Tools for Brokers Partners with Options Technology
Tools for Brokers (TFB), a provider of technologies in the trading industry, has partnered with Options Technology, an IT infrastructure provider to capital market companies, to offer retail brokers seamless streaming of the market data. According to the press release, Options provides trading firms with access to a wide range of assets along with hardware […]
The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance
We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary.In 2023, in the wake of the worst days of the pandemic, most U.S. job switchers and others seeking employment want to land a job […]
The holiday PC market stunk for everyone except Apple, report says
A sharp drop in global shipments of personal computers in the holiday quarter wrapped up a year of such declines, but Apple Inc. reportedly suffered the least. Global PC shipments fell 28.1% to 67.2 million units in the fourth quarter from a year ago, research firm International Data Group reported Tuesday. All manufacturers except for […]
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 […]
Opinion: Why a prominent Tesla investor wants Elon Musk to put him on the board
Ross Gerber is well-known in certain circles as a longtime Tesla Inc. investor, thanks to being a bullish voice on Twitter about the electric-vehicle company. As Tesla TSLA, +5.93% stock has plummeted in recent months while Chief Executive Elon Musk sells shares and focuses on his newer toy, Twitter Inc., Gerber has changed his tune […]
Electronic Technology, the XR Industry and the Kopin Corporation
There has been a warm welcome for the US stock market in the first trading week of 2023, following a sluggish wage growth in the non-farm payroll report last Friday which sparked market hopes for a less-hawkish Fed (though less likely for the central bank to reverse its monetary policy). Fig.1: US Non-Farm Payroll and […]
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 […]
Dozens in Congress beat stock market in 2022 despite downturn on Wall Street: analysis
The House truly always wins.More than two dozen members of Congress beat the stock market last year despite Wall Street suffering its worst year since 2008, according to an analysis by a stock-trading site. But there was one notable loser last year: Nancy Pelosi. The former House speaker’s portfolio dropped 19.8% in 2022 — worse […]
Why Snowflake shares can survive a tough winter, according to Wells Fargo
Snowflake Inc. shares have dropped almost 60% over the past 12 months amid concerns about software valuations as well as the outlook for consumption-based software companies in a choppier economic environment, but Wells Fargo’s Michael Turrin thinks that the data-warehousing name can still thrive. He initiated coverage of Snowflake’s SNOW, +1.55% stock with an overweight […]
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 […]