Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO—A year ago, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. worsened its financial problems by botching the launch of a powerful new server chip. The flubbed introduction gave bigger rival Intel Corp. eight months to steal market...

Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.14% this week, down from 6.20% last week, mortgage company Freddie Mac said. For 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with people who are refinancing, average rates dropped to 5.81% from 5.88%. Five-...

The nation's unemployment rate is at a 14-year high, Ford is planning more job cuts after burning through billions in the third quarter, and General Motors is expected to report its own dismal earnings results later Friday. The evidence continues to roll...

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At a glance Today Government offices are closed for Columbus Day. Bond markets are closed. Nobel memorial prize in economics is announced in Stockholm. Tuesday Weekly Treasury auction and briefing. Quarterly earnings reports due from Genentech,...

SAN FRANCISCO — Since the credit crisis began to grip the financial world, Silicon Valley has watched from the sidelines, secure in the faith that it was insulated from the coming storm. That faith is now being seriously undermined. High-tech...

No, no, no, he assured one of the businessmen buying the ailing Manchester City soccer club. The price tag for the British team wasn't $4 billion, but a mere $400 million. Anil Bhoyrul, editorial director of Arabian Business magazine and a confidant to...

ALBANY - Despite a fiscal crisis hitting the state and a $2-billion budget shortfall for the year, Gov. David A. Paterson said yesterday that the state will go ahead with a plan to bring a new microchip plant upstate, luring the company with $1.2...

Monday: -- Earnings: Eaton Corp.; Mattel Inc.; Novellus Systems Inc.; Sensient Technologies Corp. Tuesday: -- June producer price index -- June industrial production -- Earnings: AMB Property Corp.; Coca-Cola Co.; CSX Corp.; Forest Laboratories Inc.;...

Q: What on earth has happened to my shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.? The bottom has fallen out. -- K.V., via the Internet A: Babe Ruth, the legend goes, once pointed to the bleachers before slamming a home run. Joe Namath guaranteed a Super Bowl...

A summer sell-off in the volatile semiconductor group has raised an interesting question for investors: If the chips are down this much, is it time to buy? Although semiconductor stocks have underperformed the broader market since May, in recent weeks...

Putting aside the debate over whether Apple Computer Inc.'s Power Mac G5 is "the world's fastest personal computer" as the company claims, the machine blows away any previous Mac. Clearly the Power Mac G5, which Apple will begin shipping by the end of...