NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 02: Stock market numbers are displayed on a screen at the New York Stock … More Exchange during afternoon trading. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Getty Images Tariffs, trade wars and Trump. The world has seldom been on such uncertain territory. Yet while these issues “flood the zone”, in the words of the US president’s former strategist Steve Bannon, climate change continues unabated. Public budgets that should be targeted at the climate crisis are increasingly focused on dealing with geopolitical instability and even preparing for war. In such circumstances, the private sector must step…
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A deadly multiday storm system that has unleashed tornadoes and heavy rainfall will continue to batter the Midwest and the mid-South on Friday, in what forecasters describe as a “catastrophic and potentially historic flash flood event.”The storm system has already wreaked havoc across multiple states, spawning devastating tornadoes in Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri that left homes in piles of debris and led to downpours triggering severe flooding in multiple states. At least seven people are dead and more than a dozen more are injured.According to PowerOutage.Us, more than 116,000 customers across the country were without power Friday morning, and communities…
Image source: Getty Images Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock has performed pretty awfully recently. Since they peaked at $479.86 in mid-December, the electric vehicle (EV) automaker’ shares have tumbled by 44% to $267.28 today. If an investor had put in £5,000 at that point, they would only have £2,785 today. Disappointing! Would investing that £5,000 today be a great opportunity or will the shares continue crumbling? Bubble bursting? Tesla stock has long been a winner in the stock market. It’s rocketed by 20,781% since it went public in 2010. But there’s always been concerns with its valuation. The firm’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio…
Image source: Getty Images Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares have always been a roller-coaster ride, but never more so than today. The company’s mercurial founder, Elon Musk, divides investors like never before. After his hook-up with Donald Trump, the hype was up to 11. Following this week’s tariff shock, it’s raced past 12 or 13. After last November’s presidential election, the Trump-Tesla tie-up excited investors. By 18 December 2024, Tesla stock had flown to a 52-week high of just over $488. As I write, it’s plunged 45% to $267. Can Elon Musk bounce back from this? Someone who invested £10,000 at…
By Amanda CooperLONDON (Reuters) – One of the Federal Reserve’s preferred recession indicators has this week deteriorated as fast as it did in 2008, the latest sign that bond investors are bracing for a sharp economic slowdown as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.There are many metrics economists and investors use to try to predict a downturn. The gap between two-year and 10-year Treasury yields for instance, is a bond market favourite.Fed Chair Jerome Powell is said to favour the difference between the yield on three-month Treasury bills and their expected yield in 18 months.The rationale is…
Toy prices could jump 50% with China, Vietnam tariffsA customer pushes a shopping cart containing stuffed toys at a Target Corp. store in the Queens borough of New York, U.S, on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019.Bess Adler | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe toy aisle is about to get more expensive.For decades, U.S. toy companies have worked with Chinese manufacturers to bring the hottest action figures, dolls and games to retail shelves. Vietnam became a solid secondary market for companies looking to diversify their factory locations amid growing trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.Trump slapped China with an additional 34% duty Wednesday,…
Image source: Getty Images Over the past five years, Kodal Minerals (LSE: KOD) has rewarded investors 10-fold. The sort of 900% increase seen in the share price during that period is the stuff of investor dreams. So, might the penny share have further potential gains ahead of it – and should I add it to my portfolio? Promising moves towards commercial production I do see some reasons to be optimistic about the outlook for the company. In an update to the stock market today (4 April), Kodal provided some encouraging news on developments at its flagship lithium mining project in…
The government is set to outline its approach to private investment in major construction projects in its upcoming 10-year infrastructure strategy, a senior cabinet minister has said.A chapter in the strategy document, due in June, will outline the government’s approach to attracting private capital across civils projects, housing and public facilities, chief secretary to the treasury Darren Jones told Construction News. The government will draw from research by the British Infrastructure Taskforce, a group of domestic and foreign investors set up when Labour was in opposition. The taskforce will present its findings in the “next couple of weeks”, Jones said.Among…
Image source: Getty Images Many investors are looking for safer dividend stocks to buy right now. And that’s understandable as global markets are well and truly in meltdown mode as a result of tariff uncertainty. The good news is that on the London Stock Exchange, there are plenty of dividend stocks on the safer side. Here’s a look at two I think are worth considering today. Identifying safe stocks There are many ways to identify safer stocks. One is to look for companies that operate in defensive industries like Consumer Staples and Utilities. Another way is to look for companies…
Image source: Getty Images The Barclays (LSE: BARC) share price has slumped 13% since President Trump imposed his punitive import tariffs on the world. It comes after the FTSE 100 fell more than 3% over the same period. It’s back down to where it was as long ago as… oh, only January. Maybe not such a big deal. It’s a smaller fall than the S&P 500, which lost 4.8% on the day after the announcement. And the Nasdaq fell 6%. The price movements I talk about here are as I write on 4 April, and are likely to change even…