Image source: Getty Images So far, 2025 has been anything but tasty for baker Greggs (LSE: GRG). The share price has crashed 44% since the start of the year. For now at least, there is no obvious sign of even the start of a recovery in the share price. That has pushed the sausage roll maker’s dividend yield up to a tasty 4.4%. It also means that Greggs’ share price is at levels last seen during the pandemic back in 2020. Its share price-to-earnings ratio of 11 looks low to me and I have been buying the share repeatedly this…
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Image source: The Motley Fool August is often thought of as a quiet time in the stock market. That has not been obvious this month, with both the FTSE 100 and US S&P 500 indices hitting new all-time highs. That has put me in mind of some famous words of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. As Buffett puts it: “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful”. With stock markets on fire and some investors looking increasingly greedy, is now the time to be fearful? What’s Buffett doing? I think it may be. So I reckon, does…
Gold (GC=F) futures opened at $3,477.20 per ounce on Friday, up 1.3% from Thursday’s close of $3,431.80. The price of gold briefly moved up in early trading near the all-time high of $3,485.60 before pulling back. Analysts are watching this week’s economic updates to determine the likelihood of a Fed interest rate cut in September. Thursday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis updated the second quarter GDP to 3.3% from 3% reported earlier, signaling a resilient economy despite President Trump’s tariffs. The latest weekly initial jobless claims report came in at 229,000, down slightly from 234,000 in the prior week. Next…
Prime Minister of CanadaCanada announces new partnership with Germany on critical minerals and energyToday, in Berlin, Canada and Germany signed a Joint Declaration of Intent to deepen co-operation to secure critical mineral supply chains,….3 days ago Source link
Image source: Getty Images The stock market’s been having another decent year, powered by soaring tech names such as Palantir and GE Aerospace. Yet a more recent buzz this month has come from Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) stock. Up around 9.5% so far, the S&P 500 may not match the eye-watering 25% gains of both 2023 and 2024, but momentum’s still on the side of equities. ADM surged on news that the chipmaker is joining forces with IBM to develop ‘quantum-centric supercomputing‘. The deal marks a major strategic step, signalling that AMD’s keen not only to fight for a…
Sea Limited (NYSE:SE) used to be a top position in my ISA. However, when growth slowed dramatically for the e-commerce and fintech firm after the pandemic, I sold the stock. In hindsight, I gave up too early on this tech company. It has revved up the growth engine once more while turning firmly profitable. And the share price sure has responded positively, surging over 400% in two years. Despite this, Sea’s still nearly 47% off its 2021 peak. Here are five reasons I’m seriously considering re-buying the stock. 1. Huge market opportunity When I’m weighing up a growth…
Image source: Getty Images When it comes to dividend stocks, investors looking for passive income have a lot of choices. But I think some of the best opportunities right now might be where other investors aren’t looking. That includes some of the less-well-covered corners of the UK stock market as well as over in the US. And there are a couple of examples that stand out to me. A 10% dividend yield Shares in Alternative Income REIT (LSE:AIRE) doesn’t get much attention from investors. But the stock comes with a 10% dividend yield and there’s a lot to like about…
Prime Minister of CanadaCanada announces new partnership with Germany on critical minerals and energyToday, in Berlin, Canada and Germany signed a Joint Declaration of Intent to deepen co-operation to secure critical mineral supply chains,….3 days ago Source link
Image source: Getty Images. Investing in growth stocks is a high-risk business, especially where artificial intelligence (AI) is concerned. But the potential returns for investors who can get it right are huge. At the moment, it seems as though every company on the stock market wants to be associated with the rise of AI. Investors, however, need to be able to separate the winners from the losers. Background: not all that glitters is AI gold For a lot of investors, one of the first names that comes to mind when it comes to AI is Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE). And there’s a…
Amtrak just put its new high-speed Acela II trains, a French design built in the U.S., into service on the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston. That means if someone wants to travel, say, between Washington and Providence, RI, a distance of about 400 miles, it can be done with unrivaled safety, comfort, and speed in about six hours, on infrastructure that’s well over a century old. Parts of that run have been updated and modernized, permitting bursts of speed up to 160 mph with the new trains. However, many sections have winding curves and tracks and electrical infrastructure that…