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☆ Buy these 26 retail stocks on their way to recovery as bearish investors oversold them ahead of the holiday shopping season, according to Morningstar
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Morningstar's Dave Sekera says it's a hard time for retail, but many stocks are too undervalued. He explained that a number of major retailers are trading for half of their fair value. Sign up for our newsletter to get the inside scoop on what traders are talking about — delivered daily to your inbox. Despite all that, Sekara thinks retail in general is getting oversold, with many stocks trading for just half of what Morningstar considers to be their fair value. Sekera named a series of stocks from across the retail and consumer technology spaces that have become overly cheap relative to Morningstar's fair value estimates.

☆ How a recession could be a huge opportunity for 'upstream' startups
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But the end of the boom times could spell opportunity for industrial or "upstream" startups. The startups working upstream are rarely household names, and likely never will be. But upstream startups today have an advantage even over their counterparts trying to raise funding in past recession: two years of supply chain pain. But dismissing upstream startups as too niche is short-sighted, said Menlo Ventures partner Steve Sloane, who's led investments in warehousing and robotics startups. Supply chain tech startups raised $41.3 billion in 2021 — a 120% increase in funding for the category since 2019.

☆ Jeffrey Katzenberg is done with media after 'riding that Quibi rocket ship into the ground.' Here's why he's betting on cybersecurity and VPNs.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Katzenberg, a co-founder of DreamWorks and former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, founded another high-profile media venture, Quibi, in 2018. Jeffrey Katzenberg: Our areas of focus when we started were software as a service, best-in-class digital technology, and consumer technology. And then we recognized that digital media wasn't actually going to be successful for us, or frankly for anybody else. What's your outlook at the moment for traditional media companies, big tech, and streaming? What's the right sequencing, what's the right windowing, where's the greatest value creation coming for all parties involved — that's the testing that's going on.

☆ Siemens automates design process for testing new chips with advanced packaging
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Visitors walk under a Siemens sign at the international consumer technology fair IFA in Berlin, Germany September 2, 2022. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File PhotoSept 26 (Reuters) - Siemens Digital Industries Software, a unit of Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE), on Monday said it launched new software called Tessent Multi-die that automates a design process for testing chips made with advanced packaging. But testing these chips after they are made has been difficult as there are several layers of tiles, and Siemens’ head of the Tessent business Ankur Gupta said until now Siemens has had to work with customers on a case-by-case basis. He said making the testing process easier for chips with advanced packaging, also referred to as 2.5 and 3-dimensional packaging, will help give the new technology a boost. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Earnings are a bit more subdued this week, but a number of Club stocks are in the news for other reasons. Here's our take on four headlines and whether they impact our investment thesis for each company. Meta Platforms The news: Meta Platforms (META) said Tuesday it successfully raised $10 billion in its first-ever corporate bond deal. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .

Cyber Monday is a better day to shop for tech deals and smaller gifts; you'll also see slightly better online prices. The short answer is that Cyber Monday has better deals overall — but it's close. When to shop Black Friday versus Cyber MondayShop Black Friday for major stores; shop Cyber Monday for secondhand buys"For Black Friday, look to the biggest retailers, the ones who can afford to have smaller margins," said Janet Alvarez, the executive editor of the personal-finance publication Wise Bread. The exception is Amazon, which tends to have better deals on Cyber Monday, as long as you're a Prime member. Shop Black Friday for this year's products; shop Cyber Monday for older generations"Latest-generation products tend to be cheaper on Black Friday than on Cyber Monday," Alvarez said.

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