Image source: Getty Images Shares in FTSE 100 bank Standard Chartered (LSE: STAN) are down 29% from their 3 March one-year £12.81 traded high. This is an unusual dip in the share’s price, but is still up 44% from its 17 April 12-month low of £6.35. I have been sorely tempted to buy the stock for a while now for reasons analysed below. However, the fact that I own shares in two other banks – HSBC and NatWest – prevents me from doing so. Adding another banking stock to these would unbalance the risk-reward profile of my overall portfolio. However,…
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Image source: Getty Images I reckon shareholders in Supermarket Income REIT (LSE:SUPR), one of the FTSE 250’s real estate investment trusts, will have been delighted with its share price performance over the past week or so. On 3 April, the day after President Trump unveiled his tariffs, and when many investors around the world appeared to go into panic mode, its share price went up. Its simple business model, which involves leasing supermarket space to well-known grocery chains, isn’t going to be directly affected by a global ‘trade war’. And even if the world goes into recession, supermarkets will still…
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Image source: Getty Images Rolls-Royce’s (LSE: RR) share price has tumbled 18% from its 19 March one-year traded high of £8.18. Much of this fall followed US President Donald Trump’s 2 April rollout of 10% tariffs on UK imports into the country. Higher tariffs will be applied on goods from around 60 countries and/or trading blocs claimed to show a high trade deficit with the US. These include China (now 104%) and the European Union (20%). My key question when a stock has fallen in such circumstances is whether it is worth me buying on the dip. So I took…
In the world of professional wealth management, the term “financial influencer” is unlikely to conjure many positive feelings. But for advisors, ignoring these often popular creators could mean missing out on opportunities to connect with next-gen investors and future clients. Besides the gaudy jewelry and the rented Lamborghinis paraded across TikToks and Instagram Reels to signify wealth, many so-called finfluencers have more than their fair share of cringe-inducing behavior, from selling “get rich quick” online courses to hawking crypto scams.Still, it would be a mistake to dismiss the entire finfluencer niche. As with any large group, the finfluencer community is far…
Only a week into Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs in force, metal stocks have been hammered the most, falling up to 18%. As fears of a global slowdown take root, this cyclical sector stares at a further breakdown.Prior to the imposition of the tariffs, metal accounted for 6.7% of India’s total exports to the US, according to Nomura. US’ metal exports to India were subjected to a 9.6% levy while the US charged 1.8% on metal imports from India, Nomura said. The Trump administration on April 2 announced reciprocal tariffs on more than 60 countries with a base tariff of 10%.…
Image source: Getty Images With share prices falling, investors looking to earn a second income are almost spoilt for choice. And I think RWS Holdings (LSE:RWS) is one that’s well worth a look. When a stock comes with a dividend yield as high as 11%, it’s always worth asking why. But if the market is making a mistake, the potential opportunity could be massive. Artificial intelligence RWS specialises in language translation and the stock is down by as much as 82% over the last couple of years. During this time, sales have gone from £749m in 2022 to £718m in…
European stocks opened lower on Wednesday, with markets struggling to maintain the positive momentum of the previous session as the U.S.’ country-specific tariffs started taking effect.The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was 2.55% lower shortly after the opening bell, with all sectors and major bourses firmly in negative territory. Regional banking, mining and oil and gas indexes led the losses, plummeting 3%, 3.9% and 3.6% respectively.Among Europe’s major indexes, the French CAC 40 crashed 2.6%, while Germany’s DAX was 2.1% lower during early morning trade, and the FTSE 100 lost 2%.European markets had closed in the green on Tuesday, snapping a…
As REDD projects around the world face setbacks, restoration projects in the Amazon are flourishing as a means of reviving market confidence in forest-based carbon credits.In Brazil, the golden goose for restoration, this business model has attracted companies from the mining and beef industries, banks, startups, and big tech.Federal and state governments are granting public lands to restoration companies to recover degraded areas.Restoration projects require substantial investments and long-term commitment, face challenges such as increasingly severe fire seasons, and deal with uncertainty over the future of the carbon market.See All Key Ideas In 2024, a police raid on Brazil’s largest…
Image source: Getty Images Just over a month ago, the FTSE 100 index hit a record high of 8,908.82 points on 3 March. As I write on Monday afternoon (7 April), it stands at 7,738.24, down 13.1% in five weeks. But many Footsie stocks have been hit much harder, such as the Barclays (LSE: BARC) share price. Blame the Trump slump Also on 3 March, Barclays shares hit a multi-year high of 316p, before easing back to close at 311.1p. By my calculations, this took the stock close to a 15-year high, reached following the collapse of the shares during…