Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO)

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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.

LYFT's earnings beat appears to be giving hope to Uber investors in advance of its own report later Thursday, but the two rivals have key strengths to watch, such as Lyft's U.S. focus and Uber's move on food delivery.

AAOI remains green into its earnings after the close on Wednesday.

Let's check to see if the charts say 'bye' instead of 'buy'.

The deal drives home the importance of cutting-edge optical component and module technology to networking hardware vendors. It also might strengthen Cisco's sales pitch to cloud giants.

Analog chip suppliers, optical component firms and chip equipment makers could be among the firms that see M&A interest if trade tensions continue to ease.

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.

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Oracle tells investors it can regain the crown it once held among enterprises and end-users, but some aren't so sure.

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Our brewing Cold War over regional and global spheres of influence with China, has forced some merger activity across the aerospace and defense industry.

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We must hope this is a pause that refreshes, or we have to expect a rate cut sometime soon.

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Stay flexible and open minded, rather than bullish or bearish, as seasonality kicks in.

Intraday euphoria fizzled out, and the indices gave back a substantial amount of their gains.

It's far from certain that the Commerce Department plans to subject chip sales to Huawei to government review will lead to a full-blown sales ban.

It's ironic. Had the Chinese let Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet in, there could have been some massive retaliation for Huawei. But they never did.

Let's analyze what the charts look like today.

There is more confidence that the momentum stocks may see sustained upside.

Chuck Robbins didn't bellyache that he can't get out of China and therefore numbers have to come down.