The Traderszone Network

Markit’s initial estimates of eurozone economic growth in April, released Friday morning, are far from encouraging.

In tech, perhaps more than any other industry, the eternal conundrum is to build or buy – innovation. Innovation is the lifeblood of tech, and it is also the greatest threat to tech firms.

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Doing business in China has been a bit of a holy grail for American companies. It’s a very lucrative market with a growing middle class, but the legal situation and government make it a challenging place for a foreign company to operate. Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) has been a leader in the Chinese market with over 5,000 of its KFC locations in the country and a total of over 7,000 eateries across China.

Doing business in China has been a bit of a holy grail for American companies. It’s a very lucrative market with a growing middle class, but the legal situation and government make it a challenging place for a foreign company to operate. Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) has been a leader in the Chinese market with over 5,000 of its KFC locations in the country and a total of over 7,000 eateries across China.

Jugnoo gains attention from investors as the sharing economy startup capitalizes on a majority of the Indian subcontinent’s primary means of travel.

Alibaba invests $1.25 billion in Ele.me, a leading Chinese food delivery service.

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Union Pacific Corp (NYSE: UNP), where a total volume of 28,153 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.8 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 56.4% of UNP’s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 5.0 million shares.

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