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I look around to see what history is happening in the world now and I see above all the rapid development of China. While here in the U.S. we struggle to regain positive economic growth, this year China’s economy will grow 8% ... maybe more. Which means China is a great place to find growth companies! One of my long-term favorites in the country is Ctrip.com (CTRP), which has the country’s biggest travel-related Web site. The company’s revenues were $99 million in 2006, $160 million in 2007 and $215 million in 2008. Earnings were equally impressive.

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from 100% Letter For Microsoft (MSFT), 2002 to 2012 was a lost decade as the stock generated zero return, outside of dividends. The company had a virtual monopoly on PC software with Microsoft Windows, and a dominant enterprise software business. But in the middle of the last decade the competition raised...

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It’s quite common that a year’s top-performing stocks and industries can fade after the new year arrives as investors shift money into industries that have been long-ignored. “Buy low” doesn’t just refer to stock market corrections and random stocks that have fallen precipitous amounts. “Buy low” can also refer to unrecognized industry-wide opportunities.

One of the things I love about being chief analyst of Cabot Small-Cap Confidential is the quest for the next great undiscovered small cap growth stock. It’s like a never-ending treasure hunt, with occasional massive discoveries. And I have the freedom to search anywhere in the world! That means I’m often looking at business sectors that most investment analysts skip right over. A perfect example is the vending machine market, also known as the unassisted point-of-sale (POS) market.

Ahead of the “big” Federal Reserve announcement on Wednesday, the market surged higher last week.

With the MSCI Emerging Markets Index headed steeply down since June 13, we have been moving quickly to cut our exposure and kick losers out of our portfolio. It’s not pleasant, but it’s the only way to stay profitable in a volatile sector like emerging market stocks. Today’s bounce in the markets was a welcome relief from the selling pressure, but we will discount the good news until the Cabot Emerging Markets Timer gives us the all-clear.

The stock market enjoyed a big upside reversal last week, snapping back strongly from the recent slump. The DJIA rose 3.9% for the week while the S&P 500 gained 4.6%. Big-tech stocks reasserted a leadership role thanks in part to blow-out earnings from Amazon (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOGL), propelling the Nasdaq to a 6% advance for the week.

FAANG stocks dominated the market for nearly a decade but after a significant correction and weakening macro environment it’s time to ask, are the FAANGs dead?

On balance, there’s little doubt the evidence worsened last week, and yet, most leaders didn’t crack, and the big-cap indexes didn’t either, so the question was whether a “real” correction was getting underway … or this would be yet another shakeout-type decline that gives way to higher prices. So far, of course, it’s looking like the latter. On Friday’s update, we dropped our Market Monitor to a level 6, but we’re going to quickly change course and go back to 7 today—and then stay flexible as we see whether a year-end run is getting underway or whether more volatility is coming.

This week’s list again has a growth tilt to it, which we find encouraging given the selling we saw in many areas of the market of late. Our Top Pick is a steadier leader in the AI (and solar) space and is testing its 10-week line for the first time—look to enter on strength and use a tight-ish percentage stop.

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The new year is off to a good start, with many of the areas that took lumps during December (namely the broad market and growth stocks) showing strength through three days—and, just as important to us, many individual stocks have perked up, with some resilient names pushing to new highs and others that dipped to support bouncing. That’s a good thing, but we’re also keeping in mind the fact that early January is often tricky (lots of sharp moves in both directions), that the intermediate-term trend of most indexes and measures is still neutral-to-negative and that there remain lots of crosscurrents among individual stocks, with some selling off while others strengthen. As we wrote above, we are encouraged and will nudge our Market Monitor up to a level 6, but, while this is a good first step, we want to see the action continue to conclude that the December air pockets are a thing of the past.

For the third straight issue, this week’s list is heavy on growth stocks, which remains a sign that big investors aren’t hunting for safety. Our Top Pick is a name we love fundamentally and whose stock has held up relatively well in recent weeks despite a huge run. If you enter, use a loose stop given its volatility.