(Bloomberg) — S&P Global Ratings said revenues from Donald Trump’s tariffs will help soften the blow to the US’s fiscal health from the president’s tax cuts, enabling it to maintain its current credit grade. While Trump’s trade war has roiled markets, unnerved foreign governments and provoked criticism from leading economists, S&P affirmed its AA+ rating for the US — a score it’s given since 2011, when it first downgraded the world’s largest economy from AAA. Most Read from Bloomberg This is in part because it reckons money flowing from the levies will offset the impact on the US’s budget position…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) confirmed on Tuesday in a joint statement with economic secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds, that its Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (Pisces) will launch later this year. Pisces is a new trading platform where shares in private companies can be traded. The FCA said will “open the door to more opportunities for investors, facilitating their access to growth companies.” Private companies will be able tap into a broader range of investors and asset managers with exits offered for shareholders to sell up. Companies can set the floor and ceiling of share prices,…
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — As lawmakers take up Cap-and-Trade for extension to 2045, they should reject any lobbyist pressure to include Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Cap-and-Trade, the state’s central greenhouse gas reduction program that caps emissions and mandates companies trade pollution allowances, Consumer Watchdog told legislative leaders today. “Some regulators turned oil lobbyists shaped the Cap-and-Trade program from within CARB, feathering their nests for future work for regulated companies,” Consumer Watchdog wrote in a letter to Senate President pro Tem Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas. “Among their clients are oil giants peddling false climate…
The diversity of trees on shade-grown coffee farms makes them a haven for biodiversity. Credit: Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. A new global analysis reveals a critical oversight in sustainable coffee and carbon-capture initiatives. These programs incentivize the planting of new trees yet fail to reward the preservation of mature shade trees in existing agroforestry farms, despite their far greater carbon storage potential. According to new research from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), published today in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, more than twice as…
By Fergal Smith TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian dollar hit its lowest in almost three weeks against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday as oil prices fell and cooler domestic inflation data raised expectations the Bank of Canada would cut interest rates in the coming months. The loonie was trading 0.4% lower at 1.3855 per U.S. dollar, or 72.18 U.S. cents, after touching its weakest intraday level since August 1 at 1.3860. Canada’s annual inflation rate eased to 1.7% in July from 1.9% in the prior month, helped by lower gasoline prices, while 3-month annualized measures of underlying inflation that the…
Image source: Getty Images Good stock-picking isn’t just about knowing which companies are worth backing; it’s also about knowing which to avoid. With the latter in mind, I’ve been looking at three UK shares that are, as I type, some of the most popular among short-sellers — traders betting their prices will go down. Sales crumble To some extent, the hate for Domino’s Pizza (LSE: DOM) is understandable. Investors have lost their appetite for the FTSE 250 member in recent times as the cost-of-living crisis has changed consumer behaviour and, consequently, impacted earnings. Only this month, management warned that full-year…
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Carbon Credit MarketInsightAce Analytic Pvt. Ltd. announces the release of market assessment report on “Global Carbon Credit Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Type (Voluntary Market, Compliance Market), Type of Project (Avoidance/Reduction Projects, Removal/Sequestration Projects (Nature-based, Technology-based)), Application (Aviation, , Energy, Building, Power, Industrial, Transportation)- Market Outlook And Industry Analysis 2034″According to the latest research by InsightAce Analytic, the global carbon credit market size is valued at USD 531.2 Billion in 2024, and it is expected to reach USD 7126.6 Billion by the year 2034, recording a promising CAGR of 29.8% during the forecast period of 2025-2034. Get…