Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
After pulling back over 8% from the high, the market is having trouble finding any traction. And the selling may not be over.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The raging bull market took a breather. The S&P 500 actually pulled back 7% from the high at the peak of the recent Labor Day selloff. But that seems to be over. The market has since regained some traction and appears to be an...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 920
A High Growth/Low Volatility Stock for an Uncertain Market
Here we are. The cold Labor Day slap in the face has arrived.
For several weeks I have warned that investors could change their attitudes when the rubber hit the road after Labor Day. As people off...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Labor Day marks the start of a new year of sorts and a rebirth of seriousness in the collective psyche. The other side of Labor Day is a new ballgame, when investors shake off the apathy of summer and refocus with intensity.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
These are the dog days of summer. It’s a rare time of year when a certain degree of slackery is not only tolerated, but expected. People tend to focus on enjoying the waning days of summer. More serious issues and considerations get postponed after...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
After a brief decline in early June, the market has resumed the uptrend that began on March 24th. It has been a spectacular 55% rally in less than five months.
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Cabot Dividend Investor 820
You Can Bank on an Aging Population
What a spectacular market. The pandemic and economic crash was apparently just a temporary diversion for the stock market. The indexes are right back to nosebleed territory.
The S&P 500 is now within bad breath distance of the record...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The horrible second quarter is behind us and a rapidly recovering economy with a very accommodative Fed lies ahead. There are a lot of reasons for the rally and unless investors get scared straight the rally seems destined to continue.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
So far, earnings season hasn’t had that much of an impact on the overall market. I don’t think investors know quite what to make of this quarter. It’s bad. But everyone knows that going in.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Every week there’s bad new and good news. This week there is bad news about tensions with the Chinese and good news regarding a European Union stimulus and energy demand. Every week there’s bad news and good news about the virus. The spread the...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is also having a stronger reaction to good news than to bad news. The indexes soared yesterday on news of potential Fed asset purchases, like quantitative easing, to support the economy and the market. Today the market is loving news of trial...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 720
The Pandemic Creates a High-Yielding Superstar
It’s time to look beyond the market disruptions and personal nuisances caused by this pandemic. It will go away sooner or later, and headlines will obsess with something else. But the ordeal of the lockdown and virus may to...
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How to Reinvest Dividends: 3 Pros, 3 Cons
Any income investor should know how to reinvest dividends. Whether you should depends on what you're looking for as an income investor.
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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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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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Investing in Dividend Stocks for Retirement
If you're behind on retirement planning, now is the time to start investing in dividend stocks.
The history of retirement begins long before investing in dividend stocks was part of most plans. Actually, long before modern humans dominated the earth, even.
Some 50,000 years ago, the...
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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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