Lisbon, July 7, 2026 (Lusa) - The PSI, Portugal’s benchmark stock market index, continued the trend seen at the opening on Tuesday morning and was up 0.47% around an hour and a half after the market opened, with Navigator standing out, rising 2.04% amongst the 13 shares trading in positive territory.

At 9.35 a.m. in Lisbon, 13 shares were up since the opening and two were down, with Ibersol holding steady at €9.64 per share.

Navigator’s gains, trading at €3.31, were followed by Jerónimo Martins (up 1.53% to €16.59), CTT (up 1.43% to €6.04) and Altri (up 1.38% to €4.79).

Semapa rose by 0.98% to €20.55, Galp rose by 0.93% to €19.01, EDP rose by 0.87% to €4.62, Corticeira Amorim advanced by 0.79% to €6.40 and Sonae climbed by 0.72% to €2.10.

Both Teixeira Duarte and BCP gained 0.56% to €0.53 and €1.08 respectively, NOS rose by 0.36% to €4.97, and REN saw its share price increase by 0.13% to €3.76.

Conversely, Mota-Engil fell by 0.08% to €4.73 and EDP Renewables slipped by 0.07% to €14.28.

Investors are keeping a close eye on the close of Asian markets, with South Korea’s Kospi index falling by 4.91%, despite forecasts from Samsung Electronics pointing to a 19-fold increase in operating profits. Japan’s Nikkei index fell by 2.12%.

Samsung itself, which manufactures semiconductors, saw its share price fall by 6.92%.

The Shanghai benchmark index fell by 1.24% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng closed down 0.81%.

The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the benchmark for Europe, rose by 1.29% to $72.92 per barrel, whilst US WTI rose by 1.44% to $69.54.

Wall Street futures showed no clear trend, following Monday’s gains (the Dow Jones rose by 0.29%, the S&P 500 by 0.72% and the Nasdaq by 1.12%).

Bitcoin fell by 0.80% to $63,279.4, whilst the euro was weaker by 0.14% trading at around $1.14.

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