TSMC, Lam Research spark early market rally
Wall Street Breakfast
Seeking Alpha
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:07.0 | Good morning. Today is Thursday, January 15th. I'm Julie Morgan. |
| 0:13.4 | The biggest movers list this morning includes names like Dell, Nokia, Lamb Research, and Taiwan Semiconductor. |
| 0:22.5 | Let's look at the latter, too. Taiwan Semiconductor. Let's look at the latter, too. |
| 0:30.0 | Taiwan Semiconductor is up 5%. The major supplier to companies, including Nvidia and Apple, |
| 0:40.2 | reported a net profit of $16 billion for the October to December quarter, a 35% surge from a year earlier, better than what analysts were estimating. |
| 0:41.6 | TSM also said it plans to boost its capital expenditure budget to $52 to $56 billion for |
| 0:48.9 | $2026. |
| 0:50.5 | This is up from about $40 billion last year. |
| 0:54.1 | Stiefel is forecasting water fabrication equipment spending to increase by 10 to 15% in calendar year 2026, which could benefit Terradine, Lamb Research, and KLA. |
| 1:07.4 | This equates to a $10 to $15 billion year-over-year increase, which will be led by advanced foundry, |
| 1:13.8 | Logic, and DRAM. The financial firm had expected water fabrication equipment growth of 7 to 8% in a previous |
| 1:21.5 | forecast. Terradine is up 4% pre-market and KLA is up 5%. |
| 1:27.5 | Verizon says it has restored network service after a major nationwide outage on Wednesday |
| 1:34.0 | that left thousands of customers without mobile service. |
| 1:38.0 | The company issued the update at 10.15 p.m. |
| 1:41.3 | More than 170,000 outage reports were filed on down detector, most tied to a lost mobile |
| 1:47.9 | signal. Verizon apologized for the disruption and says it plans to issue account credits to affected |
| 1:53.9 | customers, with more details coming soon. The company has not said would cause the outage. In a statement, Verizon said it let customers down and promised to make it right. |
| 2:05.6 | AT&T and T-NT Mobile also reported some service issues, but on a much smaller scale. |
| 2:11.6 | Built is rolling out a new lineup of credit cards under the name Built 2.0, including the palladium, |
| 2:19.4 | obsidian, and blue cards. All three offer a 10% introductory interest rate for the first year. |
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