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MarketWatch reports that Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report used its proprietary “China-Timer” to sidestep much of the recent bear market, losing substantially less than the overall market despite the fact that it focuses on risky stocks.

Now is the time to remember to think and aim big. Truly big things are possible in the stock market. Remember that.

Investors hate stock market volatility. Watching your holdings fly up and down—especially when they’re losing value—is unsettling, and makes it very difficult to make rational investment decisions. That’s why I frequently remind readers to take a step back from the market and try to ignore the day-to-day action of their...

The media gives you the impression that stocks are directly responding to specific news, but that’s totally wrong!

What’s the biggest challenge in the market right now? Here’s what Dick Davis Contributors said over the course of this year.

My advice is to take account of the volatility differences to tilt a little toward a risk level you’re comfortable with.

Fourteen months ago today, my column here was about the similarities between riding out a hurricane and investing in choppy markets. That time, the storm was named Irene, and New York City (where I live) escaped most of the damage. Today, a new storm named Sandy is just beginning to...

“Lion’s Gate Entertainment Corp. (LGF) is a mid-cap stock we find interesting at this time. This smaller, yet well known and successful, movie and television studio concern is ranked fifth with a total Magnet Score of 793. LGF continues to grow rapidly and make money. They have several pictures...

I focus on companies that produce products and services that will be in high demand in the future.

“Molson Coors Brewing Company (TAP) has completed its $3.4-billion purchase of StarBev, which owns nine breweries in Central and Eastern Europe. In the three months ended June 30, 2012, this acquisition contributed $19.7 million to Molson Coors’s pre-tax earnings. That helped push up the company’s overall earnings by...

Over the past year, I’ve had many great conversations with our Dick Davis Digest contributors, as part of our Contributor Interview Series for Investment of the Week. In today’s Dividend Edition, I thought I’d collect some of the best income investing advice these experts shared with me. Together, their advice...

We’ve covered a lot of the important elements of dividend stock investing here in the last few months, from the importance of buying at low valuations to the benefits of increasing dividends. Yesterday, I rounded up a few of these essential lessons for the readers of Cabot Wealth Advisory, our...

In today’s Stock Market Crash Course, the experts offer some all-important levels to watch for the next indication of where the market is going... on the up or down side. Plus, although this week’s action has been rough, John Gray (Investors Intelligence) and Dan Sullivan (The Chartist) are both on...

In today’s Stock Market Crash Course, we hear from Institutional Investor’s John Gray, Momentum Strategies Report’s Clif Droke, Christopher Mistal of Stock Trader’s Almanac and Richard Rhodes of The Rhodes Report. The consensus is to beware of further downside in the near-term, although there are still some signs of hope...

Today I’m pleased to bring you a new installment in our Dick Davis Digests Contributor Interview Series. This time I’m talking with Joseph Cotton, editor of Cotton’s Technically Speaking. Read on for his stock-picking tips, surprising favorite contrarian play and warnings about the broad market. Chloe Lutts: Hi Joe, thanks for...

One method that works for a lot of investors is the value investing system developed more than 80 years ago by Benjamin Graham.

For today’s Dividend Edition of Investment of the Week, I wanted to introduce investing with dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. We have two Dick Davis Digest contributors who focus exclusively on investing with DRIPs, and others who recommend them occasionally. So DRIPs appear in the Digests fairly regularly, and I...

Cabot Stock of the Month Editor Tim Lutts discusses recent news about Iranian nuclear power, and names his favorite stock.

In today’s Stock Market Crash Course, the experts agree on one thing: this correction’s bottom will be a great time to buy. But how long will the correction last? Gregory Spear, John Gray, Clif Droke and Dan Sullivan all take a look at their indicators to give us an idea. Click...

I recently had the opportunity to talk stocks with one of our value-investing-focused contributors, who said that the biggest challenge he’s facing right now is finding investments that are still undervalued. That’s a slightly alarming comment, as it suggests that stock prices have been bid up to unsustainably high levels...