In October 2023, Shizen Energy Inc. signed a 20-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Microsoft (MSFT stock) to provide renewable energy from a 25 MWac solar farm in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. As with other global deals, this VPPA helped Shizen Energy secure funding for the Inuyama project. Now the company has recently announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft. It currently has 100 MW in Renewable Energy Purchase Agreements across four solar projects in Japan. Building on this success, Microsoft signed three additional 20-year agreements for solar plants in Kyushu and Chugoku, further advancing both companies’ renewable energy goals.…
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StockhouseDefense first, then sell – Now it is time to load up on critical raw materials! Globex Mining, Hensoldt and RENKHensoldt hits record orders with EUR 7B backlog, Globex secures rare earths in North America, and RENK faces valuation risks amid defense boom..2 days ago Source link
Image source: Getty Images The Lloyds (LSE: LLOY) share price is on the rise yet again, up 3.25% as I write (8 October). It’s the fastest grower on the FTSE 100 this morning, as investors digest news they clearly see as positive. The jump comes after the Financial Conduct Authority set out its plan to charge motor finance lenders £11bn in compensation for unfair practices. Lloyds says it’s assessing the implications, but investors quickly decided the news is broadly positive. The FCA’s new scheme reduces expected payouts per agreement from £950 to £700, which caps a major source of uncertainty for the stock. Lloyds…
Image source: Getty Images Lloyds Banking Group (LSE: LLOY) shares gained 3% early Wednesday (8 October), as the next act in the car loan mis-selling drama unfolds. The bank said it “notes the recent FCA announcement … on an industry-wide redress scheme for motor finance.” Lloyds is “currently assessing the implications and impact … and will update the market as and when appropriate.” Car loan redress The day before, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) CEO Nikhil Rathi said: “It’s time their customers get fair compensation.” But it sounds like it might be less than borrowers had hoped. The FCA had previously…
Image source: Getty Images The best investment wrapper in the world. That’s what some say. They’re talking about the UK too. Anyone in this country can open a Stocks and Shares ISA, considered by many to be the number one investing vehicle planet-wide. Who would have thought it? The main advantages are twofold. The first being tax advantages. In the past, when a Briton wanted to buy a stock from the FTSE 100, say, they’d be paying capital gains if the share price went up. That’s up to 28% at the moment, and rumoured to be going higher. Any dividends…
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Image source: Getty Images I think Ramsdens Holdings (LSE:RFX) meets the definition of a growth share because the pawnbroker’s stock market valuation has risen by nearly 60% since the start of 2025. In February 2017, its IPO valued the group at £15.7m. Today (8 October), it’s worth approximately £125m. This morning, the company gave a pre-close trading update for the year ended 30 September 2025 (FY25). It said its profit before tax is now expected to be “slightly ahead” of analysts’ expectations of £15.4m. All that glitters… One of the drivers of this improved financial performance is a higher gold…
HOUSTON, October 8, 2025 (Newswire.com) – Leading European regenerative agriculture company InSoil has entered into a four-year agreement with Anew Climate, LLC, a global leader in environmental markets, to provide exclusive access to over 500,000 independently verified soil carbon removals from InSoil’s Carbon Farming Program of Lithuania, developed under Verra’s VCS VM0042 standard.The agreement provides Anew Climate’s customers with access to soil carbon removals generated by Lithuanian farmers adopting regenerative agricultural practices, including planting cover crops, diversifying crop rotations, implementing residue management plans, and promoting conservation tillage across fields primarily cultivating wheat, barley, oilseed rape, beans, and peas. These techniques…
The agreement will give Anew Climate customers access to more than 500,000 Lithuanian independently verified soil carbon removals developed under Verra’s VCS VM0042 standard.InSoil’s Carbon Farming Program in Lithuania has avoided or permanently sequestered an average of 2.27 tCO₂e per hectare per year in its first monitoring period.Carbon credit orders are now open, with first post-issuance deliveries expected by YE’25 or Q1’26.The agreement includes a pre-sold committed volume, enabling carbon finance funds to begin rewarding farmers for implementing sustainable practices.HOUSTON, TEXAS / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Leading European regenerative agriculture company InSoil has entered into a four-year…
For the best part of a decade, Tesco (LSE:TSCO) shares went up and down but ultimately sideways. But two years ago they started rising and have hardly paused for breath since. In this period, the Tesco share price is up 60%, and currently sits just under a 12-year high. For context, the FTSE 100 has returned about 27% in two years, before cash dividends. It means anyone who put £5,000 into shares of Tesco in early October 2023 would now have £8,000. That’s not including dividends. Adding those in, the return rises to nearly £8,500. That’s obviously a cracking result!…