In North American trading, gold prices climbed to all-time highs of $2,956 per ounce, while the U.S. dollar fell and Treasury yields declined. The market is in the middle of one of gold’s longest bullish streaks, with prices up for eight weeks. Investors have confidence in gold as gold-backed ETFs have seen the most net inflows since 2022, … Read more
by Ed Croft, Founder & CEO of Stockopedia If you’re anything like me, you probably didn’t start investing with a perfectly thought through plan. You may have looked at fund managers and thought you could do better. Maybe you invested in funds, but were disappointed by the results. You wanted more control, higher returns, a … Read more
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it … Read more
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) companies have reported their deliveries for June. Here are the key takeaways from their reports. Xpeng Motors delivered 34,611 EVs in June, which was 224% higher YoY. Moreover, the company’s deliveries have topped 30,000 for eight consecutive months, thanks to strong demand for its Mona MO3 and P7+. Xpeng Motors reported … Read more
Unlike the FTSE 100, the FTSE 250 has put in a pretty decent performance over the last couple of decades. Since it peaked in 2007 (at the end of the early 2000s credit bubble), the FTSE 250 has just about doubled and since its peak in 2000 (at the end of the dot-com bubble) the … Read more
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Image source: Getty Images Motley Fool UK readers may know that I’m a big fan of passive income — earnings that come other than from paid work. American tycoon and philanthropist Warren Buffett once remarked, “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die”. I like … Read more
Brent crude prices recovered Friday, surging close to 3% after lingering around $71 a barrel since Russia hinted OPEC+ might rethink its output plans. Before the market’s rapid bullish response had been weeks of falling prices since mid-January, when concerns about oversupply and economic growth prospects first weighed on traders’ minds. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak … Read more
Motor dealers have been having a hard time in the past year and even though there are signs of improvement, sales of new cars have been better in the past couple of months, but they remain well below 2019 levels. Regulatory and legal actions relating to car finance and the weak economy have not helped, … Read more
Time to celebrate – we made it through the #pandemic! Well, almost… Vaccine roll-outs continue, some fast some slow, but crossing the actual finish line remains maddeningly elusive here. Unfortunately, as so often proves the case, the loudest & craziest perspectives tend to control the narrative. On one side, we have the #antivaxx nutters & … Read more