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After bottoming out below $45 last week, Transocean LTD (RIG, NYSE) shares have come racing back. The stock spiked from $47.22 to $50.68 on Monday. It then climbed to $53.56 on Wednesday, and bulled all the way to $57.93 today. That’s a powerful 23% advance in just four trading sessions....

A few observations on earnings season to help you maintain an even keel.

After yesterday’s bloodbath in growth stocks, today feels pretty good. We may be able to thank a downright terrible April jobs number this morning (266,000 added versus expectation of 1 million), which may have temporarily quelled concerns over rising rates.

This energy stock reported a fourth-quarter earnings and revenue beat.

The major indexes have had a great week, led this time by the broader indexes—while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up solidly (1.5% to 3%), small caps (up north of 4%) and mid-caps have led the way. That keeps the intermediate-term trend pointed solidly up.

The market seems to have found some support after its latest nasty leg down—Monday morning saw most indexes in free fall while many stocks dipped below early-December lows, but the snapback since then has been encouraging.

JOANN (JOAN) reported Q3 fiscal 2022 results after the close yesterday. This quarter was for the period ending on October 30. Revenue missed expectations slightly but adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS surpassed expectations. The high-level take away is that supply-chain challenges persist (no surprise there) but JOANN is doing what it can and appears to have the pricing power necessary to maintain a strong underlying business and pursue the growth strategy it has embarked upon to extend its lead in the arts and crafts retail market.

The current market is not being driven by fundamental, technical or sentiment factors.

Today I’m happy to present a new installment in our Dick Davis Digests Contributor Series. Today I’m interviewing Adrian Day, editor of Adrian Day’s Global Analyst. Chloe Lutts: When did you start publishing Adrian Day’s Global Analyst? Adrian Day: 1997. It arose out of my previous letter, Investment Analyst, which had been...

When the stock market finally gets going on the upside, paying special attention to volume spikes allow us to clue in on the advance’s best stocks.

Using position sizing and offensive selling to reduce growth stock investing risk.

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.

I’ve made my contempt for the media rather clear in my weekly commentaries at Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor, and in my frequent radio appearances.

There’s been a lot of movement this week, with some recoveries and rallies as well as a big down day on Tuesday and again this morning. All in all, it’s shaping up to be another red week, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq down just under 1% and broader indexes down a bit more.

It’s still a bull market, but our Cabot Tides are close to the fence and the odds are that the recent burst in selling pressures probably won’t go away overnight.

Tomorrow is the expiration of May options, and it’s been a spectacular month for our covered call strategy.

The market has rebounded sharply from its lows, but there are still bargains to be had in the wake of all this uncertainty. Here are three I like now.

In bull markets, the 200-day moving average is pretty useless. But during extended corrections like this one, it’s an invaluable indicator.

Following more than a few yellow flags of late, the market had a down week, with most every index off in the 1% to 2% range coming into today. Despite the move, though, the evidence remains the same: The intermediate-term trend is mostly sideways, with big-cap indexes holding very well but broad measures in worse shape.