During the dry season on the Ihorombe Plateau in southern Madagascar, a cool wind sweeps unceasingly, rustling through the golden stalks of parched grass. In Malagasy, the name “Ihorombe” is derived from a combination of two words: “horo” (a native grazing grass) and “ombe” (zebu cattle). It is no coincidence that this flat, almost treeless savanna, dotted with herds of cattle in constant search of the best horo pastures, is called the “zebu grazing ground.” For centuries, the lives of the people in this remote region, two days’ journey by car from the capital Antananarivo, have revolved around free grazing…
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In what is being described as a UK first, homeowners that install insulation, heat pumps and/or solar panels will be able to generate carbon credits related to their emissions reduction. Source link
Image source: Getty Images The stock market’s been volatile in recent months. While the UK’s FTSE 100 index has held up well, America’s S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes have fallen 8% and 12% respectively from their highs (meaning the latter’s in ‘correction’ territory). Has this volatility created an opportunity for long-term investors? I think so. Here’s why. Significant uncertainty It’s easy to see why stocks have been volatile lately. For starters, Donald Trump’s tariffs on Europe, China, Canada, and Mexico have created a lot of uncertainty for investors. As a result of these tariffs, it’s become significantly harder to…
Medical bottles and syringe are seen with Novo Nordisk logo displayed on a screen in the background.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesNovo Nordisk’s hopes of heralding a new era of obesity treatment with its CagriSema drug have been called into question after a series of trial results sent shares falling.Headline results from a REDEFINE-2 late-stage trial released earlier this month showed that Novo’s next-generation CagriSema helped obese or overweight adult patients with type 2 diabetes lose 15.7% of their weight over 68 weeks, compared with 3.1% with placebo. This was below the high-teens percentage of weigh loss previously forecast.A prior…
Image source: Getty Images As income investors, sometimes we search too hard to find unusual dividend shares. Yet when considering the dividend forecast for a well-known FTSE 250 company, I realised there’s a lot of potential in stocks that already get a lot of publicity. Here are more details for investors to consider. Forecasts indicate growth I’m talking about Investec (LSE:INVP). The FTSE 250 firm is down a modest 7% over the past year, with a current dividend yield of 7.26%. The yield already makes it well above the 3.53% index average. It typically pays out two dividends a year.…
Image source: Getty Images The last couple of weeks have been quite rough for the S&P 500, with the flagship American index tumbling 10% and into correction territory. However, with investors seeking to buy on the dip, some areas of the US stock market have started showing early signs of recovery and improving sentiment. Given how quickly policies are changing in the US, it’s difficult to pinpoint whether the recent uptick is the start of a recovery or a temporary lull in the storm. Regardless, if British investors were to put £5,000 to work inside the S&P 500 today, how…
Japanese beer producer Kirin is planning to use nature-based carbon credits to offset its residual emissions in alignment with the Science… Source link
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s central bank said it will change the way it sells its medium-term loans, a move that market participants say may further erode the significance of role of such a bond instrument in guiding monetary policy. The People’s Bank of China said it will issue 450 billion yuan ($62.03 billion) of one-year medium-term lending facility (MLF) loans on Tuesday. And starting this month, MLF loan operations will be carried out by adopting a fixed-quantity, interest-rate bidding, and multiple-price bidding method, the PBOC said. “The fixed volume, auction by bids is another step taken to fade the role of…
Photo Credit: Chestnut Carbon Nature-based carbon removal developer Chestnut Carbon scored two big wins to push it closer to its carbon credit capacity goal. With more companies committed to reducing their pollution, demand has surged for high-quality carbon credits. Carbon removal companies such as Chestnut are stepping up by selling credits to companies seeking to cancel out the pollution they generate through high-emission activities such as data center operations. Chestnut, in particular, acquires old and degraded farmland and plants trees to transform those areas into forests. From 35,000 acres in the Southeastern United States, Chestnut hopes to have more than…
Image source: Getty Images When it comes to London’s biggest dividend-yielding stocks, Ithaca Energy (LSE:ITH) has held the crown for a while. Among its FTSE 350 peers, the oil & gas producer currently offers investors a whopping 13.2% payout! Usually, seeing a yield this high is a giant red flag to stay away since it’s an indicator of an incoming dividend cut. Yet, after over a year of offering a high payout, that hasn’t materialised. In fact, management recently reiterated its plans to return $500m to shareholders through dividends alone. And digging deeper, the group’s free cash flow generation seems…