Hard Tech Corridor In The Heartland

A 65-mile stretch in Indiana is the new ‘Hard Tech Corridor,’ going from Indianapolis to Purdue … [+] University’s campus in West Lafayette Purdue University Indianapolis 500 a...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Opinion: 5 large companies that will emerge from the tech wreck as even more fearsome

The Nasdaq Composite Index’s rebound after seven weeks of losses restored some faith in technology stocks. After all, more than half of Nasdaq-member companies were until recently down 50% or more fro...

Broadcom’s Meta Pact May Mean a Billion Dollars a Year, Says J.P.Morgan

Text size A Broadcom Corp. Tomahawk chip. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg J.P.Morgan believes chip maker Broadcom will be a big beneficiary of the metaverse. On Tuesday, analyst Harlan Sur said Broadcom (...

Qualcomm Keen to Buy Arm Stake in Chip Designer’s Upcoming IPO, CEO Says

Text size Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon hasn’t yet spoken to SoftBank about a potential investment in Arm, the FT reports. Mario Tama/Getty Images Qualcomm is keen to buy a stake in SoftBank Group...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Taiwan Covid Deaths Hit Daily Record 127, GDP Growth Slowing

Shoppers wearing protective masks walk through a market in Taipei on May 23. Photographer: I-Hwa … [+] Cheng/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Taiwan, home to many of the world’s largest tec...

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...

Ethereum could ‘take over everything’, and there won’t be a multi-chain future, says EY’s blockchain leader

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...

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...

Five Things to Know About Broadcom’s Potential Deal for VMware

Text size Broadcom stock slipped in response to news of the possible deal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Broadcom ’s expected acquisition of cloud computing provider VMware will likely rank as one of t...

Broadcom in Talks to Pay About $60 Billion for VMware

Broadcom is in talks to pay around $60 billion for VMware people familiar with the matter said, in what would be one of the biggest takeover deals of the year. The two technology companies are aiming ...

AMD’s New Chips Could Spark a Turnaround for Its Stock

Text size AMD’s Ryzen 7000 chips will be made using a more advanced process than its existing ones. Courtesy of AMD It’s finally here. For the first time in three years, Advanced Micro Devices w...

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 ...

Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

Nvidia’s data-center sales likely to eclipse gaming — that might not be a good thing

Nvidia Corp.’s data-center sales are expected to edge out its gaming sales in fiscal first-quarter results, as demand from server farms remains high and gaming interest has subsided from rabid levels ...

After Big Pullback, It’s Time to Shop for Walmart Stock

Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...

Applied Materials whiffs across the board on earnings, stock drops

Applied Materials Inc. shares declined in the extended session Thursday after the semiconductor-manufacturing equipment maker missed on earnings, revenue and its forecast and pointed at continuing sup...

If you thought Walmart and Target had disappointing results, these retailers did so much worse

Retail stocks fell hard this week as bellwether companies disappointed investors with sagging profits. And now, a review of retailers sheds light on companies that put up worse numbers than those repo...

Nvidia Earnings Aren’t Due for a Week. Why This Analyst Is Already Worried.

Text size Nvidia has consistently beat estimates and raised its financial forecasts over the past two years. Courtesy Nvidia Nvidia might not substantially raise its financial forecasts or turn in hig...

Qualcomm and 3 Other Chip Stocks to Buy on the Sector’s Surprising Drop

Text size Attendees wait in line at Qualcomm’s booth during the CES 2019 trade show in Las Vegas. Robyn Beck /AFP via Getty Images Even a Wall Street analyst who has been doubtful on chip stocks...

Global Car Sales To Fall, Spooked By Russian Invasion, China’s Shutdown

Aerial view Vehicle carrier vessel cruising at car park in sea port or manufacture waiting for … [+] shipping export to worldwide. getty Global car sales were supposed to rally this year as manu...

15 stocks that have fallen at least 33% but by these measures are still standouts in their sectors

During a year in which more than half of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index have declined 10% or more, you have probably seen the term “oversold” being bandied about. But what does oversold really me...

Walmart, Moderna, Target, Deere, Home Depot, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size It’s the tail end of first-quarter earnings season, with mostly retailers left to report this week. Government data on U.S. retail sales will also be released. Home Depot and Walmart report ...

Largest U.S. Pension Bought AMC, AMD, and Block Stock. It Sold Netflix.

Text size An AMC box office. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg The largest public pension in America loaded up a high-profile meme stock, and tech stocks, and cut back on a streaming giant before the shares went ...

Taiwan’s No. 2 Chip Maker Teams Up With Car Parts Giant To Make Semiconductors In Japan

A 300mm silicon wafer. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg UMC, Taiwan’s No. 2 contract chip maker after TSMC, is pairing up with Toyota-backed car-parts supplier Denso to make semiconductors in Japan ...

More Than One In Six Mainland Chinese On 2022 Forbes Billionaires List Are Now Below The Cut

Declines in China stock prices have reduced the number of billionaires in mainland China. (Photo by … [+] Yifan Ding/Getty Images) Getty Images When it comes to being home to a large number of t...

2 Tech Stocks That Now Look Impossibly Cheap

Text size Memory chips from Micron Technology are increasingly vital in the cloud, as well as in the automotive, industrial, and networking markets. Jeremy Erickson/Bloomberg Historically, companies l...

Coinbase shares plunge almost 80% from November high, amid selloffs of crypto stocks and funds

Shares of crypto-related companies and funds ended sharply lower Monday, with Coinbase’s shares finishing at the lowest level in history, as both bitcoin and major U.S. stock indexes finished at multi...

Giant Pension Bought AMD, Tilray, Uber, and Petrobras Stock

Text size An AMD EPYC processor. Courtesy AMD New Jersey’s state pension materially increased investments in some of its larger positions. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, the pension’s larg...

Taiwan Confirmed Covid Cases Nearly Double In Five Days To Daily Record 30,035, Could Top 100,000

Members of the public wait in line at a vaccination facility administering the Moderna Covid-19 … [+] vaccine set up at Taipei Main Station on April 16. Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg © 202...