New Mobile Computing Era Bringing Big Gains to Chip Makers Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), NVIDIA Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA)

By Jon D. Markman, Contributing Writer, Money Morning

Stocks rose gently but purposefully over the past week as investors collectively remembered that negative recent headlines on Portugal, China and Australia were only bound to push more money toward the United States, not force people back into the bomb shelter of government bonds.