Portugal's economy explained: GDP data, market trends, business developments, inflation, real estate, and economic policy. Analysis of how economic trends affect daily life and expat finances.
German engineering firm Hennig will invest €53 million in a 35,000 m² factory in Figueira da Foz's Pincho industrial zone, making power components for data centres. It plans about 450 jobs, production from January 2028 and roughly €500 million in annual revenue within five years.
Simple diesel is set to rise about two cents to roughly €2.045 a litre from Monday while 95-octane petrol eases a cent to about €2.024, according to ACP forecasts, capping a summer of fuel-price swings driven by Middle East tensions.
Wells, Sonae's health-and-beauty chain, plans to grow from 310 to 350 stores by 2030, adding ten shops and refitting twenty a year on €10 million of annual investment. Its health-and-beauty arm booked €469 million in the first half of 2026, up 13.1%.
The buses that thread through Greater Lisbon are increasingly driven by people who were not born in Portugal. Figures from the operators that run Carris Metropolitana (the Greater Lisbon regional bus network) show foreign nationals now make up...
Portugal's high-speed rail ambition has moved from track-laying to train-buying. CP (Comboios de Portugal — Portugal's state railway operator) has opened a tender worth up to €584 million for the fleet that will eventually run on the...
Households that have rearranged their laundry, dishwashing and electric-car charging around Portugal's cheaper overnight electricity are about to lose thirty minutes of it. ERSE (Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos —...
📋 In This Edition * Weekend Wrap: Lisbon Ends a Losing July Even as Its Companies Print Records * The Week's Blue-Chip Scorecard * Earnings Deluge: Galp, BCP, Sonae and REN by the Numbers
