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BP to Exit 20% Stake in Russia’s Rosneft
Russia’s aggressions in Ukraine prompted reactions from companies such as BP and United Parcel Service as well as Norway’s sovereign wealth fund as the world continues to raise pressure on President V...
The Chip Shortage Has Made These 4 Stocks a Buy
Text size GlobalFoundries, which makes basic chips for everything from cars and phones to toys and power tools, says chip capacity is growing at half the needed pace. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomber...
Ford Takes More Capacity Offline Because of Trucker Blockade in Canada
Text size Demonstrators against Covid-19 vaccine mandates block the roadway at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on Feb. 9. Geoff Robins / AFP via Getty Images Ford Mo...
Opinion: Amid a global chip shortage, Intel is making less money — how did that happen?
Intel INTC, -2.48% was the world’s largest chipmaker until 2021, when it was dethroned by Samsung. Though Samsung’s main business is memory chips, which is a different segment of the market to Intel’s...
Tech Stocks to Buy as Interest Rates Rise
Text size Chip stocks look like good bets in th new world for tech stocks. Maika Elan/Bloomberg Tech stocks finally showed a little fight last week, aided by an impressive batch of earnings reports. B...
Fastenal and 4 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week
Text size Fastenal increased its quarterly dividend by 11%. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Fastenal , Consolidated Edison , and J.B. Hunt Transport Services were among the U.S. companies that declared divide...
Satellite TV Can’t Be Saved With a DirecTV-Dish Merger
Text size In some parts of the country where cable access is limited, Dish and DirecTV remain the only way to get pay-TV subscriptions. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For 20 years now, Dish Network and rival ...
Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.
Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...
Supply-Chain Constraints Are Easing. 5 Stocks That Should Benefit.
Text size STR/AFP via Getty Images Global supply-chain constraints are beginning to ease, which will benefit a host of stocks. The surge in economic demand last year brought on by reopenings and econ...
Airlines Warn of Crippling Flight Disruptions if New 5G Rollout Isn’t Delayed
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images After AT&T and Verizon Communications refused requests from the U.S. government to delay the Jan. 5 launch of new 5G services, the Airlines for America trade...
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...