{"id":374941,"date":"2025-12-29T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374941\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:46:16","slug":"portugal-household-savings-stabilise-the-portugal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374941\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal household savings stabilise &#8211; The Portugal News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was also a reinforcement of investment in housing of around 4.4% in the last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ine.pt\/xportal\/xmain?xpgid=ine_main&amp;xpid=INE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">INE<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>According to the INE&#8217;s Quarterly National Accounts by Institutional Sector, the household savings rate stabilised at 12.5% \u200b\u200bof disposable income in the third quarter. This stabilisation was determined by the growth of Gross Disposable Income (GDI) by 1.6%, &#8220;combined with the 1.6% increase in final consumption expenditure (1.4% in the previous quarter)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth highlighting that, in real terms \u2013 that is, taking inflation into account \u2013 final consumption increased by 1% in the year ending in the third quarter of 2025, as highlighted by INE in the bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>Investment in housing also strengthened during the summer. \u201cGross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) of households, which essentially corresponds to GFCF in housing, increased by 4.4% in the third quarter of 2025 (4.3% in the previous quarter). The household investment rate (measured by the ratio between GFCF and disposable income) reached 6.1%, 0.1 percentage points higher than in the previous quarter,\u201d concludes INE.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, household financing capacity stood at 4.2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 0.2 percentage points lower than in the previous quarter and also compared to the same period last year. &#8220;This behaviour stemmed mainly from the 4.4% increase in Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF), which was higher than the increase in savings (1.6%),&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was also a reinforcement of investment in housing of around 4.4% in the last year, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-374941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}