigrate.

LONDON, May 9 (IFR) - Portugal is plotting a return toregular bond auctions after winning back its traditionalEuropean investor base in a sell-out EUR3bn 10-year bondsyndication this week, its...

* Global leaders in Portugal, Portuguese firms expand abroad

* Global leaders in Portugal, Portuguese firms expand abroad

* Global leaders in Portugal, Portuguese firms expand abroad

* Global leaders in Portugal, Portuguese firms expand abroad