(RTTNews) - The South Korea stock market has moved higher in three straight sessions, surging almost 230 points or 3.5 percent on its way to a fresh record closing high. The KOSPI now sits just beneath the 6,420-point plateau and it has another firm lead for Thursday's trade.
(RTTNews) - The South Korea stock market has moved higher in three straight sessions, surging almost 230 points or 3.5 percent on its way to a fresh record closing high. The KOSPI now sits just beneath the 6,420-point plateau and it has another firm lead for Thursday's trade.
Ambition behind investing campaign is laudable, yet cutting stamp duty on share purchases, for example, would be much more savvy City firms bank on ‘savvy’ ad campaign to push Brits towards investing Red squirrel characters have a history in the public information game. Older UK readers may recall Tufty, who taught children about road safety in the 1970s . His chum, Willy Weasel, regularly got kno...
Ambition behind investing campaign is laudable, yet cutting stamp duty on share purchases, for example, would be much more savvy City firms bank on ‘savvy’ ad campaign to push Brits towards investing Red squirrel characters have a history in the public information game. Older UK readers may recall Tufty, who taught children about road safety in the 1970s . His chum, Willy Weasel, regularly got knocked down by passing cars but clever Tufty always remembered to look both ways. Now comes Savvy Squirrel, who, with backing from the chancellor and a multi-year lump of advertising spend from the financial services industry, will try “to drive a step-change in how investing is understood, discussed and adopted”, as the blurb puts it. In translation: don’t squirrel everything away in a boring cash Isa but try taking an investment risk or two if you value your long-term financial health. Continue reading...
NHS struggling to cope with record numbers, which Cancer Research UK says puts progress on survival rates at risk The number of people in the UK being diagnosed with cancer has reached a record high, with one person diagnosed every 80 seconds, a report reveals. Cancer Research UK found that more than 403,000 people were being diagnosed with the disease each year, largely due to a growing and agein...
NHS struggling to cope with record numbers, which Cancer Research UK says puts progress on survival rates at risk The number of people in the UK being diagnosed with cancer has reached a record high, with one person diagnosed every 80 seconds, a report reveals. Cancer Research UK found that more than 403,000 people were being diagnosed with the disease each year, largely due to a growing and ageing population, as people are more likely to develop cancer as they get older. Continue reading...
The campaign, fronted by a CGI squirrel, is part of government initiative to boost financial risk taking, amid fears UK growth is being stymied Nils Pratley: the ‘Savvy Squirrel looks a hit too tame’ City firms are pinning their hopes on a government-endorsed advertising blitz fronted by a finance “savvy” CGI squirrel to encourage cautious British savers to shift out of cash and start investing. T...
The campaign, fronted by a CGI squirrel, is part of government initiative to boost financial risk taking, amid fears UK growth is being stymied Nils Pratley: the ‘Savvy Squirrel looks a hit too tame’ City firms are pinning their hopes on a government-endorsed advertising blitz fronted by a finance “savvy” CGI squirrel to encourage cautious British savers to shift out of cash and start investing. The long-awaited retail investment campaign, which will cost up to £50m, is part of the chancellor Rachel Reeves’ nationwide push to encourage more financial risk taking, amid fears risk-averse consumers are losing out and ultimately stymying UK growth. Continue reading...
Allbirds (NASDAQ:BIRD) is no longer a shoe company. The San Francisco-based brand, once known for its sustainable wool sneakers, is making a hard pivot into the artificial intelligence sector. The company announced last week that it has executed a $50...
Allbirds (NASDAQ:BIRD) is no longer a shoe company. The San Francisco-based brand, once known for its sustainable wool sneakers, is making a hard pivot into the artificial intelligence sector. The company announced last week that it has executed a $50...
A branch in County Armagh was awarded £140,000 from a charity to deliver three projects for veterans, but internal reports show that only £41,000 went on these schemes.
