Palantir stock is modestly higher after the data-analytics software company announced a contract from the Department of Defense worth up to $229 million. It’s a one year pact to support test and deplo...
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PC Demand Is Tanking. What It Means for Nvidia, AMD and Intel Stock.
Susquehanna is getting more pessimistic about the outlook for PC sales. On Thursday, semiconductor analyst Christopher Rolland reduced his price targets for Nvidia (ticker: NVDA ) stock to $180 from $...
Intel Introduces Videogame Graphics Chips to Challenge Nvidia
Sept. 27, 2022 3:02 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Intel plans to start selling graphics chips for videogamers next month, aiming to get a piece of a lucrative market dominated by competitors Nvi...
If chip production is recovering, why are automakers still making fewer cars?
Automakers trimmed 76,000 vehicles from global production plans in mid-September, according to analysts from AutoForecast Solutions. They’ll produce about 3.23 million fewer this year than planned, th...
Oracle’s Ellison’s Compensation Topped $130 Million Last Fiscal Year
Sept. 23, 2022 8:24 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Oracle top executives are again among the highest-paid at big U.S. companies, thanks to a decision last year to give them more time to earn stoc...
Netflix chief accounting officer gives up $2.4 million position after just 4 months on the job
Netflix Inc. is seeking a new chief accounting officer after its current one quit the role after less than four months. The streaming giant NFLX, -5.69% said in a regulatory filing Friday that Ken Bar...
Bitcoin Could Hit $500,000 in Next Decade, Says MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor
Text size Bitcoin prices have plunged this year. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Bitcoin could reclaim its November 2021 all-time high by 2026 and surge even higher if its valuation fundamentals change, ...
AMD and Intel Say PC Demand Is ‘Getting Worse.’ That’s Bad News for Chip Stocks.
Text size Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg So much for the vaunted second-half comeback. The two major computer-chip companies are now acknowledging PC demand is f...
Why Adobe Wants Figma and Why Some Investors Are Worried
Sept. 18, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Adobe the low-key maker of digital tools to create PDFs and edit photos, pleased investors by reinventing itself as a subscription-software bus...
Tesla spent 864 days as Wall Street’s biggest short bet. Now it’s Apple.
A previous version of this piece incorrectly reported Apple’s and Tesla’s market caps. Apple Inc. is now Wall Street’s biggest short bet, displacing Tesla Inc., which had held the title nonstop since ...
Verizon is ‘not going to throw away money’ to woo consumers with cheaper phones, CEO says
In a competitive market for wireless deals, Verizon Communications Inc.’s chief executive says the company is “not going to throw away money” on promotions. The company recently rolled out its deals f...
Taiwan Semiconductor Is a Top Pick in a Weak Chip Market, Says Analyst
Text size The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing building in Taichung, Taiwan. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg Bernstein believes investors should look through any immediate hiccups and focus on Taiwan Semicond...
Seagate Warns Disk Drive Demand Continues to Erode
Text size Seagate has been hurt by weakening demand for its disk drives in China, among other places. Dreamstime Seagate Technology continues to see weakening demand across the disk-drive business, CE...
These five stocks in the S&P 500 lost almost half a trillion dollars in value in one day amid widespread wipeout
A decline in gasoline prices couldn’t mask the problem that spooked investors on Sept. 13: Core consumer prices resumed their rapid increase during August. Fear of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing tighte...
This superbull at JPMorgan who called the summer rally sees a soft landing ahead. Here’s his advice on stocks and oil.
A fifth-straight win was taken off the table after August CPI numbers surprised on the upside. And it looks like there’s nothing to sway the Fed from a 75-basis-point hike this month. Still, when it d...
Western Digital CEO Warns Of Sharp Decline In NAND Memory Business
Text size Western Digital CEO David Goeckeler said the company has seen a sharp erosion in pricing for NAND flash memory based storage over the last month. Dreamstime Western Digital has seen business...
Oracle Stock Rises. Sales Topped Guidance but Profits Missed.
Text size Oracle’s headquarters. The software giant’s earnings disappointed. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Oracle posted mixed numbers for the quarter. Revenue edged out guidance, but profi...
IHS Is a Play on Emerging Market Cellphones. Why the Stock Looks Like a Buy.
Text size IHS’s organic revenue growth has been 18% a year over the past half-decade. Dreamstime IHS Holding is the new kid on the block in the cell-tower world—and its stock may be worth buying. Runn...
Roblox stock drops as Wall Street sees a ‘Pandora’s box of problems’
Roblox Corp.’s stock continued to sell off Friday as analysts questioned growth initiatives presented at the social-media company’s investor day on Thursday and August performance that came in lower t...