Image source: Getty Images Faced with inflationary pressures, tariff concerns and slowing growth across global markets, the FTSE 250 has still held its ground better than many expected. What’s more, the index hosts a wide range of dividend-payers, several with yields higher than some of the FTSE 100’s most reliable stocks. Of course, yields alone don’t tell the full story. Mid-cap shares can be more volatile, so I think it’s critical to examine the financials before drawing any conclusions. One recovering stock I’ve been looking at recently is Aberdeen Group (LSE: ABDN). It has an 8% yield and the shares…
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Image source: Getty Images Shares in Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY) currently come with a 4.11% dividend yield. And the amount the company returns to shareholders has been rising over the last few years. Investors thinking of buying the stock, however, need to be careful. Banking is a highly cyclical industry and Lloyds is subject to more ups and downs than a lot of other businesses. Earning a second income Over the last 12 months, Lloyds has returned 3.33p per share in dividends to investors. That means someone looking for a £1,000 a year second income would need to buy 30,303…
Image source: Getty Images A stock market crash — defined as a fall in a day (or over the course of several days) of over 20% from a recent peak — is a rare thing. In fact, the FTSE 100 has only crashed once — in October 1987. But a look at the five biggest one-day falls reveals that four of them occurred in October. That’s why I get scared whenever the month of Halloween approaches. Date% fall20 October 198712.2212 March 202010.8719 October 198710.8410 October 20088.866 October 20087.85Source: London Stock Exchange Group Not this time But this year, I’m more…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is hinting he wants to pull funding from transit networks across the nation after a brutal killing on a North Carolina train — and spreading disturbing misinformation about the root causes of, and solutions for, violence on mass modes.The reality-TV-star-turned-Trump-cabinet-member appeared on Fox News on Monday to decry the “epidemic of violence and homelessness” on public transportation across the country, days after officials from the Charlotte Area Transit System released surveillance video of the Aug. 22 murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a train.Zarutska was fatally stabbed by a fellow passenger who sat behind…
Image source: Getty Images The BAE Systems (LSE:BA.) share price has been the eighth-best performer on the FTSE 100 over the past five years. Those investing £10,000 in September 2020 will now (at close of business on 9 September) be sitting on a profit of £25,276. They will also have picked up some reasonable dividends (152.6p a share) along the way. This means their overall gain is £28,279. A question of conscience But it’s a sad reality that much of this paper profit was recorded after Russia invaded Ukraine. Understandably, this doesn’t sit comfortably with everyone. Personally, I believe there’s…
Image source: Getty Images Faced with geopolitical turmoil, trade tariff shocks and inflation, 2025 hasn’t been the best year for UK companies, even though their shares haven’t done too badly. Surprisingly, most stocks on the FTSE 100 have weathered the storm fairly well. The index is up approximately 11.5% this year, outperforming previous years and even creeping ahead of the S&P 500. Still, not all constituents have contributed to the growth. Advertising giant WPP (LSE: WPP) is currently the worst-performing stock on the index, down 51.9% year to date. That’s a staggering collapse for a company once considered one of…
Image source: Anglo American plc Long-suffering Anglo American (LSE: AAL) shareholders received a massive boost yesterday (9 September) when it announced a merger with Teck Resources, propelling the share prices of both companies. Mega-merger The bringing together of two mining giants is being promoted as a “merger of equals”. The newly formed company, to be named Anglo Teck, will see Anglo American shareholders owning 62.4% of the outstanding shares. The miner will issue 1.3301 shares to existing Teck shareholders in exchange for each Teck share. It also intends to declare a special dividend of $4.5 billion (approximately $4.19 per ordinary…
Image source: Getty Images City analysts don’t always get it right. But their forecasts for the Lloyds (LSE:LLOY) share price make even me — a long-term sceptic of the bank’s investment case — sit up and take serious notice. Lloyds shares have risen 42% in value over the past year. Brokers think they’re going to rise another 12.8% over the next 12 months, to around 91.8p per share. Source: TradingView That’s clearly a far lower rate of growth than we’ve seen previously. But given that the bank also packs strong dividend yields of 4.4% and 5.2% for 2025 and 2026,…
US nonfarm payrolls for the 12 months ended March 2025 were slashed by 911,000 jobs, according to preliminary revisions released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists had predicted a downward shift of 682,000 jobs for the period, according to analysts tracked by Bloomberg data. The revisions follow an August payrolls increase of only 22,000 jobs, according to BLS data released Friday, coming in far below economists’ consensus estimate of 75,000 jobs added. That data also showed the economy lost jobs in June for the first time in four and a half years, losing 13,000 jobs compared to prior…