Tesla is a ‘soft-landing’ stock, says Goldman Sachs. Here are its picks for a gentle slide as well as a rough landing.
Pour one out for the beleaguered economists, who for once got an important indicator, the consumer price index, right on the nose, after CPI fell 0.1% in December, while core prices rose 0.3%. “The 2021 surge in durable goods demand normalized, and the resulting collapse in durable goods price inflation was stunningly fast,” says Paul […]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing reports record net profit and revenue on chip demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Thursday that fourth-quarter net profit rose to a new record thanks to growing demand for high-speed computing and better margins. The world’s largest contract chip maker 2330, +0.41% TSM, +0.63% said net profit for the quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 78% from a year earlier to 295.90 billion Taiwan dollars […]
Salesforce layoffs at its home base in San Francisco number in the hundreds so far
Salesforce Inc., which last week said it would be slashing 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, has disclosed a wave of layoffs at its San Francisco headquarters in a filing with the state of California. A total of 752 job cuts will become effective March 24, Salesforce CRM, -1.72% said in a letter […]
Inari Amertron falls after report that Apple plans to drop broadcom chip
Shares of Inari Amertron Bhd. fell as much as 8.9% in early trade following a report that Apple Inc. plans to cease using some parts from major chip suppliers, including Broadcom Inc., by 2025. Shares of the Malaysia’s leading outsourced semiconductor assembly and test provider 0166, -5.71% dropped to 2.57 ringgit (59 U.S. cents) on […]
Look for a big cut to TSMC’s 2023 outlook as a bullish sign for chips, one analyst says ahead of earnings
The best thing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. can do in its earnings report Thursday is to cut its outlook for 2023 big, indicating a bottoming in the first half of the year, according to one analyst Monday. TSMC TSM, +3.87% is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday at 1 a.m. Eastern Time. Needham analyst […]
Can you trust mobile banking apps? How to stay as safe as possible when banking on your phone.
This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. Americans embraced mobile banking as their main account access more than any other method from 2017 to 2021, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s 2021 report on unbanked and underbanked households. Even so, a new NerdWallet survey found that many people are hesitant to use mobile banking because […]