The young new year has been all about reversion to the mean. Take the ARK Innovation ETF ARKK, -2.94% — Cathie Wood’s flagship fund of mostly unprofitable tech companies has stormed 19% higher in 2023...
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Dow drops over 600 points, posts worst day of year after weak economic data, hawkish Fed remarks erase inflation cheer
U.S. stock indexes finished sharply lower on Wednesday, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index booking their worst day in over a month, after data on falling retail sales...
Get Ready, Tech Investors: Intel and Qualcomm Could Give Gloomy Outlooks
Citi Research predicts Intel and Qualcomm could provide disappointing guidance when they report their December quarter financial results. On Wednesday, analyst Christopher Danely reiterated his Neutra...
Samsung Knocks Longtime Patent Leader IBM Off Its Perch
In a year when the U.S. issued the smallest number of patents since 2018, Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics nosed past IBM with the most new patents, the first time in 29 years that IBM fai...
Citigroup, Target, Lennar, and 2 More Companies Keeping Their Dividends Steady
PPL, a utility based in Allentown, Pa., said this week that it plans to raise its next quarterly dividend by 7%. It was an otherwise light stretch for such announcements among large U.S. companies. PP...
Tanking Biotech Stocks Will Mean a Big Year for Deals. Who Could Benefit.
Nearly two years after biotechnology stocks began to tumble, executives at small and midsize companies in the space are finally accepting that share prices aren’t bouncing back anytime soon. With real...
Taiwan Semiconductor Braces for Downturn Despite Record Profit
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has reported a record net profit and beat analysts’ expectations for its fourth quarter but warned of waning demand in 2023. Taiwan Semiconductor (ticker: TSM), the...
Daughter of world’s richest man takes the helm at Dior as LVMH reshuffles its two biggest fashion houses
The biggest luxury brand in the world has announced a shake-up of its two major fashion labels, a move that has put the daughter of the world’s richest man in charge at one of them. LVMH Moët Hennessy...
Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO
Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...
Keurig K-Cup settlement: Today’s the final day to join the $10 million lawsuit
If you have been making your morning cup of coffee using the popular Keurig KDP, -0.63% pods, aka K-Cups, then you may be entitled to some money. The beverage giant recently agreed to settle a class-a...
European drugmakers including AstraZeneca pony up for U.S.-listed biopharmas
European drugmakers on Monday announced a trio of deals around a billion dollars each to buy U.S.-listed biopharmas at hefty premiums. Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca AZN, +1.42% AZN, -1.26% said it’s pay...
FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements could have biggest impact on tech industry
Ryan Morrissey is a serial founder of software companies, having already launched three separate startups. Yet when he sold one of those companies, he had to sign an agreement to not start any more fo...
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...
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. ...
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...
PayPal’s ‘baggage’ sparks downgrade of its stock
The financial-technology category is “better positioned” than many other pockets of tech to post a strong 2023, according to an analyst, but some names could fare better than others. As SMBC Nikko Sec...