The flavor of the market hasn’t changed in the last week, in my view. There is still a sense that many high growth stocks have run too far. I think the lesser-informed general public hears about the recent slide in the mega-caps (AAPL, MSFT,...
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The trend favoring highly scalable, high growth U.S. technology stocks is unlikely to change in the near future but diversifying into different countries and sectors is a good idea as we move into the fourth quarter.
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The market has served up a good deal of volatility lately and for the most part our stocks have handled it well (so far).
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With the exception of another nice gain by NovoCure (NVCR), this was a quiet week for the Cabot Global Stocks Explorer portfolio as the Nasdaq continues its march, up almost 35% so far in 2020.
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There isn’t any major news for any of our stocks.
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As far as the last week goes our stocks are up an average of 3%.
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With most of our companies having now reported we are turning our attention back to the longer-term future. For the most part, earnings from our companies were good and we’ve only made a few incremental ratings changes here and there.
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All eyes are on Washington this week as markets, which have risen over the last four trading sessions, are counting on lawmakers hammering out another stimulus bill. Our emerging markets market timer remains positive.
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Our portfolio has been largely treading water for a few weeks. That’s not surprising given that we’ve been waiting for earnings season to start (it finally has!) and that there’s this persistent sense that bad news for the economy resulting from the coronavirus more...
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After last week’s selloff in tech, this week has been relatively calm, though the action at mid-day today suggests we could see more selling before the closing bell.
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Our Emerging Markets Timer as found support in recent weeks, but that hasn’t been enough to produce a new buy signal.
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The standout action this week has been in tech stocks, and it hasn’t been good. With the Nasdaq starting off the week with a big drop and large-/mega-cap leaders like Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Netflix (NFLX) moving materially lower as the week progressed it has felt disheartening...
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The big-picture story out there continues to be the battle between bad news (rising infections, high unemployment, too many crumbling businesses) and good news (progress toward vaccines, therapeutics, etc.; accommodative policies from the Fed; improving fundamentals for some businesses arising from the pandemic). there’s...
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Our Emerging Markets Timer as found support in recent weeks, but that hasn’t been enough to produce a new buy signal.
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The big news affecting the market this week is the upward trend in coronavirus cases in some states and the resulting concern that an economic rebound will be curbed sooner than hoped.
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Our Emerging Markets Timer as found support in recent weeks, but that hasn’t been enough to produce a new buy signal.
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The market continues to recover from last week’s short but intense decline. In our portfolio there’s been a dearth of news flow. That’s fine with me. I think we could all use a little less stimulation and step back from our computers and devices...
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We’re finally starting to see signs that investors are realizing that risk actually does exist in the market (I think).
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Our Emerging Markets Timer as found support in recent weeks, but that hasn’t been enough to produce a new buy signal.
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In the market, there seems to be some rotation going on. Or at least that was my sense of things over the first two and a half trading days of the week.
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