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Most people wait too long to get back into the markets after a long correction or a period of up-and-down trading.

From one perspective, the Cabot history is one of business.

Braskem (BAK) has a reasonable valuation, fairly steady price appreciation and a handsome dividend.

Typically, I try to avoid partisan politics in these pages. Typically, I succeed. But today, I can’t stop myself.

TAL International Group (TAL) is one of the world’s largest lessors of intermodal containers and chassis.

As oil prices rise, Amtech Solutions and LDK Solar, both have high potential.

I’ve been traveling between New York and Boston frequently for over three years. The transportation options between the two have definitely improved since I moved here; now I can choose the Bolt Bus or the Megabus, both of which have WiFi and electrical outlets. But I’ve also taken the Fung...

My favorite label for a growth stock with enormous potential is to say that it involves a “disruptive technology”.

One company that has caught my eye recently is Gafisa (GFA), a Brazilian company that’s trying to bring North American-style housing developments to Brazil. Brazil’s population is more than 70% larger than that of Mexico, but its housing market is about half of that in Mexico. But as prosperity works its way through the Brazilian economy, more and more people will be able to afford homes, and Gafisa is bringing the efficiency of modern building methods to the building process.

Right now, I’m focused on stocks that have great growth prospects. One name I like is Align Technologies (ALGN).

The Aggressive Aggressive approach can yield outstanding longer-term returns ... possibly the best of all trading systems.

I correspond with investors who know all of the sound rules of growth stock investing but do not follow them.

Last month was a lousy month for most yield-focused investments, including both fixed-income securities like bonds and high-yield instruments like MLPs and REITs. The ostensible reason was the Fed’s suggestion that it might start “tapering” off its asset purchases and allow interest rates to rise. The possible implications of 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...

Yesterday three American professors, Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics for their research on asset price movement. The three don’t work together—to the contrary, they’ve actually developed some competing theories. One economist commented that the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to recognize all...

Try to think of every trade you make as one of 1,000 you’ll make over many years and try to take things “inch by inch.”

In our last Dividend Edition, I introduced the chart below, which I’m calling the Income Portfolio Pyramid. It works more or less like the food pyramid: near the bottom are the safer, lower-risk asset types that should...

If you believe our recent reader survey, self-driving cars could be five years away from going mainstream, and one of the best buy and hold stocks in driver assistance technology could benefit for years from that impending revolution.

The U.S. has one of the best freight railroad systems and one of the worst passenger railroad systems.

In my own work, I apply six yardsticks, or price multiples, to help me find which companies are undervalued.