For long-term investors, it’s hard to underestimate the value of dividends. Luckily, companies may be more generous with their payouts in 2024. The year has already brought good news for yield-hungry investors, as two major players— Facebook parent Meta and Google parent Alphabet —announced they would start paying dividends.
The MoneySavingExpert has urged customers to check their energy bills and account balances as they could be owed a rebate of up to £180 from their supplier
Harvey Jones is thinking ahead and wondering which dividend shares he would buy to kickstart his retirement income. These two will do for starters. The post If I was retiring tomorrow, I’d buy these 2 ultra-high yield FTSE dividend shares today appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
New figures released by the DWP revealed more than 180,000 benefit claimants had their payments stopped
Britain's biggest banks are bracing themselves for talks with the Post Office over a new deal to allow millions of their customers to withdraw cash at its branches. Sky News has learnt that a group of lenders including Barclays and HSBC are in the process of forming a shared interest group to represent the industry in talks with the government-owned company during the coming months. Roughly 30 banks and building societies participate in the existing deal, paying in aggregate approximately £200m annually to facilitate customer access to the Post Office's 11,500 branches.
Thames Water’s biggest investor has slashed the value of its stake in the company to zero in a move that renders the troubled supplier effectively worthless, The Telegraph can disclose.
Warren Buffett’s been converting shares into cash. I wonder what the implications are for an investor in the UK stock market, like me. The post Warren Buffett’s stockpiling cash. Is this a warning sign for the UK stock market? appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
Taxpayers have been hit with a £5.6bn Universal Credit fraud bill despite a Government crackdown on criminals abusing the system.
The high street bank is cutting the rate on its easy access account from May 20. The account has been paying a previously top-of-the-market interest rate of a cool 5.2% but the new rate will be significantly less
Sunday Times rich list shows couple’s fortune soared while millions of Britons struggled with cost of living
abrdn appears set for strong growth, looks undervalued, and pays a very high dividend yield that can make me a big second income. The post £9,000 of savings invested in abrdn shares could make me a £12,826 a year second income! appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
On Thursday I become a homeowner. It is a dream that I have achieved precociously, thanks to the generous support of my parents.
I've been looking for growth stocks with low PEG valuations, and I'm finding plenty. But they're not at all where I expected them. The post I’d consider buying these FTSE 100 growth stocks for 2024 and beyond appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
Billionaire Bill Gates is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). He is also known for his philanthropic efforts with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Those two items collided in the first quarter with the sale of Microsoft stock. Here's what to know. What Happened: Gates stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft in 2000 and later left the board of directors in 2020. The co-founder of the software giant remains a large shareholder in the company throu
FTSE 250 stocks include a lot of potential passive income candidates right now, with even more 8%+ yields than the FTSE 100. The post With an 8% dividend yield, I think this cheap FTSE 250 stock could be one not to miss appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
The FTSE 100 index has often been derided in recent years, but UK large-cap stocks are beginning to show encouraging signs of life. The post The ‘dinosaur’ FTSE 100 index is starting to roar appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
Jon Smith flags up an important characteristic about the Legal & General share price that makes it appealing to him for passive income. The post Here’s why the Legal & General share price looks super attractive to me appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
Financial Analyst and YouTuber Kevin Paffrath joins Market Domination to discuss Tesla’s (TSLA) stock valuation and what to expect from the company by the end of the year. “My rule of thumb this year is patience for 2024,” Paffrath says, pointing to factors like the election and CEO Elon Musk’s posts on X that make Tesla a “tough” stock. “I’d like to get past not only the election — because then I think we’re going to see politics cool a little bit from the Elon point of view — but we’ll also have gotten past the shareholder vote. We’ll have gotten past the robotaxi event. We'll see how much adoption we actually get for full self-driving, ” he explains. Paffrath also says he’ll be closely watching how much cash Tesla will have by the end of the year: “I think there’s definitely a massive cash problem and that’s why I’m just saying patience this year.” For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Melanie Riehl
GSK and Land Securities are in the FTSE 100 spotlight after the drugs giant sold its final Haleon shares and the property firm posted results. The sale of GSK’s remaining 4% stake raised £1.25 billion, having held 13% following its 2022 demerger of the Panadol and Sensodyne business. Land Securities revealed a smaller full-year loss of £341 million amid “robust” rental growth across its estate.
As the stock market flirts with another round of all-time highs, the Nvidia earnings are just around the corner — and analyst expectations are high, once again. And almost no big stocks ever post that many triple-digit gains in a row.
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