My stock tip for today is Banco Santander (Brasil) (BSBR), a subsidiary of Banco Santander that’s based in Sao Paulo. Santander is a big operation, with a market cap of $21.5 billion.  This Brazilian bank came public at 13 last October, and after a post-IPO droop, managed to push above 14 in December and early [...]

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When looking for potential new buys these days, I have two pieces of advice.  First, you want to keep it light, as the market has turned weak and likely has more pullback/consolidation/correction/whatever-you-want-to-call-it ahead.  So while every stock is different, the market could be something of an ankle weight on many names during the next couple [...]

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Last week we brought you the first Cabot Weekly Review video of the stock market with Cabot Market Letter and Cabot Top Ten Report editor Michael Cintolo. The positive response was enormous, so we’re going to make it a regular thing. Here’s this week’s video, featuring a lesson on how to play earnings gaps, with [...]

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As for the stock market, the good news is that the market was up 3% in the first five days of 2010, and history tells us that’s a positive omen.  Since 1950, when the stock market has risen over the course of the first five trading days of January, it’s finished the year with a [...]

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My investment idea today is VisionChina Media (VISN), a Chinese company that has over 82,000 video screens in buses and subway trains in 18 Chinese cities.  What really sets its product apart from other out-of-home Chinese advertisers like Focus Media is that the broadcasts are digital, real-time programming that can be customized to show either [...]

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