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VIC Properties was sold for more than 670 million euros to a group led by several institutional investors and the current management team of the real estate developer.

In a statement, VIC Properties reveals that Aggregate reached an agreement to sell 100% of the company’s shares, in a transaction with a total enterprise value of more than 670 million euros.

The civil service is on strike this Friday, March 17, and shortly after 9:00 am, “some schools were already closed and hospitals fulfilled the minimum services, namely, in hospitalizations and emergencies”, the coordinator of the Common Front told journalists. , Sebastian Santana.

The trade unionist, who was speaking to the media at the entrance to the Social Security building in Lisbon, highlighted that this membership “shows the dissatisfaction of workers” with the entire labor situation.

Inflation slowed down again in the euro zone, settling at 8.5% in February, Eurostat confirmed this Friday. In Portugal, the rate stabilized but, standing at 8.6%, ended up being slightly above the average for the single currency area.

“The euro zone inflation rate stood at 8.5% in February 2023, below the 8.6% recorded in January. A year ago, the rate was 5.9%”, indicates the statistics office.

Sporting CP surprised football Europe with the elimination of Arsenal FC, leaders of the Premier League, and secured a place in the draw taking place this Friday. Against the Londoners, the “lions” overcame an “abyss” of 580 million euros in terms of squad valuation and for the quarter-finals, the financial distance for most of the opponents is much smaller.

Those commanded by Rúben Amorim reach the “quarters” of the Europa League as one of the less valuable teams but well positioned in terms of evaluation against other opponents. The website “Transfermarkt” values ​​the Sporting CP squad at 233 million euros.

“Beat the Israelis and wait for the ‘sharks’ to come”. This was how JE envisioned what would be the difficult mission of SL Benfica in group H of the Champions League this season. With PSG and Juventus ahead, it would be necessary for the “eagles” to overcome themselves in order to reach the ‘eighth’. What happened at the end of the six rounds of that group exceeded all expectations: first place in the group for the Portuguese team and 61 million euros in the “pocket”.

With the elimination of Club Brugge, and the guarantee of another 10.6 million euros for SAD accounts, the next goal is the 12.5 million euros that will be added to the big ‘red’ check if the “eagles” follow from the ‘quarters’ to the semi-finals of the competition.

The president of the Portuguese Society of Public Health today defended the need to create conditions of “absolute legality” for specialists to be able to control future epidemics, warning of the importance of approving the new public health emergency law.

Three years ago on Saturday, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, decreed the first state of emergency in Portugal, 16 days after the announcement of the first two cases of covid-19 in the country, which included mandatory confinement and restrictions on movement. on public roads, unless they were justified, to prevent disease, contain the pandemic, save lives.

The rent support announced yesterday, Thursday, by the Executive of António Costa will only reach one sixth of the tenants, who must confirm if there is a registration in Finance, according to “Jornal de Notícias”.

Thus, of the 922,000 leases, only 150,000 will be covered by the unprecedented Government measure, which only targets contracts prior to March 15 of this year.

Civil servants will be on strike this Friday, March 17th. The strike was called by the Common Front and serves to demand an increase in wages, at a time when prices have soared, but also the valuation of careers and the reinforcement of public services.

“It will be a big strike by the Public Administration”, anticipated the leader of the Common Front, Sebastião Santana, at the time of the announcement of the stoppage that takes place this Friday.

During this week two American banks caused great financial stress, with the fall of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the bankruptcy of Signature Bank, financial chaos settled around the First Republic Bank, advances the newspaper of “The Wall Street Journal”.

After the great stress surrounding the First Republic Bank, the US government and the country’s major banks, including JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley or the PNC Financial Services Group, decided to join up and come up with a plan to bring about a stock trend reversal.