A Normal Breather
As the market pushed sharply higher following its early-October low (10% or so in the S&P 500, 12%-plus in the Nasdaq), rising seven out of eight weeks, the worries of the world (trade wars, slowing economic growth, even impeachment) were slowly As...
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Mostly Sunny, Chance of Passing Showers
Seven weeks ago, the market was getting hit and growth stocks were looking awful. We were definitely cautious, but on this page we also wrote the following:
“We don’t want to sound too negative. It’s still a bull market, we...
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Market: Great. Growth Stocks: Just OK
Ever since the indexes turned on a dime at the beginning of this year, we’ve been leaning bullish on the general market, and in recent months, even as things have chopped around and there’s been an avalanche of we’ve...
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The Cabot Global Stocks Explorer portfolio is doing well in 2019 and a number of recommendations have recently surged on the strength of impressive earnings and an improving environment for emerging and international stocks.
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Our emerging markets timer strengthened this week as the EEM climbed over 44 today, just short of its high for the year.
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Less Remains More
Way back in the day the late, great Joe Granville once said that “the market is the train, and I’m the caboose,” which is a good summation of our general philosophy over the years. At heart, we’re trend followers, getting heavily when...
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The Financial Times this week reported that Beijing is preparing plans to remove Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, whose term is not up until 2022, as anti-government protests in the city intensified.
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Patience Precedes Profits
We regularly write about practicing patience with your winning stocks, and that will always be a key factor in making big money—unless you’re a savant, you’ll find that many of your trades will offset over time (small losses, break-evens, small wins, with...
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Today marks the first face-to-face talks between senior officials from America and China since July.
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Our portfolio advanced this week led by India’s ICICI (IBN), which was up 19% on the back of a tax cut and prospects for higher growth.
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It was a pretty quiet week with most of our stocks up in the 3% -5% range. There are no changes to the portfolio.
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Hopefully, we can all gain from the growing realization that while America and China will be fierce rivals for some time—they can also benefit from playing some ball with each other.
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U.S. stocks are plummeting after China devalued its yuan to 7 against the dollar for the first time in more than a decade. Here's what it all means.
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Emerging and international markets are holding their own as U.S. markets hit new highs in the wake of modest interest rate cuts by the Fed.
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Our emerging markets (EEM) signal continues to be positive and right on top of its 20-day moving average as China and other emerging markets are bumping along and lacking a decisive uptrend.
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The G-20 meetings in Japan yielded only incremental progress. This was grudgingly accepted as a positive by markets with most emerging market stocks getting a boost as we headed into a slow and short week.
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Emerging markets got a boost this week as it appears that there will be a high level meeting between the U.S. and China at the upcoming G-20 meeting.
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Emerging markets (EEM) and Chinese stocks in particular continue to struggle a bit this week. The EEM is trading right at its 200-day moving average and below its 50-day moving average so the portfolio remains in a defensive stance.
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Not all Dow Jones stocks are appealing right now. But these 3 have the best combination of low valuations, growth potential, and compelling dividend yields.
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Emerging and global markets struggled this week as our Emerging Market Timer remained negative, with the EEM clearly trading below its 20-day and 50-day moving averages.
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