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The worst of the European crisis has passed. While many of the overleveraged countries on the continent still have major problems to solve, the European Central Bank’s actions last year have succeeded in keeping the monetary union together. And with uncertainty surrounding the eurozone’s fate removed, European equities are already...

On June 18, I received an email from a subscriber to Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report, the investment advisory for which I’m Chief Analyst. Here’s what I wrote back to my subscriber, slightly edited.

Tyler updates us on four Cabot Early Opportunity Stocks.

If you’d asked a year ago I wouldn’t have connected the dots, but my recent experience with maple sugaring has a couple small-cap industrials on my mind for a good reason.

We picked up maple sugaring as a fun, spring-time activity, but running into the unexpected offered some lessons for me as a small-cap investor.

Health Management Systems (HMSY) gets paid for (successfully) keeping health care costs under control.

The MMA Cycles Report is a monthly newsletter, with occasional special updates, written by Raymond Merriman and used by banks, financial institutions, investors and traders throughout the world since 1981. Each issue provides an in-depth cyclical and technical analysis of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P, gold, silver, Treasury Notes,...

In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo talks about the good and bad of the current market and looks at many resilient stocks he’s tracking.

In this week’s video, Mike looks at some stocks that are showing excellent relative strength—names that could be leaders in months ahead.

In this week’s video, Mike relays his mostly-bullish-but-watchful market outlook—he remains heavily invested, but taking his cues from the market.

Today I’m bringing you a special Q&A with Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Editor Thomas Garrity. Earlier this week, Timothy Lutts told you that small-cap stocks are leading the current market advance: while the Dow Industrials are up 26% over the past 13 weeks, the S&P 600 Small-Cap 600 Index is up a whopping 39%. Even better, stocks currently recommended by Cabot Small-Cap Confidential are up 49% in the past 13 weeks. The Q&A should help you better understand why small-cap stocks are leading the market, what you should be looking for now in individual stocks and where Tom sees the market and small-cap stocks going in the second half of 2009. Enjoy!

Here’s one of the biggest differences between successful and ineffective traders: The market can change its tune in a heartbeat but ineffective traders cannot...or at least they refuse to try. These traders think everything has to make sense, and rapid changes in direction rarely make sense, so they fight the new trend.

While there isn’t any substitute for the diet and exercise you promised yourself you’d do six weeks ago, there’s a stock diet that will allow you to make huge progress in your equity portfolio. It’s called the SNaC Diet, and it’s the best way to get your portfolio in shape, even if you can’t seem to make progress in the campaign against your love handles. SNaC stands for Story, Numbers and Chart, and it’s the method I use to pick growth stocks for the Cabot Emerging Markets Investor.

I make my living writing advice about aggressive growth stocks in emerging markets, which is a fairly risky business. I don’t just mean that emerging market stocks are risky, although that’s true, too. No, even the writing part is risky. It’s not as risky as writing about penny stocks, bulletin board stocks and pink sheet stocks, but there’s enough risk to make things exciting. It’s entirely understandable that people who read my recommendations can get a little peeved when the stocks I write about go down. But one unexpected result of airing my opinions about growth stocks is that I sometimes get complaints from people even when stocks go up!

Chevron Chairman and CEO David O’Reilly spoke about the need for energy security and alternative energy at the recent Chief Executives’ Club of Boston meeting. So clearly, with even Big Oil conceding the pressing need for alternative energies to be in the mix, the future market for Green technologies is huge. How much does Chevron believe this? It’s now the largest non-public utility producer of geothermal energy in the world and is one of the largest installers of solar panels in the United States. Even Big Oil is going Green.

It’s not often I get a question that actually leads me into two good lessons, but I got one last week that did just that. The specific answer to the question isn’t the major takeaway--but I want to use it as an example of why, in the stock market, you should go with evidence, instead of so-called “logic.”

People and politicians are finally beginning to accept that the federal deficit has become an albatross around our neck.