21 March, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on If You’re in Your 30s, Consider Buying These Stocks
If You’re in Your 30s, Consider Buying These Stocks
The biggest advantage of investing when young is that time is still on your side. With retirement a few decades away, investors in their 30s shouldn’t be shy about taking on more risk in order to generate higher returns.
21 March, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on BOC’s Schembri: Q4 GDP was stronger than expected but analysis suggests caution
BOC’s Schembri: Q4 GDP was stronger than expected but analysis suggests caution
Comments from the Bank of Canada’s Schembri:
– Business investment in Canada remains weak; investment in energy appears to be stabilizing
– Elevated geopolitical uncertainty likely contributing to underperformance in investment; too early to assume worst is behind us
Canadian economic data has been very good lately but the BOC continues to lean against it and forecast trouble while remaining dovish. There’s no change from that theme here.
21 March, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on New Cali Law Requires Pensions To Sell Companies Building Trump’s "Wall Of Shame"
New Cali Law Requires Pensions To Sell Companies Building Trump’s "Wall Of Shame"
A new piece of legislation recently introduced in California, Assembly Bill (AB) 946 or the “Resist the Wall Act,” would require the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) – the nation’s first and second largest pension funds – to liquidate within 12 months any investments in companies involved in the construction of President Trump’s “Wall of Shame”. The bill also requires
21 March, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Apple Inc.’s Sensible iPhone SE Refresh
Apple Inc.’s Sensible iPhone SE Refresh
On March 21, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) unveiled a refresh of its iPhone SE product line. The fundamentals of the iPhone SE haven’t changed — form factor, colors, display technology, and core internals all remain the same.
What’s changed, then? The storage configurations and, in the case of the higher storage tier, pricing. Apple previously offered 16 GB and 64 GB variants of the iPhone SE at $399 and $449, respectively.
Image source: Apple.
21 March, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Fashion Brand ME+EM Nears £1.25 Million During the Final Week on Crowdcube
Fashion Brand ME+EM Nears £1.25 Million During the Final Week on Crowdcube
With its Crowdcube campaign set to close this upcoming Friday, fashion brand ME+EM is nearing £1.25 million thanks to more than 750 investors. Prior to the campaign’s debut, ME + EM secured £400,000 from lead investors. ME+EM describes itself as a UK fashion in the direct-to-consumer… Read More
21 March, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How Apple Has Changed in the Past 10 Years
How Apple Has Changed in the Past 10 Years
In 2006, Google had just launched Docs & Sheets to compete against Office, MySpace was still a thing, Facebook opened up its platform for the first time to people who weren’t students, Twitter launched as “the SMS [short message service] of the internet,” and the iPod was the primary tech innovation offered by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) beyond its computers. It sold 39.4 million units that year, with the portable music player representing 40% of total revenues.
21 March, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The One Chart That Your Portfolio Manager Does Not Want You To See
The One Chart That Your Portfolio Manager Does Not Want You To See
Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,
$1.7 trillion blown on making EPS look less bad.
The S&P 500 index, closing today at 2,373, hovers near its all-time high. Total market capitalization of the 500 companies in the index exceeds $20 trillion, or 106% of US GDP. In the three-plus years since the end of January 2014, the index has soared 33%.