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The market followed up Wednesday’s big-volume turnaround with further gains yesterday—at day’s end, the Dow rose 216 points and the Nasdaq gained 40 points. The push higher by the major indexes took them above resistance levels, and gives us a clear Cabot Tides buy signal. As we mentioned on Wednesday, the market still faces many headwinds, the most important of which is that the longer-term trend remains down for the indexes and many stocks. But there’s no question the evidence has improved during the past three weeks, and with our Tides now positive, we’ll begin to put money to work in a couple of well-situated stocks with big growth expectations. The first is Sabre (SABR), which operates the most popular distribution network for air and hotel bookings in the world. Growth has been steady and should accelerate in 2016, and after a sharp correction, the stock has found huge-volume support after its recent earnings report and should do well going forward....
MACY’S INC., $43.43, New York symbol M, operates 885 Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s department stores and sells goods online. The company earned $544 million in its fiscal 2016 third quarter, which ended January 30, 2016. That’s down 31.4% from $793 million a year earlier. Per-share earnings dropped 23.5%, to $1.73 from $2.26, on fewer shares outstanding. Macy’s earned $2.09 a share in the latest quarter, if you exclude charges related to the company’s plan to close 35 to 40 of its stores in the next few months. The result beat the consensus estimate of $1.89....