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The broad market and growth stocks started to have issues in late September and by early November everything went over the falls, cracking the intermediate-term trend of most indexes and stocks. Encouragingly, though, the market has rebounded this week as we march toward the Thanksgiving holiday--it’s good to see, but especially for growth measures, there’s still more proving to do. Of course, with a lot of cash, we’re willing to buy, and if we see strength continue into early next week (past the holiday period) we could start putting money back to work. For now, though, we think it’s best to be patient and see if the market (and, more important) growth stocks can tell us the selling storm is definitively over.

A second straight earnings season of double-digit profit growth has failed to budge stocks. Is buying fatigue setting in after an extended bull market run?

Warren Buffett has been a vocal backer of one U.S. energy stock, and despite the sector’s underperformance this year, he’s been buying more.

I wrote to you a few months ago about our venture into video. Today, I’m presenting you with Cabot’s very first weekly stock market review with Michael Cintolo.

For a bear market to turn itself around, a vast majority of investors must get discouraged and sell out.

To garner big returns you don’t have to take undue risk. Instead, you need to focus on what are called the liquid leaders.

Readers in recent weeks have mentioned the challenge of competing against giant institutions when investing.

The reality today is that you are being forced to take more and more responsibility for your own investing and retirement planning.

Cabot ETF expert Robin Carpenter explains his interest in market analysis and shares his thoughts on the current stock market.

A letter from the desk of President & Publisher Ed Coburn covering the current economic data and what it means for investors.

Wow. Just wow. Not only has this market rally continued to forge on, it’s broadened out too. After a 14.5% gain in the first half of this year, the S&P is putting together an impressive July with a better than 3% gain so far.

The latest leg of this rally has been sparked by a better-than-expected June CPI report. Interest rate optimism abounds. Consensus now expects a Fed rate cut before the end of the year and an increased expectation that overall interest rates have peaked and are likely to trend lower for the rest of the year.

Welcome to the post-Labor Day market. A sobered-up investor can be an ornery investor.

Stocks kicked off the first trading day after Labor Day on a decidedly negative note. The August manufacturing number was still somewhat weak, but all eyes are on the August jobs number that comes out Friday. It was the weak July jobs number that prompted recession fears and the market selloff in early August. Another bad number could reignite recession worries that had faded in the second part of August.

Uh oh. The rally is in trouble.

The market sort of wobbled into January after a rough December. It started good but things turned a little ugly last week after a better-than-expected jobs report and worries about sticky inflation.

It’s one thing after another. But stocks keep inching higher.

January featured the interest rate scare, as the ten-year Treasury hit the highest level since 2023, and the DeepSeek news, which called AI spending into question and sent related stocks reeling. Yet the S&P 500 finished the month up 2.7% with 10 of the 11 sectors higher for January. This week features more potential market-moving issues.

The iShares EM Fund is holding up in fine style, holding well above its 25-day moving average, so our Buy signal remains in place. While our stocks are generally holding up well, there has been a slight increase in volatility.

The stock market has started September with a small pullback but the big picture is still bullish. If you’re underinvested, it’s time to come off the sidelines. Most of the stocks in our portfolio are healthy, and I’m putting one of our holdings back on Buy today.

That wasn’t a good start to September. The holiday-shortened week was the worst week for the market in two years as recession fears reemerged. Here are the results from last week.

It has been a great market for most of the last two years. But the bull market chops will be severely tested over the next couple of weeks.

The S&P 500 is within a whisker of the all-time high after rallying 22% YTD and over 60% in the past two years. The recent investor perception is that the Fed has begun a rate-cutting cycle that will last for two years, and the economy is still solid. That view will be put to the test this week.