Aegon NV has been making headlines recently with its international financial services and investment solutions. A consensus rating of “Hold” has been awarded to Aegon by analysts from Bloomberg Ratings, out of ten analysts that are covering the firm. The target price is an average $5.15 for the brokers that have covered the stock in the last year. This implies some caution from market insiders to keep tabs on the company before giving recommendations to buy or sell their shares.

It should be noted that there are varying opinions within the analyst community about Aegon’s future prospects as evidenced by two analysts recommending selling its shares and three issuing a recommendation to buy them. This view has given rise to a degree of perplexity in investors who are left…

Microsoft is currently the second largest company in the world according to current statistics published by Global Finance, but this hasn’t stopped its billion-dollar deal to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard from being blocked in the UK.

The UK government has issued a press release stating that Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion (£55 billion) takeover has been obstructed – a deal that would have seen the company acquire some of the hottest and most in-demand games such as Call of Duty, Overwatch, Candy Crush and World of Warcraft. 

Alas, this deal has been blocked in the UK by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) resulting in significant frustration from both Microsoft and Activision who have both hit out saying they will appeal this verdict.

“We Will Work…

A Facebook post shared to a buy and sell Facebook group called “Aber swap shop” claiming an autistic boy called Brandon has gone missing with his family dog uses images taken in 2019, which we previously wrote about after they were used in a nearly-identical set of hoax posts.

The post says: “HELP!!!  #aber MS My son Brandon Smith took off this morning with our dog hank. He is autistic and has been missing for eight hours if anyone sees him please PM me please re-post on any sites.I already contacted police. [sic]”

As we’ve previously explained, the pictures used in the posts have been circulating online since 2019, and reportedly show a boy in the US being reunited with his dog, Piper, which had been found after going missing for over a fortnight. 

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Stocks known to give dividends on a regular basis are known as high-dividend stocks. Many companies are known to pay regular dividends and investment in such companies can be considered important factors in getting a fixed income for your day-to-day expenses.

At times, investors invest a certain percentage of their corpus in these high-dividend stocks to earn a regular income and the remainder of their corpus is invested in other kinds of stocks.

Our list of the best cheap web hosting companies focuses on monthly cost, term lengths and overall value. You should keep a few factors in mind when you’re choosing the best host for your website, cheap or otherwise.

Unlimited vs. Unmetered Storage and Bandwidth

Web hosting services seem to shift between unlimited and unmetered in regard to storage and bandwidth, with little explanation. If you read the fine print of the Terms and Conditions from each host, you’ll usually find the answer.

If your storage is unlimited, it often comes with conditions. For example, if you use too many resources on a shared server, as it relates to others on the server, the web host may ask you to remove files from your site.

Unmetered bandwidth usually means that the hosting company isn’t…