Lisbon, Oct. 3, 2025 (Lusa) - The Lisbon stock market closed higher on Friday, with the PSI rising 0.86% to 8,115.02 points, reaching its highest level since April 2010, driven by gains from EDP Renováveis and Galp Energia.

The 16 companies that are part of the national benchmark PSI (Portuguese Share Index) closed as follows: ten in positive territory, three unchanged (Teixeira Duarte, REN and Ibersol), and the remaining three in the red.

EDP Renováveis led the PSI's gains, rising 2.53% to €12.15, while its parent company, EDP, advanced 0.44% to €4.13.

After the market closed, the EDP group subsidiary announced that it had concluded a purchase and sale agreement for the disposal of 49% of the share capital of a 1,632 MW portfolio in the US to a fund managed by Ares Infrastructure Opportunities, according to a statement sent to the market regulator, CMVM.

Also among the heavyweights of the national benchmark index, Galp Energia gained 1.99% to €16.90, Jerónimo Martins rose 0.29% to €20.60 and BCP gained 0.13% to 76 cents per share.

Sonae SGPS also performed well, gaining 2.40% to €1.37, as did Semapa, which rose 0.98% to €18.50, and CTT, which advanced 0.69% to €7.25.

In the opposite direction, closing with losses, were Altri, which fell 0.71% to €4.89, Nos, which fell 0.52% to €3.83, and Navigator, which lost 0.50% to €3.19.

Lisbon followed the sentiment experienced in most other European markets, with Spain's IBEX-35 rising 0.57%, Britain's FTSE 100 adding 0.67% and France's CAC-40 gaining 0.41%.

In contrast, Germany's DAX lost 0.18%.

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