Image source: Getty Images Premium content from Motley Fool Share Advisor UK Our monthly Ice Best Buys Now are designed to highlight our team’s three favourite, most timely Buys from our growing list of income-focused Ice recommendations, to help Fools build out their portfolios. “Best Buys Now” Pick #1: BAE Systems (LSE: BA.) BAE Systems as well as the entire European defence shares has been consolidated for 6 months while the tailwind to increased defence expenditures amid rising geopolitical strife will continue for several years. U.S. Army has awarded BAE a $440 million contract in September to produce additional Bradley…
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Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) dropped more than 6% on Monday to trade at their lowest level since the social media company went public in March. The moves come after DJT’s lockup period officially expired last week.Stakeholders, including former President Donald Trump, were subject to a six-month lockup period before being able to sell or transfer shares. That lockup period expired last Thursday, although Trump has said he would not sell his stake.“I have absolutely no intention of selling,” the former president told reporters at a press conference prior to the lockup period expiration. “I love it.…
WALLA WALLA, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Newsweek again named Banner (NASDAQ:) Bank one the World’s Most Trustworthy Companies, ranking Banner fifth among all banks on the 2024 list and the highest-ranked U.S. bank. Newsweek states their list recognizes companies that have earned the confidence of consumers, investors and employees by producing quality products, paying employees fair wages and appointing effective leaders.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240923619849/en/Banner Bank is highest-ranking U.S. Bank on Newsweek’s 2024 list of World’s Most Trustworthy Companies. (Photo: Business Wire)We always appreciate earning independent third-party recognition for doing right by our stakeholders, said Mark Grescovich,…
In March 2023, the EU Commission officially tabled a proposal for the CRMA as part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, to which EU Parliament agreed in December of that year. In March 2024, the EU Council approved and adopted the act and in May, the act passed into law. The EU developed the CRMA to bolster domestic supply chains while helping enable economic and environmental sustainability in the region. It identified 34 critical raw materials, of which 16 are deemed strategic raw materials. Among the strategic are rare earth elements and lithium, both crucial to the transition…
What you need to knowCyberpunk: Edgerunners is an critially acclaimed animated Netflix series set in the same universe as the Cyberpunk 2077 game. Recently Netflix and CD Projekt Red have teased a new expansion to the Cyberpunk animated universe.Today they dropped a Special Announcement trailer confirming it’s existence with the caption “Return to Night City.”Wake up Chooms — it’s time for some Cyberpunk news! If you are one of the millions that enjoyed Cyberpunk: Edgerunners when it launched on Netflix in 2022, you’ll be grateful to know we can expect more from the animated Cyberpunk Universe, as CD Projekt Red and…
Image source: Getty Images Earning a second income by investing in blue-chip shares is a proven model already used by a lot of people to boost their earnings. It is not foolproof. Dividends are never guaranteed, even from companies that have paid them consistently in the past. But by carefully selecting a diversified range of shares, I believe it is possible to earn sizeable passive income streams. If that was my objective and I had £20,000 in a Stocks and Shares ISA to try and bring it to life, here are three steps I would take. 1. Building a portfolio…
Apollo Global Management reportedly offered to invest up to $5 billion in chipmaker Intel. Intel executives are considering the proposal, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 23), citing unnamed sources. The size of the potential investment could change, or the talks could come to nothing, according to the report. Neither Apollo Global Management nor Intel immediately replied to PYMNTS’ request for comment. The investment would provide Intel with an alternative to a potential takeover by rival chipmaker Qualcomm, which has floated the idea of a friendly takeover, per the report. Apollo and Intel have an existing relationship, following Apollo’s June purchase of…
By Valentina Za, Tom Sims and Andreas Rinke MILAN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz slammed as “an unfriendly attack” UniCredit’s move to become the biggest investor in rival Commerzbank (ETR:) with a potential 21% stake, marking growing hostility towards the Italian bank. The German establishment’s ire towards UniCredit using derivatives to more than double its potential stake before obtaining regulatory clearance for an actual holding of more than 9.9% piles pressure on European Central Bank supervisors. Led by German academic Claudia Buch, they are now called to rule on UniCredit’s request to buy up to 29.9% of Commerzbank. “Unfriendly attacks,…
The price of gold is sitting at a new record high — but there are still big benefits to buying in. Getty Images/iStockphoto Gold prices are making headlines yet again this week after breaking through the $2,600 per ounce barrier — marking a new all-time high for the precious metal. This latest price milestone is another chapter in gold’s impressive rally, which has led the precious metal to consistently outperform expectations since the start of the year. Gold’s price has hit a handful of new highs so far in 2024 — the first of which occurred in March, when gold prices climbed…
A Southwest Airlines plane takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport on July 25, 2024 in Burbank, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines has warned employees that it will have to make “difficult decisions” ahead to boost profits as the carrier faces pressure from activist Elliott Investment Management, which has sought leadership changes at the company.Southwest over the summer announced a host of major changes to its more than 50-year-old business model to drum up revenue. It plans to ditch open seating for assigned seats, offer seats with more legroom that fetch a higher fare and start red-eye flights.It has also…