Life Science Sector Outperforms NASDAQ-100: Movers are ROSGD, VICL Biotechnology stocks sold off about 0.65% overall as industry news and fundamentals were eclipsed by MACRO issues. Concerns loom about European debt, US debt ceiling and potential default. JPMorgan earnings helped buffer losses and Google earnings after hours were excellent so that should help tech(and adverting [...]
A front page article in the New York Times today by Gina Kolata, “How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart”, chronicles a patient case study at Duke University about gene based tests for lung cancer. Additional commentary at other research institutions suggests that “good science has not caught up with the financial push.” We [...]
Relative Safety in Healthcare Stocks Today’s sell-off in the energy complex with the back-drop of a U.S. slow growth scenario plus the Euro being vulnerable due to Greece and Ireland has spooked the overall market. All the major indices are down over 1% with the S&P down 1.22%. Nasdaq is coming back down only 1%.Materials [...]
This was published today on www.InvestorUprising.com. Biotech stocks are up 10% YTD. Investor Uprising – Rod Raynovich – The Biggest Biotech Trends
University Start Ups: We Can Do It Just Show Me The Money To those of you who are familiar with Tech Transfer and university start-ups you know there are more opinions and technology than there is a money. See the article below that says universities are blowing opportunities to leverage their scientific talent. As if [...]
Hot biomedical concepts: Software, mobile communications, ophthalmology,antibiotics,epilepsy,surgery,cancer, and publishing. On Thursday March 9 The Wall Street Journal published an excellent review of the Top 50 start-ups and the money raised.The leaders were technology companies with a WEB focus. With valuations for Facebook, Group-On and Twitter soaring there is some debate as to whether we are [...]
