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Changing interest rates affect all income investors, but since they can have a wide variety of effects, figuring out whether changes in rates are going to help you or hurt you can be a complex problem.

Our sell rules demand we sell under a number of conditions, which can be roughly dividend into two broad categories: fundamental weakness or unacceptable risk.

Australian Edge recommends Australian stocks that have strong balance sheets, high dividend yields and extraordinary growth potential. Australian Edge is suitable for any safety-seeking investor who is looking for aggressive income and substantial capital gains while avoiding the debt crisis and economic problems that will continue to be a drag...

In this week’s video, Mike talks about his continued defensive stance, but also details a couple of secondary indicators that are looking better.

In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo discusses yet another week of positive market action, with the major indexes scoring new recovery highs.

In this week’s video, Paul gives his thoughts on the market and looks at a few stocks that are performing better than the market.

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.

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!

Although uncertainty in the market is growing, there are still strong income stocks out there. But we must be careful to find the right ones. A good stock needs to be resilient in a continuing recession, yet able to thrive amidst high inflation, or both, or neither. In this issue, I highlight such a rare bird.


The portfolio is also eliminating a cyclical position and adding a more defensive one. At the same time, we are seizing upon recent strong performance in another stock and selling a call to lock in a high income in this uncertain market.

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...

Tyler updates us on four Cabot Early Opportunity Stocks.

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.

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.

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

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.

Weight Watchers (WTW) looks good both fundamentally and technically.

After a rough start to the year, the market has stabilized and recovered somewhat.

Earnings are terrific again. About 80% of S&P 500 companies have reported, with average earnings growth of around 23%. Earnings have saved and revitalized the market throughout the pandemic recovery. And this is another stellar quarter for corporate profits.

Last week was a big week in the market. Game-changing news in the technology sector that significantly improves future earnings projections for many companies is causing the sector to soar.


AI or artificial intelligence had been seen as a huge growth engine going forward as companies invest heavily in the technology. Those growth projections got a huge shot of adrenaline and the AI phenomenon got real when semiconductor company Nvidia (NVDA) reported earnings and guidance that blew the doors off expectations because of much higher investment and spending in the technology than previously thought.

In this week’s video, Mike Cintolo discusses the market’s continued free fall and the importance of remaining in a defensive stance.