The Latest Breaking News from Benzinga

When a Social Security statement shows incorrect income, it can cause confusion and concern about how benefits may be affected. One woman recently posted on Reddit's r/SocialSecurity forum:

As PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP) navigates its financial challenges, could its dividends hold the key to consistent monthly income for savvy investors? With recent market shifts and the looming presence of an activist investor, the allure of a steady cash flow is more enticing than ever.

Future Fund LLC's managing director, Gary Black, thinks Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) should use its excess cash to buy back the EV giant's shares from shareholders.

Top Wall Street analysts changed their outlook on these top names. For a complete view of all analyst rating changes, including upgrades and downgrades, please see our analyst ratings page.

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is in advanced talks to make a $500 million investment in the U.K. autonomous driving startup Wayve, signaling a strategic expansion of its influence in the thriving artificial intelligence sector.

Retail investors buzzed about five stocks this week, from Sept. 15 to 19, on platforms like X and Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets, amid market AI enthusiasm and the Federal Reserve rate cuts.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE:BABA) is intensifying its challenge to U.S. technology leaders with the debut of a high-performance processor designed to rival Nvidia Corp.’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) H20 graphics chip, alongside an open-source artificial intelligence agent positioned against OpenAI’s Deep Research platform.

Analysts offered sharply different takes on Nvidia Corp.'s (NASDAQ:NVDA) $5 billion investment in Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC), with TF Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo touting the partnership's potential to reshape the AI PC landscape while Deepwater Asset Management's Gene Munster cautioned that Intel's soaring stock reaction looked excessive.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) co-founder Larry Ellison‘s net worth plummeted by $34 billion after briefly surpassing Tesla‘s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Elon Musk as the world’s richest person last week.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE:TSM) reaffirmed Thursday that construction of its second advanced packaging plant in Chiayi County remains on schedule, countering reports that the project had been suspended and its equipment diverted to the U.S.

Editor’s Note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs were updated in the story.