Private banks report a sharp increase in bad loans and provisions in Q1FY26 due to agriculture and small-ticket loan stress | Photo Credit: ROY CHOWDHURY A Large- and mid-sized private banks reported a sharp hike in slippages or bad loans and provisions in Q1FY26, due to stress emanating from agriculture loans and unsecured small ticket … Read more
Image source: Getty Images According to Hargreaves Lansdown, the average UK employee has £262 left at the end of the month to save and invest. That may not seem like enough money to target a £1m Stocks and Shares ISA. But the mathematical ‘miracle’ of compounding — where investment profits generate their own gains, accelerating … Read more
Image source: Getty Images Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be excellent ways to target long-term returns. They allow individuals to diversify their portfolios for risk management, while keeping the door open for substantial wealth creation. I’ve been loading my own Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) with ETFs recently. The following three have allowed me to spread risk, … Read more
Speculation with real outcomes: why junior mining stocks will become the next arena for global risk capital There’s an air of FOMO in global stock markets right now. Indices are breaking into new all-time highs. House prices keep going higher. Everything’s melting up! So, what should you do if you hold some cash and are … Read more
North American Construction Group Ltd. (NYSE:NOA – Free Report) (TSE:NOA) – Equities research analysts at Raymond James Financial cut their Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for North American Construction Group in a report released on Thursday, July 17th. Raymond James Financial analyst F. Bastien now forecasts that the oil and gas company will … Read more
If you’d like to listen to this week’s Bass Bites, click on the player below: Global week in review A good start to the Q2 US earnings reporting season supported global stocks last week, despite a firm US inflation report and ongoing tariff threats from President Trump. US tariff levels inch above market expectations … Read more
Headwinds hit the British Pound as this week’s inflation numbers took a surprise jump in June and newly released labour data showed a steep climb in unemployment rates. Now the Bank of England is facing a tough decision on what to do next. The Office for National Statistics revealed that in June the annual inflation … Read more
Lenders don’t want to chase business growth at the cost of net interest margin (NIM), which is already under pressure due to the ongoing transmission of the 100 basis points repo rate cut to loans even as deposits rates are getting re-set lower with a lag | Photo Credit: iStockphoto Banks’ have turned more circumspect … Read more
Quality-of-life factors eclipsed traditional traits like sunny days and taxes.
Tech bro woes: Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes in 2020. Pic via Getty Images They were once the country’s most famous, and inseparable, ‘tech bros’. But tensions at work that not even a counsellor could solve – and wives who ‘couldn’t stand each other’ – led to one of the biggest break-ups in Australian … Read more