Adaptations of hit novels like One Day and Trainspotting help keep the genre in tune with the times Singin’ in the Rain it will never be, but Trainspotting the Musical is not as improbable as it seems. The yellow-brick road from cult novel to film to blockbuster musical is so well trodden that it was only a matter of time before an all-singing, all-dancing adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s gritty 1993 ...
Adaptations of hit novels like One Day and Trainspotting help keep the genre in tune with the times Singin’ in the Rain it will never be, but Trainspotting the Musical is not as improbable as it seems. The yellow-brick road from cult novel to film to blockbuster musical is so well trodden that it was only a matter of time before an all-singing, all-dancing adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s gritty 1993 novel about a bunch of heroin addicts in Edinburgh hit London’s West End. Danny Boyle’s 1996 film , which celebrated its 30th anniversary last month, had already established Trainspotting as a story with a soundtrack. The musical will have specially written songs too. From Oliver! and Les Misérables to Matilda, Wicked and The Devil Wears Prada, many of the biggest hitters in the West End today started out as books. Even the global hit Hamilton was inspired by a hefty 800-page biography of the 18th-century American founding father Alexander Hamilton . Last autumn, Paddington the Musical joined their ranks. A musical version of another hit novel about the 1990s (although published in 2009) – David Nicholls’s One Day – opened in Edinburgh this month. The romance between Emma and Dexter might be more typical musical fare than the drug-fuelled antics of Trainspotting’s Renton, Sick Boy and Spud, but that doesn’t mean that the latter don’t belong in a musical. Welsh has revealed that this latest incarnation will “broaden” to include contemporary addictions to mobile phones and the internet. Continue reading...
On 3/31/26, Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp's 8.250% Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (Symbol: CHMI.PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5978, payable on 4/15/26. As a percentage of CHMI.PRB's recent share price
On 3/31/26, Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp's 8.250% Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (Symbol: CHMI.PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5978, payable on 4/15/26. As a percentage of CHMI.PRB's recent share price
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On 3/31/26, Innovative Industrial Properties Inc's 9.00% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (Symbol: IIPR.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5625, payable on 4/15/26. As a percentage of IIPR.PRA's recent share price of $22.45, this dividen
On 3/31/26, Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc's 8.25% Series D Cumulative Preferred Stock (Symbol: BHR.PRD) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5156, payable on 4/15/26. As a percentage of BHR.PRD's recent share price of $16.42, this dividend works out to ap
On 3/31/26, Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc's 8.25% Series D Cumulative Preferred Stock (Symbol: BHR.PRD) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5156, payable on 4/15/26. As a percentage of BHR.PRD's recent share price of $16.42, this dividend works out to ap
On 3/31/26, RLJ Lodging Trust's $1.95 Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Shares (Symbol: RLJ.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4875, payable on 4/30/26. As a percentage of RLJ.PRA's recent share price of $25.00, this dividend works out to appr
On 3/31/26, RLJ Lodging Trust's $1.95 Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Shares (Symbol: RLJ.PRA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.4875, payable on 4/30/26. As a percentage of RLJ.PRA's recent share price of $25.00, this dividend works out to appr
Christopher Trybus is charged with manslaughter and two counts of rape and coercive and controlling behaviour A man accused of subjecting his wife to a campaign of “physical and sexual violence” said finding out she had died by hanging was the “worst day of my life”. Tarryn Baird, 34, was found dead at her home in Swindon, Wiltshire, on 28 November 2017. Christopher Trybus, 43, is charged with his...
Christopher Trybus is charged with manslaughter and two counts of rape and coercive and controlling behaviour A man accused of subjecting his wife to a campaign of “physical and sexual violence” said finding out she had died by hanging was the “worst day of my life”. Tarryn Baird, 34, was found dead at her home in Swindon, Wiltshire, on 28 November 2017. Christopher Trybus, 43, is charged with his wife’s manslaughter as well as two counts of rape and coercive and controlling behaviour. He denies all the charges. Continue reading...
Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) has put a targeted hiring freeze in place across major cloud and North American sales teams. Hiring remains open for engineering and AI roles as the company focuses resources on AI infrastructure and data center buildout. The move aligns with rising capital spending on hyperscale AI capacity and comes as Microsoft approaches its fiscal year end. For you as an investor, th...
Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) has put a targeted hiring freeze in place across major cloud and North American sales teams. Hiring remains open for engineering and AI roles as the company focuses resources on AI infrastructure and data center buildout. The move aligns with rising capital spending on hyperscale AI capacity and comes as Microsoft approaches its fiscal year end. For you as an investor, this sits at the intersection of two key themes for Microsoft: the growth of its cloud and...
tupungato/iStock via Getty Images There are signs of price pressures returning in the telecom space, but Vince Valentini, Managing Director for Equity Research with TD Cowen says some names in the space are still in a good position outside their core business. Transcript Greg Bonnell: Amid signs of price pressures returning to the Canadian telecoms sector, our featured guest today says there are s...
tupungato/iStock via Getty Images There are signs of price pressures returning in the telecom space, but Vince Valentini, Managing Director for Equity Research with TD Cowen says some names in the space are still in a good position outside their core business. Transcript Greg Bonnell: Amid signs of price pressures returning to the Canadian telecoms sector, our featured guest today says there are still some positives beyond the core business concerns. Joining us now to discuss is Vince Valentini, managing director for equity research with TD Cowen. Vince, great to have you back on the program. What is going on with telecoms? It's clearly not the headline story in all the financial press right now, but there's some interesting moves. Vince Valentini: Yeah, and always great to be here, Greg. So, the stocks have held in reasonably well this year. I think some people are a bit concerned about some of the macro and geopolitical events going on. And this is somewhat of a safe haven sector. There's the odd dusting of concern about a recession in Canada at some point. And again, these would be names you typically want to own in that type of environment. So I think that's keeping the fund flow to keep these names doing reasonably well. But underneath the surface, we're getting a little bit worried that some of that price war stuff that we saw for pretty much two years straight, from the middle of 2023 to early 2025, all of which, as you recall, came after Rogers ( RCI ) acquired Shaw and was forced to sell their wireless business to Quebecor ( QBCRF ). That's when things started to get a bit more painful for the industry. It seems to be coming back. The past two months even have seen much more aggressive pricing competition than we're used to seeing, especially at this time of the year when January, February, and March are typically slow seasonal months. If you're going to see the odd promotional misstep, it's going to be at back-to-school period or Black Friday period, not i...
In the endlessly growing list of demands of artificial intelligence (AI), the one spot the market has hit a real snag on is memory. That is, random access memory (RAM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), the hardware that allows computers to store and recall information. AI needs a lot of it, so much, in fact, that Chey Tae-won, the chairperson of SK Hynix, one of the three leading memory pro...
In the endlessly growing list of demands of artificial intelligence (AI), the one spot the market has hit a real snag on is memory. That is, random access memory (RAM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), the hardware that allows computers to store and recall information. AI needs a lot of it, so much, in fact, that Chey Tae-won, the chairperson of SK Hynix, one of the three leading memory producers in the world, believes the memory shortage won't come to an end until 2030. Continue reading
Study backed by Jamie Oliver finds pupils are foregoing sit-down meals for often less healthy, convenient options Pupils in England are routinely eating pizza slices, sausage rolls and paninis for lunch as school canteens become dominated by a “grab-and-go” culture of unhealthy food. Convenience foods eaten on the move are ousting sit-down meals as the main way secondary pupils in England refuel d...
Study backed by Jamie Oliver finds pupils are foregoing sit-down meals for often less healthy, convenient options Pupils in England are routinely eating pizza slices, sausage rolls and paninis for lunch as school canteens become dominated by a “grab-and-go” culture of unhealthy food. Convenience foods eaten on the move are ousting sit-down meals as the main way secondary pupils in England refuel during lunch breaks, a report backed by TV chef Jamie Oliver found. Continue reading...
May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26 ) today is down -0.10 (-0.63%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26 ) is down -0.70 (-0.15%). Sugar prices are under pressure today from higher production in Brazil as sugar mills divert more cane crushing toward sugar output rather than ethanol. Unica...
May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26 ) today is down -0.10 (-0.63%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26 ) is down -0.70 (-0.15%). Sugar prices are under pressure today from higher production in Brazil as sugar mills divert more cane crushing toward sugar output rather than ethanol. Unica...
May ICE NY cocoa (CCK26 ) today is down -30 (-0.95%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK26 ) is down -1 (-0.04%). Cocoa prices are moving lower today but remain above Thursday's 3-week lows. Cocoa prices have been under pressure over the past two weeks amid expectations of a...
May ICE NY cocoa (CCK26 ) today is down -30 (-0.95%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK26 ) is down -1 (-0.04%). Cocoa prices are moving lower today but remain above Thursday's 3-week lows. Cocoa prices have been under pressure over the past two weeks amid expectations of a...