A fresh report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which is representative of U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, showed that worldwide semiconductor sales posted a slight drop of 0.1% to…
wikicommons / SkimstaMany American companies have been lauded for their rapid rise to greatness, a process that sometimes takes less than a decade. These firms become leaders in their industries, are renowned…
The weakness of Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ: STX) is going to offer cover for more weakness at Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC). That is the theory of Stern Agee’s Vijay Rakesh after the disk-drive…
Subject: The 10 Cheapest Tickets in Baseball The Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing, with the National League winning the All-Star game last week. We are now also in…
Advanced Micro Devices’ (NYSE: AMD) chairman, Bruce L. Claflin, has been on the chipmaker’s board since 2003. He has chaired the board since early 2009. For some odd reason, he was appointed…
Douglas A. McIntyre The stock market is down Friday over further concerns in Europe. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.78%, the Nasdaq is down 0.83% and the S&P 500 is down 0.73%. Today’s market…
Thursday will mark yet another important day for this earnings season. The second quarter became more challenging for many companies, as we noted about so many tech warnings weighing on shares last…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is due to report earnings next week and the trend of earnings has been nothing short of extremely disappointing from technology companies. We outlined all of the big…
By now investors have had time to digest the notion that technology company sales and earnings are just not going to live up to prior expectations in most cases. Investors are learning that…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning on reports of a new bailout for Spanish banks and a 24-basis point drop on 10-year Spanish bond yields (our coverage here).…
We have two big chip warnings for the market to absorb today. Interestingly enough, the market is absorbing these rather well if you take an ‘all things considered’ approach. Applied Materials Inc.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Advanced Micro Devices. Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Maintained Neutral and cut target to…
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) announced after markets closed last night that it would buy a 10% stake in Dutch chip-equipment maker ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML) for $2.1 billion. Intel will also…
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has just issued an earnings confession. The chip and processor company has warned that its revenues for the second quarter will now be down by roughly…
Nothing kills a business quite so fast as when its most critical products become commodities. And the list of industries with this problem is growing. Even the price of homes has fallen victim…
