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Redkite Solicitors expands with latest acquisition

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The Cardiff headquartered firm has acquired CLA Trust & Legacy Planning

Redkite Solicitors partner Helen Downes and chief executive Neil Walker.

Redkite Solicitors, one of the largest legal firms in Wales and the south-west of England, has further expanded via acquisition.

The Cardiff headquartered firm has acquired specialist firm of private client lawyers CLA Trust & Legacy Planning.

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The acquisition of the Cardiff firm, the value of which has not been disclosed, marks Redkite’s second acquisition within a year, following the addition of Penarth-based Alan Simons & Co.

In its last financial year Redkite reported improved revenues of £20.4m. The firm has doubled in size over the past five years and quadrupled over the past ten and now operates 19 offices with around 300 staff.

In May 2026, the firm appointed two new equity partners.

The acquisition of CLA Trust & Legacy Planning gives Redkite specialist in-house expertise in trusts, estates and succession planning, further deepening the firm’s expertise in wealth management and succession planning services.

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As part of the deal, CLA Trust & Legacy Planning director Helen Downes joins Redkite as partner and head of private wealth and succession planning.

Neil Walker, chief executive of Redkite, said:“This has been a strong year for Redkite, and this acquisition is a natural next step in that growth.

“Trust and legacy planning is an area where we’ve increasingly seen demand from our private clients, and until now we’ve not had the capacity to manage all that work within the firm. Bringing Helen and her team means we can offer that expertise directly, and we are delighted to welcome them both to the Redkite family.”

Ms Downes said: Our clients are central to everything we do, and their needs and aspirations guide our work. Redkite is the next natural step in furthering our mission.

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“I’ve long admired how Redkite has grown while staying rooted in the communities it serves.

“Being part of that, with the resources and reach it brings, is genuinely exciting.”

Redkite has 13 offices in Wales, including those in Brecon, Swansea , Carmarthen and Haverfordwest.

Its English offices, which total six, include those in Stroud, Cheltenham and Ledbury.

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Broccoli sprouts recall linked to salmonella outbreak in 3 states

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Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC on Thursday announced that it’s recalling over 200 cases of broccoli sprouts over concerns that they may be contaminated with salmonella, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Evergreen said that it’s recalling 215 cases of broccoli sprouts, each of which includes six four-ounce bags per case, because of the risk of salmonella contamination.

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Salmonella is a foodborne illness that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, as well as those who have weakened immune systems.

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Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC is recalling 215 cases of broccoli sprouts. (Getty Images)

The recalled broccoli sprouts were delivered to three distributors in the state of Washington from Aug. 24 to Sept. 2, with the product possibly distributed and sold in retail stores to consumers in Idaho, Montana and Washington.

CREAM CHEESE AND DELI SALADS RECALLED OVER POTENTIAL LISTERIA CONTAMINATION

The broccoli sprouts were packaged in clear plastic four-ounce zip lock bags, with the UPC code 8 38796 00105 1, and with use by dates of 9/7/26, 9/9/26, 9/11/26, 9/14/26 and 9/16/26.

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Consumers who purchased the affected broccoli sprouts are urged to immediately discard the product. Businesses are urged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to not sell or serve recalled broccoli sprouts, and to wash and sanitize items and surfaces that may have come in contact with recalled broccoli sprouts.

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Consumers who purchased the affected broccoli sprouts are urged to immediately discard the product. (Getty Images)

CDC has recorded a total of 22 cases in Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah.

DOG SUPPLEMENTS RECALLED OVER POTENTIAL SALMONELLA CONTAMINATION

Evergreen said that it was notified the broccoli sprouts have been related to a multistate salmonella outbreak, which included 22 cases as of Sept. 9. 

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It initiated the recall when broccoli sprouts with a use by date of 9/16/26 tested positive for salmonella in an analysis conducted by a third-party lab. The company stopped producing and distributing broccoli sprouts on Sept. 4 and is undertaking a root cause investigation, Evergreen said.

