Paul Shread

Chip stocks posted solid gains on Wednesday even as the rest of the market slumped as traders digested details of the government's latest bank rescue

Stocks rebounded sharply on Tuesday, a day after the Dow and S&P 500 closed at their lowest levels since 1997. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave the market a

The Dow and S&P 500 need to find support very soon, or they could face yet another wave of selling here. The S&P (first chart below) is sitting right

After holding up better than blue chips for weeks, tech stocks led the Dow and S&P to 11-year lows on Monday. The Nasdaq's 3.7% decline outpaced 3.4%

Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) paced a strong chip sector on Friday, helping tech stocks sidestep another sell-off in blue chip stocks. AMAT shares

Stocks tumbled Thursday on a surprisingly big sales miss from HP (NYSE: HPQ). HP shares fell 8% on the news, and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), which will report

HP (NYSE: HPQ) shares fell in after-hours trading Wednesday after its quarterly sales came in $3 billion below forecasts, but Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN)

An interesting juncture for the stock market here. The Dow (first chart below) closed just above its November closing low of 7552.29 for a second day.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was just one of many problems for the tech sector on Tuesday, as stocks neared a return to their November lows amid worries that

Far from being less complicated, the data encryption key management picture got a little cloudier today when Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) released its

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has long been rumored to be interested in acquiring EMC (NYSE: EMC). Now the networking giant may have narrowed its interest,

The chip and telecom sectors were among the few to end Friday in the green, as stock traders continued to be unimpressed by government financial rescue