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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Cabot Weekly Review: The Market’s Correction

February 6, 2010
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Today I have Cabot Market Letter and Cabot Top Ten Report Editor Michael Cintolo’s Cabot Weekly Review video. We’ve gotten a huge positive response from you and we appreciate all of your feedback! Here’s this week’s video, featuring a discussion of the poor price and volume action of the market this week, including the performance of important financial stocks. Mike also demonstrates how to uncover leading stocks in this correction. Stocks discussed include Ford (F), Priceline (PCLN) and Baidu (BIDU). You can watch the video here.

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How to Handle the Stock Market’s Correction

February 5, 2010
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How to Handle the Stock Market’s Correction

The biggest thing in the investment universe the past couple of weeks is that the U.S. markets (and most of the world markets) have fallen into a correction.  And I know the common question right now is:  What should I do?  Obviously, I can’t give personalized advice when writing this to so many of you, and I also can’t go through dozens of stocks (that’s what our publications are for). What I can do is answer some of the most common questions I’ve been getting from subscribers in recent days.  So let’s get to it. Question: I own XYZ...

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What’s the Big Deal with Net Neutrality?

February 4, 2010
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What’s the Big Deal with Net Neutrality?

Today’s column is about free speech; it’s also about money, markets, technology, politics, and more.  The key phrase is “Network Neutrality.” At the heart of the matter is the question of whether all entities should have equal access to the Internet or whether entities that pay more should get premium access. If you answer the former, you align yourself with groups like Moveon.org, AARP, American Library Association, Gun Owners of America, the Christian Coalition, Vinton Cerf (“father of the Internet”) and Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web).  Also on this side are major content providers like...

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The Next Big Thing

February 3, 2010
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The Next Big Thing

Back in 1965, Gordon Moore (then working at Fairchild Semiconductor, but soon to help found Intel) published an article called “Cramming More Components Into Integrated Circuits” in Electronics magazine. Moore predicted that the number of transistors on computer chips would double about every 18 months.  Although he later amended the time scale for what would become known as Moore’s Law to every two years, it has remained The Law for 45 years. To put it in concrete terms, when Moore published his paper, the most advanced chips contained about 60 devices, while Intel’s hottest new chip, the Itanium, boasts...

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Patriotism and Investing

February 2, 2010
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Patriotism and Investing

Like most citizens of the United States, I had always thought of the U.S. stock market as “The Market.” And I can remember the efforts we made at the big Boston investment house where I used to work to get people to allocate a small amount of money to non-U.S. equities, which mostly meant Europe at the time. Now, with exchange-traded funds, Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipts, index funds and American Depositary Receipts offering instant exposure to every imaginable country, region, sector, industry and index, investors have every reason to be much more cosmopolitan. So are they? Investment advisors...

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