Susquehanna is getting more pessimistic about the outlook for PC sales. On Thursday, semiconductor analyst Christopher Rolland reduced his price targets for Nvidia (ticker: NVDA ) stock to $180 from $...
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Intel Introduces Videogame Graphics Chips to Challenge Nvidia
Sept. 27, 2022 3:02 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Intel plans to start selling graphics chips for videogamers next month, aiming to get a piece of a lucrative market dominated by competitors Nvi...
If chip production is recovering, why are automakers still making fewer cars?
Automakers trimmed 76,000 vehicles from global production plans in mid-September, according to analysts from AutoForecast Solutions. They’ll produce about 3.23 million fewer this year than planned, th...
Micron forecast expected to shed light on how two years of unprecedented supply problems may resolve
Micron Technology Inc. investors are hoping the memory-chip maker’s forecast will provide more color into the unprecedented supply-and-demand dynamics created by two years of COVID-19-related disrupti...
BP Stock Regains Some Ground After Fire at Refinery Leaves Two Dead
Text size BP is the operator at the Toledo, Ohio refinery where two workers died in an accident on Wednesday. Greame Robertson/Getty Images Shares of oil giant BP (ticker: BP) retraced some of their l...
Carl Icahn to investors: ‘The worst is yet to come’
Wall Street icon Carl Icahn has a warning for his fellow investors: “The worst is yet to come.” Speaking on Wednesday at MarketWatch’s Best New Ideas in Money Festival via a remote feed, the 86-year-o...
Chip Stocks Marvell and Broadcom Can Outperform, Says J.P. Morgan
Text size Dreamstime J.P. Morgan believes two chip stocks can do well even as growth prospects for the cloud market softens. On Wednesday, semiconductor analyst Harlan Sur told investors the weaker ec...
Freyr Battery Gains as Analyst Calls It a Top Pick. The Stock Could Quadruple.
Text size Freyr can be a serious battery player in years to come, says Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas. FREYR Stock in Norwegian battery start-up Freyr Battery is getting a boost from a new bullish ...
Buy Luminar Stock, Analyst Says. It’s a Winner in Radar for Autonomous Cars.
Text size Luminar’s stock is forecast to reach $30 by December 2023. Here, a photo of a Luminar Lidar-based sensor on a test vehicle. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images The autonomous vehicl...
Opinion: 4 reasons you should buy energy stocks right now if you are a long-term investor
This has been a painful year for stock market investors, as nothing seems to be working. There is an exception: Energy. It’s the best-performing sector and might still be a bargain for those who can b...
Nvidia says it’s in a ‘really good place’ for Lovelace gaming-card launch, but at what price?
Nvidia Corp. told Wall Street analysts Tuesday that the launch of its next generation of gaming cards is well positioned, but one analyst questioned whether the higher-than-expected prices would weath...
‘Some companies are closing their doors, others are shutting down divisions’: Rocket CEO outlines plans to navigate the dramatic decline in mortgages
The mortgage industry is struggling with higher rates and a sharp drop in buyer demand. Rocket RKT, +0.53% says it’s got a plan to turn things around. There’s turmoil in the sector. Volume of originat...
AMD and Intel Say PC Demand Is ‘Getting Worse.’ That’s Bad News for Chip Stocks.
Text size Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg So much for the vaunted second-half comeback. The two major computer-chip companies are now acknowledging PC demand is f...
Fed to put a ‘firm foot on the brake pedal’ this week
The Federal Reserve is widely expected this week to raise its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points in an effort to slow the economy as a way to cool inflation. “What the Fed was doing ear...
China’s Factories Accelerate Robotics Push as Workforce Shrinks
China installed almost as many robots in its factories last year as the rest of the world, accelerating a rush to automate and consolidate its manufacturing dominance even as its working-age populatio...
Germany Takes Control of Oil Refineries Owned by Russia’s Rosneft
BERLIN—Germany took control of the German business of Russian oil giant Rosneft Oil Co. as Berlin races to safeguard its energy supplies before its planned ban on Russian oil imports kicks in later th...
Nvidia is about to make a big announcement during a difficult time
Nvidia Corp. faces a much more troublesome environment from the last time it launched a new chip architecture as it approaches a new launch. Nvidia NVDA, +2.08% kicks off its fall GTC event on Monday,...
The S&P 500 sank 5% in a very bad week for stocks. These 20 lost as much as 24%.
U.S. stocks sputtered Friday to close out the week in the red. The day’s declines of less than 1% for the broad indexes paled against Tuesday’s, when they sank 4% to 5%. For the week, the Dow Jones In...
Why FedEx’s stock plunge is so bad for the whole stock market
FedEx Corp.’s profit warning has cast a pall on the broader stock market, as a record plunge in the package delivery giant’s stock has helped trigger one half of a Dow Theory “sell” signal. FedEx shar...
22 dividend stocks screened for quality and safety
Now that the S&P 500 has hit a new closing low for 2022, it is a good time to rerun a screen of low-volatility dividend stocks that may perform relatively better. An initial screen of the S&P ...