MORE THAN 1,500 POUNDS OF PORK RECALLED OVER LISTERIA CONTAMINATION RISK

Symptoms of salmonella typically include diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps. Some people – particularly young children, adults age 65 and older and people with weakened immune systems – may experience more severe illnesses requiring medical treatment or hospitalization, according to the CDC.

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Evergreen initiated the recall when broccoli sprouts with a use by date of 9/16/26 tested positive for salmonella in an analysis conducted by a third-party lab. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

People who may have been exposed to salmonella should contact their healthcare provider if they have any of the following symptoms: 

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  • Diarrhea and a fever higher than 102 degrees Fahrenheit;
  • Diarrhea for more than two days that isn’t improving;
  • Bloody diarrhea;
  • So much vomiting that you can’t keep liquids down;
  • Signs of dehydration like not peeing much, dry mouth and throat, or feeling dizzy when standing up.

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Hanover Foods launches GLP-1-friendly meals

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HANOVER, PA. — Hanover Foods Corp. is unveiling a line of GLP-1-friendly frozen meals.

Each Skinny Veg-branded meal is formulated with one vegetable, one grain or legume, avocado oil, pepper and sea salt.

The lineup is available in four varieties: broccoli and quinoa, brussels sprouts and couscous, spinach and blackeye peas, and riced cauliflower and lentils.

“We believe the ingredient list should be the least surprising part of your meal, which is why Skinny Veg is intentionally simple,” said Jeff Warehime, chief executive officer. “Our Skinny Veg sides have just five simple ingredients. No additives or preservatives. Just real food for real people.”

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The frozen meals are now available at select retailers and will launch nationally in 2027. 

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Eversource Energy Offers Stable Fundamentals, Growing Yield

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Investors searching for a utility stock with stable fundamentals and a growing 4.5% yield can take a look at Eversource Energy (ES). Headquartered in Springfield, Mass., Eversource Energy provides electricity to 4.4 million customers across Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Ranked second on IBD’s Utility Leader List, Eversource boasts a 4.5% yield — well above the S&P 500’s roughly 1%…

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Kevin Trudeau on Moving from Dream to Daily Task

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The System Behind Turning Big Ideas into Action

Most people understand the need for goals. They write down what they want to achieve, pin it to a wall, and expect momentum to follow. What usually happens instead is confusion. The gap between “I want to build a business” and “what do I do Tuesday at 10 a.m.” feels too wide to cross. The result is either paralysis or busy work that goes nowhere.

Kevin Trudeau, author and entrepreneur who built multiple businesses generating billions in sales, uses a five-tier priority management system to bridge that gap. It moves from abstract vision to concrete action without skipping steps. The structure is simple. The discipline is not.

The Five Levels, From Largest to Smallest

The Dream sits at the top. This is the big idea that may not happen in your lifetime. It serves as the north star, not the next milestone. The dream does not need to be realistic. It needs to be magnetic.

The Chief Aim is the six-to-twelve-month goal that flows from the dream. It is large, likely, and within reach if conditions cooperate. The chief aim is not as big as the dream, but it is plausible. You can see how it might happen.

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The Objective covers the next few months. It is definite. You are almost certain it will occur if you follow through. The objective is not a hope. It is a scheduled outcome.

The Goal spans days or weeks. This is where planning turns operational. You know what has to happen, and you know roughly when.

The Task is the immediate action step you can take right now. It is something you control. It requires no one’s permission and no special circumstance. The task is the only level at which you actually do work.

Why Most Systems Fail at the Transition Points

The breakdown usually happens between levels. Someone sets a dream and then writes tasks, skipping everything in the middle. The tasks feel random because there is no connecting structure. Or they set goals but never define the single action that moves the needle today.

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Each level answers a different question. The dream answers “Why am I doing this at all?” The chief aim answers “What does winning look like this year?” The objective answers “What must be true by summer?” The goal answers “What has to happen this month?” The task answers “What can I do in the next hour?”

