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Wall Street's main indexes dropped on Friday as Sino-U.S. tensions and fears over rising COVID-19 cases weighed on investor sentiment, erasing all gains for the benchmark S&P 500 index this week.

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Sino-U.S. tensions and fears over mounting COVID-19 cases were set to weigh on Wall Street's main indexes at the open on Friday, while shares in Intel slumped after it flagged delays in developing new chip technology.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday following heightened tensions between the United States and China, and as Intel's shares slumped after reporting a delay in a developing new chip technology.

The NASDAQ 100 After Hours Indicator is down -26.08 to 10,554.51. The total After hours volume is currently 87,086,061 shares traded.The following are the most active stocks for the after hours session: Intel Corporation (INTC) is -5.02 at $55.38, with 9,406,063 shares traded. B

Investors in Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD) saw new options become available today, for the September 4th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AMD options chain for the new September 4th contracts and identified on

What happened Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) climbed 8.4% on Wednesday after the chipmaker announced a new line of desktop processors.  

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The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) has benefited greatly from the success of its technology components recently. From day to day, though, that influence ebbs and flows. On Wednesday, neither the Composite nor the Nasdaq-100 index was able to keep pace with the Dow Jones I

Investors in Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD) saw new options begin trading this week, for the September 18th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AMD options chain for the new September 18th contracts and identified

In early trading on Wednesday, shares of Advanced Micro Devices topped the list of the day's best performing components of the Nasdaq 100 index, trading up 4.5%. Year to date, Advanced Micro Devices registers a 29.9% gain.

Long a leader in the gaming processor industry, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been increasingly under pressure from major competitors Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD). Despite the fact that Nvidia still overwhelmingly dominates the discrete GPU sector, this increasing comp

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) brought its Zen 2 architecture paired with an advanced 7nm manufacturing process to desktop PCs in mid-2019 with its Ryzen 3000 series of processors. The chips very nearly closed the performance gap with semiconductor giant Intel, and they of

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After a solid start to 2020, semiconductor companies got rocked in March at the onset of the US coronavirus outbreak, posting both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter losses during Q1. Despite disappointing financials, many of these companies’ stocks have rebounded and even surpassed pre-pandemic highs. Household names including Intel (INTC), AMD (AMD), Qualcomm (QCOM), and more have all rebounded by more than 30% since mid-March lows.

For tech investors, determining short-term swings of these corporations will be difficult. While major market indexes are performing up to par, ambiguity concerning COVID-19 has once again ramped up, and consumer purchasing sentiment is also relatively unknown.

To this end, 5-star Oppenheimer analyst Rick Schafer decided to key in on a number of focal points that serve as indicators about the industry at-large, including purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), and smartphone deliveries.

US PMI improved in each of the last two months, up from 41.5 in April to 43.1 in May, and up all the way to 52.6 in June. During the same timeframe, global PMI jumped from 39.6 to 47.8. As long as a second wave of COVID does not prove to be more detrimental than the first, companies should be able to maintain adequate production.

Smartphone deliveries will be another key indicator of financial success in the industry. Although this figure has consistently decreased since 2016, 5G chips are now being implemented both by all US cell carriers as well as into phones across the world. This trend is one of the largest catalysts for all semiconductor companies and will be essential for maximizing incomes in the short-term. For FY20, Schafer's analysis indicates a yearly decline of about 10%, though these losses should be reversed come 2021. Similar trends are expected in regard to both server and PC units.

Semiconductor companies will begin reporting Q2 earnings on July 20. Although “potential COVID-19 second wave and trade tensions present two obvious risks to the fragile recovery” in the industry, Schafer expects “a cautiously optimistic tone from most managements this earnings season.” Until then, Schafer highlights Nvidia (NVDA), Marvell (MRVL), and Monolithic Power (MPWR) as his top picks in the sector.

Credit has to be given where it’s due. Schafer, ranked in the top 1% of all experts on TipRanks, boasts an overall success rate of nearly 77%, specializing in telecom and generating average yearly returns of 19.2%.

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Low-cost stocks often attract the attention of investors who hope to buy the next AMD or Monster Beverage Company. Unfortunately, most stocks below $5 per share, or "penny stocks," tend to have earned that price, often because of challenges such as unbearable debt levels or out

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