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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Happy Anniversary to Small-Cap Confidential

September 4, 2010
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Happy Anniversary to Small-Cap Confidential

This month marks the three-year anniversary of Cabot Small-Cap Confidential and in honor of that, I’m going to be bringing you a multi-part series with Editor Thomas Garrity.  Tom will explain how he got interested in small-cap stocks, where he thinks the market is going and some of his time-tested investing rules. I hope you enjoy it! Question: Tell me how you got into investing, specifically small-caps. Answer: My curiosity for investments goes back to my grandfather’s and my father’s influence in my early years. But my passion for investment research took on meaning when I was working part...

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Two Potential Leaders of the Next Advance

September 3, 2010
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As I’ve been telling subscribers the past few weeks, there’s a split in the market these days—the major indexes are sagging and are near their 2010 lows, yet many individual stocks are still in grinding uptrends during the past few months.  In fact, this past weekend I made it a point to closely examine the weekly charts of the major indexes and many stocks (each chart has three to four years of history). What I saw surprised me: Many stocks are building long, multi-month launching pads, despite the weak indexes.  In fact, more than a few formed sound launching...

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Why Net Neutrality is Important

September 2, 2010
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Why Net Neutrality is Important

Earlier this month, I wrote about why I think the future of the American economy depends on the ingenuity of the American people. Today, I’d like to share some steps I think our country can take to ensure that future is a bright one. The most obvious step, to me, is ensuring we have the best public education system in the world, from kindergarten to college. We already have many of the best universities in the world, which is why many of the best and brightest young people from around the world come to the U.S. to study. But...

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