Daily Posts Archive
This month marks the two-year anniversary of Cabot Small-Cap Confidential, so I’m going to be bringing you a series with Editor Thomas Garrity, where he explain how he got interested in small-cap stocks, where he thinks the market is going and some of his time-tested investing rules.
There are tremendous alternative energy sources here in the U.S. to replace that diminishing oil supply. Quite simply, the U.S. is its own Green power Saudi Arabia.
Statistics are like mushrooms; you’d better be pretty darned careful which ones you swallow. Specifically, I have in mind the statistic that shows that September is the worst month of the year in which to invest.
Occasionally, we bring you articles from outside sources that we think you will be interested in and benefit from. Today, we have an article from StreetAuthority’s Stock of the Month editor Amy Calistri.
Worldwide leisure company Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (HOT 27.73 NYSE) has smoked the competition this year, as the shares have skyrocketed nearly 70% since the beginning of 2009. The security recently broke above the $30 level, which served as resistance in late July, but may now act as...
I’m pleased to announce that earlier this week, Cabot launched its new, and improved, Web site. You may have noticed the changes, but if not, check them out now.
My investing idea today is a stock that showed up in Cabot Top Ten Report a few weeks ago ... and has since traded extremely tightly. It’s a big, “bull market” stock--Franklin Resources (BEN), the huge asset manager that operates Franklin Templeton Investments with more than $400 billion of assets under management.
My favorite automotive investment today is Maxwell Technologies (MXWL). Its products are ultracapacitors that use static electricity to store and release electrical energy and their biggest potential lies in the automotive market, which is rapidly turning to hybrid and electric vehicles.
Massey Energy Co. (MEE 28.74 NYSE), included in the S&P 500 Index, is the fourth largest coal company in the U.S. and the largest in Central Appalachia based on produced coal revenue. The Virginia-based company provides products including thermal coal for power generating utilities, industrial coal for industrial customers and...
Last August, there was a lot of buzz about the film “I.O.U.S.A.” and I wrote about it for Cabot Wealth Advisory. At the time, the U.S. national debt looked pretty bad, but this was before we had failed banks, a stock market crash and a long string of government bailouts. This week brought the prediction of a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion, which is more than the total of all previous deficits since the United States’ founding. The White House went on to say that by the next decade’s end, the national debt would equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy. So I’ve come up with some solutions for how the U.S. government can alleviate some of our deficit: