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We’re watching market sentiment gyrate sharply between “the economic reopening will boost earnings” and “the economic reopening will boost inflation”. Both outcomes are likely.
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We’re watching market sentiment gyrate sharply between “the economic reopening will boost earnings” and “the economic reopening will boost inflation”. Both outcomes are likely.
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With the now-infamous Reddit trades unraveling, and the rebalancing done, the market is free to rebound.
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Sometimes the most appealing stocks are those that superficially seem to go against trends (leading to investors avoiding them) yet have either fundamental traits that sidestep these trends or have overly discounted valuations.
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Stocks have surged this past month, with the S&P 500 returning 11% in November. Other major indices, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite, produced similarly strong returns. These kinds of returns would make a good year in most investors’ eyes.
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At Least One Uncertainty Cloud Should be Evaporating
There remains a lot going on. The pandemic, domestic and international economies struggling, zero/negative interest rates, and an unusually high number of other clouds still obscure the investing horizon. But, with election season rapidly approaching its one...
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We’re in Limbo-Land … Now What?
There seems to be so much going on, and yet investors are stuck in the middle with no direction.
We’ve passed the worst (hopefully) of the pandemic, yet there isn’t a clear-cut solution in sight. The domestic economy continues grow...
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Don’t Fight the Fed?
The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, called by its colloquial name “the Fed” even on its website, made its informal but landmark policy change official last week. For the foreseeable future, the Fed will keep interest rates near zero, focusing almost on...
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A Few Thoughts on Rising Market Speculation
The stock market continues to favor high-tech “digital economy” growth companies, particularly after the remarkably strong earnings reports from Apple, Amazon and others. The performance spread between “digital economy” stocks and “physical economy” stocks suggest that speculative is...
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How to Learn More about the Companies You Own
As the new Chief Analyst for the Undervalued Stock Advisor, I’d like to thank you for reading this month’s letter. I know you have many sources of investment ideas and advice, and I appreciate your in...
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How to Monitor Future Trouble in the Housing Market
U.S. stock markets continue to rise, carrying the majority of our portfolio stocks upward. There’s price resistance on the S&P 500 index at about 3,200, so that’s where I will anticipate an end to the run-up...
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Caution: Rough Seas Ahead
As the stock market recovers from the steep downturn in March, I’d like to stress that this downturn bears no resemblance to any previous stock market downturn. It wasn’t created by corporate excesses or a housing bubble or any specific problem...
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The Other Side of the Mountain
It appears as if U.S. stock markets have begun rebounding from the drastic March downturn. As you would expect, stocks that are less affected by global quarantine behaviors are recovering far more swiftly than those that cater to of...
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Expect Continued Volatility
I’ll continue to write Bulletins more often, so that investors can navigate through this stock market correction and take advantage of trading opportunities. I might frequently mention stocks that don’t appear in these portfolios. There are lots of excellent growth to...
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The Stock Market Will Have A Lingering Cough After The Coronavirus Outbreak
When we all learned of the coronavirus outbreak in China, my first concern was, “Is this a normal flu or pneumonia germ, or is this a plague?”
I’m one of those “worst-case scenario” who...
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Investing in Undervalued Stocks is the Process of Buying Stocks Lower Than They Should be and Riding Them Up to Profits
Warren Buffett once said, “I make no attempt to forecast the market—my efforts are devoted to finding undervalued securities.” As the pre-eminent investor our...
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Get Ready to Rumble!
We are almost past a very quiet time period on Wall Street that featured a lack of major company news, M&A activity and earnings reports. As such, this will likely be the last recent issue where I had to scour internet...
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December: Time for a Portfolio Shake-Up
Here we are in December, an interesting time in the stock market, as excessive price movements culminate, often reversing course in January. On the bullish side, you may have owned stocks that rose an abnormal amount, all year We...
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A CORNUCOPIA OF TRADING & INVESTING IDEAS
Two stocks are leaving the Buy Low Opportunities Portfolio today as they near their price targets: Alaska Air Group (ALK) and Synchrony Financial (SYF). While researching stocks that might join our portfolios, I came across half a It...
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Throwing Darts at the Ticker Tape and Other Investment Strategies
October is a significant time for me, because that’s when I begin embracing companies that didn’t previously have strong enough numbers to join these portfolios, but now have excellent prognoses for the coming year. (This only...
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A New Format for Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor
Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor is taking on a new format. I enjoyed writing about the pertinent news on affected companies in recent weeks, without updating minor news and numbers for the rest of the portfolio companies. going...
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