Sovereign debt

The financial rating agency Fitch released its assessment of Portugal’s sovereign debt today (Friday, March 6). Analysts interviewed by the business daily Negócios did not expect a change [...]

Portugal’s public debt management office, the Agency of the Treasury and Public Debt,  repurchased €886 million in sovereign bonds on Monday, bringing the total buybacks for December to €4.5Bn or [...]

The US ratings agency Fitch is likely to improve Portugal’s long term sovereign debt rating today. (Friday, September 12) After maintaining the rating on Portugal’s debt at the same level in [...]

The US ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said this week that early elections will have no impact on the rest of Portugal’s macroeconomic situation, stressing that its [...]

Interest rates on Portugal’s 10-year sovereign bonds have gone up for bonds with two, five and 10 year maturities by just over 3% for 10-year bonds, similar to increases on national debt suffered [...]

Portugal’s finances minister Fernando Medina has achieved the government’s long held aim of reducing Portugal’s public debt to below 100% currently standing at 98.7% for 2023. The debt has fallen [...]

It was a move that had no been expected because of the current political instability and a slowdown in Portugal’s exports, but the US ratings agency Moody’s has increased Portugal’s rating to ‘A [...]

Portugal has postponed the repayment of €641 million to 2027 and 2030. The Portuguese debt and treasury management agency IGCP undertook its third debt exchange operation this year on Tuesday. [...]

The US ratings agency has raised the rating of Portugal’s sovereign debt from BBB+ to A- with a stable outlook. It means that Portugal has at last achieved coveted ‘A’ status after years in which [...]

The decision by the European Central Bank to hike interest rates by quarter of a percent last week has put pressure on the yields bond investors expect back from the Portuguese State, The [...]