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Remain bullish. The market and leading stocks continue to act well, and while a pullback, shakeout or some other potholes could occur in the short-term, the odds continue to favor higher prices over time.

This retail stock reported fiscal 2020 third quarter results (January year end).

Especially with small caps, it’s not always an efficient market in the short-term. So sometimes the best thing to do is nothing. Just sit back and think it over.

As we wrote a week and a half ago, there’s no Top Ten issue today—one of our two weeks off (50 issues a year). But we don’t want to be too out of touch, which is why we’re sending this brief update today, hitting on a couple of market-related points and updating our list of stops and sells below.

This has been a good year for the market. With only weeks left in 2019, the S&P 500 is more than 23% higher for the year. Some of that is the undoing of the overselling at the end of last year. But the market has trended consistently higher all year and is close to the all-time high.

Both large and small growth stocks continue to advance off their October lows despite all the political turmoil from the impeachment hearings.

Baker Hughes changes their corporate name and stock symbol. And, two stocks report third-quarter earnings beats.

One of the portfolio stocks reported a big earnings miss; increases dividend and moves from Strong Buy to Buy.

The market seems to want to move higher, albeit slowly and with rude interruptions from the headlines. The S&P 500 is within less than 1% off the all-time high set in July, although the index has been somewhat range-bound since June.

It’s been mostly more of the same this week, with solid action among the major indexes (S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up a bit less than 1% as we write this), while the broad market has done OK (the number of new highs has picked up some) but growth stocks have generally languished.

Crista reports on four portfolio stocks, two of which just reported earnings beats.

One of the portfolio stocks is moving to Hold.

The weakness in growth stocks in general, and cloud-related stocks in particular, continued today, which caused one of our stocks to trip its loss limit.

This bioprocessing specialist reported Q3 results this morning that should be good enough to keep the stock stable, and hopefully get it moving back in the right direction.