A branch in County Armagh was awarded £140,000 from a charity to deliver three projects for veterans, but internal reports show that only £41,000 went on these schemes.
The number of websites illegally selling access to child sex abuse images more than doubled last year, according to new research from the UK authority responsible for finding and removing such material from the internet. The UK’s Internet Watch Foundation unearthed 15,031 commercial child sexual abuse sites in 2025, a 114% increase from a year earlier, according to a report published Thursday. The...
The number of websites illegally selling access to child sex abuse images more than doubled last year, according to new research from the UK authority responsible for finding and removing such material from the internet. The UK’s Internet Watch Foundation unearthed 15,031 commercial child sexual abuse sites in 2025, a 114% increase from a year earlier, according to a report published Thursday. The foundation described these sites as offering “premium access” to illegal and abusive content, which “can involve victims of all ages, and can include some of the most severe and extreme forms of sexual abuse.” “It is clear criminals are exploiting systemic failures and are finding it far too easy to reap huge profits from children’s sexual exploitation,” said Kerry Smith, the foundation’s chief executive. “At every stage, we need to disrupt this system. It is an industry.” Read More: Amazon Discovered Child Sex Abuse Content in AI Training Data Many of the violating websites were disguised, initially showing legal content but revealing the abuse material when accessed a certain way, according to the report. They process payments via cryptocurrency, money transfer services and credit cards, the group said. Reports of child sex abuse material are on the rise worldwide. In the US, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 21.3 million reports of abusive content last year. Well over a million of those reports involved images created with artificial intelligence tools, a rapidly emerging threat that child safety advocates warn may normalize abusive content and overwhelm the content moderation and law enforcement systems tasked with tackling it. At the same time, technology companies have worked to improve their ability to identify and report child sex abuse material, which may also be contributing to the increase in reports. Read More: AI-Generated Child Abuse Sites Surge 400%, Alarming Watchdog The Internet Watch Foundation report also highlight...
MikeDot/iStock Editorial via Getty Images 2025 was not a good year for Tesla, Inc. ( TSLA ) from a financial perspective (check it in my last article ). In fact, 2024 was not such a good year, either. The year in which there was a peak in automotive revenues was 2023, and since then the gross margin has been decreasing and automotive revenues as well, showing a certain loss of relevance in the mar...
MikeDot/iStock Editorial via Getty Images 2025 was not a good year for Tesla, Inc. ( TSLA ) from a financial perspective (check it in my last article ). In fact, 2024 was not such a good year, either. The year in which there was a peak in automotive revenues was 2023, and since then the gross margin has been decreasing and automotive revenues as well, showing a certain loss of relevance in the market and evidencing that even though there is a bullish story behind it, Tesla is still a company that depends on the consumer discretionary sector. In other words, Tesla is affected by competition (yes, BYD ( BYDDF ) is a problem in international markets), and is also impacted by the macroeconomic scenario. All of this comes together with an extremely stretched valuation. Even after a correction year to date, the forward P/E is still close to 200x. But don’t get me wrong. Tesla still has a large potential to capture with several optionalities. But this needs to be proven. Tesla needs to prove that it can scale full self-drive, or FSD, even further, develop advances in Optimus, proving that these businesses are actually viable and that it will have a large share of the total addressable market. 2026 is precisely the year that Tesla needs to prove this. Show traction in the optionalities and also show that the automotive segment will recover in the next quarters. And well, Q1 surprised me very positively. Tesla showed me exactly what I wanted to see, which is more concrete data about these optionalities. It is still not something completely clear, but it has everything to become more mature in the next quarters. Tesla’s Q1: Pretty Solid Both Tesla’s Q1 top line and EPS were a beat . Revenue was only slightly above consensus, around a 0.8% surprise, largely because the market already had the delivery numbers. But EPS was a 17% surprise, but also driven by non-operational factors. Tesla’s Presentation Automotive revenues increased 16% , which is a figure I already consider posi...