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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images While unpopular right now, renewable energy dividend stocks are offering some pretty chunky payouts to income investors. Higher interest rates have tested the resilience of many of these businesses. But with energy demand still rising and the UK government pushing towards Net Zero, the better-capitalised firms are still generating ample cash flow. That certainly seems to be the case for Foresight Solar Fund (LSE:FSFL), which has been busy hiking shareholder dividends each year for a decade. And when combining higher payouts with a lower share price, the dividend yield now stands at a jaw-dropping 9.2%!…
[ad_1] Legend Jenkins just wanted to walk to the grocery store with his older brother. But he never made it home. The seven-year-old stepped off a median this spring and was struck by an SUV driver near his home in North Carolina.Now, in a gut-punch of government and accountability failures, his parents are being charged with child endangerment (a felony) for allowing him to make the short walk with his 10-year-old brother. Long-time safe streets advocate Nicole Gilenas has an investigation of the case in the New York Times this week which is inspiring a lot of justified outrage about overzealous…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Even as the FTSE 100 surpasses 9,000 points, there are still plenty of high-yield opportunities to explore. And while not all of these will turn out to be winners, every once in a while a hidden gem can emerge, generating a chunky, sustainable passive income. Today, Phoenix Group Holdings (LSE:PHNX) is starting to get a lot of attention from retail investors. At a yield of 7.9%, that certainly makes sense, especially since the company is on its ninth consecutive year of hiking payouts. So is this a no-brainer buy today? Or could it be a…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images When considering which stocks to buy, UK investors have a literal buffet of options before them. From the elite FTSE 100 down to AIM shares, there are potentially many lucrative opportunities at any time. Here, I’ll highlight one UK stock I’m buying and another I’m keen to avoid. Being disrupted? Let’s start with the one I’m giving a wide berth. This is ad agency WPP (LSE:WPP), the worst-performing stock in the FTSE 100 this year (down 55%). It’s not hard to see why. In H1, the company’s revenue less pass-through costs fell by 4.3% on…
[ad_1] This project will provide a white paper for a carbon coin that works in tandem with the existing carbon credit (offset) markets. As an active venture investor in carbon credit markets such as Pachama and Joro Technologies, and a major customer of these offsets with my husband Sergey Brin, I will be leveraging the current entrepreneurial ecosystem to identify the economic, policy, and technological requirements to scale a carbon credit coin. Relying heavily on my prior research in transaction cost theory, which discussed autonomous (AI) mechanism for information exchange, de-risking, and consensus, I’ll be applying a novel efficiency test…
[ad_1] ASTANA – With countries around the world racing to reach carbon neutrality goals, a mature carbon trading market is essential in unlocking this objective. Kazakhstan’s emission trading system (ETS), launched in 2013, can significantly benefit from integrating best practices, from building digital platforms to developing a voluntary market and improving reporting standards, writes Assel Aben, a chief expert of the Department of Economic Policy Analysis at the Astana-based Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies. Globally, momentum for the ETS is growing. Photo credit: ICAP Kazakhstan’s carbon market is advancing toward global climate goals but still lags in speed, scale, and…
[ad_1] Flora Wilson Brown’s six-hander, The Beautiful Future Is Coming, examines climate change across 250 years of real and imagined history. In 1856, Eunice begins to question whether carbon dioxide might signal that something is going terribly wrong. In 2027 London, Clare falls for Dan as she faces impending heatwaves and floods. By 2100 in Svalbard, Ana endures an 86-day storm raging outside, questioning the doomed future of our planet. The play has a fascinating premise, exploring how the consequences of climate change flow through past, present, and future generations. The combination of scientific inquiry and theatrical form is welcome, and…
[ad_1] It is hard to get excited after looking at Old Dominion Freight Line’s (NASDAQ:ODFL) recent performance, when its stock has declined 12% over the past three months. However, stock prices are usually driven by a company’s financial performance over the long term, which in this case looks quite promising. Specifically, we decided to study Old Dominion Freight Line’s ROE in this article. Return on equity or ROE is a key measure used to assess how efficiently a company’s management is utilizing the company’s capital. In simpler terms, it measures the profitability of a company in relation to shareholder’s equity.…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Businesses with lots of ‘optionality’ can make for exciting investments. Optionality is simply jargon for having multiple avenues of ongoing or potential growth. In other words, different ways to win. Here are two growth stocks I think fit the bill and are worth considering. Established tech giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is a classic case study in building optionality. It started out as an online book seller, before morphing into the ‘everything store’ by allowing third parties to sell on its platform. Today, Amazon is the e-commerce behemoth we all know, as well as a global leader…