Raise More Cash- No Change in Rayno Biopharma Portfolio Last month we raised the yellow flag on the biotech sector because of a choppy tape, new highs with weakness in MO (Momentum) plays and the anticipation of ASCO news that could trigger a “sell on the news” trend. Moreover CNBC pundits have been pushing biotech [...]
Impressive Rally in Diagnostics and Tools Stocks The NASDAQ rally is beginning to fade now up only 17 pts after hitting a high of 3510 at 10 am EDT. However many Life Science Tools and Diagnostics stocks are having a strong day. We recently featured 3 micro-cap diagnostics stocks in the $50M market cap range [...]
ASCO Meeting Coming Up May 31 With the ASCO Meeting coming up at the end of the month, we are pleased to provide oncology pipeline data from Linda Pullan. There was a lot of interest on this WEB site when we provided data in June 2010. The link is Pullan’s Pieces #81 April 2013. Her recent [...]
Biotech and Drug Stocks Remain in the Sweet Spot NAZ Down 0.16% at 3295 at Close A string of market up days was halted today as retail sales and consumer sentiment gave bearish indicators.Commodity stocks were also weak-energy down 1.2%, materials down 1.7%- and there is a “whiff of deflation” in the air according to [...]
Response Genetics (RGDX) Offers Good Value and Is Positioned For Revenue Growth In April we compared two emerging companies focused in biomarker diagnostics, BG Medicine, Inc. and Vermillion, Inc. offering a challenge to readers as to which stock would be the winner in 2012. Both companies received FDA approval for their tests and revenues were [...]
Is There No End to the Biotech Bull Market? Biotech ETFs NASDAQ Biotechnology (IBB) up 36% YTD and NYSE (FBT) up 42% YTD Around 1998 I remember vividly two market conversations: one from a Sun Micro sales executive telling me “there is no end to chip stocks”; the other from an astute investor telling a [...]
