One of the great characteristics of the sciences, from astronomy to psychology, from anatomy to zoology, is that every generation builds on the work of those that preceded it.
As Isaac Newton put it in 1676, “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
This regular knowledge transfer happens—most [...]

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This week the folks in the Cabot office took a field trip down the road to Cabot Farm, where our company had its humble beginnings. We had a lovely lunch and got a tour of the grounds, complete with a stop to see alpacas (Max and Dakota, at right), turkeys and a flourishing vegetable garden. [...]

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In this week’s Stock Market Analysis Video, Cabot China & Emerging Markets Editor Paul Goodwin says we’ve been waiting for the market to declare itself but it hasn’t yet made a decisive move. Short-, intermediate- and long-term trends are all down, but not in a catastrophic way. Stocks discussed include VanceInfo Technologies (VIT), VMware (VMW), [...]

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Back in March 2009, if someone had suggested that the Chinese jewelry company Fuqi International (FUQI) was about to embark on a six month run that would blast the stock to a 10x gain, they wouldn’t have found many takers.  Seventeen months after its IPO, with three failed attempts to break through resistance at 12, [...]

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Coming back from vacation is always hard. But for someone who, like me, works with stocks, coming back from vacation to a market that’s cranky and indecisive is doubly difficult.
There were plenty of scenic wonders on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and in Zion National Park where my party of five spent [...]

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