Other than price changes not much has happened with our stocks since I wrote last week. With our offices closed tomorrow and Friday we’ll all be taking a short break before gearing up for the last month of the year.
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This is probably going to be an unusual Thanksgiving for many of you as we head into the last month of a turbulent year. While the overall market is up only a bit over 10%, there have been pockets that have delivered much, higher...
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After an insane couple of weeks this one has felt relatively calm. There is still plenty of market-moving news around the election, vaccines, the pandemic’s frightening trajectory, etc. but I think we’ve all become somewhat accustomed enough to alarming headlines – within a range...
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The market is working its way through significant developments on many fronts – U.S. presidential race, raging pandemic, positive vaccine developments – and information overload is causing some intense action in individual stocks.
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Election results seem clear and will have a mixed impact on investor appetites.
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A day like yesterday can make investors feel like there’s little reason to hang around in this market.
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Markets are choppy, which is normal considering uncertainty is high and we’re less than a week from the presidential election. Today I look at what history can teach us about politics and markets and why it might be a bit different this time.
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Anyway, the market doesn’t seem to be fazed by all the incredible things going on in the world these days. Stepping back, that makes some sense.
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I don’t anticipate any major changes in our portfolio leading into earnings as I’d prefer to hear what’s new and then go from there. That said, we have a couple of minor adjustments based on stock price action.
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The Explorer portfolio held steady this week, though Cloudflare (NET) broke out with a 42% gain and our newest recommendation, Vipshop (VIPS), was up 12%. A few other stocks moved nicely higher.
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The consensus opinion right now is that the market is strong because it’s looking favorably on the prospects of a clear-cut winner in the upcoming presidential election and that the likelihood of another round of stimulus is going up.
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We enter the fourth quarter of 2020 today with a long-term game plan, not a 2-minute drill. The Explorer portfolio had a good week, with all positions advancing, though some more than others.
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It’s been another week of mixed stock performance and assorted headlines that collectively give me the sense that, while a lot of investors may be shifting money around, there’s no real consensus yet on what will work and what won’t in the near-term.
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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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