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While volatility remains extreme, the market had another constructive week. Individual stocks have done well, too, thanks to a combination of buoyant earnings reactions and Wednesday’s booming advance. That said, the intermediate-term trend remains down but all indexes we track have popped back above their 25-day moving averages which is encouraging. Today we have a few Buy ideas and one Sell candidate.

After three weeks up in a row, the major indexes were flat-to-lower this week, with the lagging small- and mid-caps performing worst, and the leading Nasdaq holding up the best.

After a year in the wilderness, these cannabis stocks are trading at bargain-basement prices.

Much like home and auto insurance, buying put options is a way to protect your portfolio from sudden disaster. Here’s how it works.

A potential bubble in palladium is forming, and platinum could benefit when it pops. Invest in these 2 precious metal ETFs, and you can cash in either way.

REITs and utilities are traditionally safe haven investments for down markets. But now they seem to have become all-season performers.

Buying stocks is always a risky business. And growth stocks, which have a higher potential for big gains, are correspondingly prone to big losses.

Movie theaters are doing three-quarters of their pre-pandemic business, yet movie theater stocks are trading at half their all-time highs. Here are three we like now.

I hope you’ve been having a good holiday season and are looking forward to a New Year. I know I am, especially considering the rough year for the stock market. It’s time to move on!

The S&P 500 rebalance happens every quarter like clockwork, but should you use it as an opportunity to buy the new constituent companies?

There has been a flurry of reverse stock splits of late. Are they good for investors? Traditionally no. But there are exceptions.

A cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s short-term stimulus and long-term plan for revitalizing the economy is built around renewable energies and energy saving technologies. There is so much emphasis on it, that some have dubbed the stimulus billed passed in mid-February as the Green New Deal.

Clorox introduces Green products, endorsed by the Sierra Club no less. “Green collar” jobs are replacing some blue collar ones that have gone overseas. And a home in Colorado puts Green housing on the map. These are just some of the ways the Green revolution is manifesting itself in our lives.

Chloe Lutts recommends Ecana Corp. (ECA) and Cheniere Energy Partners LP (CQP).

The earlier people retire, the sooner their cognitive functions begin to decline.

This week we had two companies reporting earnings, one reports next week, and the earnings deluge starts the following week with at least seven companies reporting.

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