With the S&P 500 already up 26% from a low point in late October, money is starting to pour into European stocks. Investors should expect that to continue. The S&P 500 has become expensive, while the Stoxx Europe 600 hasn’t. The S&P 500 is now trading at 20.7 times the per-share earnings its component companies … Read more
Are Oracle and Microsoft rivals or partners when it comes to artificial intelligence? Both, judging by their latest announcements. Oracle ’s recent earnings staked out its claim to be an AI winner as it reported strong demand for its cloud services. That has boosted its stock and helped it get an upgrade to Buy from … Read more
Apple has a China problem – we know that. The iPhone maker looks to be hoping that a greater retail presence in the country can help it out. Apple is preparing to open its eighth store in Shanghai this month. The company announced on its website that it would open the site in Jing’an, a … Read more
Yahoo Finance Video Nvidia (NVDA) has reached an all-time high in trading and shows few signs of slowing down. But are there opportunities in the sector for other companies to make an intervention? Constellation Research founder and analyst R “Ray” Wang and TD Cowen managing director and senior equity research analyst John Blackledge join the … Read more
Another day brings yet another salvo in the artificial-intelligence wars. No sooner had Alphabet introduced an upgrade to its AI model than OpenAI struck back with a new video-generation tool and was reported to be taking aim at the search-engine market. Microsoft -backed OpenAI on Thursday made a buzzy public announcement of the launch of … Read more
Stock-market investors may take their cues from a series of important events in the week ahead, including the Federal Reserve’s monetary-policy meeting, a closely-watched December employment report and an onslaught of earnings from megacap technology names, which all promise insight into the state of the economy and interest-rate outlook. The benchmark S&P 500 index SPX … Read more
It is always a stockpicker’s market. You just have to pick the right stocks. If you picked the so-called Magnificent Seven last year—a group of highflying, mostly tech stocks that powered the S&P 500 index to a 24% gain—you looked in the mirror and beheld a genius. This year, it might be wise to avoid … Read more
Apple, Tesla, and the Rest of the Big 7 Stocks Have Been Winners … Barron’s Source link
September is here, and that can mean only one thing—it’s time to give up and go home. Or maybe not. There’s a lot to like about September. Temperatures are cooling, days are getting shorter but not too short, kids are going back to school, and the leaves are getting ready to turn. For the stock … Read more
Augmented reality (AR) is technology that projects additions to what you see and hear through devices, adding to your current reality. Virtual reality (VR) is the creation of an immersive experience, using sound, images, touch feedback and other techniques to launch you into a world that only exists digitally, with the second. These types of … Read more