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Stock Market Video: Tightening Range

December 12, 2011
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Stock Market Video: Tightening Range

In this week’s Stock Market Video Review, Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report Editor Paul Goodwin sees the market’s range of motion tightening up–with swings much narrower than they had been. This is a good sign, says Paul, as continuing tightening could lead to a new rally. But right now, there’s still lots of resistance, so Paul’s advice is to remain heavily in cash until the market direction becomes clearer. He names four stocks that he’s keeping a close eye on: Sohu.com (SOHU), Colfax Corp. (CFX), FMC Technologies and Fortinet (FTNT). Click below to watch the video!

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Ulta Salon (ULTA): One Great Stock

December 5, 2011
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the past week has brought a fine rally in the market. You know the purported reasons: Europe, China, unemployment, consumer confidence, blah, blah, blah. My two cents says the market was ready for it! It had been down long enough. People were discouraged enough. And there were bargains enough. So it’s time to be less defensive, and more aggressive, in particular by seeking out the leaders of this new bull market. Leaders are favored, rather than laggards (which may look cheap) because history tells us the leaders are most likely to be higher in the months ahead.  Inertia tells...

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Stock Market Video: Stuck in a Range

December 2, 2011
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Stock Market Video: Stuck in a Range

In this week’s Stock Market Video, Cabot Market Letter Editor Mike Cintolo says that the market has a nice rebound this week after two crummy weeks. But he says that not much has changed, as the indexes are still trading within a wide range. Longer-term, Mike remains optimistic. Stocks discussed: BE Aerospace (BEAV), Intel (INTC), Homebuilders (XHB), Macy’s (M), Rackspace (RAX), Cabot Oil & Gas (COG), Continental Resources (CLR) and MercadoLibre (MELI). Click below to watch the video!

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Simple Rules for Stock Investing?

December 1, 2011
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Investing in stocks involves a huge number of variables, so many, in fact, that the whole system simply defies complete analysis. Think about it. Even the most sophisticated organizations (mutual fund houses and hedge funds), with battalions of analysts and rooms full of computers, can’t get the business of making money by investing in stocks down to a science. That’s why most stock investment strategies are exercises in simplifying, seeking to gain an edge on the market by reducing decisions on buying and selling to a manageable system. And the essence of most systems is that there are only...

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Three Yields for Current Conditions

November 29, 2011
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The market was only open for three-and-a-half days last week, and it still managed to lose approximately 5% of its value. I don’t have to tell you that’s not good. I’ve been discussing the overall market a lot lately (if you didn’t catch last week’s market video, you can watch it here) so today I think we’ll ignore it–and focus on stocks that ignore it too (more or less). Below are three recommendations from the latest Dick Davis Dividend Digest. Each one of these three stocks is a conservative dividend payer with relatively low correlation to larger market moves....

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