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The day of reckoning has arrived. The summer is over. It’s after Labor Day. What will sobered-up investors see when they really start paying attention again?

The post-summer investor can be cranky. That’s why September is historically the worst-performing month in the market. Combine that fact with a market that is within a whisker of the high with plenty of uncertainty swirling around, and you have a recipe for potential turbulence.

The market looks great. But the indexes are teetering around the highs while uncertainty is still swirling around.

Fortunately, some of the highest dividend paying stocks are still reasonably priced ahead of an increasingly promising future. Midstream energy stocks have been flying under the radar while paying some of the highest dividends on the market. These stocks are also well suited for whatever lies ahead.

Midstream energy stocks have provided a high income and a solid return throughout most market cycles. And that makes them ideal for the current unpredictable environment. But that was before. Things are changing for the better. The environment for energy is undergoing a radical transformation that could make these stocks better than ever before.

The growing demand from utilities and exporters will provide an unprecedented runway for growth in the years ahead that historical performance doesn’t reflect. In this issue, I highlight one of the very best midstream energy companies on the market.

Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens recently dropped a campaign to push for the adoption of wind power on a large scale because he’s in the process of building the word’s largest wind farm in the Taxes panhandle. When the oil barons start going Green, you’d better take notice. Today I’m going to evaluate some stocks that might benefit from this endeavor.

“Headquartered in Pennsylvania, FMC Corp. (FMC) is a global seller of chemicals widely used in both agriculture and industry. In terms of revenues, the company holds the No. 1 or No. 2 position either globally or within North America for most of its product groups. Its agriculture segment...

Becoming the beneficiary of an IRA inheritance trust requires knowing some specifics about governing the trust accordingly.

If you like the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model (or even if you don’t understand it), then I can tell you about the best SaaS stocks to buy now.

Remain bullish, but stay tuned. The market’s recent Brexit-induced dip has put our Cabot Tides back on the fence, though our Two-Second Indicator and Cabot Trend Lines are still bullish. A Tides sell signal would cause us to raise more cash, but tonight we’re mostly standing pat; our only change is moving Facebook (FB) to Hold. The Model Portfolio is holding about 20% in cash.

Should you buy TSLA now? The fundamental picture is certainly a lot brighter than it was back in 2011.

Retail sales rose 3% in January, the Census Bureau said yesterday, reversing November and December’s declines. Manufacturing output increased by 1%, following a steep 1.8% decline in December. Positive but slow growth right now might be just what we need to avoid more interest rate increases by the Fed.

I don’t anticipate any major changes in our portfolio leading into earnings as I’d prefer to hear what’s new and then go from there. That said, we have a couple of minor adjustments based on stock price action.

Last week I highlighted some of the most interesting issues of Investment of the Week from the last six months. This week, I have highlights from July through last December (when we began Investment of the Week). On July 5, I wrote about an unusual new investment: bitcoins. Bitcoins reached...

Although we’re now about five years removed from the sub-prime mortgage crisis and ensuing financial collapse, financial stocks are still in the doghouse as far as many investors are concerned. They have valid reasons: it has taken years for the large banks to deleverage their balance sheets, there remains a...

Growth stocks have finally hit a pothole this week as investors have generally rotated into beaten-down names. Coming into today, the Nasdaq was off about 1.3%, but the S&P 500 was up about 1% and the broader indexes had put on a good show (small- and mid-caps up more than 3%).

2013 is off to a good start. The market is doing well, and sentiment is lousy: that’s the perfect environment for further market gains.

The best dividend stocks this year should come from three sectors in particular. Here are three stocks that stand out to me.