With the market having come back strong since its swift retreat in early June the immediate threat of a larger correction has diminished. The S&P 500 index is back above its 50-day line and within a couple percentage points of its all-time high.
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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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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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We’re looking at economic data that could push interest rates upward (rising food price inflation and business expansion) and we’re also looking at economic data that could push rates downward (GDP potentially falling due to China tariffs, and slowing employment numbers).
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THE BIG IDEA
On a whim, I recently reviewed our car insurance.
Something didn’t feel right, so I went online and got a quote from another provider. It turns out they could cover our two cars with essentially the same coverage – for half the was...
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Amidst the uncertainty investors are gravitating toward dividend stocks. You’re in the right place at the right time.
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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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Assessing the Retail Stock Landscape
After rising 25.3% from Christmas Eve 2018 through April 30, 2019, the S&P 500 stock index fell 6.6% in May. A pullback was clearly overdue, and there was plenty of fuel to keep investors on the edge of their Many...
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Altogether it felt like a calm week. Considering the worsening performance of the S&P 600 Small Cap Index, which broke below its comfort zone, and the S&P 500, now 6% off its high, our portfolio’s resiliency continues to stand out.
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Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) reports first-quarter 2019 results.
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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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Looking at the broad market we see that the S&P 500 is just 4% off its recent high, has thus far held above support around 2,800 and remains above its long-term (200-day) moving average line. The Nasdaq dipped to its May 13 low 7,627,...
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A potential positive catalyst has turned distinctly negative—a swing and a miss. What does this mean for the market going forward?
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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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Many of our stocks are still recovering from the steep stock market downturn that occurred in the fourth quarter of 2018. As long as their fundamentals (profits, valuation, etc.) remain strong, I’m going to give those stocks some rope and allow them to recover.
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This is a great time to be invested in these stocks, clearly. And I hope the trend continues. But I do think we have a missing ingredient before we can feel super confident that these gains will stick. And that ingredient is more from...
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Today, I’m creating a fourth portfolio category within Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor: Special Situations. This will be a portfolio for capital gain opportunities that do not conveniently fit into the other three portfolios.
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After the breakdown of trade negotiations with China and the escalation of tariffs, the market had a few ugly trading days, but now, it looks like we’re back in the saddle again.
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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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After rising 25% from its December low to its May high, the S&P 500 index is finally taking a breather. I don’t expect a shocking price drop like we saw in December. Rather, I anticipate the S&P 500 receding to 2,750, which would down...
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