[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Card Factory (LSE:CARD) is a potentially overlooked FTSE stock. It’s the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greeting cards and celebration essentials — not particularly sexy stuff. Interestingly, the stock has performed pretty well since the pandemic. While it’s down around 66% over 10 years, the shares are up 223% over five years. It’s a mixed picture, but the stock we see today could interest some investors. Let’s take a closer look. Positive momentum Card Factory’s results for the year ended January 2025 gave further evidence of the company’s operational momentum. Revenues rose by 6.2% to…
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[ad_1] MIT engineers reported on Tuesday that they’ve developed nanofiltration membranes to help solve the bottleneck hindering current carbon capture methods. Put simply, carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems rely on two reactions: one that removes diluted CO2 from the air, and one that releases pure CO2 from the system to be stored. When the ions that power these reactions mix, they produce water, making the process less efficient. According to the paper, the new filtering membranes, which would work by separating these ions, could make CCS systems 6x more efficient and cut costs by as much as 30%. While reducing…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) shares might just be the hottest property worldwide. They’re up 250 times in the last decade. A £4,000 stake in 2015 is worth £1m today. The firm’s high-tech chips are crucial in powering a revolution in technology that may well be remembered as being as monumental as the internet, the internal combustion engine, the printing press and the wheel all rolled into one. Heck, if even a few of the claims being made about artificial intelligence come true, then future historians might write about AI as being more revolutionary than when cavemen…
[ad_1] (Bloomberg) — Bond investors are demanding more and more compensation to hold long-dated US debt as global markets grow anxious about the widening fiscal deficit in the world’s biggest economy. Most Read from Bloomberg The US 10-year term premium — or the extra return investors demand to own longer-term debt instead of a series of shorter ones — has climbed to near 1%, a level last seen in 2014. It’s a measure of how jittery investors are about plans to raise the scale of future borrowing. The US’s funding challenges came into focus after Moody’s Ratings (MCO) stripped the…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images For passive income investors on the hunt for reliable dividend payers, there are a handful of FTSE 100 stocks that might fit the bill. As a big fan of income stocks myself, I think Coca-Cola HBC (LSE: CCH) might be worth a closer look. This is a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with a steady dividend and what seems like some exciting growth initiatives in the works. Recent performance The company is one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola Company‘s products, operating in 29 countries across Europe and parts of Africa. While the American business…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images One FTSE 100 dividend income stock is hot right now. The company in question is insurer Phoenix Group Holdings (LSE: PHNX) and I’m thrilled by its progress, because I’ve loaded up on the insurer over the last 15 months. My reasons for originally buying the stock were pretty simplistic. I was dazzled by its sky-high yield. When I first bought Phoenix in January and March 2024, it was yielding just over 10%. With a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of around seven, I wondered why everyone else wasn’t filling their boots. Was I missing something? A quick…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images With many UK stocks soaring, the FTSE 100 is only inches away from securing a new all-time high. On Wednesday (21 May), it ticked very close to 8,800 points — less than 1% away from its high of 8,908 secured on 3 March. Those leading the charge are St James’s Place, Rolls-Royce and International Consolidated Airlines — each up between 90% and 131% in the past year. An investment of £10,000 into these three shares a year ago would have more than doubled to £20,484 today! Needless to say, not many portfolios deliver over 100%…
[ad_1] [SINGAPORE] Singapore has inked a carbon credit transfer agreement with Paraguay, the seventh country to sign such an agreement with the Republic, after Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Bhutan, Peru, Chile and Rwanda. The partnership sets out a framework for the generation and international transfer of carbon credits between Singapore and the South American nation, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in a press release on Friday (May 23). The agreement is aligned with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which governs rules on the bilateral and international transfer of carbon credits. Under Article 6, Paraguay will have…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images When the pandemic first struck in early 2020, Rolls-Royce shares took a sharp plunge. Like many at the time, the aerospace engineer’s price collapsed — falling from 244p to 35p within a matter of months. Looking at today’s price, it’s almost unbelievable to think it was that low just five years ago. At the time, airlines were grounded the world over and panicked shareholders were dumping stock by the barrel. But among them were undoubtedly some savvy investors, the kind who take to heart the advice of legendary investors like Warren Buffett: “Be fearful when…
[ad_1] Jane Street Group LLC lessened its holdings in iShares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:HYGH – Free Report) by 60.1% during the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 11,378 shares of the company’s stock after selling 17,109 shares during the quarter. Jane Street Group LLC’s holdings in iShares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond ETF were worth $982,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Global Retirement Partners LLC boosted its holdings in shares of iShares Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond…