Four reasons Walmart wants to buy smart TV maker Vizio

A worker walks past televisions, including the Vizio brand, on display in a Walmart Supercenter on February 20, 2024, in Hallandale Beach, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images Walmart is doing some shopping of its own. The retail giant announced last week that it plans to buy smart TV maker Vizio in a $2.3 billion … Read more

Media stocks pop as Roku rally lifts the sector

A Roku Inc. remote in an arranged photograph in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S., on Sunday, May 2, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Media stocks popped on Thursday as Roku’s 30% rally lifted the entire sector. Wall Street celebrated the streaming device company’s third quarter-report Wednesday, in which Roku reported strong trends in content … Read more

Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood on Europe opportunities

The most popular question on Ark Invest’s website has nothing to do with investing in the U.S., according to the firm’s CEO and Chief Investment Officer Cathie Wood. “The No. 1 question on our website as we track these questions is: Why can’t we buy your strategies in Europe?” the tech investor told CNBC’s “ETF … Read more