Getting big returns from financial portfolios, whether through stocks, bonds, ETFs, other securities, or a combination of all, is an investor’s dream. However, when you’re an income investor, your primary focus is generating consistent cash flow from each of your liquid investments. While cash flow can come from bond interest or interest from other types of investments, income investors hone in on dividends. A dividend is the distribution of a company’s earnings paid out to shareholders; it’s often viewed by its dividend yield, a metric that measures a dividend as a percent of the current stock price. Many academic studies…
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Image source: Getty Images Just before Rachel Reeves delivered her spring statement yesterday (26 March), the FTSE 100 was at 8,684. That was 2.5% off its record high. Thirty-three minutes later, after she sat down, it was barely unmoved at 8,681. Given there was little new in what the Chancellor said, this isn’t surprising. Having said that, I thought there would have been more of a market reaction to the halving of Britain’s growth forecast for 2025. But the movement in the overall value of the index hides some individual winners and losers. During the course of the Chancellor’s speech,…
Image source: Getty Images Taylor Wimpey’s (LSE: TW) share price has slumped 33% from its 20 September 12-month traded high of £1.69. I think this has been driven almost entirely by two factors. The first was the dismal state of the housing sector for much of the past five years. This began with the spread of Covid from the beginning of 2020, which paralysed housing demand. The invasion of Ukraine by major oil and gas supplier Russia pushed energy prices sky-high, fuelling inflation. This caused interest rates to surge and mortgage rates to hit 16-year highs. The resultant cost-of-living crisis…
Dollar Tree on Wednesday said it is selling Family Dollar for $1 billion to a pair of private equity firms, a decade after it bought the discount chain for more than $8 billion.In a statement, Dollar Tree said private equity firms Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management will purchase Family Dollar, with the discount chain slated to remain headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia. Although both Dollar Tree and Family Dollar cater to low-income shoppers, Family Dollar locations struggled to gain traction, prompting the parent company last year to announce plans to shutter about 1,000 locations. Family Dollar also faces fierce competition from…
Image source: Getty Images Many people use a workplace pension scheme to invest for retirement, but I think a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) can be a more attractive option. One key advantage of a SIPP is that investors have greater flexibility regarding their investment choices. This allows them to build a portfolio tailored to their risk appetite and specific objectives. According to the ONS, the average UK salary is currently £36,972 a year. Here’s how an investor can try to secure a passive income flow that matches that figure from dividend shares held within a SIPP. Please note that tax…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 26, 2025.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose “far larger” tariffs on the European Union (EU) and Canada if they work together to combat trade tariffs.”If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!,” Trump said in a Truth…
Image source: Getty Images. By providing protection from capital gains tax and dividend tax, the Stocks and Shares ISA and Lifetime ISA can significantly boost an individual’s chances of building long-term wealth. Even someone with £226 a month to invest in UK shares, funds and trusts has an opportunity to make a six-figure retirement fund. This is the average amount that modern Britons currently save each month, according to NatWest. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future. The content in this article is provided for information…
(Bloomberg) — The Australian rates market is signaling that the demand for the nation’s sovereign bonds has slumped to a record low relative to supply, underscoring investor concern over heavy debt issuance. Most Read from Bloomberg The spread between 10-year interest-rate swaps and similar-tenor bond futures slid to negative 14.75 basis points this week, the lowest in Bloomberg-compiled data going back to 1998. That gap is often seen as a gauge of the demand for debt as swaps and bond futures typically move in tandem, unless there is a bond-supply risk. The nation’s 10-year yields rose to the highest in…
The Cambodian government has approved at least three new irrigation dams across the Cardamom Mountains, carving even deeper into forests currently being used for the Southern Cardamom REDD+ and Samkos REDD+ carbon credit projects. Construction is yet to begin on the new dams, which are slated to be built in Battambang, Koh Kong and Pursat provinces. Officials from the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology, and the Ministry of Mines and Energy all declined to comment on the irrigation dams or their environmental impacts. The approval of these dams raises further questions about the government’s commitment…
Japan PM Ishiba responds to Trump’s auto tariffsJapanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said that “all options” will be put on the table in response to Washington’s decision to impose a 25% tariff on automobile imports. “Japan is a country that is making the largest amount of investment to the United States, so we wonder if it makes sense for (Washington) to apply uniform tariffs to all countries,” Ishiba said in parliament.—Lee Ying Shan, ReutersHong Kong shares up more than 1%Stock Chart IconStock chart iconHang Seng Tech ETFChina’s industrial profits drop 0.3% at start of the year as tariff risks loomChina’s industrial…