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Broadcom announces plans to buy VMware in $61 billion deal
Hock Tan, chief executive officer of Broadcom Martin H. Simon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Broadcom will buy VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $61 billion, based on the closing price of Broadcom common stock on May 25, 2022, the companies announced on Thursday. The deal would be one of the largest technology acquisitions […]
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Bank of America reveals 5 top stocks based on the company’s ‘killer charts’
Bank of America has named a raft of stocks with “killer” corporate charts, including the following five that are buy-rated by its analysts. The bank said its “killer charts” research note is often its most-read of the year. Bank of America analysts, led by Jason Fairclough, assessed charts from a range of companies — all […]
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Strategists pick their top stocks to beat rising prices and slowing growth — including some they say are ‘extremely cheap’
The global economy is beset with rising inflation and slowing growth. Here, CNBC Pro sifts through recent research notes to identify strategists’ top stocks in this tricky environment. The U.S. Federal Reserve hiked rates in March for the first time in more than three years, and announced a further 50-basis-point hike earlier this month . […]
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Microsoft is selling the metaverse now — and it’s helping make everything from robots to ketchup
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Andrew Evers | CNBC You may not be ready to jump into the metaverse for fun, but it could be coming to work sooner than you think. Microsoft announced Tuesday that Kawasaki is a new customer for the tech giant’s so-called “industrial metaverse” — a fancy way of saying factory floor workers […]
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Nokia CEO says 6G will be here by 2030 — but you might not access it via your smartphone
Mehdi Bennis is an associate professor at the University of Oulu in Finland researching 6G. Elizabeth Schulze | CNBC Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark expects 6G mobile networks to be in operation by the end of the decade but he doesn’t think the smartphone will be the most “common interface” by then. Speaking on a panel […]
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Time to sell or buy the dip? Here’s how pros suggest trading Wall Street sell-off
With the recent carnage on Wall Street, CNBC Pro asks strategists and investors what’s next for stocks and where they see pockets of opportunity in the weeks ahead. U.S. stocks briefly fell into bear market on Friday, as the broad-based S & P 500 fell as much as 20.9% from its all-time high in January […]
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The grand ‘work from anywhere’ experiment got a few things wrong. Here’s how companies are fixing it.
Monday was supposed to mark another milestone for Apple in its effort to bring workers back to the office. The plan — which called for Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays to be mandatory days in the office —was scrapped once again as Covid infections tick upward. Apple’s fixed schedule had been met with widespread opposition by […]
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Tech stocks are mired in their longest weekly losing streak since dot-com bust
Traders on the NYSE, May 20, 2022. Source: NYSE Tech companies haven’t seen a selloff like since 2001 and the bursting of the dot-com bubble. The Nasdaq declined 3.8% this week, falling for a seventh straight week. It’s the longest losing streak for the tech-heavy index in 21 years. Inflation, rising interest rates, the war […]
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Bill Gates explains what you can do now to fight climate change
Chesnot | Getty Images News | Getty Images Climate change is such an overwhelming and systemic problem, it’s easy to feel there’s nothing one individual can do to fight it. But Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates gave some concrete suggestions in an online question and answer session on Reddit on Thursday. Buy climate-friendly products […]
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Strategists reveal how they’re trading tech stocks — and the same names keep coming up
Investors and strategists have revealed how they’re playing the beaten-down tech sector, naming several stock opportunities in a market they say could be nearing the bottom. Lee Baker, owner and president at Apex Financial Services, described Apple and Microsoft as “good solid companies” for investors to consider right now. Speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe […]
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