Metals are crucial to our economy. Industrial base metals, such as copper, iron ore, and aluminum, are essential building blocks for infrastructure, buildings, appliances, vehicles, and other equipment. Many metals are also becoming vital for lower-carbon energy. Meanwhile, precious metals like gold and silver have industrial uses and are important for investors. These demand drivers should help boost metals prices in the future. Image source: Getty Images. Investors have several metals and metal-related investment opportunities that could help them to profit from rising metals demand and prices. Of those options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offer an easy way to broadly invest…
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Tuck into a green dish of bivalvesShutterstock/Plateresca Picture an environmentally friendly food. Your mind might turn to the humble lentil, but is it possible to eat more luxuriously while still staying green? Bivalves such as oysters, mussels, clams and scallops already have green credentials, thanks to their ability to clean polluted water. Now, some researchers are arguing that they can even mop up carbon dioxide as well. Could farmed bivalves be the ultimate green food? Food production is to blame for around a third of greenhouse gas emissions, on top of all the other damage it does, so identifying foods…
The Washington PostTrump covets rare earth riches, but Greenland plans to mine its own businessInterest in Greenland’s minerals is soaring, driven in part by Trump, who has said the U.S. must “get” the island. But the rare earths will be hard to mine..1 month ago Source link
Image source: Getty Images On 2 July, the Greggs (LSE:GRG) share price crashed 15% as investors took a dislike to the pie and sausage roll maker’s latest trading update. Since then, it’s been in slow decline. At the time of writing (1 September), the stock’s changing hands for 20% less than at the start of July. Its market cap is now half what it was in August 2024. To assess the investment case, I’m going to consider how the baker’s performing against the four key drivers of growth that it’s identified for itself. 1. Growing the estate Greggs is certainly…
It looks like Old National Bancorp (NASDAQ:ONB) is about to go ex-dividend in the next 4 days. The ex-dividend date is usually set to be one business day before the record date, which is the cut-off date on which you must be present on the company’s books as a shareholder in order to receive the dividend. It is important to be aware of the ex-dividend date because any trade on the stock needs to have been settled on or before the record date. This means that investors who purchase Old National Bancorp’s shares on or after the 5th of September…
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Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS. Credit: NASA/ESA All (or at least most) astronomical eyes are on 3I/ATLAS, our most recent interstellar visitor that was discovered in early July. Given its relatively short observational window in our solar system, and especially its impending perihelion in October, a lot of observational power has been directed toward it. That includes the most powerful space telescope of them all—and a recent paper published on the pre-print server arXiv describes what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered in the comet’s coma. It wasn’t like any other it had seen before. 3I/ATLAS’s coma, which is the…
Africa is slowly stepping into the solar spotlight. According to the Africa Solar Industry Association (AFSIA) in 2024, the continent added 2.5 GW of new capacity, taking the total installed solar to 19.2 GWp. Yet, even with this growth, the divide between Africa and the rest of the world is still widening. For decades, solar power has played a critical role across Africa—lighting rural homes, powering water pumps, running mini-grids, and keeping hospitals connected. Now, momentum is shifting from small-scale use to large-scale adoption. The question is no longer whether solar will expand, but how fast and how broadly it…
Image source: Getty Images BAE Systems’ (LSE: BA) shares have fallen 12% from their 5 June one-year traded high of £19.98. While this could signal the company is worth fundamentally less than it was before, it might also mean the stock could actually be a bargain. I ran the key numbers and took a deep dive into the business to determine what the case is here. Is it a bargain? My starting point in assessing share prices is to compare their key valuations with those of their competitors. In BAE Systems’ case, its price-to-sales ratio of 1.9 is bottom of its…
Image source: Getty Images Growth stocks in the artificial intelligence (AI) space have generally done very well in recent years. Nvidia, for example, is up around 1,300% over the last five years. There are still a lot of AI stocks that look cheap, however. Here are three that I believe are worth a closer look today. A suite of AI products Let’s start with tech powerhouse and Google owner, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG). It currently trades on a forward-looking price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of just 21. That’s roughly in the line with the US market average. So, unlike a lot of other…