Portugal follows Greece down austerity path

2010/03/08 12:11:04 @Reuters: Top News

LISBON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Portugal became the latest euro zone country to announce austerity measures to rein in a ballooning budget deficit on Monday as debt-stricken Greece urged global action to curb speculation in credit default swaps. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=d1OUafapTok:6_Z20KocF9o:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=d1OUafapTok:6_Z20KocF9o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=d1OUafapTok:6_Z20KocF9o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=d1OUafapTok:6_Z20KocF9o:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=d1OUafapTok:6_Z20KocF9o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/d1OUafapTok" height="1" width="1"/
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