If you have an under-powered PC but need the horsepower to see high-definition video or edit intense graphics, AMD has your back. AMD’s new FirePro S7150 and S7150 x2 GPUs, which sit in servers, can deliver “virtualized GPUs” to client devices and remote desktops. A virtual GPU mimics the functionality of a GPU on local hardware, and users can run graphics, engineering or even VR applications on virtual desktops. The virtual GPUs on remote desktops can do everything regular GPUs can do on a computer, AMD claims. The processing load of virtual GPUs is handled by the FirePros in servers.…
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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, racked up $3.6 billion in losses last year through investments in “big bets” such as self-driving cars and Internet balloons. The company was known to be spending heavily on these items but revealed actual figures for the first time Monday when it broke out results separately for its core Google business and for big-bet investments, which it also calls moonshots. The losses for those items were much higher in 2015 than in 2014, when they totaled $1.9 billion. And they brought in just $448 million in revenue last year. Still, Alphabet says it stands…
The loans that banks have made to energy companies grabbed a lot of investors’ attention this week as lenders said they have boosted cash reserves to deal with bad oil and gas debt. But those financial institutions may have trouble bringing the hammer down on drillers. The continuing slide in energy prices poses a dilemma for banks: cut energy clients’ borrowing ability and risk sending them over the edge, or continue to accommodate them in order to prevent defaults. While some worry banks are already in too deep, lenders are loathe to see drillers fall into bankruptcy, leaving them holding…
A group of stocks could be poised to buck the year’s sell-off trend, based on their track records during earnings season. On average, fourth quarter earnings among the companies that have reported were 4.5 percent higher than expectations and about 7 percent higher from the same period in 2014, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue, which has been on the light side in recent quarters, is up 1 percent this time, when energy is excluded, but it’s down 3.5 percent when energy is added back into the mix. Although it’s still early in the season with only 12 percent of S&P…
of ETF Trends noted that the industry continues to diversify, and investors have avenues to play current trends. He highlighted some funds that bet against oil or China, or others that are tailored to a rising interest rate environment, adding that some investors are buying into wider index funds on weakness. In fact, the S&P Trust ETF has seen the second-highest inflows among ETFs this month, according to XTF. “The ETF ecosystem is just a segment of the overall marketplace these days,” Lydon said. “You’re going to see the same ebbs and flows that you have in stocks and mutual…
The stock market correction has been tough enough on Wall Street pros, but it’s exacted an even worse toll on retail investors. One gauge measuring the performance of retail investor portfolios shows a decline of 8.15 percent in 2016, an even bigger drop than the 6.9 percent decline the S&P 500 showed prior to the start of Friday trading. Results from Openfolio, a social network where investors share their ideas and platform construction, show its clients are underperforming the broader market. The results, culled from looking at a weighted average of 60,000 or so portfolios, reflect the difficulties facing the…
According to one trader, Disney’s stock isn’t looking so magical. Shares of the media giant jumped 3 percent this week. However, Dan Nathan of RiskReversal.com warns investors that it’s still too soon to be bullish on the stock. Disney is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Feb. 9. According to Nathan, a disappointing earnings report could send the stock tumbling. “Don’t be fooled right here,” Nathan said Thursday on CNBC’s “Fast Money.” “If they have a miss, this thing is going to have an 8-handle on it very quickly. I think it bottoms out probably at $80.”…
The stock market correction has been tough enough on Wall Street pros, but it’s exacted an even worse toll on retail investors. One gauge measuring the performance of retail investor portfolios shows a decline of 8.15 percent in 2016, an even bigger drop than the 6.9 percent decline the S&P 500 showed prior to the start of Friday trading. Results from Openfolio, a social network where investors share their ideas and platform construction, show its clients are underperforming the broader market. The results, culled from looking at a weighted average of 60,000 or so portfolios, reflect the difficulties facing the…
It was bound to happen sooner or later: Google is reportedly ready to take the reins back on Android, and it’s starting by cracking down on its Nexus smartphone program. The Information reports that Google plans to “effectively reduce the level of involvement of hardware partners that make the phones with Google” and that it will go directly to its partners to source components for its future devices, as it did with devices like the Pixel C. This means shutting out manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, LG, Huawei, and HTC, all of whom have worked with Google in the past on…
Despite the recent commodity crush, one strategist remains bullish oncrude through the end of 2016. Bart Melek, head of commodity strategy at TD Securities, told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Friday morning that “there’s potential for a move lower, but any trend to the downside is probably unsustainable.” ‹ Will the election make oil credit crisisworse? Trade it: How to play an oil rebound › Melek is sticking to his $60-per-barrel forecast for oil despite the near-term “lower for longer trend” in the energy space. “It’s not unusual to see price moves of that magnitude,” he explained, “very, very…