The Phillips 66 Company’s Los Angeles Refinery in California.Bing Guan | ReutersThe oil price outlook is being hit with more bearish forecasts on the back of U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping and market-hammering tariff announcements. Businesses and investors worry that a trade war and lower global growth lies ahead.Goldman Sachs on Thursday reduced its December 2025 forecasts for global and U.S. benchmarks Brent crude and WTI by $5 to $66 and $62 a barrel, respectively, “because the two key downside risks we have flagged are realizing, namely tariff escalation and somewhat higher OPEC+ supply.”The bank also cut its forecasts for…
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Image source: Getty Images With a large number of investment trusts on the London market, it can take some time to sift through the options and decide what looks attractive. This weekend, many investors’ minds may be focused on the end of one tax and year and the start of another, with ramifications for contributing to a Stocks and Shares ISA. As a new year’s ISA allowance beckons, here are two investment trusts for investors to consider. Growth focus, with an impressive dividend history Very few shares can claim not to have cut their dividend since the Wall Street stock…
Image source: Getty Images By the time today’s (4 April) closing bell rings on the New York Stock Exchange, more than a few brokers will breathe a sigh of relief. It has been a dramatic week in world stock markets with the US’s tariff plan leading to high volatility for some leading UK shares among others. Seeing a dramatic swing in share prices can feel unsettling. Here are two things I think investors could do well to bear in mind. A paper loss is just a paper loss When stock prices fall and the valuation of an ISA or portfolio…
(Bloomberg) — Japanese stocks sank deeper into the red on Friday, with the Topix index tumbling into a technical correction as it led Asian equities lower for a second day. Most Read from Bloomberg Investors continued to bail out of riskier assets that will be hurt by US tariffs, with a rally in government bonds sending yields sharply lower and traders slashing bets that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates again this year. The yen swung in choppy trading while holding onto the gain of more than 2% that it made on Thursday after US President Donald Trump…
Image source: Getty Images The FTSE 250 investment firm aberdeen group (LSE: ABDN) was once dubbed the “most shorted company in the UK”. CityAM made the remarks in December 2024, although Ocado and Domino’s Pizza have attracted even more shorts since. Obviously, that’s not an accolade that any company strives to achieve. Yet not everyone is so pessimistic. Deutsche Bank maintains a Buy rating on the stock that it reiterated this Wednesday, 2 April — albeit with a minor decrease in target price. So with a 9.6% yield and a fairly impressive payment track record, why are analysts so down…
Image source: Getty Images The imminent arrival of a new tax year means investors would typically be looking for shares to buy for the latest ISA period. But with global stocks sinking following President Trump’s worldwide tariffs, these are anxious times. Might it be a better idea for would-be ISA investors to sit on the sidelines instead? I think not. Radical White House plans undoubtedly raise significant risks, but they might also create some fabulous (and rare) long-term investment opportunities worth considering. Here’s how investors could aim to build tax-free ISA wealth amid stock market chaos. Please note that tax…
Image source: Getty Images With the Persimmon (LSE:PSN) share price falling 25% since April 2020, the stock’s now (4 April) yielding an impressive 4.9%. This puts it comfortably in the top quarter of FTSE 100 dividend payers. And if the analysts are correct, the payout should improve over the next couple of years. For 2024, the housebuilder returned 60p a share. Looking ahead, those crunching the numbers are forecasting 60.84p (2025) and 66.12p (2026). This means the forward yield could be as high as 5.4%. However, I’m hoping future payouts will be higher than this. From 2020 to 2024, Persimmon…
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MaRS Discovery District, the largest innovation hub in Canada that is also a registered charity, has invested in carbon credits from six Canadian startups, providing them with crucial initial funding to stimulate their growth in the future. During the past six months, MaRS led a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) prepurchase and training program, with participation from Japanese consortium M-Lab, made up of leading industrial names like Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas), ENEOS Americas Inc., Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., and Yazaki Innovations, Inc.Through this effort, MaRS was able to enrich M-Lab with knowledge on carbon credit purchases, along with tools…
Mohamed Aly El-Erian, chief economic advisor for Allianz SE. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s extensive raft of import tariffs are putting the U.S. economy at risk of recession, Allianz’s Chief Economic Advisor Mohamed El-Erian warned on Friday.He added that Trump’s swathe of so-called reciprocal tariffs could have a significant effect on the global economy.”You’ve had a major repricing of growth prospects, with a recession in the U.S. going up to 50% probability, you’ve seen an increase in inflation expectations, up to 3.5%,” he told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, Italy.”I don’t think [a…