by Raynovich Rod | Jan 13, 2015 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, Biopharmaceuticals
FBT up 2.4% to $108 then drifts back to 107; NASDAQ flat 4661 DOW bounced around in 425 point range. Mixed market among biotech stocks after NASDAQ and S&P sell off; momentum eases. Mid-cap immuno-oncology stocks : down AGIO, BLUE, EPZM, SGEN.; up CLVS, INCY,...
by Raynovich Rod | Jan 12, 2015 | 2024 Rayno Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio
Sequencing Remains Hot-Roche (RHHBY) Deal With Foundation Medicine (FMI) Worth $1.1B Targeted Oncology Therapy-Molecular information from pathways and biomarkers e.g. PDL-1 RNA based immunotherapy test Continuous monitoring of tumor specific information and molecular...
by Raynovich Rod | Jan 7, 2015 | Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools, Macro
2015: Another Good Year Unless “Something Happens” Life Science stocks had another big year in 2014 up 48% tracking gains for the overall healthcare sector up 35%. Over 10 years the return is 300%! The move up was not a straight line as there were two...
by Raynovich Rod | Dec 19, 2014 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, Biopharmaceuticals, Macro
Biotech Stocks Rally to New Highs After 4% Correction Buyers Are Bottom Feeding Energy Stocks NASDAQ at 4765 Just as the market appeared to be headed to another test of October lows, challenged by news on slowing global growth and a collapsing energy sector, FED Chair...
by Raynovich Rod | Dec 10, 2014 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, Biopharmaceuticals, Macro
Crude Trade Roils Markets-But Biotech Is Still A Safe Haven Second Worst Week of the Year-Late Day Trading Hit By Selling As the market becomes more volatile we should look at how the energy trade is affecting other asset classes. Certainly materials and industrials...
by Raynovich Rod | Dec 1, 2014 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, Biopharmaceuticals
Bounce Back Day 12/2/14 FBT up 1.5% to $102.33 Biotech players realized that news about China, energy and holiday shopping data do not affect their stocks. Our large cap biopharma portfolio went green helped by Biogen Idec (BIIB) up 6.43% on Phase 1a data for an...
by Raynovich Rod | Nov 14, 2014 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, Biopharmaceuticals
Red Tape Today Means Caution-Take Some Off XBI at $167.83 Off 2% Traders, investors, executives even pension funds are thrilled with biotech investing as the stock group rolls on to new highs this month. What may not be appreciated is the 20% move off the October 16...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 16, 2014 | Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools, Macro
11/15/14 Speculative Small Cap Stocks-Stay Away Unless Your Are A Trader Nice profits were booked on our recent small cap picks but today the sell-off was “pronounced”: Celldex (CLDX) was down 21% to $13.10 after hitting a high near $18 on October 31....
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 24, 2014 | 2023-24 Life Science Portfolios, Biopharmaceuticals
Update-1 …After 1.94% NASDAQ Sell-Off All three market indices got crushed today with a downdraft attributed to ending of QE, rising i rates in 2015, a rising dollar and just plain profit taking. A 3.8% hit on Apple (AAPL) did not help support the QQQ which also...
by Raynovich Rod | Aug 26, 2014 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio
Rayno Biopharmaceutical Stocks- Including New Picks Another great day for biotech with most Rayno stocks in a rally mode with a bit of profit taking on Gilead Sciences(GILD) down 1%. Notable movers up on our core picks are: Alkermes (ALKS), Amgen (AMGN), Ariad (ARIA),...