Why did EDP stock fall on 8 October?
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EDP −0.23% · PSI +0.15%
EDP little changed as Lisbon trading stayed quiet. Over the last five trading days EDP was broadly flat, holding up better than a clearly weaker Portuguese market, so it moved less than the market did. The most likely driver is the absence of hard company news: the items around the period are mostly broker target-price tweaks and sector lobbying, including utilities pushing back on new rules for data centres and working on a proposal to cut electricity taxes, neither of which is a decisive earnings event. A stake sale in its renewables arm drew some attention but looks like a shareholder transaction rather than a change in EDP's own prospects. Watch the early-November earnings report, the next scheduled hard news for the company.