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With the approach of the Christmas shopping season, we’re heading into what’s regarded as prime “restaurant season,” as the holidays typically see more foot traffic than any other time of the year, and with December historically the highest-selling month for U.S. restaurants.

Today, we introduce a stock that’s poised to take advantage of the holiday shopping boom - and the ongoing post-Covid recovery in the trillion-dollar industry.

“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.” -Sir John Templeton

Tech stocks and a couple of Explorer stocks are having a tough week, but the rest of the market is calm as investors await Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech on Friday at the central bank powwow in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

While 2017 was one of the least volatile years ever for the market, 2018 has seen volatility return—with a vengeance! Early February brought the greatest point decline in history for the Dow, while yesterday brought the biggest one-day advance since August 2015 for the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq.

Today, my recommendation is outside the U.S., and outside China, too! In fact, my recommendation is in Brazil, where a young airline is enjoying rapid growth and the chart is positive.

With a bumpy market to work with and a few stocks still to report earnings, we take a look at the political risks to the portfolio. We also shift our focus to Brazil, where we find an unusual commodity company and a fresh airline stock to consider.

Isn’t this fun? The market is up big today. But things have been very ugly. And we might not be out of the woods yet.

As of yesterday’s close, the S&P 500 was down 12.49% YTD. The technology stock-heavy Nasdaq was about 19% lower for the year and more than 20% below the November high, officially in bear market territory. The latest down leg is because the Russia/Ukraine situation is getting worse.

The market needed a correction and now we have one, or at least the start of one. And the kickoff has been powerful enough to turn our short-term timing indicator negative, which means it’s time to turn a bit defensive, raising cash and leaning toward lower-risk investments. Thus, we sell two more stocks today and downgrade two to hold.As for the new recommendation, it’s a slow and steady telecom company that not only pays a good dividend but also is poised to benefit from the rollout of 5G technology.Full details in the issue.

Alibaba (BABA) shares surged 15.5% this week as the company announced that it had completed a roughly $3.2 billion capital raise. Better yet, Baidu (BIDU) shares jumped a stunning 29% in the stock’s first week as an Explorer recommendation.

But could quantum computing be a bigger investment opportunity than artificial intelligence (AI) as the U.S.-China rivalry escalates?

Bitcoin is at all-time highs and looks ready to keep running, at least in the short term. Here are three Bitcoin stocks that you can use to play the rally.

“Disruptive” technologies are not new. But nowhere have disruptive innovations had as much impact as in the technology industry.

Today I’m proud to announce the addition of two well-respected newsletters to the Cabot Family of investment advisories, Dick Davis Digest and its companion, Income Digest.

Emerging markets ETFs, the strategy that doesn’t really deliver results. I’m going to make a blunt statement.

Big Data is a concept and a buzzword coined to describe the increasingly enormous data sets being analyzed by businesses, governments and organizations today. View the names of the companies that have, store and make software for analyzing and using Big Data here.

A new bull market is emerging, and the rally could last years even though stocks are already at all-time highs. Here are 10 reasons why.

Another Fed rate hike is on the near horizon. Before it happens, you should buy these three stocks in this red-hot sector.

Jay Gould was the original Wizard of Wall Street. The self-proclaimed 21st-century version turned out to be an imposter. Here is his story.

This August, we’re staging Cabot Investment Conference, a three-day chance for our subscribers to meet all of our editors.

You should instead fall in love with your portfolio performance.