The Fed's suggestion of an autumn pause in rate hikes has stocks on the move Thursday, but growth concerns are keeping bond yields low while adding a degree of caution to the early market rally.

"Combining our assets and talented team with Broadcom's existing enterprise software portfolio creates a remarkable enterprise software player," said VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram.

That appetite for new companies had placed Broadcom into a chip company with almost every possible tool at its disposable.

Hopeful talk of a pause in Fed rate hikes amid the worst run of weekly declines for the S&P 500 in more than two decades has stocks ending higher Monday.

Broadcom's acquisition march under CEO Hock Tan is reportedly set to continue with the potential $50 billion takeover of cloud software specialists VMware.

Elon Musk has closed out his margin loans, linked to Tesla shares, and pledged another $6.25 billion in equity to fund his $44 billion takeover of the social media website.

"As we look into the second half of the year, it's hard to predict exactly when COVID and the war in Russia is going to be behind us," said CEO Jensen Huang.

"While macroeconomic pressures on consumer spending increased during the quarter, our customers continued to shop," said CEO Jeff Gennette.

"Combining our assets and talented team with Broadcom's existing enterprise software portfolio creates a remarkable enterprise software player," said VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram.