U.S. stock futures struggle for gains ahead of GDP data

U.S. stock futures struggled for direction on Wednesday, leaving Wall Street potentially on course for a third consecutive day of losses, as investors fret that soaring inflation is damaging the world...

Intel Should Slash Its Dividend. Its Future May Depend on It.

Text size Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Under CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel has committed to massively increasing its capital spending investments by tens of billions of dollars. But with a ...

Micron earnings to provide more clues as to whether chip boom has passed

Micron Technology Inc.’s earnings on Thursday will provide a much-anticipated clue into a problem that has worried Wall Street all year about the chip industry: Whether customers have been hoarding ch...

SOX semiconductor index could double over the next couple of years, analyst says

Despite potential for further downside, semiconductor stocks could rebound significantly over the next couple of years, according to Columbia Threadneedle Senior Equity Analyst Dave Egan. Semi stocks ...

Oaktree’s Howard Marks is finding bargains: ‘I am starting to behave aggressively’

Stocks are mostly higher on Tuesday, with China to thank for some of that as the country announced the biggest easing in COVID travel requirements since about March 2020. China’s news may add to the s...

Ceragon stock surges on acquisition offer from Aviat

Ceragon Networks Ltd. CRNT, -5.43% shares surged in the extended session Monday after Aviat Networks Inc. AVNW, -2.08% offered to acquire the wireless telecom equipment company and shake up its board....

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

Pessimism on chip stocks is hitting a new high, and the money seems to be flowing toward software

The outlook for the semiconductor sector is moving from bad to worse, and investors appear to be moving their money into the software sector as a result. Pessimism about the future of the chip sector ...

Intel wins latest race in chip uses for the cloud, says KeyBanc Capital Markets

Chip giant Intel Corp. is leading growth in cloud technology, according to new research from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Intel Corp. INTC, +3.21% is the winner in KeyBanc’s latest monthly data tracking s...

Quantum Computers Rise From Australian Lab – A Threat To Cryptocurrency?

Efforts are under way to develop the world’s first operational quantum computers, which will mark a literal quantum leap forward in technology. The Australian quantum computing startup Silicon Quantum...

Zendesk Close to Striking Buyout Deal, Sources Say

Zendesk Inc. is close to a deal with a group of buyout firms, according to people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a failed attempt to sell itself in what would be one of the biggest private-equ...

Juul Ban Will Send Altria’s Strategy, and $13 Billion, Up in Smoke

Altria Group disastrous investment in Juul Labs is taking another turn for the worse. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to remove Juul e...

AMD Is the Chip Stock to Buy on the Dip, Morgan Stanley Says

Text size Courtesy AMD AMD stock is an attractive buying opportunity after its big drop this year, according to Morgan Stanley. On Wednesday, analyst Joe Moore resumed coverage on Advanced Micro Devic...

This dividend fund is down 3% vs. S&P’s 20% drop. Here are its top stock picks

By now even the most ardent tech and growth-stock enthusiasts realize the bull market is over. John Kornitzer’s approach to selecting high-quality stocks for the Buffalo Flexible Income Fund is one th...

These software companies are unsung winners in the semiconductor industry

Mention semiconductors and chip giants such as Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and NVIDIA Corp. spring to mind, but there are other, less high-profile companies, operating in the space that d...

Palantir Technologies Stock Gains on Buy Rating From BofA

Text size Palantir stock has lost about half of its value so far this year. Dreamstime Palantir Technologies shares got a boost as BofA Global Research analyst Mariana Perez Mora began coverage of the...

Tesla stock has ‘gone on sale,’ according to one analyst. Here’s what investors should do

Tesla Inc. stock is caught up in the tech selloff as well as some company and industry headwinds, but that doesn’t mean investors should shy away from the “highly attractive entry point” the pullback ...

Energy and these 2 other sectors led the S&P 500. Now they’ve tanked. Here’s why that could be good for the stock market.

An unwind of the stock market’s best performing sectors had to happen eventually. And that may be just what this bear market ordered, according to Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at BTIG. Si...

Stock Market Closed for Juneteenth, June Economic Data, and More to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Juneteenth. There will be a handful of earnings reports, annual shareholders meetings, and economic-data rele...

FedEx’s Dividend Hike Stands Out

Text size FedEx trucks at a sorting facility Justin Sullivan/Getty Images FedEx grabbed the headlines this week for dividend announcements, declaring an increase of more than 50% to its quarterly payo...

What the Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades means for the bear market in bonds

Historically bad. That’s how the mammoth $53 trillion U.S. fixed-income market has performed this year as the Federal Reserve works to curtail high inflation threatening to wreck the economy. To turbo...

Alibaba Stock Rises on Report About Ant’s Holding Company Bid

Text size A Reuters report says that China has accepted the application of Ant Group, which is an affiliate of Alibaba, to form a financial holding company. Here: Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangz...

Adobe Stock Is Falling After Hours. Earnings Guidance Was Disappointing.

Text size Software giant Adobe’s light guidance overshadowed a strong fiscal-second-quarter report. Dreamstime Adobe stock is losing ground in late trading Thursday after the provider of softwar...

Apple Stock Has Dropped 25%. This Analyst Says It’s Still the Best Bet in Tech.

Text size Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Apple stock. Dreamstime Morgan Stanley is preparing for a slowdown in consumer spending on tech hardware, slashing target prices on stocks across the s...

Unity Stock Initiated at Sell. It Once Was a ‘Pandemic Darling.’

Text size Hickey initiated coverage of Unity at a Sell rating with a $27 price target. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Shares of Unity Software were falling in premarket Thursday after an analyst at Bench...

Netflix Stock Cut to Sell. Why This Analyst Says He Made a Mistake.

Text size Netflix shares have plunged by more than 70% so far in 2022 Getty Images A once infatuated Wall Street has definitely cooled on the godfather of streaming, Netflix , with a longtime bear adm...

Strategist who nailed the recent S&P 500 top says three things are needed for a market bottom

Wariness is in order after the S&P 500’s bear-market finish and a potential 75 basis-point Fed hike just one day away. Gains for stock futures and a potential bounce are fading fast. Morgan Stanle...

Fears of MicroStrategy Margin Call Mount as Bitcoin Slumps

Text size MicroStrategy would be forced to add to collateral if Bitcoin slips below $21,000. Dreamstime MicroStrategy , the business-intelligence software maker that borrowed money to invest in Bitcoi...

Why IBM is one of few tech giants that are actually gaining through the selloff

International Business Machines Corp., unlike many other tech giants, has been able to buck the sector’s selloff in recent months. Shares of IBM IBM, -0.79% are up 1.60% year-to-date, compared to 12.5...

Opinion: As tech melts down, a truth remains: Semiconductors are eating the world

Everyone’s favorite trade in the stock market, technology, has gone the way of the dodo. Oil and value stocks are all the rage. But one part of technology — semiconductors — is vital not only to the t...

Roku, Tesla, and Other Cathie Wood Favorites Are Falling

Text size Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s $12 billion flagship exchange-traded fund was falling again in Monday trading. It is another sign that “innovation stocks” such as R...

New car prices rose again, everyone’s paying over sticker; when will the squeeze start to ease?

The average new car sold for $47,148 in May. That’s not quite the record high prices hit last December. But it’s close — May saw the second-highest prices on record. The average sale price increased b...