Image source: Getty Images Looking for great growth shares to buy? I think these investment trusts and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) could be great ways to target long-term capital growth. L&G Cyber Security ETF The L&G Cyber Security ETF (LSE:ISPY) does what it says on the label. It provides exposure to a swathe of tech companies whose primary role is to protect individuals and businesses against online threats. In total, the fund holds shares in 35 different companies. These include pureplay security providers including Palo Alto, CrowdStrike and Rubrik, and more diversified tech specialists such as Cisco. It also has a…
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Image source: Getty Images At the end of 2024, I asked ChatGPT to list five top UK stocks for 2025. I wanted to see if the generative AI app was any good at stock picking. The stocks it selected were Diageo, AstraZeneca, Unilever, Tesco, and Shell. Let’s see how these shares are performing now that we’re halfway through the year. Is ChatGPT any good for stocks? In the table below, I’ve listed the five stocks and their returns for the first half of 2025. Note that I’ve only focused on share price returns and ignored any returns from dividends. StockH1…
The European Commission is set to permit countries to use carbon credits to “outsource a portion of their climate efforts to poorer countries from 2036,” said Politico. These credits will also count toward the Commission’s 2040 climate target. Carbon credits have become a significant part of many countries and companies’ plans to reduce emissions. But while some claim any reduction of emissions is good regardless of location, others say that the system allows polluters to keep polluting.What are carbon credits?They are “permits that allow the owner to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases,” said Investopedia.…
Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty ImagesIn today’s news cycle, recession headlines come and go. Amid trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict, no one is hoping for a major economic setback — except recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates. Since the beginning of 2025, average 30-year fixed mortgage rates have been stuck in the high 6.5% to 7% range. Most housing experts, myself included, aren’t expecting rates to move much lower by the end of 2025. What would cause mortgage rates to drop? Could buying a home become more affordable in a recession? Would a dramatic…
Image source: Getty images The past few years have been miserable for holders of Diageo (LSE:DGE) shares like me. At £18.40 per share, the FTSE 100 business has pretty much halved in value since mid-2022. The shocking downdraft has shown no signs of easing, either. Its shares are down 26% in the last 12 months, and hit its cheapest in a decade in recent days. I’ve thought about pulling the plug and selling my holdings several times. But I feel Diageo’s price slump has been overdone and doesn’t reflect its long-term strengths. And while it may take some time, I’m…
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The energy specialist at the Canadian Embassy in Indonesia, Dicky Edwin Hindarto, said companies engaging in the green paradox scheme in carbon trading are inefficient and incur high costs.The green paradox occurs when a business entity commits to reducing emissions by solely purchasing carbon credits. “The green paradox is inefficient and very costly,” said Dicky during a discussion on energy transition in Jakarta on Monday, June 30, 2025.According to Dicky, in a well-designed carbon project, companies or industries cannot sell all their carbon credits. For example, he said, if a company owns 100 kilotons of carbon credits,…
Image source: Getty Images The FTSE 100‘s up around 7% since the beginning of the year, and that tells us it’s been a pretty good six months for UK stocks. However, plenty of them are still looking cheap and I believe these could outperform in the second half of the year. Left behind in aerospace The global aerospace sector has performed well in recent years. That’s largely because of a recovery in civil aviation following the pandemic as well as increased defence spending. Rolls-Royce shares are up 970% over five years, but Melrose Industries (LSE:MRO) is up just 98% over…
Image source: Getty Images At 402.9p, Tesco‘s (LSE:TSCO) shares have risen by almost a third in value over the last year. That’s a pretty tasty result, given the enduring cost-of-living crisis and intense competitive pressures it faces. It’s also better than the 6.4% increase the broader FTSE 100‘s enjoyed over that time. With dividends also having risen 13.2% in the last financial year (to February 2025), it’s delivered an impressive total shareholder return. But threats to the blue-chip grocer remain, and particularly from a new bloody price war among Britain’s grocers. So can Tesco’s share price and dividends continue surging?…
It’s an excuse every active transportation activist has heard a million times: “We’re not Copenhagen, so we can’t make it easier to walk or bike.” A new study argues, though, that U.S. cities could aspire to be more like Hoboken, or Osaka, or any number of other overlooked global models of active transportation excellence — and if they did, biking and walking could become an astonishingly powerful tool to confront climate change around the world.A team of UCLA-based researchers recently took on the daunting task of quantifying “the untapped potential of street redesigns and urban densification to increase walking and cycling” —…
A review by the Department of Finance has concluded that there is still a need for the HBFI to give loans to builders, but it should not be displacing private capital.Private equity firms have been claiming that the HBFI was winning deals for big housing schemes by agreeing to take on a bigger portion of the risk than banks and other funders.This point was also made to the Government by stakeholders during a review of the agency, which was set up in 2018 and whose CEO is Dara Deering. They said the HBFI should concentrate on small and medium-sized developers,…