LISBON: Portugal’s central bank on Wednesday lowered its growth forecast for this year due to slowing investment by companies and a worsening global outlook.

The eurozone nation, whose new socialist government is under pressure to ease austerity and also rein in its public finances, is now set to see gross domestic product increase by 1.5 percent, the central bank said.

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