May 9, 2024
Investors

Should stock-market investors stop worrying about the Fed and just keep loving AI?

It might seem at times that investors care more about Jensen Huang than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Huang is the longtime CEO of chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA , which stole the show last week by blowing away already lofty earnings expectations and leading stocks to new rounds of all-time highs, even as nagging

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Investment

Family Office Investing Requires Mounds of Paperwork. AI Is Going to Help

Family offices are studying the investment opportunities presented by artificial intelligence, of course, but they are also excited about the potential AI offers for streamlining their operations and, for one day, supporting decision-making on investments and strategy. AI technology is expected soon to facilitate automation of several mundane but critical tasks for family offices, which

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Investors

Apple Stock Is Resilient Despite Weak Guidance as Investors Refocus on AI

The biggest bombshell in Apple ’s December quarter earnings report came on the company’s conference call, when CFO Luca Maestri provided a hugely disappointing forecast for the March quarter. Management’s guidance, implying overall quarterly revenue will fall 5% from a year earlier to about $90 billion, with a drop of nearly 10% in iPhone sales,

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Investors

Opinion: Is Nvidia today’s Cisco? Here’s what Ed Yardeni thinks.

“Is Nvidia today’s Cisco? It’s possible. If so, then it has a lot more upside before it crashes — if it crashes.” Is it possible that the meltup phase of the bull market (which started on Oct. 12, 2022) has begun already — having started following the correction low on Oct. 27, 2023? Yes, it

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Investment

Google CEO Warns AI Investment Will Mean More Job Cuts: Report.

Google-parent Alphabet is set to cut more jobs in order to make space for investment in artificial intelligence. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said some teams would need to eliminate roles in order to “create the capacity” for investment in promising areas such as artificial-intelligence, CNBC reported, citing an internal memo. That could be… Google-parent Alphabet

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Opinion: Chip giant Micron is becoming another AI play for investors

Published: Dec. 20, 2023 at 7:29 p.m. ET Micron Technology Inc.’s return to revenue growth last quarter as it recovers from the memory-chip downturn was in part due to the boom in AI-related chips, putting more of a spotlight on the chip maker as another potential AI investment. On Wednesday, Micron’s fiscal first-quarter results topped

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