Diario De Noticias News
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A majority of Portuguese want the country to remain in the euro, Diario de Noticias reported today, citing a poll.
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Endesa SA will reconsider an ongoing investment of 500 million euros in two dams in the Mondego river in northern Portugal, Diario de Noticias reported, citing Nuno Ribeiro da Silva, who heads the utility’s Portuguese unit.
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Portugal does not need aid from the International Monetary Fund and no country has ever put pressure on Portugal to request aid, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said in an interview with Diario de Noticias.
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Jose Saramago , winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature for early novels that explored historical themes from unconventional angles and later works in which inexplicable events threaten society’s underpinnings, has died. He was 87.
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On the western shores of Madeira, waves crash onto the walls of the Marina do Lugar de Baixo, sending white spray into the air above the dock built for 291 of the world’s finest yachts. All the berths are empty eight years after the boat landing opened.
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Portugal’s central government budget deficit narrowed 60 percent in the first quarter from the same period in 2010, Diario de Noticias reported, without saying how it obtained the information.
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The ruling Social Democratic Party of Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho led the opposition Socialist Party by 10 percentage points in a survey of voters’ intentions for parliamentary elections, Diario de Noticias reported.
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Treasuries rose while the cost to insure Irish government bonds jumped to a record amid concern that Europe’s debt crisis is worsening and American consumer confidence is slumping. U.S. stocks fluctuated; the euro fell.
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Portugal’s Anibal Cavaco Silva looks set to be re-elected president today as the country struggles to avoid becoming the third euro-area nation to seek a bailout.
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U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index completing the longest weekly rally since April, as better-than-estimated earnings at technology companies overshadowed an unexpected drop in consumer confidence.
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