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Put a little money to work. There are still issues with many growth stocks and plenty of crosscurrents, but the overall market is looking good and we have seen some earnings-induced breakouts.

At Cabot, we believe education is a key component of successful investing. Today I’m going to review my system for picking growth stocks, which I’ve discussed in this space before. I call it SNaC, for Story, Numbers and Chart, and it’s the method I use to choose stocks for the Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report.

An article in this week’s Barron’s suggests that contrarian investors can easily beat any of the stock market indexes.

The calendar has flipped, but nothing has changed with the evidence during the past couple of weeks—the intermediate-term trend, which was stubbornly up for a while, has given way, joining the long-term trend on the downside, all while growth stocks underperform. Most indexes and sectors are doing more chopping than plunging, and it’s important to remain open to anything—but, simply put, the onus clearly remains on the bulls to step up. Our Market Monitor remains at a level 4.

Our first list of the New Year casts a wide net, and our Top Pick is a powerful turnaround play that also provides exposure to the improving non-U.S. area of the market.

It looks like this relentless bull market is finally stalling out. The market isn’t correcting, or really selling off in any substantial way. It has just stopped moving higher, for now. Given the returns in the past year and recent months, the market had to take a break. That pace couldn’t last.

Stock prices may be stuck in mud for the time being, but there are some fantastic income opportunities out there. Many high-dividend stocks are still well below pre-pandemic prices and offer some of the highest yields in a decade. In this month’s issue I highlight a phenomenal stock with a sky-high yield and a price that’s trending higher.

Lately, Canadian companies appear clearly undervalued and offer excellent appreciation potential during the next one to three years.

Earlier this month, Lowe’s began selling do-it-yourself solar panels kits. The second I heard of them, I considered the possibility of shifting solar to a springtime project.

Apple (AAPL) has been dragging its feet of late, but there’s some evidence that it may be time to buy AAPL again. Should you?

Buying biotech stocks seems like a contrarian play at the moment. But it made one day trader a lot of money. Here’s what it says about the current market.

While the broad market enjoyed a powerful upmove yesterday, the marijuana sector was even stronger, with the Marijuana Index surging 15%.

Small-cap cloud software stocks have been on a roll lately, and these three are showing strong momentum heading into 2024.

I rarely make predictions about the market, but here’s one: 2019 should be a very good year to buy stocks. Here are three important reasons why.

Many things have changed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and how your portfolio is balanced is one of them. Watch Nancy Zambell, Chief Analyst of Wall Street’s Best Investments and she will tell you what you need to do. In this FREE webinar recording she talks about how the flip from a bull market to a bear market affects what you should be holding, depending on your long-term and short-term goals. She also names a couple of stocks that are good to add to your portfolio, to keep it growing.

One of our stocks reported third-quarter results that met Wall Street’s estimates, two stocks move from Buy to Hold, and there’s new price action on another.

Wow! The economy is red hot! Both GDP and Jobs numbers came in much stronger than expected. But good news can also be bad news in the demented view of many Wall Street professionals.

Inflation is way down. The Fed is still unlikely to raise the Fed Funds rate again. The economy is surging despite the highest interest rates in decades. Ultimately, the economy is the most important driver of overall stock market performance. The economy isn’t weakening but strengthening after the recent malaise. And it’s a new bull market.

The long-awaited promise of inflation’s “impending” demise remains as distant as ever entering 2026.

Economists have been assuring us since at least 2023 that inflation is abating. But far from this, what we’re actually seeing is a weakening dollar that’s putting ever-more upward pressure on prices across several asset categories.