Search

Exxon Mobil (XOM) stock was one of the biggest names in oil and gas. Is it worth keeping in your portfolio today?

Why is the stock market rallying while the economy is caving? The answer is fairly simple. But it still doesn’t explain why the rally has lasted this long.

Cannabis stocks rose briefly at the end of 2022 on hopes for SAFE Banking passage. That didn’t come to pass, but there’s a good reason to believe the sector can turn around in 2023.

The bear market may cut down on promising companies that would otherwise show up on my radar, but these 3 small-time financial stocks are showing a lot of potential.

The market has been all over the place of late. Here are 3 investing tips to help you navigate through all the stock market’s ups and downs.

The week is shaping up to be down yet again for stocks, the sixth down week of the past seven, with every index basically re-testing their May/June low area (and some slicing to new lows). As of this morning, most major indexes were down in the 1% to 1.5% range for the week.

While we’re not normally fans of very low-priced stocks (you usually get what you pay for in the market), today’s recommendation has been around for a while, is liquid and is just beginning what looks like a multi-year growth wave thanks to two big drivers.

With COVID-19, plunging oil prices, credit/health worries and central bank printing, it’s a time of maximum uncertainty—and such uncertainty plays right into the hands of gold, which has popped back toward multi-year highs. The world’s second-largest gold mining company, is well positioned to benefit from this strength.

Amazon and others have a lock on the market for large-scale e-commerce, but this stock leads a different niche, as it’s the go-to place for buyers (46 million of them at year-end, up 16% from a year ago) and sellers (2.7 million, up 20%) of homemade, handcrafted goods.

Fertilizer companies aren’t the sexiest names on Wall Street, but the sector has shown an ability to trend when conditions are right, and that time looks to be here.

After a dismal 2019, when semiconductor sales fell 12% to $412 billion, the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization predicts that they will rise 3.3% in 2020 and 6.2% in 2021. But today’s recommendation is doing a lot better than the average chip company.

This week, Cabot Profit Booster features a top new-economy recommendation in the fast-growing social media space whose stock is just short of its all-time high.

Calling market timing one of Cabot Market Letter’s strengths, Market Watch columnist Peter Brimelow reported on the Letter’s current position.

Here’s how to use time and delta to evaluate your options portfolio.

The major market top came in mid-November—that’s when most leading growth stocks keeled over, though some of the market hung in there while defensive and cyclical stocks remained in gear. January, of course, brought with it a broader selloff, with just about everything plunging into the late-January low six weeks ago.

Three portfolio stocks report earnings.

It wasn’t a bad market until Thursday, when growth investors got slapped squarely on the side of the head. Apparently rising bond yields are to blame for the massive hiccup in the Nasdaq, but small-caps and mid-caps have also been hit hard recently.

Stocks rebounded late in the day last Friday and staged a powerful bounce on Monday, but we have to say, the action since then has been more than a bit discouraging—net-net, the major indexes are now down on the week and aren’t far from last Friday’s intraday lows.

We are combining our regular Friday afternoon Members-Only Podcast with any earnings updates. By combining these, you will receive the same research, perspective and analysis as always yet in one easy-to-read email.