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Monthly Archives: June 2009

When Investing, Never try to Catch a Falling Knife

June 23, 2009
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When Investing, Never try to Catch a Falling Knife

The steep market correction of the past week or so has dropped lots of stocks back to their 25-day moving averages and more than a few back to their 50-day moving averages and below.  So, since Cabot’s market timing indicators are still positive, this must be a great chance to pick up some real bargains on some great stocks, right? Well, not so fast. It’s one thing to buy an individual stock that has just undergone an orderly pullback on reasonable volume.  But it’s another thing entirely to buy into a significant market correction that has yet to put...

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Reader Comments on the Newspaper Industry

June 22, 2009
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Reader Comments on the Newspaper Industry

I received some more great comments from readers over the weekend that I wanted to share with you here. Thanks to everyone for writing in and enjoy! — The newspaper industry is in trouble for myriad reasons. It is not clear to me that daily newspapers will survive in large or mid-sized markets with a few exceptions. It is clear to me that the demand for accurate information will continue, but a new profit-model will have to emerge. The largest problem facing newspapers right now are in what I think is the proper order: ** Collapsing ad revenues, especially...

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Readers’ Views on the Newspaper Industry

June 20, 2009
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Readers’ Views on the Newspaper Industry

Last week I wrote about the tumult in the newspaper industry, specifically the battle that’s been raging between the Boston Globe’s Newspaper Guild union and the New York Times company’s management. Many of you wrote to me with insightful comments, a sampling of which appears below. Add your comments here. Thanks to everyone for writing in! — As a 20-plus year subscriber to the Cabot Market Letter and a former reporter, editor and owner of small daily newspapers, I feel compelled to offer a much different view of the present state of the newspaper industry. The newspaper unions, including...

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How to Profit from Green Lifestyle Trends

June 19, 2009
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How to Profit from Green Lifestyle Trends

In 2000, Time magazine ran a memorable cover story about golden rice, a rice strain genetically modified to contain beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency is a scourge in the developing world. The lack of it can lead to blindness in pregnant women, miscarriages and leads to as many as 500,000 children becoming blind each year. Golden rice could solve all that. In fact it’s one of the great arguments in favor of food from a genetically modified organism (GMO)–that altered rice like this will solve a lot of the developing world’s nutritional problems. So how...

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Cabot Editor on CNBC

June 18, 2009
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Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report Editor Paul Goodwin is CNBC speaking about the enormous opportunities in those areas right now: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1157140862&play=1. Hulbert Financial Digest ranked his investment advisory as #1 for the last five years, with a return of 22.2% versus a -1.3% return for the Dow Wilshire 5000 over the last five years.

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