Elon Musk’s Space X signs up first private moon flight passenger September 14, 2018 Space X has announced that it has signed up the first private passenger to fly around the moon on its new Big Falcon Rocket launch system. Elon Musk's company said it was a crucial step towards a future of everyday space travel. Read more: 'It's legal, right?' Elon Musk smokes weed on podcast The rocket [...]
Elon Musk’s Space X signs up first private moon flight passenger September 14, 2018 Space X has announced that it has signed up the first private passenger to fly around the moon on its new Big Falcon Rocket launch system. Elon Musk's company said it was a crucial step towards a future of everyday space travel. Read more: 'It's legal, right?' Elon Musk smokes weed on podcast The rocket [...]
Uniswap – the DeFi goldmine minting overnight (and daily) Crypto Millionaires August 18, 2020 UniSwap is a name you should know about if you are planning to get in on the current DeFi craze which seems to be defined, to an extent, by extraordinary gains and potentially extraordinary losses – YAM farming comes to mind! Gains in multiples are made in hours and days, not weeks and months like [...]
Virgin Galactic shares stall as space tourism firm posts $73m loss February 26, 2020 Richard Branson-founded Virgin Galactic fell to a $73m loss in the final quarter of 2019 as the space tourism firm announced it had received twice as many registrations for its space flight programme. The loss, which has widened compared to the same period last year, meant that Virgin Galactic’s share price, which has risen nearly [...]
Space-tech: Billionaire Bezos’ flight to space to draw in starry-eyed investors July 21, 2021 Following Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ 10-minute venture into space yesterday, space-tech investment may be set to rocket, space-fund boss Mark Boggett has said. Just last week Boggett’s space investment firm Seraphim Space listed on the London Stock Exchange after rallying £178.4m from starry-eyed investors in mid-July. “Branson, Musk and Bezos initially cracked open the [...]
Chasing Tesla: how traditional carmakers are revving up their electric vehicle production August 16, 2021 Equities generally had a strong year in 2020, but few parts of the market could match the runaway share price gains of the pure electric vehicle (EV) makers. Tapping into investor (and day trader) demand for two popular themes – tech and sustainability – such companies became extremely highly sought after. US group Tesla is [...]
Tesla shares hit record high after beating revenue and profit estimates January 29, 2020 Tesla shares soared after reporting fourth quarter revenue and profit which beat analysts’ estimates. The company said its Model 3 and Model Y electric sport utility vehicle capacity should reach 500,000 units per year in the Fremont factory, sending it shares up 13 per cent in after hours trading above $655. Tesla’s stock has more [...]
Space race: Boeing invests $20m in Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic as it prepares public listing October 8, 2019 Boeing is to invest $20m in Sir Richard Branson’s space-tourism venture Virgin Galactic, meaning it will have more money to take on rivals such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the commercial space race. Branson founded space venture Virgin Galactic in a bid to cash in on rising demand for space travel. He is [...]
Virgin Galactic shares blast off as Sir Richard Branson’s firm makes New York Stock Exchange debut October 28, 2019 Sir Richard Branson’s space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, has taken off on the New York Stock Exchange this afternoon, with shares soaring more than eight per cent in early trading. The company completed a merger with a US investment vehicle late on Friday, making it the first commercial space venture to go public. Branson, who [...]
Confession of an ESG sceptic: How I learned to stop worrying and love ESG June 30, 2020 For a long time, it would be fair to say I have been brutally sceptical about Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) investment. However, the Covid-19 crisis has turned ESG from a trendy investment fashion to something that matters. My scepticism began with the fact that ESG was an unbalanced concept. Too many people focus only [...]