Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Eases 0.31% on Altri Ex-Dividend, Galp Closes Porto–Algarve Ultra-Fast EV Corridor, Nors 2025 Profit Slides 26% to €51M
The latest Portugal news, analysis, and what it means for expats and residents.
Getting Your Número de Utente do SNS in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Centro de Saúde First-Visit Walk-In, the eportugal.gov.pt Online Pedido, the RNU Registration, the SNS24 App and the 2026 Taxas Moderadoras Frame
The Número de Utente do Serviço Nacional de Saúde is the single most important administrative number a new resident in Portugal can hold after the NIF and the NISS. It unlocks free primary care at the centro de saúde , access to the médico…
Setting Up Water (Contrato de Água Doméstica) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Municipal Concession Map, the EPAL/Águas do Norte/SMAS Operators, the Fixed and Variável Tarifário, the Caução and the Counter-Reading Calendar
Water service in Portugal is the most fragmented of the four residential utilities. Unlike electricity — where any Portuguese resident anywhere in the country picks a comercializador in the Mibel liberalised market and signs a single nation…
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- Outlook: Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June, Porto–Lisboa TGV Bid Window Walks to 2 July
Outlook: Vista Alegre Delisting AGM Thursday 29 May, Martifer OPA Closes Wednesday 3 June, Porto–Lisboa TGV Bid Window Walks to 2 July
Outlook: Wednesday 27 May 2026 opens Euronext Lisbon with the Altri ex-dividend overhang fading into normal session pricing, the EUR/USD bias still anchored on the dollar-strength channel against the ECB June-pause consensus, and Brent walking the next US-Iran headline beat on the renewed-attacks tape. 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, and 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 continues to bracket the 90% Article-194 squeeze-out threshold. The public-investment beta on Mota-Engil and Teixeira Duarte walks straight into the CP €504 million high-speed-train tender bid-submission deadline on the Porto–Lisboa corridor on 2 July with Q1 2027 signature, 2031 first delivery and 2032 service launch the operative timeline. The Banco de Portugal 45% DSTI macroprudential cut from 20 May continues to anchor the listed-banking beta around the BCP–Ageas–Fosun shareholder reshuffle and the Banco Montepio Sociedade Aberta conversion roadmap, while the freshly stood-up BdP Plataforma de Monitorização da Fraude Digital from Monday 25 May with SIBS, the telecoms and the PJ reframes the digital-fraud cost line for the banking-funding leg.
