Big Tech’s historic gains could be affecting your portfolio’s makeup — especially if your goal is diversification. Astoria Portfolio Advisors CEO John Davi warns the S&P 500 index tilts too far in favor of the so-called Magnificent Seven stocks: Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet and Tesla. “Those Mag Seven stocks are very expensive…
Huawei launched the Mate 70 series in an event in Shenzhen on November 26, 2024. The phones are the first capable of running Huawei’s new operating system called HarmonyOS NEXT. Huawei BEIJING — Chinese telecommunications and smartphone giant Huawei continues to grow and take market share from Apple, despite U.S. restricting the company’s access to…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Stocks moving on tariffs — U.S. stocks are off their lows after the U.S. and Mexico said tariffs against the latter country would be delayed for one month. Initially, stocks dropped on tariffs announced over the weekend against key trading partners, with a 25% tax on…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Stocks moving on tariffs — U.S. stocks reacted to the new 25% tariffs President Donald Trump levied on Saturday on goods from Canada and Mexico, and 10% on China, effective at midnight Monday. Stocks suffering the most included automakers and suppliers, consumer goods makers, clothing companies,…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Apple — Shares slipped 1% as investors parsed the personal technology giant’s earnings report. While the company beat expectations for the fiscal first quarter on both lines, closely followed iPhone revenue came in below Wall Street’s forecast. Intel — Shares rose 1.4% after the chipmaker beat…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Apple — Shares slipped nearly 2% after Jefferies downgraded the iPhone maker to an underperform rating from hold. Analyst Edison Lee called its AI outlook “subdued” and expects Apple to miss its fiscal first-quarter revenue growth forecast of 5% when reporting earnings later this month. Qorvo…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: J.B. Hunt Transport Services — Shares fell more than 7% after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings came in weaker than expected. J.B. Hunt earned $1.53 per share, below the LSEG consensus estimate of $1.61 per share. Meanwhile, revenue for the period came in line with expectations at…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Quantum stocks — Quantum computing stocks dropped after Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg became the latest high-profile executive to ease expectations for the technology. Rigetti Computing dropped 27%, while D-Wave Quantum shed 32%. The Defiance Quantum ETF lost 2.5%. Nvidia , chip stocks — Popular semiconductor…
Pictured here is the Grand Indonesia shopping mall in Jakarta on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Huawei spinoff Honor announced Tuesday it plans to launch smartphone sales in Indonesia by the end of March, becoming the latest Chinese company to enter a market that has banned Apple’s iPhone…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: American Airlines — Shares added 0.6%, recovering from earlier losses, after the airline temporarily grounded all of its flights due to a technical issue. Broadcom — The semi stock added 3.2%, extending its December rally. Shares have surged more than 46% this month, propelling its 2024…
