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Cero Generation, alongside their UK development partner Enso Energy, has selected Danske Commodities as its optimisation partner for a new battery energy storage system (BESS) in the UK. The battery, named Lower Larks, will have a capacity of 140 MWh, which means it can store enough energy to cover the daily power consumption of app. 15,000 British households. Batteries such as Lower Larks are key to a successful energy transition. By storing energy during peak power generation and exporting it back onto the grid when demand is high, Lower Larks will help balance intermittent energy production and allow a greater…

It has been a good period for long-suffering investors in German conglomerate Bayer (DE:BAYN). The share price has risen by close to 25 per cent over the past month, as investors sensed that an end to the longstanding litigation over weedkiller Roundup may finally be in sight. A court victory at the end of June means the class settlement already agreed will probably be the end of the Roundup payouts, with a further August hearing set to confirm the $7.25bn (£5.4bn) payout plan, which would be handed out over a period of up to 21 years. Source link

Global oil supply rose 4.1 million bpd in June as flows through Hormuz resumed, but remained 9.4 million bpd behind pre-war levels – IEA !”#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|} !”#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|} Source link

Paragon Bank has introduced a 2% fee product to its buy-to-let Bank Base Rate (BBR) tracker range. The revised range is available up to 75% LTV and spans both single self-contained properties (SSCs), HMOs and multi-unit blocks (MUBs). For SSC properties at 75% LTV, the latest two-year tracker is priced from BBR plus 1.00% (currently 4.75%). The product includes a free mortgage valuation, no application fee and no early repayment charges. Two-year tracker options for HMOs and MUBs at the same LTV tier start from BBR plus 1.35%. These products offer the same benefit of no early repayment…

Arab Finance: The Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) announced the prices of food commodities and vegetables in Egyptian markets on Thursday, July 9th. The price of a kilogram of packaged rice increased by 1.5% to EGP 34.5, while packaged flour decreased by 1% to EGP 25.4 per kilogram. Packaged sugar fell by 1.2% to EGP 33.5 per kilogram, while sunflower oil climbed by 1.4% to EGP 104.3 per kilogram. As for vegetables, the price of tomatoes jumped by 2.5% to EGP 25.4 per kilogram, while the price of potatoes decreased by 0.9% to EGP 18 per kilogram. © 2026…

As much as 70% of the value of subscriptions in this month’s edition of the retail public debt scheme Fidelis is in securities denominated in the single European currency, Profit.ro pointed out based on the public data. Investors are thus reacting to the shrinking coupons attached by Romania’s Treasury to the leu-denominated bonds, but also to the exchange rate risk posed by the political turmoil. One day before the end of the subscription period, RON 165 million (EUR 31.5 million) and EUR 71.3 million of bonds were subscribed by investors.  The greatest interest is seen for the instrument with the…

Rental demand is gathering pace again after a relatively subdued period, with agents around the UK reporting the strongest increase in prospective tenants for more than a year. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) June survey found a headline net balance of +18%, suggesting the rental market is beginning to tighten once more. However, it remains relatively subdued by the standards of recent years. Meanwhile, the new landlord instructions indicator slightly improved, coming in at -18% from -28% previously. Against this imbalance, near-term rental price expectations remain consistent, says the RICS, with projected rental growth in the next 12…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIt was 8am on a Thursday, the drab morning commute, and Neil was staring absent-mindedly out a train window when a man with wild darting eyes caught his attention.He was maybe 18 or 20, average height, and lingered inside the doors of the carriage, clumsily pulling on a yellow high-vis vest before he pulled what looked like a large mobile phone out of his pocket.A scammer has been impersonating a ticket inspector on the Ballarat line.Paul RovereAfter pressing a few buttons, he examined people…

Is Temple & Webster (ASX:TPW) the Mid-Cap Retail Story to Watch This Winter? Kalkine Media Source link

Bronte Capital’s flagship fund went backwards for the second consecutive year as its high-profile investment chief, John Hempton, missed the enormous rally in computing memory stocks amid concerns the artificial intelligence trade is heading towards an inevitable bust.The Sydney-based firm’s Amalthea fund ended the 2026 financial year down 9.2 per cent, well behind the MSCI All Country World Index’s gain of 17.6 per cent.Loading… Source link