US stock index futures traded cautiously on Tuesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a record high in the previous session, while investors weighed another strong earnings update from Samsung Electronics (USOTC:SSNHZ) alongside fresh comments from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller. Futures pause after Wall Street recordsBy 03:02 ET (07:02 GMT), futures linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed.
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July 7 (Reuters) - Futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped on Tuesday on declines in chip stocks over concerns about the sustainability of the AI-driven rally despite strong results from Samsung
Intel was leading a chip-sector recovery, while memory storage stocks Sandisk and Western Digital were also climbing.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.14%, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.46%. The S&P 500 also edged down slightly.
Micron’s results, due after market hours, would shape the view on the red-hot memory rally.
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I have covered Micron several times in the past. And each time, the headline has been some variation of the same theme. The numbers keep getting bigger and bigger, the analyst targets keep moving higher, and of course, the artificial intelligence (AI) memory supercycle keeps defying the skeptics ...
Shares of Western Digital Corporation (WDC) gain 11,294% since Big Money first bought big in 1994.
T. Rowe Price fund manager David Giroux says Big Tech isn’t in a bubble, but there’s value in healthcare and utilities.
Investing.com -- A Morgan Stanley report warned that surging AI demand is creating a structural shortage in the global memory market, driving sharp increases in memory prices and raising costs across the technology sector.
Sandisk has been a wild success since its return to the public markets as an independent company.
Seagate stock and Western Digital stock climbed Monday after analysts offered positive views on demand from data centers.
Highflying memory-chip stocks Micron and Sandisk tumbled on Friday after hitting record highs on Wednesday.
Investing.com -- Barclays analyst Tom O’Malley upgraded Sandisk to Overweight in a note on Wednesday, lifting the stock’s price target to $2,300, arguing that the memory and storage sector is entering a fundamentally different phase driven by long-term contracts, tighter supply, and unprecedented pricing visibility.
By Ragini Mathur and Utkarsh Hathi May 19 (Reuters) - U.S. indexes were on track to extend declines and open lower on Tuesday, weighed by a drop in chip stocks and persistent inflation worries despite
US stocks have been predicted to start Monday trading in the red, as they ended last week, with investors continuing to worry about rising bond yields, stubborn inflation and the economic fallout from higher oil prices. Dow Jones futures were down around 262 points or 0.4%, while S&P 500...