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“Investors are pouring money into an old investment: life insurance. That’s right. Life insurance can be an investment. Before interest rates were deregulated a few decades ago, life insurance and pass-book savings accounts at the local bank were a major vehicle for saving and investing for many people. It became...

U.S. stocks have stabilized over the last few days as investors keep confidence in markets despite the Omicron variant, concern over inflation, and mixed economic data. Today we have two upgrades and a new recommendation from a country with an emerging and vibrant fintech culture supported by its government. The standout stock this week in the Explorer recommendations is Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), which jumped from 71 to 91 after the company recently reported that adjusted earnings soared 72% on a 61% increase in sales.

The phrase you hear more than ever from market prognosticators these days is that they are “cautiously optimistic” about the state of the stock market. In some ways this is pretty useless advice, but in another it hits the nail on the head. The market clearly wants to continue to rise; the world is awash in liquidity, and the Fed seems determined to keep interest rates low for some time. In addition, momentum tech stocks seem unstoppable.

It was a pretty quiet week with most of our stocks up in the 3% -5% range. There are no changes to the portfolio.

No matter where you are in your investing journey, this comprehensive list has a saving, spending, or investing app that can help you reach your goals.

College remains as expensive as ever, so it’s important to take steps now to save for the future. Here are two ways to start saving for your child’s college education.

The concept of applying market timing and relative strength to mutual funds was the original idea behind The Chartist Mutual Fund Letter. Simply put, the editors believed that the basic methodology that was used so successfully with stocks would work just as well with mutual funds, and possibly better. The...

My modus operandi when writing the monthly version of the Cabot Turnaround Letter is to focus solely on a single stock when making a purchase recommendation. And in keeping with that spirit, I’ll be doing the same in this month’s edition of the newsletter. But I will also highlight two additional stocks with what I see as having excellent mid-to-long-term turnaround potential.

The development of Barclays global business began in earnest in 1925 with the merger of three banks: the Colonial Bank, the Anglo Egyptian Bank and the National Bank of South Africa. In 1981, Barclays became the first foreign bank to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and raise...

“Just about every energy producer sells both oil and gas. They each favor one over the other. And most have been tilting toward oil over the past couple years. But Encana Corp. (ECA – yield 3.80%) makes no bones about being a natural gas specialist and is an...

Adding the EV/EBITDA multiple to their toolkit can help value-oriented investors better understand which companies are true bargains.

If you own a large dollar amount of individual MLPs, you may be best off holding them in a regular taxable brokerage account, and here’s why.

The ultimate “fear gauge” isn’t the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), as financial market pundits often insist. My contention is that it’s actually gold, which arguably is the most historically reliable barometer of how worried the average investor is over various economic, geopolitical and market-related developments.

Precision Castparts (PCP) has grown from a small manufacturer of investment castings for a wide variety of applications to a global market leader producing investment castings, forgings and fasteners for aerospace, power and general industrial markets. In fiscal 2014, aerospace markets accounted for 68% of sales, power markets...

If you’re just starting your journey into the world of investing, these are some of the best investment apps out there.

Fortunately, most banks entered the current downturn in much better condition than when they entered the 2009 financial crisis. Meaningfully higher capital levels, stronger loan reserves, more stringent risk controls and tighter cost structures will all help support banks’ financial health in the difficult period ahead.

In this issue, we recommend six banks whose weak share prices imply an overly dour economic outlook.

Hopefully, we can all gain from the growing realization that while America and China will be fierce rivals for some time—they can also benefit from playing some ball with each other.

This biopharmaceutical firm acquires, rebrands and reprices drugs for sale in the U.S., with many that treat inflammatory conditions, including a few that take aim at rare diseases.

One of our portfolio stocks rose 11% this morning upon a Reuters report that private equity firms Sycamore Partners and/or Apollo Global Management (APO) might announce a buyout in February.