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The S&P 500 is now within 1% of the all time high. It could even make a new high today. The index has rallied 54% since the lows of March. What pandemic?

Today’s stock pick is a solar power company that changed its name from MEMC Electronic Materials.

2013 is off to a good start. The market is doing well, and sentiment is lousy: that’s the perfect environment for further market gains.

Finding the next big winners is one thing, but handling them is something altogether different.

Our FREE investing series reports will help you navigate changes headed your way at light speed.

Nuance Communications (NUAN) has a healthy chart and great numbers.

For a growth stock investor like me with a sense of history, investing maxims help a lot; I often think of one when I’m in an investing rut, or when the market is a bit confusing. However, my only beef with all of these maxims is that there’s only so many times you can hear the basic ones like “cut losses short” before your eyes glaze over. So what I’m doing today is adding some “how” to the “why and the what” of those basic maxims, offering some ideas about how to actually implement them.

Growth stocks have been redefined as companies whose earnings growth outperform the market averages.

By focusing on investments that reward you in good times and bad, you can rest easy, regardless of what the economists are saying.

One of my favorite ways to find leading stocks is to look at the list of stocks hitting new highs, to see if there are any new names popping up. So in preparation for 2016, I took a look at the stocks that were hitting new highs on the NYSE late last week.

By its very nature, growth investing requires a higher amount of risk tolerance and at least a pinch of optimism.

When the Cyprus banking crisis popped up in the news a week ago, the first thing I did was research Cyprus.

If the market is telling you that you’re barking up the wrong tree, what are you supposed to do?

Last summer, a little over nine months ago, I wrote a Cabot Wealth Advisory column about how confusing—and often subjective—the ratings issued by Wall Street analysts can be. In the column, I listed eight companies whose shares had been recently upgraded. Recently, I decided to go back and see how those stocks have performed since last July.

Some retail-related stocks are poised to benefit from Black Friday and beyond.

Continuing the story of my recent road trip from Salem, I focus on two cities, Wilmington and Cary.

Solar power has been the energy source of the future. But I’m thinking that the future may actually be here.

Here are five rules for successful growth investing, complete with the all-important reasons why.