Taiwan Semi Stock Is Rising. An Analyst Sees More Demand From Intel and Apple.

Text size Morgan Stanley analyst Charlie Chan upgraded Taiwan Semiconductor to Overweight from Equal Weight. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares are trading higher Monday, ...

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...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

Giant Pension Sold Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm Stock. It Bought Nvidia.

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** The Apple logo Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images One of the world’s largest public pensions by assets made major changes in its investments in large-cap tech stocks a...

Rising Battery Prices Add Uncertainty to Electric-Vehicle Costs

Surging prices for the metals that make up electric-vehicle batteries have ended a decadelong decline that brought the cost of EVs to within spitting distance of gasoline-powered vehicles. Newsletter ...

Knightscope Stock—Like Its Security Robots—Has Its Ups and Downs

Text size Knightscope’s robots—and shares—have had their ups and downs. Dreamstime Knightscope is a tiny firm that’s familiar to many investors, if only from news reports about its “autonomous securit...

6 Stocks to Play the New U.S. Economic Reopening

UPS was a Covid beneficiary—until it wasn’t. Now, it again looks like a reopening play. Mario Tama/Getty Images Text size Covid cases are falling and the economy is about to reopen—again. Playing it, ...

GE Stock Could Light Up Your Portfolio. Here’s Why.

Text size General Electric was once known as the company that brings good things to life—but so far this century, holding shares of the conglomerate has been a portfolio killer. That all may soon chan...

Bitcoin Might Be Rallying but a ‘Crypto Winter’ Could Freeze Nvidia’s Stock

Text size Dreamstime Bitcoin and other cryptos bounced sharply on Friday with the world’s largest digital currency rallying above $40,000 for the first time in two weeks. But one analyst is warning of...

AT&T’s Dividend Cut Puts It in an Unenviable Club

A company cutting its dividend after a spinoff is uncommon, but not unprecedented. The longer-term outcomes can vary markedly. AT&T (ticker: T) joined this club on Tuesday, when it said it expects...

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...

California, Florida, and Inflation Are Sinking Solar

Text size Ethan Miller/Getty Images The solar power industry is destined to grow many times over in the coming decades, and several companies will undoubtedly become behemoths. But the current picture...

Opinion: Biden borrows too much, while America’s economy hollows out

It’s easy to be distracted by Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and the Federal Reserve’s new war on inflation but as the economy recovers from the delta and omicron variants, difficult post-pandemic c...

Opinion: ARK investors have lost $4 billion — ‘We believe we’re going to see the turn sooner rather than later,’ Cathie Wood says

Four billion dollars would provide for a lot of retirements. It would, for example, pay for about 80,000 of these popular recreational vehicles. Or about 40,000 of these popular boats. Or, more prosai...

Qualcomm stock slips following strong earnings and outlook

Qualcomm Inc. shares slipped in the extended session Wednesday as the chip maker’s quarterly results and outlook topped Wall Street estimates, but certain business segments fell short of expectations....

AMD Reports Earnings This Afternoon. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size An AMD processor. Growth in demand for chips used in PCs is expected to slow, while analysts are upbeat about the outlook for servers. Dreamstime While the recent downdraft in high-price tec...

Opinion: AT&T and 4 more unloved dividend stocks to buy in a ‘risk-off’ era

With stocks off to one of their worst starts to the year since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, it’s no longer crazy to talk about a sustained period of market volatility or a prolonged “risk off” envi...

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...

Why Electric-Component Supplier Wesco’s Stock Is a Buy

Demand for cloud computing, power from renewable sources, and electric vehicles, along with more extreme weather events, mean that electrical infrastructure will need extensive investment for years to...

U.S. Stock Futures Poised for Lower Open on Monday

Stocks are poised to open lower on Monday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Text size Here’s what you need to know to navigate the markets today. • U.S. stocks are set to open Monday slightly down. On Sunday n...

What CEOs Are Saying About Inflation: ‘The World Has Changed’

This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said on their quarterly earnings calls this week about what they are seeing and doing about inflation. “We’re seeing inflation.…Logistics, as I’ve me...

Caterpillar stock suffers biggest selloff in more than a year as margin, cost disappointments offset big earnings beat

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. took a dive Friday, as surging costs and a disappointing outlook on profit margins overshadowed a big quarterly earnings beat. The construction and mining equipment company ...

What’s old is new again — the Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the stock market

The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equa...

ChargePoint Upgraded by J.P. Morgan. Pullback Could Be a Good Entry Point.

Text size ChargePoint’s pullback could be a good entry point for investors, J.P. Morgan says. Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg ChargePoint Holdings shares were up Friday after J.P. Morgan upgraded its ra...

Investor Bought Up Moderna and Nvidia Stock. It Sold Salesforce and Sirius XM.

Text size A large U.K.-based asset manager bought up Moderna and Nvidia stock in the fourth quarter. Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images A large U.K.-based asset manager made big changes in its U.S...

What to expect from markets in the next six weeks, before the Federal Reserve revamps its easy-money stance

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fired a warning shot across Wall Street last week, telling investors the time has come for financial markets to stand on their own feet, while he works to tame i...

Market Volatility Is Creating Opportunities for Stocks. What to Buy Now

The 2022 market was always going to be a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Corporate profit growth fueled by the reopening has come up against contracting valuations and expectations of ...

Stocks Are on a Wild Ride. 20 Bargains to Buy Now, According to Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

Fed be nimble, Fed be quick. The quicker, the better, in fact. Hike interest rates, shrink your balance sheet, and let’s be done with it all before the stock market sinks even further. The market’s re...

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...

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...