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Paul Goodwin Writes His Year-End Thoughts

In this week’s Stock Market Video, I point out that we’re in a nice market rally, and that you should be getting more heavily invested. This isn’t a full-fledged bull market, at least not yet. But...

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Chloe Lutts Lists Best Dividend Stock Picks of 2012

With Christmas just a day away, it looks like all systems go for the market into the new year. The next couple holiday weeks will probably be quiet, and we may see a pause in the rally as the market...

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Tim Lutts Shares the Second Stock to Hold Forever

How would you like to own this car? 1947 ROVIN D2 Or this one? 1959 SCOOTACAR MK 1 You can, if you attend the auction at Bruce Weiner’s Microcar Museum in February—and you bid high enough! Who’s Bruce...

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Roy Ward Recommends Two Value Stocks

I hope my missive today finds you healthy and safe. Let’s talk about making money. One of the best ways to make money is to ensure that you don’t lose money, or at the least, you don’t lose your shirt....

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Paul Goodwin Interviews Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Editor

For this week’s Stock Market Video, the last one of the year, I decided to do something a little different and look back at all that has happened in 2012. This is not our regular Cabot weekly review...

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Rick Lehman Explains Call Options Writing

First and foremost, all of us at Cabot wish you and yours a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! The Fed’s efforts to keep interest rates at all-time lows for an indefinite time period have resulted...

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Royden Ward Recommends Five Great Value Stocks

The stock market produced reasonably good results in 2012, despite the slower global economy and myriad other problems throughout the world. During 2012, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 7%, the...

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Tim Lutts Names the Third Stock to Hold Forever

New Year’s Resolutions Every year of the past decade, I’ve made three New Year’s Resolutions. Most commonly, they involve my health and this business. And every year, I’ve kept track of whether I’ve...

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Paul Goodwin Explains How to Know When the Bull Takes Charge

Stock Market Video The Great Sports Illustrated Jinx In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the market’s bullish upmove this week, reviews a ton of stocks (both growth names and cyclical names...

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Is Now a Good Time for Small-Cap Stocks?

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of interviews with Thomas Garrity, Analyst and Editor of the limited-subscription newsletter, Cabot Small-Cap Confidential. Click here to read part one. A...

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Five Best Stocks of 2012

One way growth investors enjoy torturing themselves is to look at the outsized gains made by stocks that they didn’t own. This is a nice way to celebrate the New Year, and prevents us from developing...

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Chloe Lutts Recommends 3 Momentum Stocks for 2013

2013 is off to a good start, market-wise. The major indexes have all held the big gains they made on December 31 and January 2 (the latter has been dubbed the Fiscal Cliff relief rally). In most cases,...

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Paul Goodwin Explains Why Everyone Should Invest in Stocks

In this week’s Stock Market Video I speak admiringly of the market’s recent progress and the strength it’s giving to many growth stocks. Corrections look like buying opportunities at this point. But be...

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Tim Lutts Discusses The Miracle of Compound Growth

In recent weeks, I’ve been writing a series called “Ten Stocks to Hold Forever.” You’ll find the fourth stock of the series discussed below, and background information on Ten Stocks to Hold Forever...

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Roy Ward Discusses the Warren Buffett Formula

Who is Warren Buffett? Warren Buffett is my hero. In my mind, he is the best investor ever. If you had invested in one share of his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) 25 years ago when it sold for a mere...

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Mike Cintolo Discusses Apple and Cyclical Leaders

Something made me think of the stock market this past weekend that I think you’ll find interesting. I’m a huge NFL fan (go Pats!) and so was naturally watching some of the mindless pregame shows on...

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Understanding the Stock Market

In this week’s video, Cabot Market Letter editor Mike Cintolo chats about the super strength seen in the broad market. Just to keep some perspective, he does point out a couple of yellow flags, but he...

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Tim Lutts Discusses Apple (AAPL)

About a week ago, I was talking to a friend who works at the local Apple store. It’s a part-time job for him (he has a full-time job, too), and he loves it; he’s been an Apple enthusiast for decades....

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Robin Carpenter Discusses Portfolio Optimization

Portfolio optimization theory was introduced by Harry Markowitz in the 1960s. Markowitz posited that the ideal combination of financial assets would minimize risk for any level of expected return, and...

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Roy Ward Recommends 2 Dividend Aristocrats for 2013

Look at Dividends First and Foremost The best indication that a company is prospering is its history of dividend payments. Certainly, sales provide more than a hint of how a company is doing, but sales...

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