Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Climbs 0.62% to 9,223.83 on Mota-Engil and BCP, Portugal 10Y Tightens to 3.32%, Sonae Sierra Opens €600M German-Pension Vehicle and TAP Q1 Loss Halves
The latest Portugal news, analysis, and what it means for expats and residents.
Setting Up Home Internet (Internet Doméstico) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to FTTH Fibre, the MEO/NOS/Vodafone/Digi Market, 24-Month Lock-Ins and the Portabilidade Switch
Portugal is 71.4% fibre and 90% of families have fixed broadband, but the four big operators (MEO 41%, NOS 33.4%, Vodafone 21.7%, Digi 3.1%) sell wildly different deals on 24-month or 3-month lock-ins. A practical 2026 guide to tariffs, swi…
Getting a Portuguese NIF (Número de Identificação Fiscal) in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Free Loja de Cidadão Walk-In, the e-Balcão Remote Route, the Espaço Cidadão One-Stop NIF+NISS+NNU Procedure and the Fiscal-Representative Rules
The Número de Identificação Fiscal (NIF) — Portugal's nine-digit fiscal-identity number, also called the número de contribuinte — is the single most important number a foreign resident, second-home buyer, freelancer or digital nomad gets on…
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- Outlook: Altri €0.25 Ex-Dividend Day Tuesday 26 May, Mota-Engil €110M Bond Settles for Euronext Lisbon Listing, Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June
Outlook: Altri €0.25 Ex-Dividend Day Tuesday 26 May, Mota-Engil €110M Bond Settles for Euronext Lisbon Listing, Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June
Outlook: Tuesday 26 May 2026 opens Euronext Lisbon with the Altri €0.25 ordinary-dividend ex-day — a roughly €51.4 million aggregate distribution off the storm-disrupted 2025 result against the €0.10 per share 2024 payout, the dividend-yield framing at ~4.8% on Monday's close marking the largest ordinary cash-return print in the company's seven-year listing window with cash payment Thursday 28 May. The Mota-Engil €110 million sustainability-linked retail bond settles for Euronext Lisbon listing into the back end of the week against the 4.60% fixed coupon and the 1.41× oversubscription book, and the Vista Alegre Atlantis delisting AGM lands Thursday 29 May on the €1.07 per share cash-out clock against the 5.24% free float — the Visabeira 84.76% block printing the Article 196 squeeze-out trigger under the Código dos Valores Mobiliários. The Visabeira Indústria mandatory tender offer for Martifer at €2.057 per share closes Wednesday 3 June after Optimize Investment Partners's 4% 'too-low' refusal lifted the bar against the 90% Article-194 squeeze-out trigger. Cross-asset: Brent trades on the Iran-Israel diplomatic re-engagement and the EU embargo softening, EUR/USD sits near 1.1602 on the dollar-strength channel with the ECB consensus still pinned to the pause window through the June meeting, and Euribor 3-month holds ~2.23%. The ISP discount step-up to €63.56/1000 L on diesel and €60.40/1000 L on gasoline from Monday 26 May reads through the Galp downstream-margin channel and the household-energy-bill side of the inflation tape, while the Banco de Portugal 45% DSTI macroprudential cut from 20 May continues to anchor the listed-banking beta around BCP's Ageas / Fosun shareholder reshuffle and the Banco Montepio Sociedade Aberta conversion roadmap. The CP €504 million high-speed-train tender carries the public-investment beta into the 2 July bid-submission window with Q1 2027 signature, 2031 first delivery and 2032 service launch on the Porto–Lisboa corridor — Mota-Engil's +3.05% session today walks the consortium-leadership beta directly into that calendar.
