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Image source: Getty Images Greggs‘ (LSE:GRG) share price has made many retail investors a lot poorer over the last year. However, I never quite understood its popularity, and certainly didn’t understand why a sausage roll-maker was trading for 25 times forward earnings. However, it’s returned to earth with a thump, shedding 37% of its value over 12 months, and even more from its peak. The stock’s now trading at 13 times forward earnings. This is definitely seems more reasonable, although I have some concerns about its capacity to hit this target in 2025. What’s more, its forward dividend yield’s 4%.…

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COIMBATORE: The Ramanathapuram police in the city arrested a 27-year-old engineering graduate on charges of duping Rs 2.83 lakh from a private financier, on the pretext of transferring his ongoing jewel loan from another finance firm.He was identified as K Mohammed Musthak (27) from Velipattinam in Ramanathapuram district. He had completed his BE at a private college here a few years ago. After graduation, he was unemployed and later became addicted to online gambling, resulting in monetary losses amounting to lakhs. A few months ago, he approached a private finance firm in his native and requested a loan transfer showing…

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Methane, a greenhouse gas that is 80+ times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, has become a critical focus in climate action. While industries scramble to reduce emissions from active operations, a significant source remains hidden across the US landscape: orphan oil and gas wells. Many of these decades-old, neglected wells — abandoned by operators that have disappeared or dissolved — silently leak methane into our atmosphere. With no responsible party to be found, these “orphans” are a public burden — state, federal and tribal — with an outsized climate impact. Yet innovative approaches are emerging to…

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NASDAQ Composite plunges as market grows more pessimistic on China tariffs.White House says that Trump’s tariff on China is actually 145%.Trump hits Canada and Mexico with 10% tariffs that apply worldwide.Economists, analysts worry over continued trade war with China.The US stock market is continuing its volatile trend, this time lurching lower on Thursday following Wednesday’s historic rally. The NASDAQ Composite (IXIC) has traded 5.7% lower at the time of writing on Thursday morning.This comes after US President Donald Trump paused large tariffs on upwards of 70 trading partners for 90 days midway through Wednesday’s regular session, sending the NASDAQ Composite…

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BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Tariffs are sparking changes across the board, now impacting bonds and mortgage rates. The volatility we’ve seen in rates has posed new challenges for home buyers and sellers.Finding the perfect home for a growing family is difficult under any circumstances.“You want to be a little bit more picky on what you’re getting into,” said Bismarck home buyer and home seller Chris Pederson.And while he was able to find their perfect “forever home,” he said mortgage rates lessened their buying power.“You pay almost double for a mortgage rate from 10 years ago to now. The interest alone…

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Home listings giant Zillow said it will ban homes initially marketed only to select buyers from appearing on its website, the latest twist in a long-simmering fight in the real estate industry over private listings. “If a listing is marketed directly to consumers without being listed on the MLS and made widely available where buyers search for homes, it will not be published on Zillow,” the company said on its website Thursday. Zillow’s decision comes after the National Association of Realtors announced a new rule meant to settle an industry fight over a policy designed to reduce semi-secret listings known…

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This week we’re listening in on a conversation hosted by Seamless Bay Area about the 2024 update to the California State Rail Plan. Adina Levin of Seamless Bay Area hosts Shannon Simonds Chief, Office of Rail Planning & Implementation at Caltrans, Eric Goldwyn of the Marron Institute of Urban Management, and Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail in discussion.Scroll down below the audio player for an edited excerpt of our conversation, or click here for an unedited, AI-generated transcript of the entire conversation.Adina Levin : You had mentioned quicker environmental review, which is obviously part of the time and cost of these projects. Is…

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Bond investors made their message on tariffs clear to Donald Trump — and helped push the president to pause the trade war.So-called bond vigilantes — investors who protest what they see as negative developments in the market by selling Treasurys to drive up yields — are likely taking a victory lap a day after Trump announced a 90-day pause in reciprocal tariffs and handed the stock market its best day in decades.Trump himself nodded to the bond market late Wednesday. Speaking on the White House driveway, Trump told reporters that he was watching the steep sell-off in bonds prior to…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The UK government needs to go beyond offering subsidies for low-carbon technologies (LCTs) like electric cars and solar panels for energy and heating, if it is to meet its net-zero targets by 2050, a new report from the University of Sheffield, published in the journal Energy Economics, suggests. The report, published with partners from the universities of Nottingham and Macedonia, found that although gains are being made in encouraging people to adopt low-carbon technologies, not enough is being done to continue to reduce the inequalities in uptake among some socioeconomic groups. In recent years, households using…

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