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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
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Capital One Job Cuts Signal Trouble for IT Labor Market
IT positions have largely been seen as insulated from the job cuts that have hit workers at major technology firms like Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but the Capital One layoffs affecting 1,100 e...
SmileDirectClub stock rallies on cost cuts, workforce ‘realignment’
Shares of SmileDirectClub Inc. rallied after hours on Tuesday after the oral-care company said it planned a round of cost cuts and a “realignment” of its workforce — even as its sales forecasts came u...
Virgin Galactic Shakes Up Management. The Stock Soars.
Space tourism startup Virgin Galactic has made changes at the top as it prepares to launch commercial space flight service later this year. The stock is taking off, but the management move probably is...
Are high car prices the new normal? If you’re waiting to buy a car, stand firm, experts say—it may pay off.
The roller coaster economic ride that began with the emergence of COVID-19 in early 2020 has reshaped how car buying works. Will it ever get back to what we might call “normal?” Brian Finkelmeyer, sen...
Coinbase, MicroStrategy and Other Crypto Stocks Fly. Why Gains Could Continue.
Shares in companies exposed to the cryptocurrency space tore higher on Monday. Many of these stocks are beaten down and widely bet against by traders, which means that gains could be accelerated throu...
Quantum Computing in Quest to Solve Blockchain Cryptography Riddle
A group of Chinese researchers found a way to breach standard algorithm Rivest-Shamir-Adleman 2048 bit (RSA-2048) used in blockchains, including industries such as data storage, banking and more. For ...
Salesforce Customers Not Swayed by Slack, Analysts Say
When Salesforce Inc. bought the messaging application Slack for $27.7 billion almost two years ago, it said the marriage would “transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere ...
6 value stock picks for 2023 from successful money managers
Following a down year for the stock market, there is no shortage of recession predictions for 2023, especially as the Federal Reserve has signaled it will continue to raise interest rates to fight inf...
Chinese researchers claim 48-bit encryption cracked with quantum computing
In a scientific paper titled “Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor,” a group of Chinese researchers claimed that they could crack RSA encryptions on phone...
CES 2023: AMD, Nvidia, auto applications get the hype, but analysts say this one chip maker ruled
As CES 2023 draws to a close, much of the attention in the chip world was lauded on companies like Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. but a lower profile chip maker appears better positioned...
CrowdStrike Stock Has Tumbled. A Director Scooped Up Shares.
CrowdStrike Holdings stock tumbled in 2022, and one director scooped up shares of the provider of security software in the last week of that year. CrowdStrike (ticker: CRWD) lost about half of its mar...
Dow ends down nearly 350 points after jobs data, hawkish Fed comments hammer stocks
U.S. stock indexes ended another choppy session in the red on Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of labor-market data and hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve officials, while looking ahe...
Opinion: Here are the chip companies that should benefit the most from the government’s massive incentives
The pandemic created enormous challenges for semiconductor companies. Unprecedented demand drove up prices and backlogs for chips and equipment as supply chains faltered. At the same time, concerns gr...
Nvidia in Pact With Foxconn to Build Autonomous Cars
Getting a jump on the parade of announcements to come at this week’s CES tech trade show in Las Vegas, the graphics and AI chip company Nvidia gave an unofficial virtual keynote presentation Tuesday m...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Curbed Stock Sales When Shares Slipped
Nvidia stock tumbled in 2022, and as shares of the chip maker slid into the red early in the year, CEO Jensen Huang stopped selling. Nvidia stock (ticker: NVDA) lost half its market value in 2022. In ...
These Stocks Had a Terrible 2022. The New Year Should Be Better.
Videogame maker Take-Two Interactive Software is known for two things: Grand Theft Auto, and did I already say Grand Theft Auto? The stock was down 43% in 2022, making it the group’s worst performer. ...
Opinion: 11 predictions for money, technology, stocks and crypto for 2023
Here are some 2023 predictions for financial markets, the economy and stocks. I’ve spent the last year and a half being cautious in the wake of the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market that finally ended early ...
AMD Stock Should Benefit From Next-Generation Computer Chips
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
Sell Microsoft Stock. The Software Giant Is Facing a Bad Economy, Says Analyst.
Guggenheim is getting more pessimistic about Microsoft stock on the risk of a slowing global economy. On Tuesday, analyst John DiFucci lowered his rating on software giant Microsoft (ticker: MSFT ) to...