Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Slips 0.06% to 8,897 as EDPR Drops 3.1%, Galp +1.9% on Hormuz Premium
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📋 In This Edition
- Top gainers
- Top losers
- Martifer (FRW): OPA price contest grinds on at €2.057
- EDPR's US execution overhang
- Banking lobby push on lending headroom
Top gainers
- Teixeira Duarte (TDSA) +3.07% — construction mid-cap led the tape on no fresh corporate news, extending its early-June rebound.
- NOS +2.29% — telecoms operator topped the blue-chip pack, consolidating recent gains.
- Corticeira Amorim (CORA) +2.15% — cork giant rebounded after softer Q1 earnings had weighed on the stock through May.
- Galp Energia +1.92% — riding the geopolitical risk premium as Strait of Hormuz tensions kept Brent bid, with Reuters reporting Brent settled around two percent lower after early panic selling but the energy complex stayed jittery.
- Sonae +1.58% — Belmiro de Azevedo's holding firmed despite the broader staples drag.
Top losers
- EDP Renováveis -3.12% — the day's worst PSI performer remains under analyst pressure: Jefferies cut to Hold with an €8.70 price target citing US asset-rotation execution risk on the €3 billion programme, and Morgan Stanley moved to Equalweight earlier this quarter. Renewables peers sold off across Europe.
- CTT Correios de Portugal -1.55% — postal and logistics operator slid alongside European mid-cap weakness.
- EDP -0.88% — parent utility tracked its renewables arm lower, trimming year-to-date gains that still stand near 22%.
- Jerónimo Martins (JMT) -0.67% — defensive bid from Tuesday faded as risk-on flows lifted cyclicals.
- Banco Comercial Português (BCP) -0.63% — domestic bank gave back ground as Euribor's climb to 2.373% on Tuesday cools the dividend-yield trade ahead of Thursday's ECB monetary decision.
Sovereign bonds: 10-year yield holds near 3.4%
Portugal's 10-year benchmark closed Tuesday at 3.44% and held a similar range Wednesday, with the spread over the German 10-year Bund staying inside the tight band that earned Portugal a place among the five eurozone sovereigns lowering debt-service costs in 2025. Yesterday's IGCP twin auction priced €1.078 billion at 3.342% on the 2035 line and 3.894% on the 2045 eighteen-year issue, both inside the Lisbon Tesouro's €13 billion 2026 funding programme. With Euribor 3-month at 2.373% — the highest since March 2025 — the curve flattening reflects bond traders positioning for an ECB rate move on Thursday.
EUR/USD: 1.1565 (+0.27%)
The single currency added 31 ticks against the dollar to close around $1.1565, with the day's range running 1.1528-1.1566. The euro caught a bid as Babypips and ING strategists flagged Thursday's potential ECB hike as the dominant cross-asset catalyst of the week, with European banks lobbying for regulatory relief to expand lending capacity by an estimated €1.2 trillion in parallel.
Corporate & sector tape
Martifer (FRW): OPA price contest grinds on at €2.057
Visabeira Indústria, I'M (Carlos and Jorge Martins) and Mota-Engil — together controlling 87.4% of voting rights under their February 2026 tripartite shareholders' agreement — continue to wrestle minority investors over the mandatory takeover offer (OPA) launched at €2.057 per share. Minority shareholders argue the price sits roughly 11% below the last unaffected trade and undervalues the metalworking group's wind-tower order book. The Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM, Securities Market Commission) is still assessing the offer mechanics; Martifer cancelled its planned €4 million reserves distribution ahead of the OPA earlier this year, and the Martins brothers' staged exit gives Visabeira and Mota-Engil right of first refusal on their 25% stake over the next two years.
EDPR's US execution overhang
Beyond Wednesday's price action, EDP Renováveis remains the PSI bellwether for renewables sentiment. Q1 2026 generation rose 3% year-on-year, but Jefferies' downgrade flagged that the success of the US-weighted €3 billion asset-rotation programme is critical to deleveraging — and that US political and regulatory risk on renewable assets is now central to the equity story. Today's 3.12% slide widens EDPR's recent underperformance versus the broader European Stoxx Utilities benchmark.
Banking lobby push on lending headroom
European banking groups are pressing supervisors for regulatory relief that the lobby argues could unlock up to €1.2 trillion in additional lending capacity, according to ECO market commentary tracked Wednesday. For Portuguese names, the read-through is direct: BCP, Caixa Geral de Depósitos and Banco BPI all sit on capital ratios that comfortably clear current Pillar 2 requirements, and any easing of leverage-ratio calibration would feed back into payout-ratio guidance the banks have flagged for full-year 2026.
Tomorrow's outlook
Thursday 11 June pivots on the European Central Bank's monetary policy decision in Frankfurt, with Euribor 3-month at 2.373% already pricing a hike — any dovish surprise on the path beyond would reverse this week's bank-sector underperformance and pressure the euro from its $1.1565 close. Watch Galp on any Iran/Strait-of-Hormuz escalation headlines and EDPR for relief-rally interest if European yields cap. The Lisbon Tesouro has no auctions on the calendar, so secondary-market spreads will set the bond tone.
