📋 In This Edition * A Fifth Straight Gain, Won by Less Than a Point * Mota-Engil Takes a Thousand Kilometres in Congo and Is Shown the Door at Oiã to Soure * Revolut Puts Portugal
FEPONS provisional data puts drowning deaths 15 percent above last year and past the 2022 record of 88. Rivers took 35 lives and the sea 27, with the rest spread across dams, domestic pools, wells and flooded roads.
Foreign direct investment reached 6.7 billion euros in the first half of 2026, 200 million below last year. Portuguese investment abroad almost stopped, falling to 200 million from 2.6 billion, and the stock of foreign capital here now equals 71 percent of GDP.
Portaria 387/2026 extends the APED and SITESE collective agreement to every large retailer on the mainland, backdated to 1 April. The government's own study puts 69.6 percent of the 108,865 workers it reaches below the agreed rates, and 68.3 percent of those are women.
Infraestruturas de Portugal began dynamic testing this month, but the Ministry of Infrastructure has told parliament that thefts of catenary, signalling and telecoms equipment are hitting the certification schedule. Accredited certifiers are also scarce.
INE counted 34,053 appraisals in July. Apartments reached €2,627 a square metre and houses €1,606, with the Setubal peninsula up 20.4 percent on the year and no region falling. Grande Lisboa sits 51.7 percent above the national median.
Decreto-Lei n.o 171/2026 rewrites the Securities Code from 1 September. The free float needed for a listing drops from 25 percent to 10, multiple-vote shares get a disclosure regime, and payment for order flow is banned outright.
