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Remain cautious! The sellers continue to have the upper hand with the major indexes and most stocks. You should be holding plenty of cash (and some resilient stocks) while waiting for the bulls to retake control.

What is Dogecoin? It’s a joke, and it could make you rich. Or it might just be a fun and whimsical investment.

One of our portfolio stocks moves is being retired and there is news on five more.

Peter Buffett has written a book about the benefits of following your passion.

Here’s the list of 10 Dividend-Paying Companies that I believe will perform well during the next year and beyond.

Twenty-eight companies just formed the Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA). What is it, and should you invest in any of them?

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Investors love dividend stocks—they pay you regularly just for holding them, they’re less volatile than other stocks, and over time, they actually deliver higher returns too. Investing in dividend stocks isn’t hard, but it is a little different from growth or value investing, or other strategies based purely on capital appreciation. Following rules designed to maximize capital appreciation can actually hurt your overall returns when buying and selling dividend stocks.

If you’re new in the “town” called the stock market, I recommend finding a trustworthy source of advice.

Put a little money back to work. Our trend-following indicators are still bullish, and we’ve seen the Nasdaq and growth stocks show renewed strength in recent days. The market isn’t completely out of the woods, but there’s enough evidence to do a little new buying.

Happy Tax Day, I suppose. After filing my taxes, I have only one thing to say, and that is this: Taxes should be simpler. Now, on to something less intractable and politically fraught. Last Friday’s The New York Times included an interesting article on efforts to create a diamond-backed investment vehicle (you...

With election primaries heating up it’s worth considering the candidates’ positions on cannabis reform and the impact that could have on cannabis stocks.

Politics and cannabis investing go hand in hand, and if it becomes a wedge issue, the politicians may finally catch up to the voters’ position.

Is the worst of this late-winter selloff over? Or are there lower depths still to plumb? A lot may depend on what the Fed says this week. Or the next bit of tariff news. Or who knows what. There’s a lot of uncertainty out there. And the market hates uncertainty. But after a month of almost nothing but selling, there are some encouraging signs of life.

Still, the wise move is to stick to safety, so this week we add a safe dividend stock that’s in about as reliable a business as there is: trash collection. It’s a new recommendation from Cabot Dividend Investor Chief Analyst Tom Hutchinson.

Details inside.

A Brazilian utility that supplies water and sewerage services to almost 23 million people.

Stay bullish. We’ve seen an improvement in the evidence during the past week, with growth stocks acting well and more names hitting new highs. We’re moving one of our positions back to buy and our cash position stands at 27%.

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. That applies to the stories of companies as much as to tales of people. My advice? Know your sources, do your due diligence and don’t send either flames or glurge to your email contacts without confirming things for yourself, no matter how satisfying they are.

The market’s bounce off support last week was encouraging, and while we remain in a news-driven, choppy environment, our current cash level is too high given the mostly positive evidence. Thus, tonight, we’re adding two new stocks leaving us with a cash position of 20%.