Stock Futures Rise; These 4 Top Techs Are Still Buys

A man walks past an electronic stock board showing world stock prices at a securities firm Thursday, June 1, 2017, in Tokyo.

An eight-day winning streak for technology companies ended. Energy companies fell with oil prices. Investors picked consumer-focused companies, drugmakers, and high-dividend utilities and household goods companies.

Bonds and stocks signal very different things about the economy, with yields near the lows of the year and stocks near record highs.

“Banks are being cautious and that has to make people a little nervous, and the market continues to plow money into the same names everyday,” said Winer, citing stocks like Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.21% Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -1.13% GOOGL, -0.91% …

NEW YORK U.S. stocks were little changed on Wednesday as financials dropped after JPMorgan and Bank of America warned of revenue weakness, offsetting gains in defensive plays.

Large-cap tech stocks have been the stalwart of the U.S. equity market this year, but other stocks need to pick up some slack to keep the good times rolling.

Chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO) notched a record high stock price on Wednesday ahead of its fiscal second-quarter earnings report, due out after the market close Thursday.

Despite Wednesday’s losses, hopes for an economic pickup in Europe, together with signs of stability in Japan and China and moderate U.S.

Palo Alto Networks stock climbed 13 percent in extended trading on Wednesday after the security software maker reported third-quarter revenue that topped analysts’ estimates.

But don’t sleep on yet another tech giant whose stock is doing extremely well — Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30). Shares are up nearly 13% this year and are also trading at an all-time high.

Some strategists say the stocks’ technical setup, along with some bullish options market activity, points to more gains ahead.

Jim Cramer prepared investors for slow growth days ahead in case Wall Street gets a rude awakening from the White House.

It’s the last day of another not-too-shabby month for stocks, and everyone keeps talking about how tech has led the charge.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during an interview on Tuesday that he thinks the technology company’s stock didn’t have an opportunity to fluctuate when he was in charge.

Stock in some of the U.S.’s biggest banks were getting slammed on Wednesday, led by a sharp drop in shares of Goldman Sachs, as executives from some of …

The stock market opened on an up note early Wednesday after overnight positive manufacturing data out of China. However, gains were quickly pared.

If Pac Man or Dig Dug dabbled in the stock market, their trading screens would probably look a lot the one created by Mike Roberts.

Stocks opened slightly higher Wednesday, but quickly slipped into narrow losses as a sharp drop in oil prices countered rising tech stocks bolstered by a strong quarterly report from Analog Devices (ADI). The Nasdaq, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones …