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After bottoming in the fall, the best solar stocks are starting to make their move. Here are two to add to your long-term portfolio.

Knowing how to invest in stocks is much easier for you as an individual investor than it is for an institution like Harvard.

Today’s election may not impact the market for long, but these three stock market sectors could get a nice bump for weeks and months to come.

Although they’re not the only game in town anymore, earning income on growing assets never went out of style. These dividend ETFs can help.

2024 has been a banner year for Cabot Options Trader, so I wanted to look at our three biggest winners and take a few moments to share some wisdom from legendary NYSE trader Art Cashin.

The market has had another choppy week, with some big ups and downs, both among the major indexes and individual stocks. As opposed to recent weeks, the big-cap indexes are down after this morning’s open, while some of the broader indexes are up 1% or so.

The market has been up for six straight days, marijuana stocks look good, overall, and while we don’t quite have a buy signal from our intermediate-term trend-following indicator, we are very close. Today we are averaging up in three stocks.

Three of our portfolio stocks reported second-quarter (2Q) results. Here’s what you need to know.

It’s been a down week for the major indexes, but all in all, nothing out of the ordinary—most major indexes are down 2% to 2.5% on the week, and the intermediate-term green light we received a week ago remains intact.

Despite the outbreak of a coronavirus in China (and a few cases reported elsewhere), the market has actually had a pretty quiet week—as of this morning, the big-cap indexes are up around 0.5%, while broader market indexes (small and mid caps, etc.) are down a smidge.

A massive and complex global supply chain adds nuanced risk to investing in even the largest companies, but it also offers the opportunity to invest further down the food chain.

Stocks have rallied so far this year on optimism that we can get through this inflation and Fed rate hiking cycle without much economic pain. That’s what seems to be happening so far. But this latest “soft landing” rally is facing a formidable foe – history.

Rate hikes almost always slow the economy. But there is typically a long lag time. Since 1961, the Fed has embarked on nine inflation-busting, rate-hiking cycles. Eight of those cycles have led to recession. The yield curve has inverted, a phenomenon that has almost always preceded a recession.

The Fed’s latest roundhouse to the market this week has caused another round of selling, but we think more damage was done to sentiment to this point than the evidence; we remain defensive and patient, but we’re also keeping a close eye on things, as a few good days (and some real breakouts from potential leading stocks) could give us something to work with.

In the meantime, we sit with just two stocks but are spending many hours filling up our watch list and monitoring earnings season for new potential leaders. We’re eager to add some exposure, but we’ll wait for things to stabilize first; in the meantime, check out all our latest thoughts in tonight’s issue.

The markets traded sideways through most of April. But since then, the choppiness has returned—along with worries about the uncertainty regarding the debt ceiling, the expiration of the immigration-limiting legislation, and ongoing debate about the possibility of a recession.

Yet, economically speaking, the trends are still healthy. Manufacturing has held up, employment continues to rise, and job openings are still underutilized (as you can tell if you’ve been in a restaurant lately!).

I don’t have any historical data, but I know that the practice of senior corporate executives getting part of their compensation in company stock has been around for a long time.

Both Carnival (CCL) in the Smart Investing Growth & Income Portfolio, and Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) in the Growth Portfolio, were up over 5% yesterday, after Carnival reported a blowout first quarter.