Lisbon, Oct. 22, 2025 (Lusa) - The Lisbon stock exchange was trading higher on Wednesday, with shares in Teixeira Duarte and Mota-Engil leading the gains, rising 3.72% to €0.67 and 3.48% to €5.95.
At around 09:40 in Lisbon, the PSI, which has 16 companies since 22 September, maintained the opening trend and advanced 0.73% to 8,332.20 points, with 12 shares rising and four falling.
The PSI ended last Thursday at a new high since 16 April 2010, of 8,340.83 points.
Mota-Engil, through its subsidiary Mota-Engil México, has signed new contracts in Mexico worth more than €1 billion, the largest of which is for railway construction worth €820 million, the company said on Monday.
In a note sent to the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), Mota-Engil explained that the new contract signed with the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport includes the design and construction of the second section (between Apaseo el Grande and Irapuato) of the Querétaro-Irapuato rail link, with a total length of 70.7 kilometres.
In August, the company was awarded the first section of this project, which is a strategic project within Mexico's National Railway Plan.
The shares of Teixeira Duarte and Mota-Engil were followed by those of Sonae, EDP and REN, which also rose, namely 2.02% to €1.41, 1.49% to €13.58 and 1.29% to €3.14.
More moderately, Altri, Galp, and Navigator shares advanced 1.01% to €4.99, 0.94% to €16.19 and 0.91% to €3.10.
CTT and Corticeira Amorim shares rose 0.73% to €6.90 and 0.55% to €7.25, as did EDP (+0.45% to €4.47) and Semapa (+0.23% to €17.72).
In the opposite direction, Ibersol and BCP shares fell 0.50% to €10.05 and 0.24% to €0.76.
The other two shares to fall were Jerónimo Martins (-0.20% to €20.24) and NOS (-0.13% to €3.71).
The main European stock markets opened today with a mixed tone and attention focussed on the publication of third-quarter corporate results.
Among the most noteworthy data known so far is the UK's year-on-year inflation, which remained unchanged at 3.8% last September, thus remaining at the highest level since January last year.
In Asia, the Nikkei index of the Tokyo stock exchange closed down 0.11%. Today, it was announced that Japan recorded a trade deficit of 234,620 million yen (€1.333 billion) in September.
In turn, the Shanghai stock exchange's benchmark index fell 0.07%, the Shenzhen 0.62% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 1.02% just before the end of the session.
In the US, after the Wall Street stock market closed mixed on Tuesday, futures advanced by a slight 0.13% on the Dow Jones and 0.01% on the Nasdaq.
Attention in this country is focused on the results of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, which will release its financial results for the first nine months today, after recording a net profit of $1.581 billion in the first half of 2025, down 39.4% on the same period in 2024.
The price of gold, historically considered a safe-haven asset in times of uncertainty, was up 0.89% today with an ounce trading at $4,142.57, after falling more than 5.8% to $4,113.53 on Tuesday and reaching a new all-time high of $4,347.86 on 20 October.
Brent, Europe's benchmark crude oil for December delivery, is rising to $62.33, up from $61.32 on Tuesday.
The euro fell to $1.1601 on the Frankfurt exchange market, down from $1.1609 on Tuesday and the new four-year high of $1.1865 seen on 16 September.
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