We consider the optimal intertemporal consumption and investment policy of a CARA investor who faces ¯xed and/or proportional transaction costs when trading multiple stocks. We show that when the stock returns are independent, the optimal investment policy in each stock is for the investor to keep the dollar amount invested in the stock between two constant levels and upon reaching one of these thresholds, to trade to the corresponding optimal targets. An extensive analysis of the optimal policy is conducted. This analysis reveals the signi¯cant relevance of transaction costs to the predictability and trading volume literature. We also obtain some seemingly counterintuitive results. For example, conditional on positive investment in a stock, as transaction costs increase, the average amount invested in the stock increases.