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Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio 2/09/09-1/27/12

Rayno Life Science Biopharmaceutical Picks Beat All Sector Averages Life Science Market  Hits 10 Year High Tracked by IBB ($115.51), and Up 46% Over 5 years Highlights of Rayno Biopharma Portfolio Biggest winners over 3 years were Alexion, Biogen, Micromet, Regeneron, Targacept and Viropharma. Targacept was at one time was a 20X return but is [...]

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Rayno Life Science Portfolio: Another Buyout- MITI Goes for $1.16B

M&A Trend Picks Up Steam The beat goes on as Amgen agrees to buy Micromet (MITI $10.95) for $1.16B.Micromet is focused on treatment  of hematologic malignancies with its BiTE monoclonal antibody platform and has four clinical stage  product candidates. The stock was $5 on November 25 ,2011. Micromet was added to the Rayno Life Science [...]

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Roche Bid for Illumina (ILMN) Drives Biotech Sector to New Highs

M&A Theme Provides Underlying Bid to Market Roche Holding, the most diversified diagnostics and pharmaceutical Company with an aggressive leveraged strategy for the molecular basis of disease and personalized medicine has offered $5.7B for the leading Company in genetic sequencing and life science tools with revenues in the $1B range. The offer was $44.50 but [...]

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“January Effect” Traders: Take Some Profits

If you followed our trades from November /December you made at least 20% so why push it? The Rayno Life Science Portfolio is down 0.75% today in a choppy  market. Our mid-cap biopharmaceutical index is down 0.87% but diagnostics and tools are  down only 0.3% as they were hit hard over the past 3 months. [...]

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“January Effect” Rolls On with Biotech Stocks Up Over 1%, 9.3% MTD

Seems a Bit Frothy Large and mid-cap biopharmaceutical stocks continued to surge today with the bellwether ETF IBB ($114) hitting one year highs of $114.15 today. Many of our recent focus picks also continue to roll ahead: Astex (ASTX $2.18) up 4.8%, Gilead (GILD $47.40) up 2.4%,ImmunoGen (IMGN $12.75) up 3.3%, Seattle Genetics (SGEN $18) up [...]

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Trends from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference 2012

Healthcare: Broad Trends and Business Concepts for 2012 Last year we published an overview of trends for the 2011 JPMorgan Conference. Here is a very brief review from this year’s Conference: The lagging Life Science Tools sector was ignited by new sequencing and genetic analysis products from Life Technologies (LIFE) and Illumina (ILMN). NIH and [...]

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