Only in the past two years has the U.S. fully grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies as oil. In the digitizing world, power tools commonly come with Bluetooth chips that tr...
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Tesla shares under pressure after EV maker slashes prices of Model 3 and Y cars in the U.S.
Shares of Tesla Inc. were under pressure in early trading on Friday after the electic-car maker announced price cuts for its Model 3 and Model Y cars, with discounts in some cases of nearly 20%, as th...
Why the stock market isn’t impressed with the first monthly decline in consumer prices in more than 2 years
Inflation data may no longer be the big catalyst for stocks that it once was. U.S. stocks bounced around to a higher close on Thursday, even though investors received some encouraging inflation news a...
Mark Cuban To Testify On Voyager Marketing
Next month, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, is scheduled to give a deposition as part of the defense against a potential class-action lawsuit alleging that he promoted a Ponzi scheme in...
Why Marketing Leaders Must Focus On Connectivity And Innovation In 2023
For sports fans the world over, the post-holiday season is where the action really begins to heat up and appetite for more achievements for a New Year kicks in. The same can be said for most CMOs who ...
The Dow takes ‘important first step’ toward a new bull market
Don’t dis the Dow Jones Industrial Average just because it’s made up of only 30 stocks, because if the stock market bounces back from last year’s selloff, it’ll be the Dow that leads it. With the Dow ...
FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements could have biggest impact on tech industry
Ryan Morrissey is a serial founder of software companies, having already launched three separate startups. Yet when he sold one of those companies, he had to sign an agreement to not start any more fo...
The Stock Market Had a Great Start to 2023. Earnings Season Could Be a Problem.
Text size This coming Friday marks the start of fourth-quarter earnings season, with Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase helping to kick off the festivities. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Investors got their Goldilock...
Natural Gas Prices Are Coming Down. What to Expect for Energy Stocks.
The good news is that energy prices are coming down for households. The bad news is that energy stocks are feeling the pain. The best-performing sector in the stock market last year is finding itself ...
Salesforce Customers Not Swayed by Slack, Analysts Say
When Salesforce Inc. bought the messaging application Slack for $27.7 billion almost two years ago, it said the marriage would “transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere ...
It’s Pharma Time: Why Merck and Lilly Stock Are Buys, but not Pfizer.
My 2023 biotech outlook calls for continued momentum in name changes. I just need to figure out what the stocks will do. Last year, Respira Technologies became Qnovia. It’s run by a former tobacco exe...
CES 2023: AMD, Nvidia, auto applications get the hype, but analysts say this one chip maker ruled
As CES 2023 draws to a close, much of the attention in the chip world was lauded on companies like Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. but a lower profile chip maker appears better positioned...
Dow ends down nearly 350 points after jobs data, hawkish Fed comments hammer stocks
U.S. stock indexes ended another choppy session in the red on Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of labor-market data and hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve officials, while looking ahe...
Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year
Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, and data point to a 2023 that could be even more difficult. As markets tanked in e...
Opinion: 11 predictions for money, technology, stocks and crypto for 2023
Here are some 2023 predictions for financial markets, the economy and stocks. I’ve spent the last year and a half being cautious in the wake of the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market that finally ended early ...
5 things not to buy in 2023
It’s been a year of contradictions. The recession drum beats on, interest rates are rising, and the stock market has taken a tumble, and yet retail sales have risen 6.5% in the last 12 months, trailin...
Oil books biggest weekly gain since October as concerns rise over Russia supplies
Oil futures rose Friday, booking strong weekly gains, as concerns grew about a drop in Russian exports following the imposition of a price cap by G7 countries earlier this month. Russia’s deputy prime...
The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance
We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary. In 2023, in ...