Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big news that affected the market this week was, of course, the dreaded yield curve inversion. This happens when the 10-year Treasury yield goes below the 2-year yield.
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Cabot Top Ten Trader Movers & Shakers Weekly Update
It’s been a mostly sour week, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq down 1.5% to 2% even after this morning's gap up, and small-cap indexes down a bit more than that. Most indexes are testing their lows from last Monday, and the intermediate-term continues...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1426
Play Some Defense
Usually, when the market is doing well, stocks aren’t affected much by the news of the day. That’s not to say individual stocks don’t get pushed around, but for the market as a whole, worrisome headline news usually goes the way water...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
U.S. stock markets have exhibited a high degree of volatility in recent weeks. There are lots of factors contributing to the turmoil, which will ebb and flow, probably for the rest of our lives. So let’s just circle back to why we’re here: here...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market has been up, down and all over the place lately. So have our stocks. Oddly enough, from last Thursday’s close through yesterday’s close our portfolio is relatively unchanged—down just 2% using a simple average of each stock’s weekly return.
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Cabot Top Ten Trader Movers & Shakers Weekly Update
It’s been a very interesting week and a half to say the least, with an over-the-cliff decline in the market that took the S&P down more than 6% (and the Nasdaq down more than 7%) in just four days, decisively cracking the intermediate-term as...
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Cabot Global Stocks Explorer 691
Emerging markets (EEM) moved more solidly into bullish territory this week moving ahead of both its 20-day and 50-day moving averages.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor 819
Trade War Turmoil Trumps a Good Earnings Season
U.S. stock markets took quite a tumble in the last few business days. For those of you wondering, “Should I buy low?”, the answer to that question is usually “yes, but let’s first wait for the to...
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Cabot Small Cap Confidential 243
THE BIG IDEA
Back in the late 1800s if you called a company for information you were routed through a telephone exchange and were able to speak with a person that could help.
The last switchboard operator for a hand-crank phone, Susan Glines, walked away her...
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Cabot Top Ten Trader Movers & Shakers Weekly Update
We’ve been writing (and recording in our weekly videos) for the past couple of weeks that, while the longer-term underpinnings of the market look fine, the shorter term was more iffy, with many leaders stalling out and the indexes themselves losing some steam.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1425
Passing T-Storms—or Something More?
On this page of the last issue, we wrote “we think the near-term is a toss-up, at least when it comes to individual growth stocks— earnings season is always tricky, and let’s face it, many leaders have had great runs the...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 719
The Dog Days of Summer
We are in the dog days of summer, the hottest, most sultry days of the year. The expression “dog days” is an old one. In fact, it’s really old. The Romans used it.
It’s one of those expressions that everyone but...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
The Federal Reserve is expected to lower interest rates this week, with a likely announcement on July 31. The stock market has fully priced in a rate reduction, which means if the Fed fails to lower rates, investors can expect the market to for...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Our portfolio is outperforming the index by roughly 100%, on average. But we’re not the only ones. Many targeted mutual funds are also demolishing the Russell 2000 Small Cap Index.
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Cabot Top Ten Trader Movers & Shakers Weekly Update
After last week’s Friday update, the market had a pretty ugly close, but the major indexes have had a decent week to this point, with all posting gains in the 1% range (give or take) as of Friday morning.
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Cabot Global Stocks Explorer 690
Emerging markets (EEM) moved more solidly into bullish territory this week moving ahead of both its 20-day and 50-day moving averages.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Last week’s economic reports delivered good news, presuming that you are rooting for a stable or strong U.S. economy. June retail sales rose 0.4% vs. May, when economists expected an 0.2% increase; and retail sales also rose 3.4% vs. a year ago.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
This week marks the beginning of the second-quarter earnings season. I don't foresee any major changes in the trends in any of our companies, but stock price reactions and trends don't always line up in the short term.
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Cabot Top Ten Trader Movers & Shakers Weekly Update
It's been a relatively quiet week for the major indexes, which is fine by us given the prior five-week run-up. As we write this morning, the Nasdaq is about flat on the week on below-average volume, while the S&P 500 is off a touch.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1424
Mostly Sunny—with Possible T-Storms Along the Way
Ever since January 9, when the 2-to-1 Blastoff Indicator gave a rare buy signal just two weeks after the market’s major bottom, our greatest conviction has been that the overall market had likely entered a new bull that...
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