U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Tuesday, with major indexes suffering the worst daily percentage declines in over two months, as downbeat guidance from major retailers, rising Treasury yields and e...
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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...
AMD Stock Should Benefit From Next-Generation Computer Chips
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Retail Discounter TJX Is Thriving as Inflation Pressures Consumers
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An American Helped Build a Business Inside China. Clients Want Him to Leave.
It took Jacob Rothman two decades to build a Chinese manufacturing business with his friends and family. Now the 49-year-old American executive says customers want him to make some of his grilling too...
Memory Chip Makers Struggle With Declines in Demand, Price
Listen to article (2 minutes) The pandemic boom in memory chips is on pause. A decline in prices in recent months has led the biggest memory players—including Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology...
21 dividend stocks yielding 5% or more of companies that will produce plenty of cash in 2023
When the stock market has jumped two days in a row, as it has now, it is easy to become complacent. But the Federal Reserve isn’t finished raising interest rates, and recession talk abounds. Stock inv...
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...
Samsung says personal data of some U.S. customers exposed in breach
Samsung Electronics Co. is warning some U.S. customers that their personal data was exposed in a recent breach. Samsung announced the breach in a brief statement late Friday, as Americans were about t...
Bill Ackman says fast-food chains are an inflationary shield. Here’s two he likes, and one he just sold.
A cautious session is ahead for Tuesday, following the worst smackdown since June for major indexes. That’s as an increasing number of investors see the Fed pivoting from rate hikes to be a tall order...
Taiwan Semiconductor Stock Will Benefit From Spending Spree
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is hedging its geographical bets, with large new fabs planned for the U.S. and Japan. Here: a TSMC chip at a 2020 semiconductor conference in China. Str/AFP/Getty Im...
Roku Stock Is Heading For Its Biggest Drop Ever. Analyst Calls Earnings Awful.
Text size Roku reported revenue of $764.4 million in the latest quarter. Wall Street was expecting $804 million. Dreamstime Roku stock cratered after the video-streaming company’s earnings fell far sh...
Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...
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...
Micron’s recovery from ‘worst memory downturn in 13 years’ will take time, analyst says
Micron Technology Inc.’s results and outlook show the memory-chip market is probably at its worst downturn in 13 years and analysts expect the bounce back may take a while. Late Wednesday, Micron MU, ...