Image source: Getty Images I always keep my head on a swivel for my next potential buy. And right now, I see a number of FTSE shares that look like they could be cracking additions to my portfolio. Here’s one FTSE 100 and one FTSE 250 stock I’d love to buy today if I had the cash. Games Workshop The first is Games Workshop (LSE: GAW). After posting a strong 8.3% gain last year, the stock has kept up its form in 2024. Year to date, it has climbed 7.3%. The business has experienced major growth over the last decade.…
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during an ‘In Conversation’ event with Debbie Weinstein, managing Director Goole UK&I during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Stefan Rousseau – Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty ImagesLiverpool, ENGLAND — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted on Tuesday that tough decisions taken now will spark a new era for Britain, as he sought to shake a fog of pessimism that has clouded his new premiership.”Change must mean nothing less than national renewal,” he told a crowd of Labour Party delegates Tuesday.”The truth is that if we take tough long-term decisions now, if…
By Maya Gebeily, Tom Perry and James Mackenzie BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike targeted a Hezbollah commander in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday, two security sources in Lebanon said, as Israel struck the Hezbollah-controlled area of the Lebanese capital for a second consecutive day. The sources declined to identify who had been targeted in the strike and said his fate was unknown. The Israeli military said it had carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, but gave no details. The airstrike hit a building in the usually busy Ghobeiry neighbourhood. One of the security sources shared a photo…
By Jake SpringSAO PAULO (Reuters) – Amazon and other companies have agreed to buy carbon offset credits that will support the conservation of its namesake rainforest in the Brazilian state of Para, in a deal valued at around $180 million.Amazon and at least five other firms will make the purchase through the LEAF Coalition forest conservation initiative, which it helped to found in 2021 with a group of companies and governments including the United States and United Kingdom.The agreement is LEAF’s first deal in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, which is vital to curbing climate change because of the…
ClearBridge Investments, an investment management company, released its “ClearBridge All Cap Value Strategy” second quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The strategy outperformed its benchmark, the Russell 3000 Value Index in the second quarter, due to strong stock selection in the IT and consumer discretionary sectors, which overcame weakness in consumer staples stocks. Despite significant market growth, the market’s breadth is dismal as the demand for AI businesses is starving the rest of the industry and raising concerns about how and when leadership will shift. In addition, please check the fund’s top five…
BlackRock will refrain from investing more in China’s real estate market until it sees a significant return in investor confidence and an improvement in supply-demand fundamentals. Source link
In the 1800s, aluminum was considered more valuable than gold or silver because it was so expensive to produce the metal in any quantity. Thanks to the Hall-Héroult smelting process, which pioneered the electrochemical reduction of aluminum oxide in 1886, electrochemistry advancements made aluminum more available and affordable, rapidly transforming it into a core material used in the manufacturing of aircraft, power lines, food-storage containers and more.As society mobilizes against the pressing climate crisis we face today, we find ourselves seeking transformative solutions to tackle environmental challenges. Much as electrochemistry modernized aluminum production, science holds the key to revolutionizing steel…
A dollar won’t get you as far as it used to. Customers across the country were left in the lurch after Megabus, one of the nation’s most prominent low-cost bus carriers, canceled routes in multiple states two months after its parent company Coach USA filed for bankruptcy.On Aug. 15, Megabus announced that Peter Pan Busways would take over its service in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore as well as dozens of locations throughout the Northeast. The next day, the transportation company ceased operations across five major cities in Texas while simultaneously discontinuing service between Atlanta and Washington D.C.,…
US stocks picked up on Tuesday, extending a winning streak as pro-rate-cut Fedspeak and China’s launch of aggressive stimulus lifted market spirits.Stocks initially rallied following the announcement before paring those gains. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) popped about 0.5% while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose more than 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was up nearly 0.1%.Stocks have shown momentum as the prospect of a Federal Reserve interest rate-cutting campaign and an apparently resilient economy spurs confidence in a coming rally. Some on Wall Street now forecast the S&P 500 will hit 6,000 this year — a big milestone…
Image source: Getty Images The once-futuristic concept of robotaxis (self-driving taxis) is rapidly becoming a reality. Already, these vehicles are on the roads in several US cities. Looking to invest in this exciting area of technology? Here are three S&P 500 stocks to consider buying. Tesla When it comes to self-driving technology, Tesla‘s (NASDAQ:TSLA) a leader. So naturally, it’s aiming to become a major player in the robotaxi space. Now at present, we don’t know much about Tesla’s plans here. But that’s likely to change next month when the company holds its robotaxi event on 10 October. CEO Elon Musk’s…