Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADP) has quietly built one of the better dividend records in the market. The company has now increased its dividend for 51 straight years. That is impressive on its own, but the more important point is that the business continues to generate the earnings and cash needed to support those increases….
1 The board at Barcelona have put in place an updated timetable to secure the signing of key transfer target Julián Alvarez from La Liga rivals Atlético Madrid. This comes amid the understanding that the Blaugrana will not take their efforts to land the Argentine beyond the end of this week. The Barca-Alvarez saga has of…
US Navy is stretched too thin, Brent Sadler warns Retired Navy Captain Brent Sadler warns that the U.S. Navy is currently stretched too thin to adequately counter global threats from adversaries like China and Iran. Sadler highlights the strain of the USS Abraham Lincoln’s 250-day deployment as a key symptom of a shrinking fleet. He…
On 7 August, Elon Musk appeared to be writing Ship 40’s obituary at sea. “Unfortunately, ship recovery is not looking good right now,” he posted, as rough conditions complicated an improvised effort to save the Starship upper stage. Eleven days later, the story had changed. SpaceX announced on 18 August that its recovery team had…
A power failure aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer operating in the South China Sea last month left the ship’s crew without potable water, hot food, working toilets or air conditioning for four days. The outage stemmed from an engineering failure aboard the USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, Cmdr. Matthew Comer, a 7th Fleet…
Hong Kong is formulating its first five-year plan for economic and social development. Such plans are likely to become a regular feature of governance, and will shape how the city allocates land, builds housing and infrastructure, develops industries, trains talent and improves public services. They can also give government departments a common frame for action,…
E-commerce platforms have become a new class of intermediaries, displacing traditional wholesalers and distributors while gaining greater influence over merchants through algorithm-driven systems, Zhong, founder of beverage giant Nongfu Spring, said earlier this month on state broadcaster CCTV’s Dialogue program. “Traditional distributors operated under relatively transparent and predictable fee structures,” Zhong said, as quoted by…
The account fragmentation that forces active traders to hold separate balances for spot crypto, foreign exchange, and other products has become one of the quieter frictions in retail market structure. BiFu is now removing one layer of that friction by bringing its assets and trading services under BiNet, a unified asset trading network linking crypto,…
Aptiv stock has had a difficult run over the past few years, yet some of the valuation checks still suggest it is not obviously expensive at today’s price. That mix of weak long term returns and mixed valuation signals is what investors now need to weigh. Aptiv shareholders have seen the stock decline 61.9% over…
The beginning of the 2026–27 Premier League season is just days away following an incredibly hectic offseason for England’s top-flight sides. Summer preparations have been completely disrupted by the World Cup, resulting in a chaotic flurry of transfer activity as managers fine-tune their rosters. Those squads have traveled far and wide on preseason adventures, few…