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‘We did not have a plan for a country to shut down’ – Cisco stock plunges more than 15% as China lockdown affects supply and outlook

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Cisco Systems Inc. shares plunged in the extended session Wednesday after the tech bellwether’s revenue forecast came up more than $ 1 billion short of Wall Street expectations, which executives blamed on COVID shutdowns in China. Cisco CSCO, -4.43% shares dropped more than 15% after hours, following a 4.4% decline in the regular session to … Read more

Dow climbs third straight day as stocks end sharply higher after retail sales, Fed Chair Powell’s remarks

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US stocks closed sharply higher Tuesday, after retail sales data for April suggested the economy remained healthy and as investors weighed remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. On Monday, the Dow finished less than 0.1% higher, the S&P 500 closed 0.4% lower and the Nasdaq fell 1.2%. The declines followed another losing week for … Read more

US COVID cases at highest levels since November, while Northeast and Midwest are above delta peak

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COVID cases continued to rise across the US on Monday and were trending at the highest levels seen since late November around the time that South African scientists first identified the highly transmissible omicron variant which quickly became dominant around the world. Sine then, the BA.2 variant of omicron, and two other subvariants named BA.2.12 … Read more

Dow suffers longest losing streak since 2001 as stocks benchmarks extend weekly losses despite closing sharply higher Friday

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US stocks ended sharply higher Friday, but all three major benchmarks still booked another week of losses, as investors assessed the scope for further downside and the Federal Reserve’s ability to get inflation under control without sending the economy into a tailspin. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for a seventh straight week, its longest … Read more

The clock is running out for Congress to pass Big Tech antitrust bills this year

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Nearly three years ago, when the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission launched probes into the business practices of Big Tech, antitrust experts and legal talking heads declared a new age in enforcement and a chastening of unbridled financial power. But a pandemic and countless bill markups later – amid feverish lobbying efforts by Apple … Read more

SoftBank Loses $ 26 Billion on Tech Investments Amid Selloff

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TOKYO— SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -8.03% on Tuesday reported an enormous $ 26.2 billion loss on its large portfolio of technology companies in the first three months of the year, as the company took a record annual loss for the second time in three years. “The world is in a chaotic situation,” said Chief Executive … Read more

SoftBank Loses $ 26 Billion on Tech Investments Amid Selloff

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TOKYO— SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -8.03% on Tuesday reported an enormous $ 26.2 billion loss on its large portfolio of technology companies in the first three months of the year, as the company took a record annual loss for the second time in three years. “The world is in a chaotic situation,” said Chief Executive … Read more

Elon Musk’s Belated Disclosure of Twitter Stake Triggers Regulators’ Probes

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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s late disclosure last month of his sizable stake in Twitter Inc., TWTR -2.48% according to people familiar with the matter, a lag that allowed him to buy more stock without alerting other shareholders to his ownership. The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Mr. Musk’s tardy submission … Read more

Here’s the case for buying Netflix’s stock now

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Netflix Inc. has become a value stock – a bargain, according to Charles Lemonides, chief investment officer at ValueWorks in New York. During a year that has featured a re-rating for so many rapidly growing companies that had been trading at lofty valuations to earnings, Netflix Inc. NFLX, + 4.75% has fallen enough to make … Read more

Market’s 2022 Slide Has Already Changed Investor Behavior

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The 2022 pullback in US stocks intensified last week, with stocks on Thursday staging their largest single-day decline since the onset of the pandemic. The plunge came just a day after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appeared to clear the way for a stock rally by casting interest-rate increases larger than a half-percentage point as … Read more