We’ve got some stock market news for you that we believe will provide you with a better means of tracking the state of the tech and life science ecosystem across the Triangle as well as North Carolina.
We are revising drastically our WRAL TechWire “30” stock index.
We think this gives you a more applicable news source for information related to the tech sector with representatives from the Triangle and firms that have a major presence here dominating.
The upheaval in the markets these last couple of days made it clear of the relevance TechWire 30 could have but it needed changes to become more credible.
Check out the report, which is updated before and after Wall Street trading hours through our content provider Financial Content:

A sample of the TechWire 30 from early Friday Oct. 12.

As of this afternoon, we have added 12 stocks and removed others, to give the index a much stronger Triangle-NC feel with a heavy focus on technology and life science publicly traded companies.
IBM, Red Hat, Cree, Cisco, Biogen, Apple and NetApp remain part of the index.
To broaden the reach a bit we added Charlotte stocks (Duke Energy since it is such a tech/sustainable energy leader, and LendingTree) and a Triad stock (semiconductor firm Qorvo).
Triangle additions include IQVIA (formerly Quintiles) as well as ChannelAdvisor and robotic surgery firm TransEnterix.
We’re adding soon Citrix and Google, both of which keep growing in NC.
Note: This index doesn’t include bank stocks or non-tech firms such as Martin Marietta and Highwood Properties.
The index does NOT include Amazon. We will add it once the companies opens new data centers in Garner and Charlotte, thus becoming a stronger player in the NC economy.
Of course if the Triangle is selected for HQ2, we will add Amazon immediately.
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