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With declining investor interest and widespread criticism of “woke capitalism,” socially conscious investing is ditching the “ESG” label in favor of a more pragmatic strategy: transition investing.

An arbitrage trade is as close as you can get to free money in the stock market, but it’s not without its risks.

ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing is morphing into “transition investing.” Here’s what it means, and three funds to consider for investors.

A letter from the desk of President & Publisher Ed Coburn on the state of the market, the most exciting news at Cabot, and guidance to set the stage for a successful November for investors.

The Fed finally cut rates, but the real motivation behind the move is likely to benefit precious metals and this overlooked silver stock.

It can be easy to forget the basics when stocks are hitting new highs day after day, so let’s take a pause and review whether it’s time to rebalance your portfolio.

Three portfolio stocks report earnings and a fourth stock moves to Hold.

One of the most common questions I get from readers is how to invest with only a few thousand dollars.

Investors panicked after this week’s NFLX earnings report, selling the stock off in droves. A closer look reveals that the panic was needless.

Each one of these three stocks is a conservative dividend payer with relatively low correlation to larger market moves.

The market was only open for three-and-a-half days last week, and it still managed to lose approximately 5% of its value. I don’t have to tell you that’s not good. I’ve been discussing the overall market a lot lately (if you didn’t catch last week’s market video before Thanksgiving, you can...

If you want to get joy from the market, do it by loving what counts ... actually making money!

Cabot Top Ten Trader Editor Mike Cintolo wrote this about a month ago: “As the general market has heated up, we’ve noticed more and more ‘Bull Market stocks’—brokerage, investment bank and asset management firms, each of which directly benefit from higher stock prices and increased trading activity—pushing to new highs.” The market...

After 2008 and the years of volatility that followed, many investors are still afraid (understandably) to put their hard-saved money in common stocks. But with the returns on bonds in the basement and waves of baby boomers reaching retirement age, many are rapidly realizing that they don’t have much choice....

Up 178% in six months. That’s how well our best-performing Top Pick for 2013 has done so far this year. The winning stock was submitted to our annual Investment Digest Top Picks contest by Tom Bishop of BI Research. In his original recommendation, he argued that the company’s new scaffolding technology...

It’s been another positive week for the markets. We know the focus has been on the various news items—the Fed’s decision and statement, the U.S.-China trade talks this week and, today, the jobs announcement—but it’s all about the action of the market, which continues to back up the view that the sellers are out of ammo and the buyers are taking control.

Before this week, we were seeing some minor divergences in the market—clearly many old world sectors like financials, transports and materials were doing well, but most growth stocks were meandering, with a few doing okay and others struggling. Overall, though, the evidence was relatively bullish. This week, though, definitely raises an eyebrow or two.

Fundamentally, all is well in the marijuana sector as the industry’s leaders continue to grow, both organically and by acquisition. The average rate of revenue growth for the plant-touching companies in our portfolio in the most recent quarter was an amazing 132% from the previous year.

Fundamentally, all is well in the marijuana sector as the industry’s leaders continue to grow, both organically and by acquisition. The average rate of revenue growth for the plant-touching companies in our portfolio in the most recent quarter was an amazing 132% from the previous year.