Stock Markets: Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia

Stock Markets: Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during morning trading in New York on August 23, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, … Read more

Nvidia is world’s ‘most important stock,’ adds pressure to Q2 earnings

Nvidia is world’s ‘most important stock,’ adds pressure to Q2 earnings

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters For Nvidia investors, the past two years have been a joyride. But recently they’ve been on more of a roller coaster. As the primary beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom, Nvidia has … Read more

Jim Cramer says Big Tech stocks haven’t hit a bottom just yet

Jim Cramer says Big Tech stocks haven’t hit a bottom just yet

CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed Monday’s high and low performers and told investors weakness in the tech sector is not enough to warrant buying just yet. “At this point, there’s going to be a lot more Nasdaq weakness. So, please be ready to do some buying, but just not yet,” he said. “Too early in the … Read more

Intel has hired Morgan Stanley to defend against activists: sources

Intel has hired Morgan Stanley to defend against activists: sources

A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters on August 01, 2024 in Santa Clara, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Intel is working with advisors including Morgan Stanley to help defend itself against activist investors, according to people familiar with the matter, as CEO Pat Gelsinger attempts to turn … Read more

How Google makes custom cloud chips that power Apple AI and Gemini

How Google makes custom cloud chips that power Apple AI and Gemini

Inside a sprawling lab at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, hundreds of server racks hum across several aisles, performing tasks far less ubiquitous than running the world’s dominant search engine or executing workloads for Google Cloud’s millions of customers. Instead, they’re running tests on Google’s own microchips, called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. Originally … Read more

Wall Street extends winning run

Wall Street extends winning run

Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 16, 2024.  Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you … Read more

Wall Street extends winning run

Wall Street extends winning run

Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 16, 2024.  Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you … Read more

Intel sells stake in UK chip designer Arm amid company-wide restructuring and cost cuts

Intel sells stake in UK chip designer Arm amid company-wide restructuring and cost cuts

A sign is posted in front of Intel headquarters on August 01, 2024 in Santa Clara, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Intel has sold its 1.18 million share stake in British chip firm Arm Holdings, according to a regulatory filing, as the California chip designer shores up its balance sheet … Read more

Market sell-off won’t last as there’s no tech bubble to burst: CIO

Market sell-off won’t last as there’s no tech bubble to burst: CIO

Global markets are cautiously rebounding from an early-August rout — and one asset manager says there’s no need to fear a burst tech bubble causing a persistent downturn. Technology stocks were among the hardest-hit by the recent sell-off, as declines of 1.6% in July and more than 4% so far in August for Wall Street’s tech-dominated … Read more

On paper the market should be great, not on edge. That’s the opportunity

On paper the market should be great, not on edge. That’s the opportunity

When I look at Thursday’s rally, I am beginning to realize that we have become so binary and so up close that we have lost our ability to think about what matters. The big fish data got caught among the minnow minutiae and we ended up with ridiculous rallies that are, therefore, based on nothing. … Read more