18 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Better Buy: NVIDIA Corporation vs. Texas Instruments
Better Buy: NVIDIA Corporation vs. Texas Instruments
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) represent two very different ways to invest in the semiconductor industry. Nvidia generates most of its revenue from sales of high-end graphics cards, but it’s been diversifying into GPUs for data centers and CPUs for connected cars.
18 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: Ryan on Trump: Not ‘my kind of conservative’
The Wall Street Journal: Ryan on Trump: Not ‘my kind of conservative’
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday acknowledged presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump was “not my kind of conservative” but called for the party to rally behind the New York businessman at this week’s Republican National Convention.
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18 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Interview With the Polen Growth Fund
Interview With the Polen Growth Fund
Asset management company Polen Capital’s investing template has proven the test of time: Since inception in January 1989 through the end of the first quarter of 2016, the Polen Focus Growth strategy has generated gross annualized returns of 14.5% and net (after-fees) annualized returns of 13.4%, compared with 9.8% for the Russell 1000 Growth Index and 10% for the S&P 500.
18 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Omnicom Group Inc. Weathers a Tough Market
Omnicom Group Inc. Weathers a Tough Market
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Shares of Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) were little changed after the marketing and communications company reported second-quarter 2016 results on Thursday morning. But don’t take the market’s seeming indifference as a sign that Omnicom’s performance wasn’t good, as it did continue to grow sales and earnings despite both the ongoing negative effects of foreign currency exchange and an uncertain macroeconomic environment.
18 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Earnings Outlook: What to expect from GM earnings
Earnings Outlook: What to expect from GM earnings
Rising sales in the U.S.
18 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Notable Monday Option Activity: MNST, BA, HD
Notable Monday Option Activity: MNST, BA, HD
Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Monster Beverage Corp (NASD: MNST), where a total of 4,977 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 497,700 underlying shares. That amounts to about 40.9% of MNST’s average daily trading volume over the past month of 1.2 million shares. Particularly high volume was seen for the $150 strike put option expiring August 19, 2016, with 841 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 84,100 underlying shares of MNST.
18 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Notable Monday Option Activity: SSYS, BAC, NE
Notable Monday Option Activity: SSYS, BAC, NE
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Stratasys, Ltd. (NASD: SSYS), where a total volume of 4,822 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 482,200 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 50.6% of SSYS’s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 952,575 shares.