When a level is missing, the question goes unanswered. You either drift or grind without direction.

Managing Priority, Not Time

The difference between activity and accomplishment shows up in how you decide what comes next. Most people fill their day with tasks that feel productive but do not advance anything. They confuse motion with progress.

Trudeau’s method starts each day with one filter: What will advance the mission the most in the least amount of time? Everything else is secondary. If a task does not connect to a goal, and the goal does not connect to an objective, the task does not belong on the list.

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This is not about working more hours. It is about making sure the hours connect to something that matters. You manage priorities, not minutes.

How to Eat an Elephant

The system assumes you cannot see the whole path at once. You go as far as you can see. When you get there, you see further. This removes the pressure to have a perfect plan on day one.

Start with the dream, even if it feels absurd. Write the chief aim that serves it. Define the objective that makes the chief aim more likely. Set the goal that makes the objective inevitable. Pick the task that starts the goal.

Then do the task. When it is done, pick the next one. The structure stays stable even when circumstances shift. You do not rebuild the system every time something changes. You adjust one level and the rest follows.

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What Happens When You Skip a Level

If you jump from dream to task, you burn out. The task feels pointless because it is not connected to anything concrete. You lose motivation and quit.

If you skip the task and live at the objective level, nothing moves. You know where you are going but never take a step. Strategy without execution is daydreaming.

If you skip the dream, you optimize for the wrong thing. You hit goals that do not matter and wonder why success feels empty.

Each level needs the one above it and the one below it. The dream gives the chief aim meaning. The chief aim gives the objective direction. The objective gives the goal context. The goal gives the task purpose. The task gives everything else proof.

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Why This Works When Motivation Fails

Motivation is unreliable. Discipline is a limited resource. Structure is renewable. When you know exactly what comes next, you do not need to feel inspired. You just need to know the task.

The system also prevents the trap of confusing difficulty with importance. Hard work that is not aligned with a larger goal is just hard. The five tiers force alignment before effort.

Building the System for Yourself

Start by writing your dream. Do not edit it. Do not make it reasonable. Write what you actually want, even if it sounds impossible.

Then ask: What would make that dream more likely in the next year? That is your chief aim. What would make the chief aim certain in the next three months? That is your objective. What has to happen in the next two weeks to hit the objective? That is your goal. What can you do today, right now, that starts the goal? That is your task.

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Do the task. Tomorrow, ask the same questions. The dream does not change often. The chief aim shifts once or twice a year. The objective changes every quarter. The goal changes weekly. The task changes daily.

The system is not rigid. It is responsive. You are always working on the thing that matters most right now, and you always know why it matters.

The Real Test

The system works when you stop feeling busy and start feeling effective. When someone asks what you are working on, you can trace the task back to the dream in one sentence. When you finish the day, you know whether you moved the needle.

Most people spend years working hard on things that do not compound. They mistake effort for progress. The five-tier system makes sure effort and progress point in the same direction. It does not make the work easier. It makes the work count.

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Buy or Sell Apple After iPhone Duo? Analysts Split as Shares Rise and Margins Weigh

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CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple stock jumped after the iPhone Duo debut and then split Wall Street down the middle: more units at $1,999, thinner hardware margins, and a foldable that cannot ship until Oct. 23.

Shares rose about 3.6% in the session after the Sept. 9 “Surprise and Shine” event, trading near $327. Consensus from 29 analysts compiled by Benzinga was still Buy with an average target around $335 — only a few points of implied upside. The range underneath that average is the story. TD Cowen’s Krish Sankar kept Buy and $400. Barclays’ Tim Long rated Sell and $245. Jefferies’ Edison Lee stayed Underperform near $264. Morningstar lifted its fair value only to $290 and still called the stock lightly expensive.

