Author: Jordan

Dividend mutual funds provide us with two ways to earn a return: stocks’ normal price appreciation potential, as well as dividend income. And they do so while also providing instant diversification with the purchase of a single investment.The best dividend mutual funds, at least in our view, do all that in a better manner than their peers while also charging competitive fees.While dividend equities are sometimes maligned as sleepy stocks, we shouldn’t … well, sleep on them. Sure, they sometimes have lower upside ceilings than their growthier counterparts. But in good times, their cash income helps bolster that upside; in…

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Jewellery and other items were stolen after a property near Banbridge was ransacked on Saturday afternoon.Detectives are appealing for information following the burglary in the Dublin Road area of the A1.The incident was reported to police at around 2.15pm.Police said it is believed that sometime after 12.15pm, entry was gained to the property.Detectives are appealing for information following a burglary in Banbridge yesterday afternoon, Saturday, August 15. Picture: Pacemaker (stock image)A PSNI spokesperson said: “I am appealing to anyone who may have witnessed anyone suspicious in the area or to anyone with CCTV or other footage that could assist with…

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Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St’s easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN) has just given investors a packed update, including second quarter 2026 results, fresh earnings guidance for the rest of the year, and a new shelf registration filing. See our latest analysis for BioMarin Pharmaceutical. At a share price of US$67.36, BioMarin Pharmaceutical has seen a 90-day share price return of 35.62% and a 1-year total shareholder return of 17.07%, although the 3-year total shareholder return is down 24.36%. This points to improving short term momentum against…

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2 Mid-Cap Stocks Worth Your Attention and 1 We Question Many investors pay attention to mid-cap stocks because they have established business models and expansive market opportunities. However, their paths to becoming $100 billion corporations are ripe with competition, ranging from giants with vast resources to agile upstarts eager to disrupt the status quo. This is precisely where StockStory comes in – we do the heavy lifting to identify companies with solid fundamentals so you can invest with confidence. Keeping that in mind, here are two mid-cap stocks with massive growth potential and one that could be down big. One…

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My partner and I are in the process of buying a two bedroom apartment in a block of flats. Everything was going smoothly until the mortgage valuation.The lender’s surveyor came back saying the building the flat is in has an ‘adverse high-density rental ratio’, which apparently means there are too many rental flats in the building and they think this could make the flat less sellable in future.The estate agent has suggested we try our luck with a different bank. But should we just be walking away? It seems to me the only thing affecting any future sale is the bank…

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The study, from Bitz.io, ranked every UK county and nation by the number of high-value winners (every prize of £1,000 or more) they returned for every 100,000 residents across the last 12 monthly draws. How Devon performed Devon ranked 6th of 47 UK counties and nations, returning 513 high-value Premium Bonds winners for every 100,000 residents. Across the 12 monthly draws, 6,430 winning Bonds in the county shared prizes worth £18,860,000, an average of about £2,933 for each winning Bond. That places Devon just below East Sussex (514 per 100,000 residents) and just above Suffolk (487) in the national ranking.…

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New research from debt management firm Lowell into the UK’s borrowing habits has found that the vast majority of people who fall into debt do so while young, with university-aged adults proving particularly vulnerable to early financial strain that can follow them for years afterwards. The study found that 88% of people currently in debt first fell into it between the ages of 18 and 34, with 51% doing so between the ages of just 18 and 24, the years in which most people are at university or beginning their first jobs. Among university students, credit cards were found to be the…

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