[ad_1] Nasdaq RigaPress releaseNasdaq Welcomes Primostar Group to the Baltic First North MarketTallinn/Riga/Vilnius, Nasdaq Baltic Market, June 5, 2025 – Nasdaq (NDAQ)announces that shares of Primostar Group (ticker: PRIMO) have been admitted totrading on the Nasdaq Baltic First North Market as of today. Primostar Group isan Estonian company specializing in the construction of below-gradewaterproofing concrete structures.The listing of Primostar Group shares follows the initial public offering toEstonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian investors. The base amount of the offeringwas EUR 1 million. The demand for the shares was approximately EUR 367,000, anda total of 290 investors subscribed to the shares.“Primostar Group is a…
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[ad_1] EUR/GBP steadies around 0.8420 in Thursday’s early European session.The ECB is expected to trim interest rates by 25 bps on Thursday, bringing its deposit facility rate to 2.0%.The UK is temporarily spared from Trump’s 50% steel tariffs. The EUR/GBP cross trades on a flat note near 0.8420 during the early European session on Thursday. Traders prefer to wait on the sidelines ahead of the European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate decision later on Thursday. Tuesday’s Eurozone Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) inflation figures increased the chance that the ECB will cut the interest rates in the June meeting. This, in turn,…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I don’t usually take risks when picking stocks for my passive income portfolio. I prefer the safety of reliable FTSE 100 dividend stocks with long payment track records. However, in the run-up to Christmas, I noticed an opportunity in a mid-sized £337m company that might benefit from the holidays: Card Factory (LSE: CARD). The stock isn’t in the FTSE 250 yet but I think it’s well on its way to joining the mid-cap index. Festive cheer As the name suggests, the company sells personalised cards, party accessories and gifts, including balloons, napkins, wedding decor, mugs,…
[ad_1] Image source: BT Group plc BT‘s (LSE:BT.A) shares have enjoyed robust gains over the last 12 months. Yet things aren’t quite as cheery when analysing the telecoms giant’s performance over the longer term. At 174.7p per share, BT’s share price is down 60.9% from the 446.7p it was trading at 10 years ago. This means that £10,000 invested in the FTSE 100 company back then would now be worth roughly £3,911. In better news, the stock’s long-term investors have received a steady stream of dividends in that time. These have totalled 99.12p per share, which means the total return…
[ad_1] An aerial view shows a farmer driving a tractor through the barren peach tree orchard at the Gregg … More Farms in Concord, Georgia, on July 12, 2023, after Pike County’s peach crop failed to survive the frost and frigid temperatures that hit the area in mid to late March. From a distance, everything seems normal. Well-aligned peach trees, whose green leaves stir in the wind, near a pretty little American farm. But the winter was abnormally mild, causing the peach blossoms to hatch early in the season. Then in March, temperatures dropped below zero, far too cold for…
[ad_1] Picture: A worker in the steel and metal industry/Generic By REGINALD KANYANE 5 June 2025 – The Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition said it has engaged stakeholders from the steel industry on the progress made in implementing the Steel and Metal Fabrication Master Plan. The committee said this stakeholder engagement follows its meeting with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), which was held on 6 May 2025, to ascertain the progress made in implementing the Steel and Metal Fabrication Master Plan, as part of its oversight function. The Chairperson of the Committee, Mzwandile Masina said…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Unless you own shares in Babcock International Group (LSE:BAB), the FTSE 100 defence stock, the news over the past few days has been very depressing. On Monday (2 June), at the launch of the government’s strategic defence review, the Prime Minister promised to make Britain “battle-ready” and the Defence Secretary talked of a “new era of threat”. And if that wasn’t enough, ahead of the defence review’s launch, Sky News was simulating a Russian attack on the UK. A silver lining But so far this week, Babcock’s share price has soared 12%. Not surprisingly, the…
[ad_1] Global carbon ratings agency BeZero Carbon has today announced the launch of the Pre-rating Scorecard, an interactive tool that puts its established ratings methodologies directly in the hands of users to assess the risk of unrated carbon projects.Since its launch in 2022, the BeZero Carbon rating has become the carbon market’s independent benchmark for assessing project quality.Pre-rating Scorecard is the market’s first dynamic tool for unrated project assessment, enabling customers to understand what drives project risk on a case-by-case basis. “We’ll see an influx of corporate demand for CDR,” | RSS.comBuilt on the same sector-specific methodologies that underpin BeZero’s…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Those looking for a second income could consider investing in the UK stock market. That’s because 311 out of the largest 350 listed companies have paid a dividend over the past 12 months. Of course, there’s no guarantee this will be repeated. But without a crystal ball, history’s all we’ve got to guide us. Possible returns Of the UK’s 100 biggest stocks, only one didn’t make a dividend payment during the past year. Overall, the yield on the FTSE 100 is 3.58%. A return like this means a £20,000 investment (the most that can be…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images My Stocks and Shares ISA hasn’t performed as well as I had hoped in 2025, having almost doubled in value in 2024. And in the current market, I’m not finding it particularly easy to find the companies that could supercharge my portfolio. In fact, I’ve increasingly been looking at the AIM index and smaller-cap UK stocks in order to find value. So what companies have I caught my eye? Well, here are some I’ve added to the watchlist: The Pebble Group, Card Factory, Keller Group, Yü Group (LSE:YU), and Celebrus Technologies (LSE:CLBS). CompanyP/E 2025P/E 2026P/E…