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3 Dividend Stocks for Retirees

Retirees who are eager to boost the income from their portfolios have been turning away from low yielding government bonds and toward higher yielding stocks. Embracing dividend payers can increase your investment income, but focusing

3 Top Chipmakers Breach Key Levels, But One Is In Profit-Taking Zone

Loading the player… Chipmaker Mellanox Technologies ( MLNX ) is plunging in giant volume in the stock market today on the heels of disappointing guidance issued late Wednesday. Mellanox beat Q1 earnings and revenue expectations, but its Q2 revenue outlook widely missed expectations. Shares gapped below their 50-day moving average and neared the 200-day line in intraday trade, tumbling more than 12%. Let’s take a look at how some highly rated chip peers are doing: Cirrus Logic ( CRUS ), Inphi ( IPHI ), MaxLinear ( MXL ) and Silicon Motion Technology ( SIMO ). Apple ( AAPL ) supplier Cirrus Logic is falling 3.1% in quick turnover, dropping below its 50-day moving average. Shares are now trading 10% below their May high and a potential buy point from a long consolidation pattern. The drop comes ahead of Apple’s earnings report next Tuesday, where we’ll get a sense of the consumer tech giant’s iPhone production — which has an impact on its suppliers. Meanwhile, Apple shares fell 1.2% intraday. Inphi is dropping back below buy range from a cup base it initially broke out of about a month ago, losing 5.2%. Shares are still extended from a double-bottom entry but are now 10% below their April 1 high. MaxLinear is continuing its rebound today, rising 1.1%, after breaching its 50-day line in Tuesday’s session. On Wednesday, the company tightened its Q1 revenue guidance and raised its gross margin target. And Silicon Motion Tech hit another all-time high in above-average volume in intraday trade, paring its gains to a 0.6% rise by the afternoon. The stock is now in profit-taking zone, with a gain of more than 20% since breaking out of a long cup-with-handle base last month.

Amazon Tap Casts Apple Suppliers; Texas Instruments Leads Echo Dot

Amazon.com ( AMZN ) tapped Texas Instruments ( TXN ) to lead its “hockey-puck-sized” Echo Dot Alexa-infused speaker, and incorporated Apple ( AAPL ) suppliers Broadcom ( AVGO ) and NXP Semiconductors ( NXPI ) in its portable Tap stereo, iFixit teardowns show. But the teardowns did little to help chipmakers Thursday on Wall Street. Chip stocks were broadly down in afternoon trading on the stock market today , in conjunction with fractional dips for the major indexes. Texas Instruments won five chips — including a digital media processor — inside the Echo Dot , but that total was skimmed down from eight chips inside the larger Echo . Also, Samsung succeeded SanDisk ( SNDK ) as the flash memory supplier. Echo Dot also features a DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chip from Micron Technology ( MU ), apparently replacing a Samsung RAM chip in the Echo. Qualcomm ( QCOM ) re-won the Bluetooth function from the Echo. The smaller Echo Dot earned a six out of a best-possible 10 in its repairability rating, dropping from seven in the earlier Echo iteration. Amazon’s Tap won a seven out of 10. It’s Amazon’s first Alexa-equipped portable speaker vs. the Echo Dot and Echo, according to iFixit. Maxim Integrated Products ( MXIM ) topped the Tap with two chips — an audio codec and a power management chip. Texas Instruments supplied an amplifier. Apple suppliers Broadcom and NXP won a chip apiece — WiFi/Bluetooth and an applications processor, respectively. The device is powered by a lithium-ion cell, such as those used in Tesla Motors ( TSLA ) vehicles, iFixit notes. It provides for nine hours of music playback, according to Amazon, vs. the iPhone 6S Plus, which has “a battery with a similar output for a radically different job.”