HSBC (LSE: HSBA) shares are a phenomenon. They’re up 75% in the last 12 months, and a stunning 295% over five years. The Asia-focused FTSE 100 bank has served up dividends throughout, boosting the total return. The forecast yield today is 4.2%. That’s the type of return investors expect from…
The Three Second Rule of Networking
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter offers a simple technique for networking when you are afraid to talk to someone. Networking: How You Stay in Contact Years ago, a friend of mine mentioned this idea to me of how to do pickups.…
Toast outlines 23%-25% recurring gross profit growth outlook for 2026 as AI and new TAMs scale (NYSE:TOST)
Earnings Call Insights: Toast (TOST) Q2 2026 Management View CEO Aman Narang said Toast delivered “another great quarter,” highlighting “over 28%” recurring gross profit streams growth, “26%” GAAP operating income margin, and “a record 9,500 net location adds,” which he said was “1,000 more than our previous high watermark.” Seeking…
Gold gains as lower oil prices, lackluster U.S. jobs data ease inflation fears (GLD:NYSEARCA)
monsitj/iStock via Getty Images Gold prices rose Tuesday after back-to-back daily declines, supported by another drop in oil prices and weaker-than-expected U.S. labor market data that tempered inflation worries and perhaps reduced the chances for an interest rate hike. Crude oil plunged more than 5% following Source link
Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPCX) tops earnings as bitcoin (BTC) holding value drops by $540 million
SpaceX (SPCX), Elon Musk’s space technology company, reported its first quarterly results as a public company on Tuesday, announcing second-quarter revenue of $7.8 billion. That figure topped Wall Street expectations of $6.9 billion, while narrowing its quarterly loss to $541 million as growth accelerated across its launch, Starlink and AI…
Investors have just lost their heads over Greggs shares again. Why?
The British have a soft spot for Greggs (LSE: GRG), and the same goes for its shares. They attract an awful lot of attention for a FTSE 250 stock of its size. I put it down to that vegan sausage roll. What a marketing coup that was. Almost everybody I…
Deutsche Bank thinks this FTSE 100 stock could almost double in the next year
Image source: Getty Images FTSE 100 stocks might be the largest UK shares by market cap, but this doesn’t mean they are so big that further share price appreciation is impossible. In fact, there are plenty of shares in the index where experts have positive outlooks for the coming year.…
WEC Energy cut at Ladenburg Thalmann on Wisconsin election jitters (WEC:NYSE)
Sebastian Frank/iStock via Getty Images WEC Energy (WEC) down 0.5% in Tuesday’s trading as Ladenburg Thalmann downgrades the utility company to Neutral from Buy with a $110.50 price target, chopped from $125.50, saying both the Democrat and Republican frontrunners in the Wisconsin’s governor’s race are opposed to data center Source…
Why Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase aren’t abandoning USDC stablecoin for Open USD
Recent earnings calls from Open USD’s highest-profile backers, however, paint a more nuanced picture. Executives at Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard all said they intend to support multiple stablecoins instead of betting on a single winner, describing Open USD as another network to connect to rather than a replacement for USDC.…
Meta AI app sees growth in US DAUs but time spent still low: Apptopia
Aug 04, 2026, 1:28 PM ETMeta Platforms, Inc. (META) Stock, OPENAI Stock, ANTHRO StockGOOG, MSFT, BABA, GOOGL, SPCXBy: Ravikash Bakolia, SA News Editor Meta AI (META) app had the largest percentage point jump out of any app in July, increasing its share of U.S. Daily Active Users, or DAU, to…