Eight to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food wasted somewhere along its journey from farm to table. When that organic waste ends up in a landfill, it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as it slowly decomposes. Food banks can help prevent food waste from occurring, by rescuing unsold food from grocers and retailers and redistributing it to families and individuals in need. Now, a small number of food banks around the world have recently started tracking their operations and quantifying how many emissions they’re avoiding — with the goal of using that data to better aid…
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Image source: Getty Images The FTSE 100 broke past the 9,000 mark in July for the first time ever, but not every stock joined in the rally. A handful of big names are still languishing near their lows, with plunging share prices sending dividend yields to eye-watering heights. Dividend yield is a simple calculation — it’s the annual dividend divided by the current share price. As prices fall, the yield rises, which can provide enticing opportunities for income investors to lock in high returns. But high yields often signal high risk, and dividend payments can be cut if profits don’t recover.…
Image source: Getty Images When the FTSE 100‘s near an all-time high, finding value isn’t easy. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. In fact, several high-yielding UK dividend stocks still look surprisingly cheap – at least on paper. And one that’s caught my eye lately is the global sales, marketing and support services group DCC (LSE: DCC). Now, it’s not a household name like BP or Tesco, but it yields just under 5%, has a 13-year streak of dividend growth, and might be seriously undervalued — if analyst estimates are anything to go by. What’s going on with the DCC…
Q: Why has BPER set the CET1 guidance above 15.5% when it is currently at 16.2%? Are there trends that could lead to more capital utilization, considering expected loan growth? A: Gianni Franco Papa, CEO: We maintain a prudent approach, ending the first half at 16.2% and guiding conservatively at 15.5% for year-end. This is due to continued loan growth and the integration of BPSO. We prefer to be conservative and will see how things progress by year-end. Q: Can you update us on the actions taken to maintain NII resilience despite decreasing rates, and what should we expect for…
Image source: Getty Images BAE Systems’ (LSE: BA) shares have dipped 7% from their 5 June one-year traded high of £19.98. This is despite the release on 30 July of seemingly strong H1 2025 results. Consequently, I think this might be a great time for me to buy more of the stock. To find out if it is, I checked that good value remains in the shares and that nothing untoward lurked in the results. Is there anything wrong in the results? In H1, year-on-year sales jumped 11% to £14.621bn, and underlying earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) leapt 13%…
Image source: Getty Images International Consolidated Airlines Group’s (LSE: IAG) share price is trading around a five-year high. However, this does not mean that no value remains in the stock. Value is the true worth of a firm’s shares based on the strength of the underlying business’s fundamentals. Price is just what the market will pay for a stock at any given time. Understanding the difference between the two is the key to making big, sustained long-term profits, in my experience. And this includes several years as a senior investment bank trader and decades as a private investor. To find…
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Uber is in talks with private equity firms and banks to secure funds to build its robotaxi business, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, as the ride-hailing giant bets on a mass roll-out of the nascent and much-scrutinized technology. Uber, which offers robotaxis from Alphabet-owned Waymo, has been strengthening its foothold in the self-driving taxi industry through partnerships with automakers such as Volkswagen and Lucid, just as Tesla seeks to expand its fledgling robotaxi business. Khosrowshahi on Wednesday pitched the tie-ups as part of a larger plan that involves three robotaxi business models: paying partners that own such…
Image source: Getty Images The Stocks and Shares ISA remains one of the best tools in a UK investor’s arsenal. Tax-free gains? Dividend income with no HMRC knock at the door? Count me in. With a generous £20,000 annual allowance, there’s plenty of room to build a long-term portfolio – but only if the right shares go in. That means paying close attention to valuations, dividends and recovery potential. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future. The content in this article is provided for information purposes…
Image source: Getty Images The past 3 and a half years have been brutal for the Diageo (LSE: DGE) share price. Five years ago, the shares traded at around 2,567p, in early August 2020. Then, as the world celebrated the end of the Covid-19 crisis, the shares soared. The golden time for Diageo shareholders was end-2021, with the stock closing at 4,036p on 31 December. After that, it’s been steeply downhill for the global drinks group’s shareholders. Down, down, down goes Diageo At its 52-week high, the share price hit 2,677p on 18 October 2024. However, since the re-election of…
As traffic violence deaths in the U.S. continue to climb, Canada has managed to decrease bloodshed on their roads — and by adopting some safety strategies from our neighbor to the north, a new study suggests we may be able to follow their lead.A statistical model developed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Canada’s Traffic Injury Research Foundation recently found that thousands of lives could have been saved in the U.S. over the last decade if more communities had adopted a package of enforcement policies that are more common in Canadian provinces, including restricting handheld cell phone use, passing…