Lu Wang

October 30, 2018 at 6:56 pm

Bulls hoping IBM buyback opens the spigot on corporate demand

Corporate stock buybacks are expected to increase as companies take advantage of stocks’ sharp drop — and that might put a floor on the market’s...

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September 10, 2018 at 3:59 pm

Record chip stock rally is fraying, reviving painful memories

Micron Technology stock had been among the best performers in the semiconductor index, logging a more than five-fold gain since 2016. But it’s now fallen...

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September 8, 2018 at 8:00 am

FAANG-shunning stock pickers just had worst month since 2009

The rally in FAANG stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet) has drawn warnings from strategists. But shunning them may have hurt funds’...

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June 4, 2018 at 3:53 pm

Goldman Sachs analysts see no bubble in big tech stocks

While big tech companies occupy all top five spots by market value for the first time ever, the group’s price-earnings ratio is relatively subdued

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May 29, 2018 at 4:17 pm

Big days are all bad ones as stocks punish optimists yet again

On Tuesday, stock-market investors were treated to a session of price swings that would have ranked with the worst of the preceding two years —...

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March 27, 2018 at 5:34 pm

Technology stocks tumble again, underscoring industry’s vulnerability

Thanks to fresh blows to companies from Nvidia to Facebook, the biggest industry in the S&P 500 index dropped 3.5 percent Tuesday.

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January 20, 2018 at 8:00 am

Facebook waiting in wings should Dow brain trust get sick of GE

There are no hard-and-fast rules dictating the terms of membership in the 30-stock Dow Jones industrial average. But some observers are speculating that it’s time...

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November 18, 2017 at 10:00 am

Yanking out your FANGs: Index industry switch could reorder ETFs

S&P Global and MSCI, two of the world’s biggest index providers, plan to overhaul their industry classifications, merging some internet and media stocks with phone...

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October 20, 2017 at 7:01 pm

U.S. stocks head toward a record in records

Stocks just keep rising, with record closes piling up in U.S. benchmarks at a rate that is starting to defy precedent.

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August 16, 2017 at 5:32 pm

Stock market’s armor getting thicker after brushing off last week’s declines

Once stock investors have adapted to the threat of a nuclear war with North Korea, getting them riled up about other things — like President...

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