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Wall Street’s Best Investments 836

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 836 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Future issues of Wall Street's Best Investments will be published on FinancialFreedomFederation.com In this season of good cheer, we have a lot to be thankful for: 1) It looks like we can finally put this election to rest (thank goodness!); 2) the first coronavirus vaccine being...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 835

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 835 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

October was a surprisingly good month for the markets, until the very end, when investors took a rest. But since the election, they’ve come in off the sidelines and the markets are now close to all-time highs. Investors love the idea of a Congress. As...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 834

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 834 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Market volatility has eased a bit this past month, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining almost 1,000 points. The service industry, according to ISM, improved, and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.9% for September. As you’ll see in our Advisor Sentiment Barometer and Views,...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 833

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 833 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

The markets have been a bit choppy of late, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising to 29,000 at the beginning of the month, then retreating and rising again. It looks like Fall may be a little volatile. As you’ll see in our Advisor Barometer...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 832

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 832 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for our virtual Cabot Summit. We really missed seeing you in person, but were so happy that we could at least share some of our investing ideas and strategies during this strange time in we...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 831

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 831 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

The markets are certainly keeping us on our toes! I really didn’t know what to expect when I began calculating the returns for this Mid-Year Top Picks issue. We’ve had so much volatility; a big disruption in March, as coronavirus took hold; and sectors...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 830

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 830 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Markets rebounded this past month, albeit with plenty of volatility. But the net result was a 1,500+ gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Markets. Unemployment, of course, is still pressuring the economy, with some 29.5 million Americans without jobs. However, the housing market perked with...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 829

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 829 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

While we are definitely not out of the woods yet—with the economy and the markets—we are making progress. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has had a nice bounce back, albeit, with some volatility. We can expect that to continue, probably through year-end. As can...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 828

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 828 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Finally, the coronavirus news is improving, and so is the market. We’re now up about 12% on the Dow since our issue last month. Our Adviser Sentiment Barometer is mixed; still mostly bearish, but our contributors—as well as our analysts here at Cabot feel...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 827

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 827 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Going Defensive In light of today’s negative reaction to the Federal Reserve’s so-called “Emergency” rate cut to 0% on Sunday (in reality, a panic move), we are advising additional defensive adjustments to our Model Fund Portfolio, reducing allocations to Energy and Consumer Discretionary ETFs increasing...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 826

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 826 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Bullish, but be Discerning It’s been another solid week for the market, with the major indexes kiting higher and, while individual stocks were a bit more mixed and news-driven, most are acting just fine. Overall, not much has really changed from a week ago—the vast of...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 825

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 825 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Congratulations to the Top Picks of 2019! Our contributors did a stellar job for you last year. As you can see from the table below, our Top 5 Picks averaged 131% gains! And the rest were pretty good, too. Last year, the markets recovered all they...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 824

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 824 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Market Views Growth still the Sweet Spot Our U.S. equity timing model remains on its November 1 buy signal. Small-cap growth remains stronger than small-cap value. There are no other consistent style preferences in relative strength. 10-year Treasury note yields have settled into the 1.80%-1.90% Our...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 823

From the Wall Street's Best Investments 823 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Nancy Zambell|Stock Market

Market Views Still bullish The broad stock market continues to plow ahead, as $SPX has made new closing or intraday all-time highs on 10 of the last 14 days, including the last two. Thus, momentum is strong and the $SPX chart remains bullish. The $SPX $VIX...
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 822

From the Wall Street's Best Investments 822 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Linda Vassily|Stock Market

Market Views Quiet for Now Stocks finished a relatively quiet session lower today, after trading on both sides of breakeven amid waning optimism over Friday's partial trade deal between Beijing and Washington. Reports emerged that China wishes to continue trade talks before finalizing the "phase deal,...
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Daily Alert – 9/20/19

September 20, 2019|From Wall Street’s Best Investments|by John Buckingham|Wall Street's Best Investments

The shares of this transportation company were recently upgraded by KeyBank to ‘Overweight’.
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 821

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 821 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by sueh|Stock Market

Market Views Shifting to Value We have a lot of market analysts who are at a loss to understand the rotation(s) that have enabled stocks to work higher (and challenge highs) even at the risk of crying alarms. The hedgers and many technicians do so, the...
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 324

From the Wall Street's Best Dividend Stocks 324 issue of Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks|by sueh|Dividend Stocks

Market Views One Stock at a Time The major indexes are tilted to the upside to start the week. However, under the surface, we’re continuing to see increasing selling pressure on most growth stocks, including a bunch of names from leading areas like software and While...
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Daily Alert – 8/21/19

August 21, 2019|From Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks|by John Buckingham|Wall Street's Best Dividend Stocks

Now trading at a discounted price, this engineering giant has an annual dividend yield of 4.61%, paid annually.
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Wall Street’s Best Investments 820

From the Wall Street’s Best Investments 820 issue of Wall Street’s Best Investments|by sueh|Stock Market

Market Views No Longer Overbought Technically, the S&P 500 has corrected most of an overbought condition with a 2.73% decline from its July 16 high. News-related volatility will likely continue as the market enters its least favorable season. But, sentiment gauges have begun to improve a..
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