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Yesterday three American professors, Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics for their research on asset price movement. The three don’t work together—to the contrary, they’ve actually developed some competing theories. One economist commented that the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to recognize all...

Today is Columbus Day, the day we honor the man who had the courage to do something different.

The third of my 10 stocks that share growth and value characteristics is Celgene (CELG).

Sometime in the near-ish future, the Fed is going to raise interest rates for the first time in over five years. When they do, the companies and governments that have been issuing bonds at rock-bottom rates for years will have to start offering more favorable terms. That’s going to be...

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

Today, I’m going to review some basic growth investing rules. The first rule is to cut losses short.

How many stocks is the right number of stocks? I’ve been pondering this question recently, for a couple reasons. Reason number one: Every weekend, Cabot Wealth Advisory Editor Paul Goodwin sends out a “Fortune Cookie,” in which he picks an investing-related quotation to comment on. Here’s this weekend’s quote: Paul...

The Contrary Opinion Forum, a gathering of independent-minded investors, has been going on for more than 50 years.

While the market hasn’t reacted as severely to the government shutdown as many expected, the major indexes have lost some ground since their mid-September highs. Now analysts are asking whether October will bring the end of the market’s bull run, a significant correction, or simply more volatility. Click below to...

We write for a pretty well educated investors. But sometimes we forget how common the “other” type of investor is.