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Apple, which just unveiled its first foldable iPhone and two other new models that go on sale this week, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, which makes the chips that power them, lead this weekend's watch list of five top stocks near buy points. Joining AAPL and TSM are cloud-based communications software platform Twilio and two healthcare plays. Oscar Health is the No. 2 health insurer based on Affordable Care Act exchange membership.

The S&P 500 undercut its 50-day as Treasury yields and oil prices surged. Oracle jumped late on earnings. The CPI inflation report could lock in expectations for a Fed rate hike next week.

ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking on a broader agreement to meet surging demand for more powerful artificial intelligence technology.

Diamond Hill Capital, a First Eagle Investment Management company, issued its Q2 2026 investor letter for its “International Fund”. The letter can be downloaded here. The Fund returned 7.76% in the quarter, underperforming the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index’s 14.49% gain. Performance was driven by stock selection in health care and consumer discretionary sectors, while information technology […]

Nvidia wavered late while CrowdStrike, Okta, Salesforce are big earnings winners. Is the market setting up or a setup?

The major market indexes pulled back amid higher oil prices and upcoming CPI inflation data. Nvidia partners Lumentum, CoreWeave, Super Micro reported late.

Shares of semiconductor tool makers jumped after Taiwan Semiconductor posted a jump in revenue for July.

Revenue up 44.7%, high-performance computing at 66% of sales, and capex guidance lifted to as much as $64 billion

Intel is planning to raise $15 billion through a share ‌sale, the U.S. chipmaker said ‌on Monday as it looks to fund the ​costly build-out of its chip contract manufacturing business by cashing in on a stock surge fueled by its turnaround efforts. Once ‌the dominant ⁠force in the global chip industry, Intel is investing heavily in ⁠new facilities and advanced packaging capabilities as it seeks to challenge industry ​leader such ​as TSMC in ​contract chip manufacturing. Its ‌shares fell more than 3% in premarket trading, likely on concerns about shareholder dilution from the stock sale.

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Lam Research forecast quarterly revenue and earnings substantially above expectations as AI investment increased chip-equipment demand.

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Intel's stock is surging while the rest of the chip sector sits flat, and the reasons behind that split tell a much bigger story about where the semiconductor race is actually headed.

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A major revelation from foundry giant TSMC suggests Intel could deliver stronger-than-expected results and guidance.

TSMC stock jumped on a report that the semiconductor manufacturing giant is planning to raise prices in 2027.

The parabolic AI trade has sent many chip stocks to the moon, as investors have bet that hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will continue to aggressively expand AI capital expenditures. However, the rally now faces significant headwinds, with valuation and revenue sustainability concerns resurfacing amid rising competition from cheaper Chinese models. The […]

Micron just posted one of the most explosive quarters in semiconductor history, yet the stock has cratered nearly 14% in a single week as three distinct threats converge on the memory giant. Whether this selloff is a gift or a warning depends entirely on which scenario plays out next.

Chip stocks trimmed losses on Friday as investors bought the dip despite AI jitters.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (ADR) (NYSE:TSM) posted a 77% jump in second-quarter net profit and raised its capital spending forecast for the year, as the world's largest contract chipmaker rides sustained demand for AI processors. Net profit came in at $22.36 billion for the...

Investing.com -- U.S. stock index futures were mixed on Thursday as investors weighed lingering Middle East tensions, and focused on corporate earnings and further signs that U.S. inflationary pressures are easing.

The world’s largest contract chip maker posted its fifth straight quarter of record earnings amid voracious global appetite for artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

TSMC, the world's largest ‌contract chipmaker, posted ‌a 77% jump in second-quarter ​net profit on Thursday, beating market forecasts and hitting a record, ‌riding ⁠the wave of surging global demand for ⁠its artificial intelligence processors. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ​Co, whose ​customers ​include Nvidia and ‌Apple, saw April-June net profit rise to T$706.6 billion ($21.99 billion). The profit handily beat a T$632.6 ‌billion LSEG ​SmartEstimate, which ​is ​weighted toward forecasts ‌from analysts who are ​more ​consistently accurate.

TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, is expected to ‌notch a fifth consecutive quarter of record earnings on Thursday, with a ‌59% surge in net profit for April-June, driven by booming global demand for AI infrastructure. Analysts ​said demand for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre process technologies for AI chips, as well as for its advanced chip packaging technology, CoWoS, remains strong. TSMC is ⁠expected to report net profit of T$632.6 billion ($19.65 billion) for the second quarter, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate compiled from 18 analysts.

ASML’s plans to hike prices on its tools are already drawing pushback from its largest customer, TSMC, The Information reported.

Intel reports earnings on July 23, and something unusual is happening ahead of that print: prediction markets, insider activity, and a major rival's capital are all pointing in the same direction at once.

The chipmaker's June sales hit a record NT$442.68 billion, pushing second-quarter revenue above the top end of its own guidance

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported a 35.6% increase in revenue during the first-half of 2026, and of 68% in June, highlighting continued strong demand for AI chips ahead of the firm's full second-quarter earnings report later this week.View on euronews

Broadcom (AVGO) will develop custom microchips for Apple's (AAPL) products under an expanded partner

Investing.com -- Mizuho Securities Asia raised its forecast for TSMC's monthly CoWoS packaging capacity to 140,000 units by 2026 and 190,000–200,000 units by 2027, up from prior estimates of 120,000 and 170,000–180,000 respectively, as a sharply upgraded outlook for AI-driven server CPU demand forces a broad revision to the firm's semiconductor supply model.