Broadcom Inc. shares fell Tuesday following reports that Apple Inc. was working on its own radiofrequency (RF) chips, but one analyst wondered whether those plans would get shelved if the chip maker o...
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Freshpet and Peabody Energy Stock See Action From Activist Investors
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Broadcom refuses to provide full-year outlook, cites limited visibility as it ‘scrubs’ backlog
Broadcom Inc. late Thursday gave Wall Street analysts quarterly earnings and an outlook that topped consensus estimates, hiked its dividend and recommitted to share buybacks, yet analysts kept asking ...
Why Splunk Stock Is Worth a Look
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Opinion: Quality and high dividends set these five semiconductor stocks apart from rivals
It’s been a tough year in the stock market, but reserve some empathy for semiconductor investors. The iShares Semiconductor ETF SOXX, +2.20% is down 40.5% this year, compared with 19.6% for the benchm...
Bernstein launches coverage of Canada’s Tilray, Cronos and Canopy Growth but stops short of any buy ratings
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Nadine Sarwat initiated coverage of three Canadian cannabis stocks on Wednesday but stopped short of any buy recommendations at current levels. “Is the buzz gone...
13 Investment Moves to Pump Out Income as Interest Rates Rise
Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg Interest rates have further to rise amid persistent inflation, while the labor market remains too strong for its own good. ...
Broadcom CEO defends optimistic ‘true demand’ outlook as PC, smartphone sales slide
Broadcom Inc.’s chief executive on Thursday defended his positive outlook that end-market demand is “solid” for the rest of the year as Wall Street analysts questioned that optimism amid a cooling of ...
Alcoa Has a Plan for Zero Emissions. Buy the Stock While It’s a Bargain.
The outlook for aluminum is brightening, and so are the prospects for Alcoa, probably the best pure play on the versatile and light metal—and a cheap one. Alcoa stock (ticker: AA) looks like a bargain...
VMware beats on earnings as it awaits Broadcom acquisition approval
VMware Inc.’s profit declined less than expected in the second quarter, as the software company awaits approval for an acquisition by chip maker Broadcom Inc. VMware VMW, +2.31% on Thursday reported s...
Fed heroics or no, the S&P 500 level is destined for a retest of lows. These are the levels to watch, says this strategist
In the words of the great Bonnie Tyler: “He’s gotta be sure, and it’s gotta be soon, and he’s gotta be larger than life.” The hero this market is holding out for is Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and he’s t...
Five Chinese Companies Say They Plan to Delist From the New York Stock Exchange
Five Chinese state-owned companies said they intend to delist their American depositary shares from the New York Stock Exchange, as financial regulators in Beijing and Washington remain at loggerheads...
Broadcom loses top software exec in the middle of VMware deal to head combined Citrix-Tibco company
Broadcom Inc.’s head of software Tom Krause is leaving the company in the middle of a $61 billion software acquisition he helped bring about, which analysts called “a surprise” and “not the greatest o...
Growth Stocks Down. Small-Caps Are Worse. Could This Be Time for Small-Cap Growth?
If your stocks are trailing the S&P 500, which is down 15% from its early January high, borrow a tactic from the pros: switch benchmarks. Perhaps you’re beating growth stocks. The S&P 500 Grow...
Broadcom Stock Has Gained on VMware Takeover. Its Dividend Could Rise 20%.
Text size Truist analyst William Stein calculates that Broadcom could raise its dividend by over 20% this year. Remus Rigo/Dreamstime.com The stock market has had a mixed reaction to Broadcom ’s inten...
Broadcom May Pay About $60 Billion for VMware With Announcement Thursday
Text size Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware would be one of the biggest deals of 2022 so far. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Chip maker titan Broadcom may announce a deal to purchase software compa...
Dow futures up 300 points after Biden hints that China tariffs could be reconsidered
U.S. stock index futures were pointing to a firmer start for Wall Street on Monday, with some crediting the move to comments made by President Joe Biden about a reconsideration of China tariffs. How a...
Broadcom reportedly in talks to buy VMware
Chip maker Broadcom Inc. is in negotiations to buy enterprise cloud-computing company VMware Inc., according to multiple reports Sunday night. Bloomberg News, Reuters, the New York Times and the Wall ...
Opinion: Keep calm — there’s no recession on the way. These 13 stocks may rise as investors figure this out
A so-called hard landing of the U.S. economy is not going to happen. It’s a false fear. We may have a bumpy landing, but the odds of hard landing — a possible recession — are low for the reasons below...
Stifel cuts cannabis industry view as analysts weigh Tilray
Stifel analyst W. Andrew Carter on Monday said the firm continues to approach the cannabis sector with “negative overall bias” amid a reduced outlook for the U.S. market and lackluster performance in ...
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 ...
Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business
Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...
The Gold Rush Is On. It’s Not Too Late to Get In.
Text size Investors can buy a gold exchange-traded fund like SPDR Gold Shares or iShares Gold Trust, which own the precious metal. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg The chase is on. The chase for gold, that i...
Tech Stocks to Buy After a Crazy Week of Earnings
Amazon stock was up almost 14% on Friday after the company reported solid earnings and said it was raising the price of its Prime membership for the first time since 2018. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images...
Jefferies issues bullish note on buy-rated OrganiGram, upgrades Cronos and Hexo and cuts Tilray’s price target
Jefferies upgraded two Canadian cannabis stocks on Thursday and reduced his price target on a third, while remaining most bullish on buy-rated OrganiGram Holdings Inc., which it said is “really starti...
Tilray expected to grow sales sequentially but remain in the red
Tilray Inc. will likely grow its sales over the previous quarter but it’s expected to post a net loss when it becomes the first major cannabis company to post quarterly results in 2022 on Monday. Tilr...
Opinion: Central banks are buying gold at the fastest rate in half a century
Here’s another reason why it may not be completely insane to add some gold bullion to your 401(k) or retirement account. Central banks are stocking up. Three economists—Serkan Arslanalp and Chima Simp...