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A Stock with Long-Term Potential

January 14, 2012
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The weekend edition of Cabot Wealth Advisory has former editor Elyse Andrews discussing how you can succeed investing with one of the many systems offered by Cabot Heritage Corporation. Read the excerpt below and click through if you want to read more: There are many types of investing strategies. Some investors like the relative safety of exchange-traded funds, while others prefer going toward small, low-priced stocks with high growth potential. It all depends on your tolerance for risk, which can change throughout your time as an investor. Contributor Elyse Andrews has a few suggestions below to help you get the...

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Is Netflix a Buy Here?

January 9, 2012
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Cabot Publisher and Chief Investment Strategist Timothy Lutts writes in Cabot Wealth Advisory today about Netflix, Home Depot, and the memory of the stock market. Read an excerpt below: Netflix (NFLX) stock surged 11.4% last Wednesday, on big volume, as the company released some encouraging data about its customers’ embrace of video streaming, stating, “More than 20 million subscribers worldwide watched more than two billion hours of old TV shows and movies on devices with high-speed Internet connections during the final three months of last year.” On Thursday the stock paused, but on Friday it surged again, to its highest level...

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5 Things I Learned at Cabot

December 31, 2011
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Happy New Year! As 2011 comes to a close, I wish you the best in all of your investments in the coming year and beyond. I’ve learned a lot of things in the four years that I’ve worked at Cabot and that started the minute I walked in the door for my very first interview. Tim Lutts, Cabot’s president, showed me around the incredible building the office inhabits (it was once a library), ending at a very long-term chart of the stock market. He pointed out that despite setbacks, over time, the stock market has always gone up. In...

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He Was a Bold Man Who First Ate an Oyster

December 30, 2011
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He Was a Bold Man Who First Ate an Oyster

Here’s this week’s Contrary Opinion Button. Remember, you can always view all of the buttons by clicking here. He Was a Bold Man Who First Ate an Oyster The words are from Jonathan Swift, who actually wrote, “He was a bold man that first eat an oyster,” and declined to explain further, no doubt thinking it unnecessary for the simple sentiment. Oysters are a marvelous delicacy, yet visually off-putting; thus the idea is that courage was required to discover the treasure. (Try as I might, I can’t ignore the fact that oysters were doubtless enjoyed by primates long before...

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Top Picks for 2011 Winners

December 29, 2011
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As the new year approaches, we’re reviewing the past year’s worth of Investment of the Week and Dick Davis Digests. This week, I’m going to spotlight the year’s best-performing Top Picks. Every year, we ask all of our Digest contributors to send us a recommendation of their single favorite stock to own in the coming year. Their submissions range from unknown small-caps to the past year’s winners, a broad range that reflects the wide variety of investing styles practiced by our contributors. Once in July and again at the end of the year, we revisit the Top Picks to...

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