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With Northrop Grumman (NOC), we come to a stock that illustrates a point of real conflict between value and growth investors.
Our Investment Digest and Dividend Digest Contributors are a smart, creative and diverse bunch. They represent over 200 unique points of view on the best way to invest your money. And over the years, I’ve heard some pretty unexpected advice from them. Today, I want to share 10 of the...
Cabot’s market timing disciplines give clear signals for when to trust the bull and how to get out of the way of the bear.
Investing isn’t something they teach you in school (usually). If you want to learn to be a good investor, you’re going to have to educate yourself.
After staying pretty quiet through June, August and September, market volatility really picked up early this month, sending the Market Volatility Index (VIX) to its highest levels since February. The increase was not unexpected: several of our Digest contributors said an increase in volatility was their only sure market prediction...
You can find hotter and younger solar power socks but you won’t find a solar power stock that has a better combination of growth and stability.
I don’t know if the rest of the country is as interested in the World Series as the citizens of Red Sox Nation are, but with the Series on, I had an idea.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke first raised the specter of “tapering” on May 22 of this year. Although investors knew the Fed had to end its program of quantitative easing eventually, hearing the truth from the chairman still had a significant effect on the market. Interest-rate sensitive investments reacted most dramatically. In...
America is now in the throes of a long-term bull market, although the good times are not without their risks. ... I believe investors should now play the U.S. market to the upside, but hedge their bets by taking a more defensive position. [One way to do that is to...
I’ve found that projects in the real world do have a lot in common with investing. Treat investments as a business.