Portfolio manager with 50 years of experience shares 1970s bear-market lesson, and three stocks to buy now

A previous version of this column gave the incorrect date for the Fed policy decision. The story has been corrected. Investors looking at their screens this morning might feel a bit of relief, with oi...

Hang Seng slumps 3% over COVID lockdown worries, oil falls as Russian attacks in Ukraine intensify

BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mixed in Asia and oil prices fell Monday as uncertainty over the war in Ukraine and persistently high inflation kept investors guessing about what lies ahead. Tokyo and Sydn...

Opinion: I’m raising cash and getting defensive as the stock market works through its excesses

This war is shameful and crazy. All wars are. And there’s no telling what President Putin is going to do next. What I do know is that the globalized world economy is not going back to what it was. The...

‘I think we’re going to see some spectacular returns,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

“Given our expectations for growth in these new technologies, I think we’re going to see some spectacular returns.” That was the chief executive officer of ARK Invest, Cathie Wood, who gave an optimis...

Best Buy Stock: Earnings Reveal Tough Christmas Quarter. Company Raises Dividend.

Text size Best Buy is contending with short-term headwinds, but the electronics retailer is expecting business to pick up by fiscal 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images Best Buy stock rose Thursday despite ...

Semiconductor, PC stocks rally after Biden touts importance of U.S. chip manufacturing

Chip-related stocks and shares of computer makers surged Wednesday following a push by President Joe Biden to pass legislation that would result in more than $50 billion in government subsidies to bui...

Semiconductor sales to Russia banned, but that shouldn’t hurt Intel, AMD and other chip makers

Semiconductor companies are banning sales to Russia following the company’s invasion of Ukraine, but an analyst says the companies shouldn’t feel much of an effect. As Russian forces continued to bomb...

Dell stock drops as earnings miss offsets new dividend

Dell Technologies Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the computer maker’s earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations while the company’s board initiated a dividend. Dell  ...

AMD announces $8 billion stock buyback program

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. inched higher in after-hours trading Thursday after the chip company announced a new $8 billion buyback authorization. The new repurchase authorization is in addi...

Home Depot leads the list of 20 worst performers in the S&P 500 on Tuesday

Slightly positive isn’t good enough for this stock market. While market jitters on Feb. 22 were driven by Russia’s movement of troops into Ukraine, the U.S. stock market was also adjusting to the idea...

Electronics Manufacturing Industry Leaders Enter 2022 With Greater Optimism

Digitization is making factories smarter and supply chains more resilient getty Every year, the What’s the SCOOP round of interviews conducted by Philip Stoten offers one of the most interesting round...

January Sales Up 3.8% As Consumer Spending Remains Strong

Apparel, including accessories, and department stores showed a significant bounce back from January … [+] 2021 with sales up 22.3% and 11.5% respectively, as consumers resumed more activities ou...

Intel reaches $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor

Intel Corp. on Tuesday struck a $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor, as it seeks to bolster its manufacturing capabilities. Intel INTC, -0.10% said it’s paying $53 per share in cash for Tower...

The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down

Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...

Nvidia calls off $40 billion acquisition of Arm: report

Nvidia Corp. is giving up on its attempt to acquire chip designer Arm Ltd. from Softbank Group Corp., according to a report Monday. Nvidia NVDA, +1.68% agreed to acquire Arm for $40 billion in cash an...

Nvidia becomes 7th-largest U.S. company as it passes Facebook owner Meta for the first time

Nvidia Corp. became the seventh-largest U.S. company Monday as it overtook Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. for the first time. A reshuffling among the ranks of the most valuable U.S. companies ref...

Facebook wasn’t Thursday’s only big loser — these 16 other Nasdaq-100 stocks dropped at least 5%

Thursday was brutal for technology stock investors, as the carnage spread far beyond the parent company of Facebook. Below is a list of the worst 20 performers among the Nasdaq-100 on Feb. 3., led by ...

NXP Semiconductors’ stock volatile as revenue, outlook exceed Street expectations

NXP Semiconductors NV shares were volatile in the extended session Monday after the chip maker’s quarterly revenue results and forecast exceeded Wall Street expectations. NXP NXPI, +8.44% shares, whic...

These 7 semiconductor stocks may be close to a bottom. This chart pattern shows when and how much they might rebound.

Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard since the industry group rose to a record in early January. Analysts at Jefferies see a “peaking” pattern similar to those of 2014-2015 and 2017-2018, and expec...

AMD is about to wander into a minefield

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings will serve as an important indicator on whether the semiconductor outlook is truly weak in early 2022, or whether it’s just weak for certain companies. AMD AMD, +2...

Opinion: After a monster quarter, Apple’s non-forecast is good enough for Wall Street

Apple Inc.’s holiday sales and profit totals were staggering once again, and CEO Tim Cook gave just enough of a forecast to satisfy Wall Street on Thursday — but not enough to feel totally comfortable...

Intel stock hits lowest price in more than a year, and there is another shoe to drop

Intel Corp. weathered another tough investor reaction to its earnings report Thursday, and analysts say the chip maker faces another potential challenge in addition to falling margins: A looming overs...

Lam Research notes fresh supply-chain issues, hurting stock and casting pall over chip-equipment sector

Lam Research Corp. shares sank 6% in late trading Wednesday after the chip-equipment supplier reported worse-than-expected fiscal second-quarter revenue and third-quarter guidance, which the chief exe...

Intel stock punished again as slimmer profit margins ding earnings forecast, but CEO sticks to his plan

Intel Corp. executives expect profit margins to remain pressured in the long term as the chip maker builds out manufacturing capacity, leading to a disappointing earnings guidance that dinged the comp...

Teradyne stock plunges nearly 20% after earnings guidance misses

Teradyne Inc.’s first-quarter financial guidance fell short of Wall Street projections, sending shares down nearly 20% in after-hours trading to $115.03. The company projected 71 cents to 93 cents a s...

IBM stock rallies as earnings, sales surge amid Kyndryl spinoff

International Business Machines Corp. shares rallied in the extended session Monday after Big Blue topped Wall Street expectations following the spinoff of its managed infrastructure-service business,...

Intel still has a lot to prove to Wall Street one year after Pat Gelsinger came home

Intel Corp. had a rough 2021, and it looks like the chip maker will still face Wall Street criticism in 2022 for its ambitious capital investment plan and the success of competitors amid continuing de...

Brace for a volatile 2022, but cling to this tech stalwart when the storm comes, says investment adviser

The pain is piling up for equity investors after the long U.S. holiday weekend, with bond yields at levels not seen since early 2020, and oil prices tapping 2014 highs. The pace of Federal Reserve mon...

These 3 ETFs let you play the hot semiconductor sector, where Nvidia, Micron, AMD and others are growing sales rapidly

Semiconductor stocks may continue to be an excellent area of the market for investors, even though the prospect of a long period of rising interest rates has put pressure on some high-flying technolog...

Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager

A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...

These S&P 500 stocks have cratered, but analysts think 12 can turn it around with rebounds of up to 70%

A period of high inflation and rising interest rates has taken out shares of companies with rich valuations. Then there’s the stubborn coronavirus, with variants raising infection rates and causing st...

Back Market Raises $510 Million For Reselling Old Electronics

Electronics refurbishing giant Back Market has raised a massive $510 million series E funding round at a $5.7 billion valuation, the company will announce tomorrow. This comes just eight months after ...