Piper Jaffray Reiterates Overweight Rating on Microsoft (MSFT)

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January 5, 2018 3:54 PM EST

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U.S. fund managers expect value stocks to jump in 2018

January 5, 2018 3:33 PM EST

By David Randall

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Value stocks are getting a once-over from some U.S. growth fund managers in early 2018 as they prowl for overlooked shares they think have more upside in a market that gained nearly 20 percent last year.

Value stocks, so labeled because they typically sport lower price-to-earnings valuations, tend to be in more staid or out-of-favor industries and often lag during outsized stock rallies, which is exactly what happened in 2017.

The S&P 500 Value index - a measure of companies such as Berkshire Hathaway Inc and JP Morgan... More

S&P 500, Nasdaq post best week in more than a year

January 5, 2018 7:39 AM EST

By Caroline Valetkevitch

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched their best weekly gains in more than a year on Friday as technology stocks helped lift major indexes to records.

With the New Year's Day holiday falling on a Monday this year, it was the strongest first four trading days to a year in more than a decade for all three major indices, according to Reuters data. For the Dow, it was the strongest start since 2003 and for the Nasdaq and S&P 500 it was the strongest since 2006.

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Businesses cautious in installing patches to fix chip flaw

January 5, 2018 6:45 AM EST

By Stephen Nellis and Jim Finkle

(Reuters) - Chances that a fix to a major microchip security flaw may slow down or crash some computer systems are leading some businesses to hold off installing software patches, fearing the cure may be worse than the original problem.

Researchers this week revealed security problems with chips from Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC) and many of its rivals, sending businesses, governments and consumers scrambling to understand the extent of the threat and the cost of fixes.

Rather than rushing to put on patches, a costly and... More

Intel says performance impact of security updates not significant

January 5, 2018 1:47 AM EST

(Reuters) - Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC) said fixes for security issues in its microchips would not slow down computers, rebuffing concerns that the flaws found in microprocessors would significantly reduce performance.

The performance impact of the recent security updates should not be significant and will be mitigated over time, Intel said late on Thursday, adding that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:... More

World stocks up; U.S. Treasury yields rise despite jobs report

January 4, 2018 8:12 PM EST

By Stephanie Kelly

NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stocks continued their strong start to 2018, with both the S&P and Nasdaq posting their best weekly gains in more than a year, while U.S. Treasury yields rose despite a weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report.

MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe gained 0.66 percent, reaching a fresh record high on the day.

Throughout the first week of 2018, world shares rose and several benchmarks broke records. With the world's largest economies all growing healthily at once and central banks moving slowly to tighten policy, investors have poured... More

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January 4, 2018 3:33 PM EST

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How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw

January 4, 2018 12:14 PM EST

By Douglas Busvine

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC).

The 31-year-old information security researcher and post-doctoral fellow at Austria's Graz Technical University had just breached the inner sanctum of his computer's central processing unit (CPU) and stolen secrets from it.

Until that moment, Gruss and colleagues Moritz Lipp and Michael Schwarz had thought such an attack on the... More

Warren Buffett proclaims optimism for America's financial future

January 4, 2018 11:54 AM EST

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor renowned for his preternatural optimism for America and its citizens' well-being, on Thursday encouraged those worried about the economic prospects for themselves and their children to shed their fears.

In an essay for the Jan. 15 issue of Time magazine, the chairman of the insurance and investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc tried to allay concerns that innovation and improved productivity might cost jobs and disrupt lives.

Saying the U.S. "game of economic miracles" was in its "early innings," Buffett, 87, downplayed polls suggesting... More

Microsoft (MSFT) PT Raised To $115 And Cited As A Top Pick at Piper Jaffray

January 4, 2018 7:32 AM EST

Piper Jaffray analyst, Alex Zukin, reiterated his Overweight rating on shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and raised his price target to $115 from $100 stating "the single most interesting tone change from our many discussions in 2017 is the emergence of Azure as a true enterprise scale cloud alternative to the AWS... More