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Lusa - Business News - Portugal: Stock market trading higher on Thursday morning, led by CTT, Sonae

Lisbon, July 2, 2026 (Lusa) - The Lisbon stock market reversed its opening trend on Thursday morning and was up 0.66% more than an hour into trading, in line with the main European stock markets.

At 9:20 am in Lisbon, the benchmark PSI (Portuguese Stock Index) was up 0.66% at 9,150.76 points, with 14 listed companies seeing their share prices rise and two falling.

The biggest gains were recorded by CTT and Sonae, which rose by 1.76% to €6.07 and 1.74% to €2.05 respectively, followed by Ibersol (+1.02% to €9.88) as the only others with changes of more than 1%.

Meanwhile, BCP rose by 0.91% to €1.05, NOS rose by 0.78% to €4.93, and Semapa rose by 0.74% to €20.4.

Also in the green were Navigator (up 0.69% to €3.22), Mota-Engil (up 0.56% to €4.65), REN (up 0.54% to €3.70), Altri (up 0.53% to €4.70) and Jerónimo Martins (up 0.48% to €0.52).

Teixeira Duarte, Corticeira Amorim and EDP saw smaller movements, up by 0.19% to €0.52, 0.16% to €6.41 and 0.11% to €4.51 respectively.

Conversely, EDP Renewables fell by 0.91% to €14.08 and Galp slipped by 0.08% to €18.60.

European stock markets were generally positive today, in a session where attention will be focused on developments in the technology sector and US employment figures.

Investors remain focused on the release of the US non-farm payrolls report for June, as well as the impact of Wednesday’s fall in tech shares.

Wall Street closed Wednesday’s session with losses on the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which fell by 0.66%, the Dow Jones (-0.03%) and the S&P 500 (-0.22%).

The euro is stronger by 0.11% to trade at US$1.139, whilst in commodities, Brent crude – the benchmark for Europe – fell by 1.36% to US$70.59, whilst US WTI crude fell by 1.44% to US$67.59.

Gold rose by 0.11% to US$4,087.6 per ounce, and bitcoin rose by 0.23% to US$60,205.8.

 

 

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