Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The S&P 500 soared 46% from the March bottom in about 11 weeks, the fastest such rise in history. It couldn’t keep that up forever and it was bound to falter eventually.
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The Pros and Cons of DRIP Plans
Dividend reinvestment is one of income investors' most powerful weapons, and DRIP plans are the best way to do it. But DRIPs do have their drawbacks.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
While there are growing signs of risk, the market is, as always, difficult to predict in the near term. If it does selloff, that’s okay. Stocks in this portfolio are well positioned to endure further hardship and thrive beyond this crisis. Another down in...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
It’s been another crazy week in pandemic-land. After an interruption last week, the market seems to have resumed its ascent.
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Daily Alert – 6/16/20
Our first idea today is a tobacco company that has an 8.55% dividend yield, paid monthly.
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Cabot Dividend Investor 620
A Cheap Price and a Safe, High-Yield
These are humbling times for market prognosticators. Who saw the coronavirus coming? Who saw the market surging 47% from the lows in late March?
The last several months have beautifully exemplified why no one can predict the market the...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The S&P 500 is now up over 40% from the bottom in March and less than 10% from the all time high. Forget about a bear market. It’s not even a correction any more.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The stock market rally is now more than two months old. The S&P 500 has rallied 35% since March 23 and is now just about 10% below the all-time high.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
We are in the midst of a rally that has continued for about two months. This market seems to want to go higher. While the rally has slowed significantly from the initial bounce off the lows in March, the overall market is still an...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The S&P 500 has now regained more than half of what it lost in the bear market selloff. We are still in the midst of a six-week rally, although it has leveled off in the past few weeks. What can you expect going forward?
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
After falling 34% in record time, the S&P 500 has recouped more than half of the losses. As of this writing, the market is down just 15% from the February highs. The S&P 500 is now back to the same level it was this...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
There is good news out there. The country is starting to reopen the economy. Sure, there is a political debate, and certain hot spots aren’t ready to reopen yet. But the urgent push to restart this economy is undeniable.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is forward looking. It senses an end to this pandemic crisis and a reopening of the economy sooner rather than later. That’s good news. And I agree. The end-of-the-world pessimism that caused the market crash is being tempered. It’s a very thing...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
After falling over 30% in record time, the market has had a nice rebound. In less than a week the market jumped 15% from the lows. It has since stabilized somewhat with less volatility. While the worst may be over, I don’t think out...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market doesn’t know how long this will last. And that’s why it hasn’t been able to find a bottom. But there has been some very encouraging news in the past week.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Fear of the spread of a new virus has devolved into an economic disaster, at least in the short term.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
This has been about as ugly a couple of weeks in the market as you will ever see. On a closing basis, the market hit a low on February 28 and was down 12.5% from the February 19 highs. By total points lost, was...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Since January, this market had been merrily whistling along through the coronavirus risk. It was enough to cause a selloff for a day or two but not enough to derail the bull move to new highs that had been in place since early This...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
It is likely that a pullback in the market, as measured by the indexes, is increasingly likely in the near term. But that would be healthy and welcome. And it would set up things better for the rest of the year.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
But the market is rising back faster than it fell. The solid economy and low interest rates are continuing to drive stocks higher, for now.
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