KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine will present its “victory plan” at a regular meeting of its allies at Ramstein in Germany on October 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a post on Telegram on Saturday. “We will present the victory plan, clear, specific steps for a just end to the war,” he wrote. Ukraine, which has been fending off an invasion from much larger neighbour Russia for nearly 1,000 days, has in recent months teased a plan to end the war. The details have not been made public, but Zelenskiy presented it to U.S. President Joe Biden, as well as both…
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Does gold hedge inflation? On average the answer is no, empirically speaking. But gold’s relationship with inflation is complicated, making any blanket statement about its role in portfolio construction unwise. In this blog post I offer evidence against the claim that gold is a reliable inflation hedge. But I don’t test and thus don’t dismiss gold’s potential value as a diversifier for other reasons. Gold Rush Gold’s recent surge has sent its real (Consumer Price Index-deflated) price to its highest levels since July of 2020 — almost $740 per ounce as of April 2024 — though still below its early 1980 peak of…
Every month, we ask our freelance writers to share their top ideas for growth stocks with investors — here’s what they said for October! [Just beginning your investing journey? Check out our guide on how to start investing in the UK.] AJ Bell What it does: AJ Bell is one of the UK’s largest investment platforms, providing administration, dealing and custody services. By Paul Summers. Holders of investment platform giant AJ Bell (LSE: AJB) are already having a stonking year. As I type, the shares are up nearly 50%. But I think this momentum might continue, especially if the end-of-year trading update – due…
Investing.com – The consensus expectation of a soft landing for the US economy is wishful thinking, according to BCA Research, and the world’s largest economy will fall into a recession later this year or in early 2025. “We resisted the consensus narrative in 2022 that a US recession was imminent,” said analysts at BCA Research, in a note dated Sept. 27. “We then predicted an immaculate disinflation for 2023, which kept us tactically bullish on stocks. But now we have joined the dark side and are calling for a recession to start within the next six months.” Stocks cheered the…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed next week’s top market-moving action, highlighting new consumer price index data and a slew of earnings reports as the season begins, including ones from Delta, Domino’s and several major banks. He also noted the stocks rally on Friday as Wall Street celebrated better-than-expected job creation last month.”A market that appreciates good news, like a robust job creation number, is a market that can handle, well, let’s just say, the historically tough month of October,” he said. “After today’s performance, all I can say is so far so good.”Tuesday brings earnings from PepsiCo and an investor day…
Jyoti Bansal, the mastermind behind software company AppDynamics, lived out a fantasy many entrepreneurs can only dream about – launching a startup and selling it for a staggering $3.7 billion. However, what should have been a triumphant moment quickly turned into one of his biggest regrets.Bansal, now 46, had spent years as a Silicon Valley software engineer before finally achieving his goal of becoming an entrepreneur. AppDynamics, the company he founded, solved a critical problem faced by large companies: fixing broken apps and preventing outages.Don’t Miss:But when Cisco swooped in with a last-minute acquisition offer in 2017, Bansal found himself…
Image source: Getty Images For years I’ve been worried about dividends from BT Group (LSE: BT.A) shares. I’ve always looked at the company’s capital expenditure (capex), and its high net debt levels, and wondered how long it could keep the cash payments going. But then, BT keeps managing it. And even though the share price is up a bit this year, we’re still looking at a forecast dividend yield of 5.6%. Dividend forecasts If those dividends keep on going at their current levels, we might have a nice long-term income investment here. And if current broker forecasts are anything to…
By Maya Gebeily, Timour Azhari and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -An Israeli strike hit Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli for the first time early on Saturday, a Lebanese security source said, after more bombardment hit Beirut’s suburbs and Israeli troops sought to make new ground incursions into southern Lebanon. The source told Reuters a Hamas official, his wife and two children were killed in the strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli. Hamas-affiliated media said the strike killed a leader of the group’s armed wing. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike on Tripoli, a Sunni-majority…
Image source: Getty Images With my £20k ISA allowance (that is, my contribution limit), I’d invest in shares and build a growing dividend stream to finance a second income. My approach would have three strands. First, I’d look for stocks with a chunky dividend yield now. Big-dividend stocks would give me a decent-sized cash income stream sooner rather than later. The money would give me choices. For example, I could draw it for a second income, or reinvest it to help build up the share account so it’s capable of paying an even bigger income later. The power of growth…
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Rachel Reeves said she will introduce “guardrails” to ensure that extra borrowing for investment in her first budget is not excessive as she seeks to reassure investors about an expected rise in public debt. “It’s about making prudent, sensible investments in the long term and we need guardrails around that”, Reeves told the Financial Times in an interview published late on Friday. Reeves is due to make her first tax-and-spending budget statement on Oct. 30, a milestone for the new Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer who has promised to…