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Will Portugal repeat Greek tragedy?

By Emma Ross-Thomas and Jim Silver | China Daily | Updated: 2010-04-28 07:55

MADRID - Portugal risks becoming the new Greece.

With a higher debt burden and a slower 10-year growth rate than Greece, Western Europe's poorest country is being punished by investors as the sovereign debt crisis spreads. The risk premium on Portuguese bonds rose to more than double the past year's average this month. Portugal's credit default swaps show investors rank its debt as the world's eighth-riskiest, worse than for Lebanon and Guatemala.

"We do not ignore that Greece's particular situation has contagion risks, and we are feeling it," Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos told reporters in Lisbon. "The performance of spreads in the market reveals that contagion risk."

Will Portugal repeat Greek tragedy?

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