The market has entered a rough patch, especially for tech and stocks that have not been demonstrating relative strength. Explorer stocks are all over the map, with Coupa (COUP) and Cloudflare (NET) showing some weakness, many positions holding steady, and Novonix (NVNXF) up in...
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The big news this week is the emergence of a new coronavirus strain in Africa. The news prompted a steep selloff last Friday and then again yesterday. This throws a wrench in the works.
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Everything was going so well. And then things turned sour on a dime. The party pooper virus is up to its old tricks again.
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The bull market is back. But there seems to be a disconnect between recent stock performance and the headlines. What’s going on? The short answer is that the good news is outrunning the gathering problems, for now.
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The economy is booming, and earnings are terrific because the slack from the pandemic is being picked up. Business is making up for lost time. But once that slack is gone, economic and earnings growth will return to normal, whatever that is these ...
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The right 401k allocation is going to be a matter of age and risk tolerance as well as the composition of your other retirement assets.
According to the Investment Company Institute, the average 401k plan offers 13 mutual funds, with more than half of assets...
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There is one topic that brings together Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley – the metaverse. While "metaverse" definitions are varied, the idea of bringing people together in a virtual interactive world is, as they used to say, the talk of the town.
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The bull market is back. But there seems to be a disconnect between recent stock performance and the headlines. What’s going on?
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What inflation? What supply-chain issues? Headlines be damned. This market is on the cusp of yet another new all-time high.
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Inflation stays high, Infrastructure week arrives, Rivian stock surges while markets sell off a bit yesterday. The weakness yesterday halted some good rallies among Explorer stocks.
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Times are good. After a rough September, the market soared 8% higher to a new all-time high. Earnings have been spectacular, and the bull market is back, although the market has pulled back in the last couple days.
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A new and powerful issue has arisen in the wake of this pandemic recovery. It’s called inflation. It hasn’t been a real problem in ages. But it used to be a huge problem.
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Today’s recommendation comes from Carl Delfeld’s Cabot Explorer and this week has found one that we will all understand because it’s part of the solution to one of the year’s greatest economic challenges.
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More than 75% of the S&P pays a dividend these days. Here are the 10 highest-paying dividend stocks in the S&P 500.
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The market was steady this past week as the Federal Reserve completed its two-day meeting and announced plans to end its stimulus program but keep rates unchanged. Some highlights among Explorer stocks:
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September was lousy. October was glorious. What can we expect in November and beyond?
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It was a glorious October. The S&P 500 was up about 7% for the month, more than making up for September’s 4.8% decline. Now what?
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During any market drop, you might ask, "Should I sell my stocks?" Here are a few guidelines on when to sell stocks and when to hold them.
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We’ve come through the seasonally treacherous September-October period with only minimal losses, and odds are now good that the bull market will run right through the end of the year.
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There are many ways to get investment ideas, but more than one successful investor has told me it all begins for them with reading the humble front page of a national newspaper.
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