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With high home prices and high mortgage rates, it may not feel like you can profit from real estate right now. But you can, and here’s how.

As other sectors of the market struggle, there are a lot of financial stocks to buy now. Here are three that stand out.

After seven consecutive down days and a swift, brutal stock market correction, we’re bound to see a few up days quite soon. Please be cautious.

Crista is making several rating changes today.

There were a lot of positives that built up for the market during February and early March, but that multi-week stretch of improving evidence has certainly run into a wall—the market has taken it on the chin during the past couple of weeks, with the major indexes giving up a big chunk of their gains (the brief intermediate-term trend all-clear is gone), and more worrisome to us, nearly every stock that has run into resistance has at least stalled out, if not come unglued. We don’t believe all of the good vibes built up are out the window; this recent action could easily be part of a longer bottoming process for the market. But we never advise ignoring the evidence in front of us, so we’re pulling our Market Monitor down to a level 5.



This week’s list is heavy on some cyclicals but also some dependable growth outfits. Our Top Pick looks to be one of those, a medical firm with a few good-selling drugs on the market and sold earnings growth projections.

When it comes to the market’s action, there’s not much to say—the crash-like action seen in growth stocks since the start of the year has spread out to most every nook and cranny of the market. To be fair, near term, we are starting to see some extremes, plus we’re still seeing a fair number (not a lot) of stocks hanging in there—taking on water for sure, but not definitively cracking. Overall, we continue to advise a cautious/defensive stance; capital preservation is the first goal these days. That said, given how stretched everything is to the downside, we think it’s OK to give things a little more wiggle room on the downside if you already have lots of cash. Our Market Monitor will remain at a level 4.



This week’s list is mostly a mix of energy and defensive-oriented stocks. Our Top Pick is a big energy services outfit that should see growth accelerate going ahead.

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.

This past Wednesday we published the December edition of the Cabot Turnaround Letter. Our first article, “Year-end Selling: Turning Other’s Losses into Gains,” describes three reasons why many investors, including highly experienced professional managers, tend to sell weak stocks toward year end without regard to price or value – and how this can produce quick profits for nimble investors. We include six stocks that look well-positioned to bounce.

The broad market looks healthy. The S&P 500 is close to breaking out to new highs, and the Dow is at its highest level since February, propelled by strong performances from industrial and consumer staples stocks. Energy stocks are still lagging a bit, but everything else looks healthy. We are putting four stocks back on Buy today.

Interest rates fell back this week after the odds of a December rate hike briefly fell below 90% (they’ve since rebounded). The trigger was a September inflation data release that showed consumer prices excluding food and energy rising just 1.7% year-over-year, and only 0.1% since August.

The iShares EM Fund (EEM) has raced past its 25-day (upper) moving average, giving us a solid buy signal from the Cabot Emerging Markets Timer that is supported by similarly strong performance from the Golden Dragon ETF.

Eight of our stocks reported earnings recently.

Are you skeptical of the rally in bitcoin and think the cryptocurrency is long overdue for a crash? Here’s how to short bitcoin and profit handsomely.

Aaron’s is a fairly obscure retailer. But AAN stock is incredibly attractive from three major investing viewpoints: growth, value and technical analysis.

There are lots of good U.S. stocks. But even more opportunities lie beyond our borders. With that in mind, here are 3 Canadian stocks to buy.