Anybody that follows the market with any kind of regularity knows who Jim Cramer is. After establishing a solid reputation as a money manager running his own hedge fund in the 1990’s, where he gained fame by posting only a single year of negative returns, Cramer retired from money management in 2001 and began running […]
Read MoreWhen you spend time scouring the market for investing opportunities, it’s pretty easy to focus on the biggest, most recognizable and most established names in any industry. It isn’t just the name recognition that makes that a logical course to take, either; when a industry in general starts to attract the attention of the broad […]
Read MoreAmong the many sectors that have benefitted by the market’s rally off of a Christmas Eve low, semiconductors have used broad market sentiment to drive into solid intermediate-term upward trends. As measured by the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX), the sector is up about 34% from that late-2018 low, and 24% year-to-date. There are a couple […]
Read MoreCramer says investors should look for high growth stocks now, and says these 9 stocks fit the bill.
Read MoreGoogle’s new service is a game-changer and the chipmaker it chose to power the platform’s graphics might surprise you.
Read MoreAnd the sector may have good news for the broader market. Here’s why.
Read MoreThe semiconductor industry is consistently one of the most interesting segments of the market to pay attention to; it seems to be a benchmark for the rest of the tech sector, and over the past few years has unquestionably lead the market from the standpoint of momentum and performance, to both the upside and downside. […]
Read MoreAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) was the strongest performer for an otherwise lackluster S&P 500 Tuesday. Shares of the semiconductor company scored double-digit returns, while its parent index posted a negligible 0.01% loss. Before Tuesday’s incredible performance, AMD stock had suffered lackluster gains for investors. Shares of the firm are down 16.7% over the last […]
Read MoreI know – it’s cheesy to use Valentine’s Day as a tagline today. And it’s also more than a little odd to use it with a tech stock. Even so, NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is set to make its latest quarterly earnings report after the market closes today, and the fact is that this is a […]
Read MoreAdvanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) jumped as much as 20% Wednesday, the stock’s best day in two years, after forecasting “high single-digit percentage revenue growth” for 2019, “driven by Ryzen, Epyc and Radeon data-center GPU product sales as the company ramps 7nm products throughout the year.” Analysts’ had predicted revenue growth for the year to […]
Read MoreWith today’s market close, the S&P 500 finished the second of the week on a high note. Positive momentum on the trade front between the U.S. and China seems to be give the market some optimism, and a reason to start looking for encouraging signs that the economy not only still is healthy, but that […]
Read MoreFor the last several days, I’ve been focusing on the semiconductor industry. That’s because as the market has tested bear market levels, semis have slid further than most other industries the market. That decline represents risk, because the almost overwhelming sentiment about semiconductors seems to be more and more bearish. I also think, however, that […]
Read MoreDid you study the California gold rush in your high school history class? I did, and I remember that one of the most interesting things to me about it was the fact that over the seven years that marked the period, the people that made the most money weren’t prospectors; they were the entrepreneurs that […]
Read MoreWhen market uncertainty gives way to fear, stocks generally tend to fall, and while the market in the past week has been trying to rebound from lows in December that tested bear market territory for the major indices, the general tone has really focused more on the negative than anything else. If investors and analysts […]
Read MoreThe market has not been kind to the semiconductor over the past several months; since the beginning of September, the sector has led the broad market to the downside, with its overall decline since then at nearly 17%. That covers almost all of the sector’s almost 20% drop since March of this year, and clearly […]
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