The product is not in dispute. John Ternus, in his first event as chief executive, called the Duo “the most transformational change to iPhone since the original.” It opens to 7.6 inches, closes to a 5.4-inch cover, starts at $1,999 for 256GB and runs to $3,199 for 2TB. Preorders start Oct. 16. Citi’s Atif Malik kept Buy and $365 and called the foldable Apple’s “biggest new hardware category” since Watch and AirPods. Evercore ISI’s Amit Daryanani, also Buy at $365, said Apple will sell every Duo it can build in the first six months.

Volume forecasts cluster near 6 million units in the second half of 2026, in line with Counterpoint Research’s earlier 25% foldable-share sketch and a supply cap that keeps the category a rounding error next to 250 million-plus iPhones. Oppenheimer said 8 million to 10 million this year is the ceiling. TD Cowen modeled about 6 million Duo units at roughly 56% hardware gross margin, better than the mid-40s it assigned the iPhone 18 Pro.

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That last comparison is why some desks bought the keynote and sold the multiple. Bank of America’s Wamsi Mohan reiterated Buy but cut his target to $370 from $380. “In our opinion, iPhone Duo stole the show,” he wrote — then lowered average-selling-price assumptions by $14 for fiscal 2027, to $1,099, after Apple priced the foldable under the $2,300–$2,500 many investors had marked. He raised iPhone unit forecasts by 2 million this fiscal year and 5 million next, to 256 million, and still took $10 off the target because memory costs are rising faster than list prices.

Tim Cook told analysts on the July 30 call that Apple was seeing “a 100-year flood on the memory pricing with exponential increases in memory prices” and that the company had “reluctantly raised prices.” The fall lineup skipped a cheap iPhone 18 until spring, added $100 to Pro models and used the Duo as a $1,999 halo instead of a $2,499 scarcity play. Rosenblatt stayed Neutral at $303, saying the “light touch” on pricing could weigh on gross margin. UBS stayed Neutral at $296. Jefferies said Apple is protecting volume at the expense of margin to keep supplier leverage.

Needham’s Laura Martin kept Hold and argued a bigger screen does not fix Apple’s AI lag. She praised Ternus as a “wartime CEO” and still called the new Siri agent in iOS 27 “too little, too late.” AT&T Chief Executive John Stankey, speaking after the event, said the Duo “is not new” and “tends to function more as a specific niche type application as opposed to it’s broadly accepted.”

Buyers of the stock are underwriting three things that can all be true at once: a scarce foldable that prints high margin on 6 million units; an install base that still refreshes Pro phones at higher ASPs; and a company that can raise prices when DRAM is a flood. Sellers are underwriting the opposite arithmetic: $1,999 is not $2,499, 6 million units do not move a $3 trillion-plus market cap, and memory inflation hits every other SKU in the bag.

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The practical split for a portfolio is time, not theology. A six-week wait to first sale means fiscal 2027, not the September quarter, carries the Duo. Holiday mix will show whether Pro price hikes stick when the cheap slot is empty. Margin commentary on the next earnings call will show whether Mohan’s $14 ASP cut was enough. Until those prints, Apple is a Buy on the average target list and a debate on every individual ticket — up 3% on a phone that is not in stores, with a ceiling set by hinge yield and a floor set by NAND.

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FM Sitharaman flags global crisis spillovers, unfair burden on developing nations

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New Delhi: The burden of adjustment in an imbalanced, conflict-ridden world should not fall disproportionately on countries in the Global South that don’t drive these imbalances, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.

India, like many developing economies, “remains largely peripheral to both the origination and propagation of global imbalances; yet, we continue to face their spill-over effects”, the minister said.

Sitharaman made the statements while representing India at a virtual meeting on the Global Convergence for Growth Summit, presided over by French President Emmanuel Macron, the finance ministry said in a post on microblogging site X.

“In today’s interconnected world, prosperity and challenges are shared, but the consequences of conflicts and uncertainty fall disproportionately on developing countries and the Global South. The situation demands coordinated global action,” the minister said during her intervention at the summit.

“We must strengthen multilateral cooperation to build resilient economies, accelerate sustainable development and ensure inclusive growth that benefits all,” she added.

