Wedbush's Dan Ives: Don't throw in the towel on tech
Wedbush Securities managing director Dan Ives advised investors to stick with technology stocks despite the potential valuation crunch that could happen as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates."This is not the time to throw in the white towel on tech," he told CNBC on Friday.Calling the current era "a fourth industrial revolution," Ives backed such stocks as $CyberArk Software $, $Palo Alto Networks $, $Zscaler $, $NVIDIA $ and $Apple $."This is an opportunity, not the start of a downtrend
- Wall Street finished lower on Friday, weighed down by Big Tech as investors worried about the Omicron coronavirus variant and digested the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.All three main U.S. stock indexes ended with a decline for the week after the Fed on Wednesday signaled three quarter-percentage-point interest rate hikes by the end of 2022 to combat surging inflation.Nvidia dropped 2.1% and Alphabet lost 1.9%, both weighing on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.The S
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