Image source: Getty Images Even as FTSE shares rally and leading indices reach record highs, there continue to be impressive high-yield opportunities for investors to capitalise on. And two stocks that are seemingly popular buys right now are Legal & General (LSE:LGEN) and Taylor Wimpey (LSE:TW.). The insurance giant and homebuilder are apparently near the top of most investors’ shopping lists this month. At least, that’s what the latest data from AJ Bell’s showing. And with a dividend yield of 8.8% and 9.6% respectively, it’s not hard to see the appeal. But are these actually good stocks to consider buying…
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Image source: Getty Images Despite being mainly known for growth stocks, the FTSE 250 has an abundance of high-yield dividend opportunities. In fact, there are currently more than 40 firms with a payout of 6%+. And among these is Victrex (LSE:VCT), a speciality materials enterprise. Victrex shares have had a bit of a rough time lately. The stock’s down roughly 23% over the last 12 months due to a combination of operational and market challenges. Yet despite these speed bumps, dividends have continued to flow into shareholders’ pockets. As such, anyone with £12,307 sitting on the sidelines can currently buy…
Image source: Getty Images I remember the days when the Diageo (LSE: DGE) share price had all the sparkle of a Tequila commercial. At times, it felt like the ultimate no-brainer FTSE 100 buy, boasting a portfolio of the most famous spirits brands in the world, including Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Bailey’s, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Captain Morgan. Then it all went wrong. Its focus on the premium market backfired as the cost-of-living crisis forced drinkers to cut back or trade down. Tariffs have hit Diageo hard too. Even investors who bought after the first profit warning in November 2023 are hurting, with the…
Image source: Getty Images Defence stocks like Babcock International (LSE:BAB) have been among the best-performing UK shares in 2025. This particular contractor’s breakneck ascent saw it promoted to the FTSE 100 from the FTSE 250 mid-cap index in March. At £11.85 per share, Babcock’s share price has risen a stunning 135% since 1 January. Anyone who’s opened a newspaper recently will understand renewed investor appetite for defence shares like this. Worries over Russia’s military goals are rising, as the Ukraine war rolls on and drone incursions into NATO countries become more frequent. Elsewhere, the threat of widening conflict in the…
Vietnam is poised to gain an extra $5 million from the World Bank through the transfer of carbon credits. The payment, scheduled before the end of October, comes from the sale of one million tonnes of CO2 under a government resolution on transferring surplus emission reductions achieved in the north central region during 2018–2019. Agribank representatives appraised an enterprise afforestation project The amount is part of the 5.9 million tonnes of surplus carbon emission reductions remaining following Vietnam’s Phase 1 credit transfer, which generated $51.5 million. Indeed, Vietnam is the first country in the East Asia-Pacific region to receive a…
Cambodia’s clean cooking technology firm ATEC has raised $15.5 million in a funding round co-led by Lightrock and TRIREC, with participation from Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia Fund. The firm said in a statement on last Thursday that the funding allows the firm to expand its network of smart clean cookstoves that enable the issuing of data-auditable carbon credits that can be verified down to each household and integrated with carbon blockchain ledgers. The funding will enable the rollout of up to 200,000 of ATEC’s Internet of Things (IoT) electric cookstoves, called eCook, over the next three years. The rollout…
Investors in Opendoor Technologies Inc (Symbol: OPEN) saw new options begin trading this week, for the May 2026 expiration. One of the key data points that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 238 days until expiration the newly trading contracts represent a possible opportunity for sellers of puts or calls to achieve a higher premium than would be available for the contracts with a closer expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the OPEN options chain for the new May 2026 contracts and…
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBRL) will pay a dividend of $0.25 on the 12th of November. This payment means that the dividend yield will be 2.3%, which is around the industry average. We’ve found 21 US stocks that are forecast to pay a dividend yield of over 6% next year. See the full list for free. We like a dividend to be consistent over the long term, so checking whether it is sustainable is important. Prior to this announcement, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store’s dividend was comfortably covered by both cash flow and earnings. This indicates that a…
Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) has been a climate finance mechanism under the UN for nearly two decades. In Brazil, JREDD+ is a public policy approach developed by Brazilian federal and state governments to promote large-scale forest conservation and climate mitigation.Emission reductions are measured at the jurisdictional level—not tied to individual properties or collective territories—and generate carbon credits based on verified drops in deforestation and degradation.Participation is voluntary and protected by safeguards and law, ensuring communities, farmers, and local actors can opt in or out while retaining land and resource rights. JREDD+ enables access to climate finance from private and public sources,…