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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Life insurance stocks aren't glamorous. But they've been steady, reliable risers these last three months, and remain undervalued. These five stand out.
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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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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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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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More on the Baby Boomer Housing Forecast
In the June 18 update of Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor, I wrote about a very serious change in the housing market that could take place over the next decade, as Baby Boomers sell their big homes and to...
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Assessing the Retail Stock Landscape
After rising 25.3% from Christmas Eve 2018 through April 30, 2019, the S&P 500 stock index fell 6.6% in May. A pullback was clearly overdue, and there was plenty of fuel to keep investors on the edge of their Many...
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Property & Casualty Insurance Stocks Are On My Radar
Today I’m taking the opportunity to remove two stocks from the portfolios, in the quest to (a) pare back the number of stocks in the portfolios and (b) add new stocks to the portfolios. Clearly, two...
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A Rising Stock Market Brings Opportunites Today
U.S. stock market indexes have emerged from recent trading ranges and embarked on renewed uptrends as they seek to retrace all-time highs that were established in August through October 2018. Your stock portfolios will likely achieve additional appreciation...
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The Calm Before the Next Market Run-Up
I suppose it makes sense that a calendar quarter that was characterized by two big stock market downdrafts could be followed by a calendar quarter that delivers two stock market run-ups. And while I anticipated and frequently about...
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