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The summit was held to bring together leaders of advanced and emerging economies to deliberate on ways to support a balanced and efficient global framework. The senior leadership of all the G7 nations and India, Brazil, China, Kenya, South Korea and the International Monetary Fund participated in the summit.
Making her observations on global imbalances, the minister said: “Not all imbalances are alike, some reflect differences in demographics, development stages, resource endowments, or economic structures.””Our focus should, therefore, remain on excessive and persistent imbalances while recognising that the scale of domestic needs varies significantly across countries,” she said.

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India’s growth is projected to remain strong at about 7% over the medium term, the minister said, stressing that the country remains the world’s fastest-expanding major economy.

The country’s growth is primarily led by domestic demand, with a largely market-determined exchange rate, she added.

Sitharaman called for better, bigger, more effective and more representative multilateral development banks (MDBs) that can deliver greater financing to developing countries and emerging economies. Bolstering their financing capacity, operational agility and responsiveness will be critical, she said.

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Jerome Powell sells $7.2M Maryland waterfront mansion after Fed exit: report

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Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has reportedly sold a waterfront Maryland estate for $7.2 million.

The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home on Gibson Island changed hands in an off-market sale on Aug. 4, less than three months after Powell concluded his eight-year term as chair of the Federal Reserve, Realtor.com reported, citing public property records.

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The 7,155-square-foot home sits on a two-acre waterfront lot overlooking the Magothy River, the outlet reported.

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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the completion of the FOMC meeting at the Federal Reserve

Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has reportedly sold a waterfront Maryland estate for $7.2 million. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

The home was not publicly listed on a multiple listing service, with the Baltimore Business Journal first reporting the sale.

Built in 2004, the shingle-style mansion features water views from nearly every main room, along with a waterfront swimming pool, stone terraces, a private pier with a boat lift and landscaped grounds, according to Realtor.com.

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Powell purchased the property for $3.86 million in 2006.

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Powell purchased the property for $3.86 million in 2006. (Google Earth)

The former Fed chair and his wife, Elissa Leonard, continue to own another home on Gibson Island that they purchased for about $3 million, Realtor.com reported.

The couple’s primary residence is in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Powell concluded his tenure as Fed chairman in May, with Kevin Warsh succeeding him.

POWELL SAYS HE’LL STAY ON FED BOARD AFTER CHAIRMANSHIP ENDS BUT WON’T BE A ‘SHADOW FED CHAIR’

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Kevin Warsh succeeded Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman earlier this year. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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During his time leading the central bank, Powell frequently clashed with President Donald Trump over interest rate policy.

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Andrew Cherng Built Panda Express One Step At A Time

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As a kid born in China and raised in Taiwan, Andrew Cherng, cofounder of Panda Express, had few possessions until he received a wondrous gift from his cousin who was moving to Japan: a used bike. “It was the first thing I had ever truly wanted that belonged to me,” recalled Cherng. He remembers riding the bicycle for hours and…

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Sara Lee expands frozen dessert portfolio

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OAKBROOK TERRACE, ILL. —Sara Lee Frozen Bakery is adding new frozen desserts to its Sweet Moments portfolio. The launch includes individual-sized cakes and four-layered cheesecakes.

The cakes are available in gooey butter cake, chocolate chip brookie and cinnamon caramel crunch varieties.

The cheesecakes include strawberry shortcake, lemon blueberry and fudge brownie varieties.

“Sweet Moments and its expansion come as consumer trends converge around demand for greater portion flexibility,” said Derek Wong, director of marketing, retail at Sara Lee. “Smaller households, the rise of ‘little treat’ culture and everyday indulgence, and the growing adoption of GLP-1 medications may be changing consumer behavior for different reasons, but together they point to greater interest in smaller portions and more flexible ways to indulge. Sweet Moments sits naturally at that intersection, giving consumers a premium dessert experience sized for one and giving retailers an opportunity to create occasions beyond traditional celebrations.”

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The desserts may be purchased at retailers nationwide.

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