ThinkstockAs of January 15, short interest in several semiconductor stocks increased as investors continued to bet against PC processors and memory chips in favor of mobile devices. With only a couple of…
NASDAQShort interest data from mid-January showed that short sellers moved out of big tech stocks, a sign that the market has warmed to a sector about which it has been ambivalent. Shares…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Jefferies "Franchise" stock picks for 2014 are an eclectic group that may offer investors some ideas that are not highly touted on Wall Street. If the Jefferies team is right, these…
Is it time to start taking money off the table in the areas such as drives, storage and memory? They have enjoyed great gains, and investors who have been around the investment…
ThinkstockWednesday was yet another mixed day in the stock market, one where the Dow Jones Industrial Average was in the red and the S&P 500 Index and NASDAQ were positive for most…
IBM said it would rebalance its workforce. Texas Instruments announced it would cut 1,100 people. These come shortly after Intel said it would fire 5,000. Big tech seems to get ever smaller,…
Facebook has been listed at a public company for two years, yet it is one of the most widely traded stocks on any U.S. exchange. Others vying for the top spot have…
Intel announced it would lay off just over 5,000 people between now and the end of the year. The number is about 5% of its workforce. But Intel insists the action is…
Jon Ogg in NYCThe stock markets were mixed most of the trading day on Friday. A gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was masked because the gains were tied to only…
The most important piece of information to come out of Intel's quarterly earnings release was a comment about signs of stabilization in the PC segment. The chip company has not made much…
ThinkstockIntel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is out with its fourth-quarter earnings of 2013, and the good news is that there does appear to be some stabilization in the core PC market. The bad…
Jon C. Ogg Wikimedia CommonsSemiconductor giant Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) reports fourth-quarter results after Thursday’s bell, and the question is whether its earnings and its outlook can keep this week’s rally going. Intel is expected…
With earnings from AMD and rival Intel coming soon, and with Intel getting two key analyst upgrades in two days, we cannot help but wonder if AMD if finally back. Or better…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, January 15.
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe stock gods decided to buy the dip on Tuesday, a day after the biggest sell-off in about three months. Despite a lack of market-moving economic reports, the…
