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UK mid-cap stocks have a takeover problem – one that sums up the trouble with investing in anything from growth companies to turnaround plays in the UK stock market.Take the bid by US firm Prologis for UK property company Segro. As a holder of both Prologis and Segro shares, I should not be too bothered. Yet in practice, this looks like a pretty rough deal for Segro shareholders who want to stay invested. They swap a focused UK and European logistics investor for part of a much larger group that has 84% of its business in the US, at a…

AutomobilesDriver assistance, anti-theft tech among options for older vehiclesToyota dealerships sell an estimated 350,000 used cars a year, with the goal of reaching 550,000 vehicles in 2030. (Photo by Masaki Ishihara)NAGOYA, Japan — Toyota Motor has begun to provide used-car buyers the option to retrofit vehicles with advanced safety features, seeking to boost sales at group dealerships and generate an additional revenue stream.

Quick Read TLTW and LQDW generate over 12% annual distribution yields monthly by selling covered calls against iShares Treasury and investment-grade bond ETFs. Treasury yields near 5% and elevated rate volatility produce richer option premiums, directly fueling these funds’ double-digit monthly payouts. HYGW posted the strongest 12-month total return of the three at about 6%, but faces the sharpest downside if recession-driven default rates rise. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and HYGW didn’t make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. Three little-known exchange-traded funds from BlackRock’s iShares…

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to push forward with a fund to compensate his allies if two Republican holdouts will not support his nominee for attorney general, injecting fresh uncertainty into a Senate confirmation vote planned for next weekand underscoring once more his interest in securing payouts for supporters who feel unjustly persecuted. Trump asserted in his Truth Social post that he would keep acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his current role and press ahead on the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” if Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina refuse to back the former federal prosecutor who was key…

Wealthtech scaleup Moneybox has been valued at $1.1bn as it prepares a £45m secondary share sale for long-serving employees.The secondary will be facilitated through the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) Private Securities Market, a new trading platform for private companies to auction their shares developed under the UK government’s Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System, or Pisces, framework.Moneybox employees will sell their shares through private markets investment platform Crowdcube from Tuesday, ahead of the auction on LSEG’s platform later this month.“Pisces represents an important innovation for UK capital markets and we are proud to be among the first companies…

A concentration of capital in Asia’s large-cap space could prove a lucrative opportunity for GPs able to raise even a modicum of capital down market.

Wall Street got back to its winning ways last week after navigating a hawkish Federal Reserve meeting, volatile swings in chip stocks, and a critical round of Big Tech earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak. The S & P 500 gained 1% last week, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 1.6%. Both avoided three down weeks in a row. For the month, however, performance was more mixed. The Dow edged up 0.32% in July, extending its monthly win streak to four. It was back-to-back monthly losses for the S & P…

The conglomerate that Warren Buffett built rallied to an eight-month high this week. There could be more gains ahead if they play catch up with the S&P 500.

In Museo San Marco there is an ancillary exhibit, placing some smaller, lighter colored Rothkos next to their Fra Angelico frescoes.  Those rooms bowled me over, as for one thing they show how much Rothko was a religious painter at heart. I also was struck by the high proportion of Chinese visitors at this show, even though they are not especially numerous in Florence right now. The main Rothko show, at Palazzo Strozzi, had an opening room showing Rothkos tied to Renaissance (!) art, mostly with works from early Rothko.  The rest of the exhibit had perfect lighting and was…

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