Image source: Getty Images The Jet2 (LSE:JET2) share price has slumped. In fact, it’s been fairly volatile this year, coming near £20 a share in the early summer before falling to around £13.30 today. There’s a lot to unpack here. So let’s start by exploring why the stock has fallen? Well, it’s got a lot to do with a late booking pattern. This isn’t to say demand’s falling, but simply that holiday makers are booking later than normal. In turn, this reduces Jet2’s visibility on revenues. This can make it hard to allocate resources to ensure demand’s met, but also…
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Image source: Getty Images Rolls-Royce (LSE:RR) shares have pushed so high that the firm is nearly worth £100bn. That’s an incredible achievement for a company that was worth little more than £6bn three years ago. I remember the period when there were genuine concerns about the company’s future — I was on my honeymoon. Rolls had been losing cash, was heavily leveraged, and then Liz Truss’s government came in and made borrowing even more expensive. Little did we know, right then, at the end of 2022, the business was really beginning to improve. Operationally, it was turning a corner, and…
Image source: Getty Images Ever thought of stuffing a Stocks and Shares ISA with dividend shares as a way to earn passive income? Lots of people do. Such an approach can be lucrative over the long term. It also means that passive income can hopefully be earned from proven blue-chip companies. That sounds genuinely passive to me, compared to some other approaches people use. Setting a goal and working towards it How much might such a plan earn? It is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. The amount of passive income a Stocks and Shares…
Image source: Getty Images A Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) is a brilliant way to save for retirement, but then so is a Stocks and Shares ISA. Both give investors valuable tax breaks, but in slightly different ways. When I asked ChatGPT whether I should hold my ultra-high-yielding Phoenix Group Holdings (LSE: PHNX) shares inside an ISA or a SIPP, it gave a balanced, if slightly cautious, reply. Both vehicles shield investors from income tax and capital gains tax while their money stays inside, the chatbot said. The key difference is that SIPP investors get upfront tax relief when paying money.…
Image source: Getty Images S&P 500 software firms Axon Enterprise and Duolingo have joined Adobe in seeing their share prices crash due to fears about artificial intelligence (AI) disruption. So is the whole sector in trouble? I won’t keep you in suspense: my answer’s ‘no’. Investors really need to think carefully about competition right now, but I think some companies are still very well-positioned. Barriers to entry There’s no way around the fact that AI can now write software code, so investors need to look for businesses that are protected by other barriers to entry. One of the best examples…
Image source: Getty Images. The Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR.) share price has doubled so far in 2025. But it’s gone off the boil a bit in the past month, as AI-related stocks in the US have wobbled. What’s the relevance of AI to Rolls-Royce? It’s those nuclear power plants it’s building — the small modular reactors (SMRs). As well as other potential applications, many see them as perfect for powering AI server installations. I see no need to panic right now. Rolls-Royce shares have lost 4.1% since their 52-week high at the end of September. That might be no more than…
Image source: Getty Images The Lloyds (LSE: LLOY) share price has been on a stellar run in 2025. Shares in the banking group are up 66% to 91.7p as I write on 6 November and sitting just shy of a 52-week high. Sitting on the sidelines is a difficult thing. I thought I’d dive into why investors might still want to consider, despite the recent share price gains. What’s happening to the Lloyds share price? The Lloyds share price has hit a 52‑week high and is one of many banks enjoying recent gains. That’s despite the UK banking sector facing…
Image source: Getty Images JD Sports Fashion (LSE: JD) is my favourite growth share, but sometimes I wonder why. The self-styled ‘King of Trainers’ has given me a right kicking since I bought it a couple of years ago. I jumped on the FTSE 100 stock after it issued a shock profit warning following poor Christmas 2023 trading, thinking this was finally my chance to get it at a decent valuation. It was cheap then, and it’s cheap today. JD Sports’ shares struggle A second Christmas disappointment in 2024 knocked the stuffing out of it, yet I kept faith. The…
Image source: Getty Images The Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) share price has gained ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday (6 November). Topping the bill is CEO Elon Musk’s proposed pay package, worth up to $1trn. It isn’t just about whether he gets the money. It’s about fears he’ll walk away if the deal isn’t approved. Musk wants to be in control: “My fundamental concern … if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future?“ What it means It’s not a case of handing over huge amounts…
Ever since the economic reform and opening of Chinese Mainland markets in the 1980s, Chinese Mainland enterprises have long desired to raise funds via equity and bond issuance to foreign investors. Even amidst the peak of onshore domestic growth, Chinese Mainland firms have been actively engaged in offshore listings to access foreign capital pools backed by hard (fully-convertible) currencies, such as the US dollar. This post builds on my earlier analysis of Hong Kong SAR market’s IPO resurgence. In this piece, I examine the broader forces behind the phenomenon, including how shifting regulations, US–China tensions, and Hong Kong Exchanges and…