Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
With earnings season largely over most of our stocks are now moving based on news that affects the broad market, and less on company-specific trends, with a few exceptions.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market seems to be rebounding and stabilizing after a tumultuous couple of weeks. The escalation of trade tensions, a sputtering global economy and talk of the next recession spooked investors. But as fear wanes investors realize that money has no place else go...
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Cabot Stock of the Week 261
The market remains strong and I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested in a well-diversified portfolio that meets your investment needs.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big news that affected the market this week was, of course, the dreaded yield curve inversion. This happens when the 10-year Treasury yield goes below the 2-year yield.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
This week is a still familiar story in the portfolio, with defensive stocks thriving and moving still higher.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market has undergone a radical personality transformation since I released the July issue last week. I’m not hitting the panic button, yet. But it is certainly a situation I will closely monitor.
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 820
Market Views
No Longer Overbought
Technically, the S&P 500 has corrected most of an overbought condition with a 2.73% decline from its July 16 high. News-related volatility will likely continue as the market enters its least favorable season. But, sentiment gauges have begun to improve a..
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Cabot Dividend Investor 719
The Dog Days of Summer
We are in the dog days of summer, the hottest, most sultry days of the year. The expression “dog days” is an old one. In fact, it’s really old. The Romans used it.
It’s one of those expressions that everyone but...
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 323
Market Views
Be Ready for Profit-Taking
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed today on slightly negative breadth on the NYSE. Broad foreign equity ETFs (EFA, EEM, VEU) also had a quiet day. However, small and mid-cap ETFs fell about 1⁄2%.
The Russell...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
It’s the middle of the summer swoon. But there’s a lot going on in the market, namely earnings. Overall, this earnings season is shaping up to be positive but uninspired.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Things look pretty darn good. The S&P 500 has broken the 3000 level for the first time ever and is within a whisker of its all-time high. The index is up over 9% since the beginning of June and 20% so far in 2019.
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 819
Congrats to the Top Picks 2019, Mid-Year
Congratulations to our Top Picks for 2019! For the first half of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 11.8%; the S&P 500 gained 14.3%, and the NASDAQ has returned 16.1%. But, as you can from...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is at new all-time highs. If there’s more bad news, it could go a lot higher. The biggest risk to the market right now is stronger-than-expected second-quarter GDP growth.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The S&P 500 is at new all time highs as I write this. We have a market that wants to go higher, but it just keeps getting interrupted with negative headlines. It seems like we can’t get through a week without bad trade or...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 619
A Cautious View at the Midpoint of the Year
We’ve reached the midpoint of 2019, which means it’s a good time to take some stock of where we are and where we might be headed for the rest of the year.
In several ways, things pretty...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The FOMC is meeting this week and investors can hardly contain their euphoric bliss. In-the-know pundits are already factoring in a rate cut next month and more before the end of the year. The market rallied strongly yesterday as it salivated over prospect.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market found its mojo after the Fed vaguely insinuated that it could conceivably consider cutting rates before the end of the year. But it looks like the momentum is gone.
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 818
Market Views
Mixed Signals
The $SPX chart is still bearish, because there are lower highs and lower lows on its chart. Oversold rallies typically carry from their lows up to and slightly above the declining 20-day moving average. That’s exactly what this rally has done far...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Amidst the uncertainty investors are gravitating toward dividend stocks. You’re in the right place at the right time.
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 321
Market Views
Be Ready for Profit-Taking
I see yields and stocks falling considerably more than this in the months ahead. Likewise, I think gold’s countdown is nearing its end, prior to re-launching in more dramatic fashion its interrupted secular bull market.
But these moves—or at least of...
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