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3 Tech Stocks to Buy as Inflation Expectations Ease

Over the past month, there has been a major change in the market under the surface. In essence, inflation risk is dropping, while recession risk is increasing. This has major implications for investors, especially as this looks to be a meaningful trend that could persist for many months. Although we’ve yet to see a major impact in terms of earnings and employment, it’s increasingly clear that the…

InvestorPlace: Dow Jones Today: The Blacklist Buries Stocks

If only we were talking about the TV show The Blacklist. Alas, that’s not the case. Apparently, the White House has a blacklist of 28 Chinese companies it believes have ties to human rights abuses against Muslim minorities in some parts of China.

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Secretary of State Michael Pompeo called those human rights violations“the stain of the century,” while…

Google, Microsoft And Startups Are Going To War On Chatbot Technology

Google CEO Sundar Pichai iemonstrated Duplex, a cloud-based tool for building virtual assistants, in May 2018. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

In the business of tech, battles are fought over research, but war breaks out when money is at stake. That’s finally happened for chatbots, or software that allows people to hold conversations with machines. 

Investors and the tech press…

InvestorPlace: 5 Tech Dividend Stocks to Buy That Aren’t Microsoft

As we highlighted recently, the best place to find dividend stocks could the tech sector. Need an example? Just take a look at Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) recent wins on the shareholder rewards front. MSFT just announced that it plans on increasing its payout by 11% and is conducting a whopping $40 billion buyback program.

When you add this huge increase to its payout, Microsoft quickly becomes one…

Jack Ma phasing out of the Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) lineup wasn’t a shocking revelation that took Wall Street by surprise. The initial announcement certainly made headlines last year, causing some concern about what it might mean for the future of Alibaba stock.

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But largely, investors have embraced the fact that Ma would slowly exit the company he started twenty…

InvestorPlace: Dow Jones Today: Looking for Direction

Stocks struggled to find direction as traders took profits in some names that bounced higher last week with growth fare. Technology names got pinched today, but Monday’s performances by the broader benchmarks were not too bad, nor where they impressive.

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Monday was a lethargic day, reminiscent of many during the summer months, but the S&P 500 entered the day…