Ioneer Ltd just delivered a major update on its 100%-owned Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada. The company announced a huge 308% increase in Ore Reserves, along with fresh economic projections for the project. Ioneer’s High-boron Strategy: Weathering the Weak Lithium Market The miner revealed that the Ore Reserve has jumped by 186.6 million tonnes, bringing the total to: 246.6 Mt at 1,464 ppm lithium and 5,444 ppm boron, Containing 1.92 Mt of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE) And 7.68 Mt of Boric Acid Equivalent (BAE) Nearly 48% of the Mineral Resource has now been converted into Reserve. Ioneer claims this…
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MIT engineers have developed a new aluminum-based process to produce hydrogen gas, that they are testing on a variety of applications, including an aluminum-powered electric vehicle, pictured here. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hydrogen has the potential to be a climate-friendly fuel since it doesn’t release carbon dioxide when used as an energy source. Currently, however, most methods for producing hydrogen involve fossil fuels, making hydrogen less of a “green” fuel over its entire life cycle. A new process developed by MIT engineers could significantly shrink the carbon footprint associated with making hydrogen. Last year, the team reported that they…
Image source: Getty Images US stocks have been the winning trade in the past decade over UK shares. According to Vanguard research, US equities’ annualised return was 15.5%. By contrast, British stocks delivered a measly 6.1%. Understandably, UK investors followed the money. Their historically significant home bias has faded. Brits now have twice the exposure to US stocks as London Stock Exchange shares. But currency risk complicates matters. This year, the British pound has surged 8% against the US dollar to above $1.35. It’s only traded higher for brief periods since the 2016 Brexit vote. Does this mean now’s a…
What happens when an industry survives not by producing products consumers desire, but by producing products governments desire? You get what I call a “pet industry” — a sector that is shaped more by political mandates than by market demand. From Europe’s steelmakers to global EV producers, these industries rely on state support to survive, but as political winds shift, their future looks increasingly fragile. Investors, beware: pets can be expensive to keep. In nature, species evolve through natural selection, or survival of the fittest. But humans learned long ago how to override that process. Through selective breeding, we’ve engineered…
With the national debt surging past $36.2 trillion in early June and long-term yields climbing, the U.S. bond market is entering dangerous territory.Leading financial voices are now raising alarms over unsustainable federal deficits, rising interest costs and declining confidence in the national debt.The rout in Treasuries that began in April has pushed 30-year yields near 5%, levels last seen during the 2023 debt-ceiling standoff and comparable to pre-2008 highs.Analysts say this reflects investors’ demand for a higher term premium—the extra yield needed to hold longer-term debt in a riskier fiscal environment.The key question now: Are we witnessing the early stages…
Image source: Getty Images Historically, stock market crashes have been great times to buy shares. Prices are unusually low and investors typically stand to do well when things get back to normal – whenever that happens. In general, it’s better to buy a stock at a 20% discount. But I don’t think investors should hang around waiting for a crash before looking for opportunities. When is the next crash coming? One problem with waiting for a crash to buy stocks is that prices might go up for a long time before that happens. A look at Rolls-Royce shares over the…
Image source: Getty Images There are lots of FTSE 100 shares that look overpriced to me right now, from Spirax Group to Tesco. Other investors seem to disagree and are buying at the current price. That is what makes a market. At the right price, I would be happy to own both shares, but for now I will just watch and wait. That does not necessarily mean, though, that all FTSE 100 shares are overvalued. In fact, I reckon some are undervalued right now. That could present investors with an opportunity to buy and hold shares in high-quality businesses in…
The nation’s top teen competitors tackled everything from stocks and bonds to credit management and budgeting NEW YORK, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Over thirty teams from 28 states competed over the weekend for the top spot as the nation’s most financially savvy teenagers. Scripps Ranch High School from San Diego, California, emerged as the winner. What credit card transaction requires you to pay interest every day, including the first day of the transaction, until it is repaid in full? That’s just one of the questions—one that even some adults struggle to answer—that our teen champions tackled during the competition. The…
Image source: Getty Images The best time to buy shares is when other investors are looking elsewhere. And it’s fair to say that uncertainty around US trade policy has caused a shift in the stock market. Since the start of the year, the FTSE 100 is up 6% while the S&P 500 is roughly where it was at the start of January. So does that mean it’s time for investors to look at buying US shares? The S&P 500 doesn’t look cheap The MSCI US Index has underperformed the MSCI World Index since the start of the year. But the…
Image source: Rolls-Royce plc Between 2020 and 2022, shareholders in Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR) saw the share price seesaw dramatically. Since then, though, there has been a turnaround in the share price that is the stuff of investor dreams. Today (3 June), Rolls-Royce shares hit a new all-time high. The price has grown 1,159% since October 2022. That sort of growth can immediately raise a red flag and send investors scurrying to reconsider valuation. But, as the FTSE 100 engineer’s incredible momentum shows no signs of slowing (the share is up 51% so far this year), might there still be value.…