Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...

Buy Micron Stock. The Chip Stock Deserves Better.

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...

As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken

U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...

Micron Deserves Better. Why the Stock Is a Buy

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Opinion: I’ve always pounded the table on revolutionary companies. Now I’ve found myself buying Intel’s stock

This may be a surprise for those of you who have been following me on MarketWatch, as I have focused on finding Revolutionary companies early on and holding on to them, usually forever. Intel is a com...

Ethereum’s major upgrade is coming. Should you be more bullish on it than bitcoin?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest an...

Intel CEO Gelsinger’s reaps near-$180 million windfall from ‘significant magnitude’ of new-hire awards

Pat Gelsinger had a very, very good year in 2021. He started the year as VMware Inc.’s VMW, -2.00% chief executive officer, where he took in total compensation of $16.5 million during the fiscal year ...

Micron Stock Is Rallying. Earnings and the Outlook Were Strong.

Text size Shares of memory-chip maker Micron were up nearly 3% on Tuesday, in advance of the earnings report. Dreamstime Memory-chip maker Micron Technology posted better-than-expected results for its...

Nvidia Stock Is Rising. There’s a New Street-High Price Target.

Text size Nvidia headquarters Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia stock edged higher Tuesday after a Tigress Financial Partners analyst raised his price target for chip maker to a new Wall Street high...

Micron Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Softening demand for personal computers and smartphones could pressure pricing on DRAM chips. Dreamstime Memory-chip giant Micron Technology reports earnings this afternoon for its fiscal se...

AMD Stock Is Still a Buy, Just Not a ‘Conviction’ Buy. What That Means.

Text size AMD was removed from Goldman’s conviction list. Courtesy AMD Advanced Micro Devices was removed from Goldman’s Conviction List while other semiconductor companies like Microchip Techno...

Get ready for $900 billion of stock purchases this year, says Goldman Sachs. Here’s who’s buying.

Wall Street is looking a little less surefooted as a new week begins, with oil sliding as fresh COVID lockdowns in China adding to a hefty worry pile. Bonds continue to slump as well. But maybe don’t ...

Southeast Asia Is Surging Postpandemic. Where to Invest.

A floating market in Damnoen Saduak, Thailand. Southeast Asia is looking attractive to investors as countries move past the pandemic. Eduardo Leal/Bloomberg Text size Not all the world news is bad the...

This Small-Cap Stock Is Cheap and Growing Fast. It’s Time to Buy.

nVent Electric CEO Beth Wozniak, left, and Chief Financial Officer Sara Zawoyski. Courtesy of nVent Text size Tucked away just off the Post Road and I-95 in Greenwich, Conn., sits Valbella, an upscale...

Nvidia’s $1 trillion ambitions draw cheers as software becomes a bigger piece of the pie

Nvidia Corp.’s pursuit of what it sees as a $1 trillion opportunity won praise from analysts following the company’s investor-day presentation, even though the chipmaker’s stock conveyed a more muted ...

ChargePoint and Toyota Team Up on EV Charging

Text size Toyota’s bZ4X is due to hit U.S. roads in mid-2022. Courtesy Toyota Electric-vehicle charging company ChargePoint announced a new partnership with Toyota Motor on Tuesday. The agreemen...

Nvidia’s Investor Day Was a Hit. That Hasn’t Stopped the Stock From Falling.

Text size Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is betting big on AI. Ethan Miller/Getty Images Nvidia ’s investor day and its flagship technical conference have been a hit on Wall Street this week—but that couldn’...

Nvidia Investor Day: What It Means for the Stock

Text size Shares of Nvidia have risen roughly 14% in the past month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia kicks off its investor day at 10 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, following a follow a keynote spe...

Nvidia Has Its Investor Day on Tuesday. What to Expect.

Text size Shares of Nvidia have risen roughly 14% in the past month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia kicks off its investor day at 10 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, following a follow a keynote spe...

Green Startups, Flush With Cash, Face Pressure to Make Climate Advances

Green startups hit the lottery last year. Investors have turned cautious since then, putting added pressure on the cash-rich companies to deliver better batteries, more sustainable materials and zippy...

Soaring Nickel Will Drive Tesla, EV Players to Do This With Batteries

A basket of metals that go into lithium ion batteries is up 64% so far in 2022, which theoretically raises the sticker price of an average electric vehicle. Ronny Hartmann/AFP via Getty Images Text si...

Lam Research Trades at a Discount. Citi Adds the Stock to Its U.S. Focus List.

Text size An employee makes a chip at a factory. AFP via Getty Images Semiconductor manufacturer Lam Research , down more than 25% in 2022, was added to Citi’s U.S. Focus List based on valuation and t...

Self Driving Stock TuSimple Jumps On a Kind Of New Buy Rating.

Text size TuSimple provides self-driving technology for heavy-duty trucks Courtesy of TuSimple Shares of TuSimple Holdings , a provider of technology for self-driving vehicles, are up in Thursday trad...

Tesla Stock, Nvidia Were Sold by Retail Traders. Here’s What They Bought.

Text size (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Retail traders were taking a cautious approach by selling stocks like Tesla and Nvidia as the markets gained for a third con...

Nvidia Stock Needs a Catalyst. It Could Get One Next Week.

Text size After rocketing higher in 2021, Nvidia shares have been under pressure in 2022. Remus Rigo/Dreamstime.com Like much of the rest of the stock market, to say nothing of the beaten-down tech se...

Apple and Nvidia Are Picked by Robot Trader That Dumped Google and Meta

Text size The robot trader likes Apple and Nvidia stock. Fresco/Evening Standard/Getty Images Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artifici...

Micron stock rockets after Bernstein turns positive on memory industry

Shares of Micron Technology Inc. were flying Wednesday after a Bernstein analyst forecast a rosier landscape ahead for the memory industry. Bernstein’s Mark Li expects that prices for dynamic random-a...

Intel and Qualcomm Are Gaining New Fans

Text size The PHLX Semiconductor Index has fallen 23% in 2022. Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg Semiconductor stocks have taken a beating in recent months, and there’s still plenty of nervousness to go around, acc...

Intel’s Lagging Notebook Shipments Are ‘Yellow Flag,’ Analyst Says

Text size Intel Dreamstime Intel ’s notebook shipments may struggle in the near term, adding further pressure to a stock that has traded lower this year, according to analysts at Citi. Notebook shipme...

Norway’s Central Bank Sells Apple Stock. It Bought Nvidia, Plug Power, and NIO.

Text size The iPhone 13 displayed at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store Spencer Platt/Getty Images Norway’s central bank recently trimmed its exposure to iPhones, and increased investments in the ecosystem ...

GE’s Power Business Is Its Most Complicated. It Also Holds the Most Potential.

Text size A General Electric wind turbine Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Thursday, General Electric management took investors on a deep dive into its embattled power business at an analyst event...