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The transaction includes 13 Improved Forest Management (IFM) projects located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, U.S.A, covering 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) owned by more than 280 private family forest landowners. The carbon program managed by NativState offers landowners a sustainable income alternative to this region’s common practice of heavy timber harvesting while restoring forest health and improving carbon stocks. This investment will support sustainable forest practices, such as identifying and preserving high conservation value forests, implementing best management practices for streamside management zones, improving forest species diversity, and conserving wildlife corridors. It will also generate social benefits to small…

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Image source: Getty Images Back in April, I snapped up a handful of shares when the stock market suddenly started crashing. These included Nvidia (up 75% since) and Shopify (+68%). Beating this pair, though, is Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), which has nearly doubled since I invested three months ago. Unfortunately, I only had a nibble, just enough to get some skin in the game. However, I’m keen to add to my position in Cloudflare, whenever its shares next sell off aggressively. Here’s why I’m bullish on this tech company over the long term. What is Cloudflare? The company’s mission is to…

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Midwestern regional bank Old National Bancorp (NASDAQ:ONB) reported Q2 CY2025 results topping the market’s revenue expectations , with sales up 37.6% year on year to $654.4 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.53 per share was 2.2% above analysts’ consensus estimates. Is now the time to buy Old National Bank? Find out in our full research report. Net Interest Income: $514.8 million vs analyst estimates of $518 million (32.5% year-on-year growth, 0.6% miss) Net Interest Margin: 3.5% vs analyst estimates of 3.6% (20 basis point year-on-year increase, 3.8 bps miss) Revenue: $654.4 million vs analyst estimates of $619.7 million (37.6% year-on-year…

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Image source: easyJet plc easyJet‘s (LSE:EZJ) long-term share price performance is clearly disappointing. Currently hovering near £5, the shares are considerably below its 2021 high of nearly £9 and a fraction of its 2017 pre-pandemic highs. So with both travel resilience and operational performance improving, is a return to those post-Covid highs realistic? Rebounding easyJet suffered heavily during the pandemic, registering huge losses in 2020. In response, the airline raised capital and slashed costs. The past two years tell a different story. Net profits rebounded to £324m in 2023 and hit £452m in 2024, with further improvements expected. The company…

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Stock exchange market concept, Hand trader touch on digital tablet with graphs analysis candle line on the table in office, diagrams on screen. UK shares have substantially underperformed their US counterparts over the long term. But recent data comparing the performances of FTSE 100 shares and S&P 500 stocks suggest the tide may be turning. According to IG, the broader Footsie index has returned a healthy 28% to investors since July 2023. In doing so, it’s outperformed more than half (53%) of S&P businesses during the period, including the list of heavyweight US shares shown below: Share/IndexTwo-year performanceSalesforce25%Tesla18%Apple11%PayPal9%McDonald’s6%Airbnb5%Chevron4%Starbucks-1%FTSE 10028% To…

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is taking aim at both the Federal Reserve and the rules the Fed enforces as a supervisor of big banks but making it clear he doesn’t think Fed chair Jerome Powell needs to step down immediately. His boss President Trump has been calling repeatedly for Powell’s resignation. “There’s nothing that tells me that he should step down right now,” Bessent said on Fox Business Tuesday. “His term ends in May. If he wants to see that through, I think he should. If he wants to leave early, I think he should.” Yet the Treasury secretary still…

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Image source: Getty Images Looking for top stocks to buy for this year’s Stocks and Shares ISA? I’m eyeing up two with fat dividends that I think might be set for a new golden age. One is Land Securities Group (LSE: LAND). It’s a FTSE 100 real estate investment trust, and it offers a forecast 8.4% dividend yield. The dividend alone is better than the annualised FTSE 100 returns of 6.9% over the past 20 years. It could be enough to turn a £20,000 ISA allowance into a shade short of £100,000 in 20 years with dividends reinvested. That’s without…

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Freddie Daley is a research associate at the University of Sussex, and Charlie Lawrie is an independent consultant and a PhD student at the University of Sussex.First announced at COP26 in 2021, the Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JET-Ps) were hailed as a breakthrough in the complex and ever-expanding world of climate finance. Finally, wealthy nations were putting real financial weight behind the idea that they should help facilitate energy transitions in the Global South, given their disproportionate responsibility for planet-heating emissions.Through the JET-Ps, wealthy industrialised nations known as the International Partners Group (IPG) have pledged significant amounts of investment to…

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