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Last week, I wrote here about how lending-averse banks are causing a hitch in the Fed’s plan to stimulate the economy with low interest rates. You can read the issue by clicking here. I concluded by asking you if you thought the tighter lending practices were a problem, and...

It’s been a rough few months for risk-averse investors. Since the first-quarter rally failed in early April, the market has developed no obvious overall trend, instead chopping up and down from month to month like a particularly unpredictable yo-yo. It’s the kind of action that makes you want to buy something...

Water is not a globally traded commodity. In fact, unless you’re talking about the bottled stuff, it’s barely a commodity at all. You rarely if ever hear consumers grumble about higher water bills the way they gripe about gas prices. And while many people do take steps to save water...

The key to diversifying without clutter is selecting investments that have low or negative correlations.

Fund investing has come a long way. Buying mutual funds for the security and convenience of having your money invested by a fund manager is still a popular investment practice--in large part thanks to inertia--but it’s no longer the only fund game in town. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, have revolutionized the...

The market is in an uptrend, but so far it’s been a slow slog with lots of setbacks. Yes, the market is making higher highs and higher lows, but the backsliding is so quick and thorough that it’s not getting very far. It’s like taking 10 steps forward and nine...

The average Cabot subscriber has less than 10 years to go before retirement, and many of you are already retired.

“As a growth investor, I’m usually looking for stocks that are in strong price uptrends. But I’m making an exception for Arcos Dorados Holdings, Inc. (ARCO), the largest restaurant chain in Latin America and the largest franchisee of McDonald’s in the world by both revenue and number of locations. Arcos...

It’s not valuation that matters, it’s growth potential and upside momentum that matter.

Steven Check, editor of The Blue Chip Investor, studied the newsletter’s gain on its position in McCormick & Company (MKC), the spice company, to demonstrate the importance of investing when stocks are trading at low valuations. “As of this issue, we’re selling our position in McCormick. This is a trade that worked out...

We at Cabot will manage our growth portfolios with our usual total disregard for the political campaigns.

Investors hate being told to do nothing. And when the market is chopping up and down like a roller coaster, it’s especially hard. Maybe you want to pick up some screaming bargains, or maybe you’re itching to sell everything at any price. But those times, when the market has no...

You will often hear phrases like “option traders love volatility.” This isn’t necessarily the case.

Regional banks are having a moment in the sun, as the larger U.S. financial institutons continue to make headlines for their failures and missteps. Regional banks make neither headlines nor trades—they just make loans, interest and money. Today’s Spotlight Stock is a bank chain based in Georgia, serving Florida, the...

“Syngenta AG (SYT - yield 2.20%)— In Brazil, Vietnam and Indonesia, Syngenta has had success turning wayward agricultural economies into powerhouse food producers. By supplying technology and training, Syngenta turned Vietnam into a major rice exporter. Now, says CEO Mike Mack, Syngenta is poised to attempt the same in Africa. Over...

“Ancestry.com, Inc. (ACOM) operates the world’s largest online family history database. With over 10 billion records, the company’s archives include ship passenger lists, birth and death records and U.S. Census information. A growing collection of user- generated data has boosted content. Ancestry.com had 1.87 million subscribers on March 31, up...

In today’s Stock Market Crash Course, we hear from analysts who say the important market fundamentals are all positive, although several think the rally is still lacking something. Richard Rhodes lays out levels to watch in the coming days and weeks.

Hendershot Investments is a quarterly newsletter focused on conservative, high-quality (or HI-quality, for Hendershot Investments) companies for the long-term investor, many of which pay dividends. Editor Ingrid Hendershot wrote the following essay on the importance of free cash flow (or FCF) in the March, 2012, issue: “Seeking to build an investment stash,...

In this edition of Stock Market Crash Course, the experts weigh in on the market’s reactions to earnings season, the European Central Bank announcement and the Knight Capital mishap. We hear from Clif Droke, Stephen Leeb, Richard Moroney and Bryan, Ronald and Michael Sadoff.

In today’s Stock Market Crash Course, we hear from several experts who think Thursday and Friday’s action was the start of a new rally, including Investors Intelligence’s John Gray, Cabot Option Trader’s Rick Pendergraft and Joseph Cotton of Cotton’s Technically Speaking. In addition, The Prudent Speculator’s John Buckingham says sentiment...