Interest rate cuts are coming down the pike. Here's what it means for the AI sector.Few things have dominated the stock market narrative in recent years like the Federal Reserve. The central bank effectively controls interest rates, and its decision to ramp up rates in 2022 as fast as it had in more than a generation helped fuel the 2022 bear market.Rates have been steady for over a year now with the Fed funds rate hovering between 5.25% and 5.5%, but that is expected to change soon, almost certainly at the ...

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luza studios/E+ via Getty Images Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) recently announced their acquisition of ZT Systems in a deal valued at $4.9b. Though this deal will not necessarily be directly accretive to the top-line, management anticipates the acquired design team will create synergies across the company and accelerate their go-to-market strategy for their Data Center segment. I am reiterating my STRONG BUY recommendation for AMD shares with a price target of $225/share at 11x eFY25 price/sales. ...

Although Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) stock has declined well below its all-time high (ATH) of $211 it reached earlier this year, its recent performance has been increasingly bullish, and a newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model cautiously shares the optimistic sentiment.As it happens, AMD stock has been making positive moves in recent weeks, as its Instinct MI250X accelerator chip powers multiple systems of the world’s 500 largest and most powerful supercomputers, including the Frontier ...

PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesThis is my third Outlook Therapeutics (NASDAQ:OTLK) article. As I will discuss, its situation is getting stickier in terms of current liquidity and timing. I am downgrading my Strong Buy rating from 06/2024's "Outlook Therapeutics: Worth A Good Strong Look After CRL"; instead, I am rating it a Buy. In doing so, I am emphasizing its risks. Outlook's Wet AMD therapy's massive blockbuster potential compared to its current puny market cap presents an unusual opportuni ...

Here's how to claim your share of the AI gold rush.The artificial intelligence (AI) boom will create fortunes for savvy investors. Here are two innovative AI leaders that are set to deliver wealth-building returns to their shareholders.AI stock to buy No. 1: SoundHound AISoundHound AI's (SOUN 2.03%) state-of-the-art voice technology can interpret speech in a similar manner to the human brain. Its conversational AI provides a faster and more accurate experience than competing platforms -- at a time when comp ...

These companies have delivered impressive gains thanks to AI and likely have much more to offer investors.Technological advances over the last decade have breathed new life into the artificial intelligence (AI) market, allowing companies to finally begin delivering on concepts theorized decades ago. The launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT toward the end of 2022 highlighted how far AI had come, forcing experts and the public to rethink what they thought was possible with the technology.As a result, countless companie ...

The chip company accelerated its acquisition strategy with its purchase of ZT Systems.Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 2.16%) has long been a top performer on the stock market. The chip stock has steadily taken share from Intel in the central processing unit (CPU) market, and it also has a strong presence in the gaming segment with its graphics processing units (GPUs).Over the past decade, the stock is up more than 3,000%, driven in part by the pandemic, and more recently, the AI boom.However, AMD has a tough ta ...

Nvidia's new Blackwell chips are delayed due to a design flaw.Over the past couple of years investors haven't been able to buy semiconductor stocks fast enough. A big reason for this is because sophisticated chips known as graphics processing units (GPUs) are one of the core power sources of artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as machine learning and even autonomous driving.As the AI narrative continues to push the markets higher, chip stocks will likely remain in high demand. As it stands today, ...

PM Images If you've been reading my work on Seeking Alpha, you'll know that I have a penchant for covering leveraged ETFs, particularly of the single-stock variety. My fascination with these ETPs or exchange-traded products stems from the fact that, thus far, leverage on individual stocks has hardly been possible for the average retail investor with little experience in futures and options. Moreover, in the volatile market times that we currently live, long-term holdings often take a hit from market idi ...