The Washington PostTrump covets rare earth riches, but Greenland plans to mine its own businessInterest in Greenland’s minerals is soaring, driven in part by Trump, who has said the U.S. must “get” the island. But the rare earths will be hard to mine..1 day ago Source link
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Image source: Getty Images Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock has a habit of exploding higher after an earnings reports. This has seen it rise by a mind-boggling 780% in two years! The AI software firm reports Q2 earnings on 4 August. Should I snap up some shares before this event? Booming AI business Palantir develops software that enables organisations to analyse and act on large volumes of data. Its massive customer base includes the likes of the US Army, CIA, NHS England, Airbus, and Ferrari. Recently, it has been the company’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) that has supercharged the business…
Image source: Getty Images There has only been one winner between Sainsbury’s (LSE: SBRY) and Tesco (LSE: TSCO) shares in the past year. The former is up 11% while the latter has jumped 28%. Sainsbury’s has a higher dividend yield, but that wouldn’t have come close to making up the difference. Which one looks the most attractive moving forward? Here’s my opinion. Operational performance In Q1, total retail sales (excluding fuel) at Sainsbury’s rose 4.9%, with grocery sales up 5%. This period marked its highest market share since 2016, as its ‘Aldi Price Match’ scheme and Taste the Difference premium…
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.KS) has secured a major multiyear deal with Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) to manufacture advanced AI semiconductors at its upcoming facility in Taylor, Texas. The $16.5 billion agreement runs through 2033 and marks a crucial win for Samsung’s underperforming foundry business. Elon Musk confirmed that the Texas fab will produce Tesla’s AI6 chip, a next-generation inference processor critical to powering autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. Here’s a snapshot of his tweet: Tesla Shifts from TSMC to Samsung to Diversify Supply Chain Tesla’s decision to switch from longtime chip partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE: TSM) to Samsung…
Image source: Getty Images Just as the internet has transformed the world over the past 30 years, artificial intelligence (AI) is set to do something similar in the decades ahead. That makes it an exciting megatrend to back in my Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) and Stocks and Shares ISA. Here’s how I’m hoping my portfolio grows in value as the AI era advances. Broad-based exposure Over the past few years, I have built up a lot of different AI investments. For a start, I hold a Nasdaq 100 exchange-traded fund (ETF). This gives me broad exposure to all the leading…
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Image source: Getty Images Sometimes people wonder how much they’d need in a portfolio to generate enough passive income to live on. Even though this is an honourable goal, I think it’s often better to flip it around and look at a realistic portfolio size to see how much income it could generate. Based on an investor having built up a £50,000 portfolio over several years, here are my findings. Setting the tolerance Risk appetite is a big part of the equation that an investor needs to address. From the beginning of building a portfolio, an investor can choose a…
Image source: Getty Images With the FTSE 100 up 12% so far in 2025, we’re not seeing quite the same dividend yields from the top income stocks that we’ve had in the past. There might not be any 10%-plus ones to be had in the top index these days. But Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) still offers a fat forecast 8.4%. And we have first-half results coming on 6 August. If they’re good, might that push the share price up and lower the prospective dividend yield? Hmm, maybe we should consider buying before that can happen? The insurance and asset…
Image source: Getty Images Penny shares have the potential to make investors a lot of money in a very short space of time. But this can work both ways, of course, as a 5p share price can quickly become 2p. With this in mind, I note Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) stock has been surging higher. It has gone from $2.37 (or about £1.76) in April to just under $4 today. That’s a 65% jump! In the US, a business trading for a couple of dollars with a $98m market cap — like Virgin Galactic in April — would be classed…
Markets expect the Fed to hold rates steady on Wedenesday, despite pressure from the White House and public calls for cuts from FOMC members like Governor Waller. Analysts see signs of a shift toward easing—possibly beginning in September—but warn that Trump’s fiscal policies may complicate Powell’s efforts to control inflation, regardless of rate decisions. Jerome Powell has a chance to make his life significantly easier this week. If he was minded, he could recommend at the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) that the base rate should be cut—thus removing some of the pressure the White House is…