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The average implicit interest rate on Portuguese home loans rose to 3.194% in September 2026, an increase of 3.2 basis points from the previous month, Statistics Portugal reported on 21 October. For contracts signed in the latest three months, the rate increased from 2.910% in August to 2.959%.
Portugal’s industrial producer-price index rose 9.2% year on year in September, with energy accounting for nearly all the acceleration.
IPMA said nine episodes between February and October brought the year’s heatwave-day total to 98.
Source not verified: RFM relayed 9 October forecasts from ACP and Contas-Poupança: diesel down 1 cent and petrol up 5 cents per litre for 12–18 October.
Source not verified: Jornal Económico reported bank chief Gonçalo Regalado’s 2026 forecast; the underlying method was not independently reviewed.
Source not verified: An October 10 Lusa report says an EFE calculation from OMIE data places Iberian wholesale electricity prices among autumn's historical highs; the calculation could not be independently reproduced.
Source not verified: Lusa's October 10 account of the minister's speech could not be independently corroborated; it reports international-study estimates cited by her and a claim about Portugal's productivity gap.
Source not verified: Lusa reports priority measures to protect livestock from wolf attacks; the underlying government communiqué and signed order could not be independently verified.
ARM's pilot would waive treatment fees for large producers that deliver uncontaminated organic waste to its composting facility.
