Broadcom Inc. (AVGO)

Their fiscal third quarter earnings results gave investors reason to pause.

A trade deal still seems far away, so check your China exposure, again, as earnings season approaches.

The bond market is running the show? The answer would be... as much if not more than anything else... again.

Gains in Amgen, CVS, and others helped offset declines in other stocks, as the RMPIA rose over the last two months to 0.6%, handily beating all the major domestic stock market averages.

In areas ranging from operating systems to mobile processors to CPU core designs, the Chinese tech giant is looking for replacements to U.S.-developed tech.

Outlining Okta's earnings prospects on Wednesday is a tale of tempting TAM and troublesome valuation.

Let's dig deeper to see if we can handicap the direction of the expected breakout.

As is the case with CA, Broadcom wants to significantly cut the spending of Symantec's enterprise security unit and streamline its offerings. But the unit faces a tougher competitive environment than CA's core mainframe software business.

Though it would likely take a while for Apple to begin using its own 5G modem, doing so could yield major cost savings and also carry other benefits.

The chip manufacturing giant issued upbeat Q3 sales guidance and forecast this year's capital spending will be at the high end of a prior guidance range.

Let's review the charts and indicators to see how they look after the company's 'on and off company acquisition news'.

It's possible that disgruntled Symantec shareholders could make the company return to the negotiating table with Broadcom. But if that doesn't happen, there are other targets that Broadcom might pursue.

A unique stock, AVGO offers a dividend yield of nearly 4%, making it among the highest yielding in tech.

Broadcom's success to date at making its $18.9 billion acquisition of CA Technologies work provides reason to think a Symantec acquisition could also pay off. But there are differences between Symantec and CA.

Disappointment in the cybersecurity name could set it up as another takeover candidate.

If it wasn't clear before, Broadcom has shifted its focus away from the hardware side of the business in terms of acquisitions.

Also, I'm not sure one needs to be in Broadcom, but if one were interested, this could be the discount that one has waited for.

There are a number of RMPIA companies that will be beneficiaries of Back to School and holiday spending.

This stock is a buy, if the fine points of the Broadcom offer support more upside.

A subset of tech is expensive, as well as tech IPOs, but the majority of sectors are far from overvalued.

There still appears to be plenty of interest among chip developers in further consolidation, and the easing of export restrictions on Huawei might make them less worried about Chinese regulators.

Assuming that enough of you are either long NVDA, or at least have an interest in the name, let's take a look under the hood, and make a more determined decision here.

The G-20 Summit in Japan could hold more intrigue than just the planned meeting between President Trump and Xi.

A number of vocal analysts and investors are calling for caution on those eager to buy the semiconductor stock amidst its Wednesday morning leap.

With the help of an end-to-end technology approach, Qualcomm continues seeing strong design win activity for its RF chips within phones using its 5G modems.

The chip sector could get hit hard if a trade deal doesn't happen at the G20 summit.

Talks between Washington and Beijing unlikely to end tariffs, but what would be worse? If the Fed chief dropped his guard on a single tweet.

Going long on the tech giant is more about health care and credit card offerings than the iPhone.