Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: The S & P 500 was modestly lower Friday as investors mull over the latest news from the Israel-Iran conflict …
Global artificial intelligence deals under the Trump administration this year have thrust “sovereign AI” into the limelight, bringing to life a new engine to power the AI investment cycle. While the first major wave of AI was tied to innovation spurred by private sector tech companies, Wall Street is now …
Chip engineer handling a wafer. Sinology | Moment | Getty Images With the U.S. restricting China from buying advanced semiconductors used in artificial intelligence development, Beijing is placing hopes on domestic alternatives such as Huawei. The task has been made more challenging by the fact that U.S. curbs not only …
Maybe it is worth waiting for stocks like Wynn Resorts , names so cheap that they can’t be explained. On Friday, I spent a considerable amount of time with Wynn CEO Craig Billings at his incredible hotel, the gem of the Las Vegas strip, talking about his business and its …
My top 10 things to watch Monday, March 17 1. Nvidia’s annual GTC conference will dominate this week’s news. Nvidia’s stock has had big run-up into the event for AI developers. That’s normal, as is a rally after. The AI chip king, which we own for the Club, is expected …
My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, Jan. 7 1. Wall Street was looking at a muted open Tuesday after the S & P 500 and the Nasdaq closed higher for a second straight session. Tech stocks, particularly chip names, drove the buying. Nvidia rose nearly 3.5% on Monday to …
Atop a newly completed, 3.5-million-square-foot building that stands on 1,100 acres in the Arizona desert north of Phoenix is a giant logo of a microchip wafer and the letters TSMC. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s first Arizona chip fabrication plant, or fab, is making history because it’s the most advanced chip …
The U.S. presidential election beckons and even though nearly 75 million people have already voted, according to NBC News , nothing seems to have leaked out. You would figure the hedge fund algorithms would have picked up something by now, but I haven’t seen any confirmed bets made either way. …
After all of these years, after all of the rather incredible rallies and gains in the stock market from so many groups, the typical morning still starts with a bevy of negativity. That gloom lasts until near the close, where the market seems to say, “Oh well, maybe things aren’t …
Workers assembles smartphones at Dixon Technologies factory in Uttar Pradesh, India, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images India has big ambitions to become a semiconductor powerhouse as the world’s fifth-largest economy pushes for self-reliance in manufacturing. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set numerous goals …