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While Nvidia and Broadcom are both benefiting from the AI boom, Wall Street sees one stock as a much better buy. Semiconductor companies Nvidia (NVDA 3.30%) and Broadcom (AVGO 11.43%) are leading suppliers of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators. Nvidia dominates the market with its graphics processing units, but Broadcom is gaining market share with custom…

Researchers on Friday said that Poland’s electric grid was targeted by wiper malware, likely unleashed by Russia state hackers, in an attempt to disrupt electricity delivery operations. A cyberattack, Reuters reported, occurred during the last week of December. The news organization said it was aimed at disrupting communications between renewable installations and the power distribution…

Homes in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US, on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. Zak Bennett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage demand spiked markedly higher last week as consumers returned from the holidays to find overall lower interest rates and then a sharp rate drop Friday on news from the White House. President Donald Trump posted…

With affordability at the top of his domestic agenda for 2026, President Donald Trump unveiled in rapid succession last week a series of proposals aimed at making Americans’ cost of living less, well, costly. He focused on two major burdens — housing and credit card debt. Trump has been on a tear lately, also throwing…

<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==" alt=" Photographer: Chesnot/Getty Images ” loading=”eager” height=”640″ width=”960″ class=”yf-1gfnohs loader”> Photographer: Chesnot/Getty Images (Bloomberg) — Wall Street is gearing up to lend massive amounts of money to the biggest players in artificial intelligence — and simultaneously trying to figure out how to protect itself from any bubble that its financing may be helping…

In this article CVX VLO HAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that investors chasing the market’s reaction to Venezuela’s political upheaval are making a familiar mistake: confusing short-term trading opportunities with long-term investing. Cramer urged investors to focus on owning high-quality stocks and sticking with them, rather than jumping…