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Fall has always been my favorite season. I love the crisp, cool fall days that we get in the Northeast, especially when it’s sunny. I also love the sweaters, boots and scarves that are justified by the chill in the air. Fall always makes me want to go shopping. And I’m...

In today’s Dividend Edition, I have two investment ideas for income investors, both of which show hallmarks of being good Dividend Growth Stocks. I made the case for Dividend Growth Stocks here two weeks ago, read the issue here if you missed it. In it, I laid out some of the...

Up 178% in six months. That’s how well our best-performing Top Pick for 2013 has done so far this year. The winning stock was submitted to our annual Investment Digest Top Picks contest by Tom Bishop of BI Research. In his original recommendation, he argued that the company’s new scaffolding technology...

Alliant Techsystems is an aerospace, defense and commercial products company. The company has three segments: Aerospace Group, which provides rocket motor systems for human and cargo launch vehicles, missiles, missile defense interceptors, micro-satellites, satellite components, structures and subsystems, space deployables and solar arrays; Defense Group, which provides military...

“The predictability of earnings and the chance to buy in at discounted prices after big claims make insurance stocks great targets. Here’s another one with lean valuations and a good yield. Based just south of Harrisburg in Marietta, Pa., Donegal Group, Inc. (DGICA 13.75 Nasdaq - yield 3.70%), through its...

The major market indexes are in intermediate-term downturns, and most analysts are warning that we have another 5% to 10% downside left in this correction. But has tone gotten too pessimistic? Watch this week’s Stock Market Crash Course to find out whether we’re closer to a top or a bottom. Click...

Where’s the market going next? As usual, the answer depends on who you ask. The latest sentiment reading from Investors Intelligence showed that newsletter editors are in their most bearish postures of the year. Bulls hit a new low for the year of 38.1% last week, the first reading below 40%...

“With investors adjusting to the prospect of rising interest rates, high-yielding stocks sat out the latest leg of the market’s rally. S&P 500 stocks averaged a 6% total return over the last three months, while those with dividend yields above 3.5% averaged a loss of 2%. “But, on average, the median...

Lobster prices have been showing up in my news a lot lately. First, there was this article in The New Yorker, followed by this rebuttal from New York Magazine. Then, a few days later, the story was picked up by the broader press, including Good Morning America and Reuters. The premise of...

If you own a business, you’ll immediately understand what I’m going to talk about today. You’ll also be a step ahead if you’ve worked in marketing in the last couple decades, or in certain tech fields. What do all those readers have in common? Those are some of the professions that...

From iron condors to bull put spreads, Jacob Mintz, editor of Cabot Options Trader, highlights a variety of options strategies, and discusses some trading positions on his buy list.

For the first time in seemingly months, the market has a bit more negative tone. So should you book some gains on some of your winners?

Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT) from Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report The mix of aging populations and increasing incomes across the world will drive sales of devices, drugs, and other medical products going forward. The American medical multinationals owned by the Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT) are poised to deliver the types...

I like to think of Dividend Growth as your secret weapon in the fight against low yields. The power of dividend growth isn’t really a secret, obviously. But I call it a secret weapon because a lot of investors don’t realize just how powerful dividend growth is. Take, for example, Wal-Mart Stores...

The best way to make money in the stock market is to invest in conservative stocks for long-term holding.

Cabot Investors Conference attendee Vivian Francher reviews the conference for CEO Traveler.

The market is surging ahead at full steam, but some of our analysts see trouble ahead. Watch this week’s Stock Market Crash Course to find out what the divergences and options trading in today’s market means. Click below to watch the video!

We get lots of inquiries from people who need to play catch-up with their retirement funds, and wonder if such a thing is possible.