Wall Street rattled over Fed worries

Wall Street rattled over Fed worries

A trader works, as a screen displays a news conference by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell following the Fed rate announcement, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 31, 2024.  Brendan McDermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets … Read more

A scorching start for U.S. jobs growth

A scorching start for U.S. jobs growth

A “Now Hiring” sign at Jamba Juice in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, June 26, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | 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 … Read more

U.S. jobs growth kicked off with a bang

U.S. jobs growth kicked off with a bang

A “Now Hiring” sign at an Advance Auto Parts store in San Leandro, California, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | 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 … Read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hits 10-year anniversary

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hits 10-year anniversary

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, Feb. 7, 2023. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images When Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO in February 2014, the software company was mired in mediocrity. Its market cap was just over $300 … Read more

Wall Street sees more upside for Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia, Costco

Wall Street sees more upside for Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia, Costco

It was another upbeat week for stocks as back-to-back gains on Thursday and Friday more than made up for Wednesday’s Federal Reserve-driven selloff . Wall Street analysts had a lot to say about our portfolio names as Big Tech earnings dominated the action. Here are five big calls of the week and our Club takes, … Read more

Too exposed to Big Tech? These ETFs may help broaden out your risk

Too exposed to Big Tech? These ETFs may help broaden out your risk

Big Tech’s market dominance may push more investors to equal-weight exchange-traded funds, according to VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth. “Investors are getting nervous that too much money is concentrated in a handful of stocks within the broader ETFs that they have available that [are] tied to the S&P 500 or even the Nasdaq 100,” the firm’s head … Read more

Big Tech’s AI spending plans mean big things Nvidia, Broadcom, Eaton

Big Tech’s AI spending plans mean big things Nvidia, Broadcom, Eaton

A busy week of Big Tech earnings left us feeling more assured about our investments in Nvidia , Broadcom and Eaton as spending on artificial intelligence chips and data centers remain clear-cut priorities. The quarterly reports from Club holdings Alphabet , Microsoft , Meta Platforms and Amazon this week varied in overall quality, but a … Read more

Tech’s longtime highfliers are growing up by getting smaller

Tech’s longtime highfliers are growing up by getting smaller

Visitors take photos in front of the Meta sign at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, December 29, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Technology companies are learning an old lesson from Wall Street: maturing means shrinking. Meta and Amazon saw their shares spike on Friday following their fourth-quarter earnings reports. While … Read more

Spend money to make money

Spend money to make money

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images It was a big week for tech earnings, with Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon and Apple all reporting over the past few days. Artificial intelligence … Read more

Mega tech earnings grab attention

Mega tech earnings grab attention

Information about Facebook stock shares is displayed on a monitor as traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the closing bell, November 19, 2018 in New York City.  Drew Angerer | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC … Read more