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(PA Images/Alamy) 11 min read06 September Reform’s Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord, talks to Noah Vickers about his political journey, how to tackle climate change, and why his nation may have to limit free prescriptions and university places Malcolm Offord has been having a wonderful summer. When he speaks to The House, the multi-millionaire leader of Reform UK Scotland has recently returned from Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight – where he keeps one of his six homes and where he raced one of his six boats, Braveheart. “We did fine,” says the 62-year-old MSP for…

Though I’ve been working from home for the past 15 years, both freelance and full-time, this often means needing to be available 24/7, so I typically carry my laptop everywhere I go—including sports practices, day trips, and vacations.I have used many laptop backpacks in this time, and the dividing line between a work backpack that’s comfortable and fits seamlessly into your daily routine and one that’s aggravating at every turn is a fine one. If you’ve got limited closet space, it also helps if the backpack can pull double duty and be used for travel and/or hiking. The backpacks below…

The crypto market is doing well this weekend, with altcoins doing better than Bitcoin. Some of the top gainers are coins like Arbitrum (ARB), Zcash (ZEC), and PancakeSwap (CAKE). This article provides a forecast for top coins like Dogecoin (DOGE), Ripple (XRP), and Venice Token (VVV). Dogecoin price predictionThe daily chart shows that the DOGE price has remained inside a narrow range in the past few months. It remained between the support and resistance levels of $0.067 and $0.0790 between June 24 and August 20th. In some instances, this consolidation is usually a sign that investors are accumulating the token.DOGE price…

AMD stock has pulled back over the past few months, falling from a high of $584.90 in June to around $456 currently. During this correction, the stock has gradually formed a bullish flag pattern, suggesting the potential for further upside in the coming months. This outlook is also broadly in line with analysts’ expectations.AMD stock technicals point to more gainsThe daily chart shows that the Advanced Micro Devices stock has remained in a strong downward trend in the past few months. It has formed a descending channel and dropped below the 23.6% Fibonacci Retracement level. The stock has also moved below…

Fintel reports that on September 4, 2026, StoneX initiated coverage of PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM) with a Buy recommendation. PulteGroup, based in the United States, is a prominent player in the homebuilding industry. The company operates through a variety of brands, including Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb, DiVosta Homes, and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods. It primarily focuses on the construction and sale of new residential buildings, ranging from single-family detached homes to townhouses and condominiums. On September 4, 2026, the stock’s latest close was $124.45, following a pre-action close of $124.31 on September 3, 2026. This follows a price change of…

Costco usually makes its decisions with members in mind. That’s especially important because membership fees account for a huge share of the company’s profit. “Costco’s membership fees contributed some 72% to its operating income last year,” according to Retail Dive. That makes gaining and retaining members pretty important, if not the most important, business metrics for the warehouse club. Costco has done both of these well. In the third quarter, the warehouse club reported membership fee income of $1.373 billion, an increase of $133 million or 10.7% year over year. Adjusting for FX, the increase was 9.9%, according to CFO…

The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM, working with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) during their formative years enabled them to not only close the gap between education and employment, but also to generate ideas promising to business impact. Despite pursuing varied careers in quantum machine learning, reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence agents,and trustworthy and fair AI, respectively, Srinivasan Arunachalam, Zhang-Wei Hong PhD ’25, and Irene Ko…

The Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) is one of the best wealth-building tools available to Canadians. Building the right TFSA strategy around the advantages of that account can help create a growing monthly passive income stream. In fact, with just $25,000 to start, prospective investors can build a small portfolio that can begin to produce approximately $130 each month. Source: Getty Images Building the right TFSA strategy Investors could, in theory, dump the entire $25,000 into one of the highest-yielding investments on the market. That could provide more income, but it also comes at the cost of taking on more risk.…

A Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) can be completely full and still barely be doing its job. That sounds odd until you remember the “S” stands for savings, not stocks. Canadians can hold cash inside a TFSA, and plenty do while waiting for interest rates, markets, elections, recessions, or literally anything else. The problem is time. Suppose $7,000 sits in cash earning 2% for 20 years. It would grow to about $10,400. At an illustrative 8% annual return, the same amount would reach roughly $32,600. That’s more than $22,000 of potential difference from one contribution alone. An 8% stock market return…

For a while, renewing a Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC) required about as much thought as ordering the same coffee every morning. Rates were attractive, your principal was protected, and nobody had to wonder what the stock market was plotting before breakfast. That decision has become less automatic. One-year GIC rates at major Canadian banks are now hovering around the high-2% range, while some higher-rate alternatives are around 3.3%. On $10,000, a 3.3% GIC produces $330 over a year. Source: Getty Images Not bad There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. GICs guarantee principal and interest when held to maturity, making them…