by Raynovich Rod | Apr 7, 2019 | Biopharmaceuticals
4/11 ALERT: Need to check out reasons for biotech sell-off; could be proposed drug pricing bills and “affordability board.” See STAT News . See 4/11 chart below for XBI. Choppy pattern returns at resistance with no breakthrough highs. Biopharma stocks...
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 24, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals
Update 9/26: FED Rate Hike Curbs Traders but Biotech Rolls On The market dipped slightly then went red about 3:30P EDT resulting in a 0.4% loss for the Dow. Main rates will rise to the 2 to 2.25% level with more rate hikes in the future. During Trump’s Press...
by Raynovich Rod | Jul 17, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals
Updates: 7/19 pm… Abbvie (ABBV) takes a 4.7% hit on Citron short seller call. Basis for call would be pressure from FDA and Scott Gottlieb concerning stalling by drug companies on biosimilars. Many reports cite biosimilar risk to blockbuster Humira. Merck...
by Raynovich Rod | Jun 30, 2018 | 2023-24 Life Science Portfolios, 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio
Biotech Bull Market: Up 25.39% Over 2 Years With High Volatility XBI Outperforms Up 12% YTD; FBT is Comparable, IBB lags. Three Funds did well in H1 2018 (7-9%). Biotech stocks peaked in July 2015 and reached a bottom on 10/31/16 gradually clawing their way back to a...
by Raynovich Rod | Jun 3, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals
6/4/18…after close Update-2…IBB down 0.65%, XBI down 0.22%. Momentum Waning Big Winners Today : BLUE, FMI, GHDX, IMMU, MRK It would appear that biotech stocks need to be bought prior to ASCO as has been then trend in the past i.e sell before the news....
by Raynovich Rod | Dec 20, 2017 | 2024 Rayno Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio, Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Clinical Diagnostics and Tools: Big Winners Are In Genomics and Personalized Medicine Slower growth in routine clinical diagnostics, tools are favored. Hologic has a unique business model for women’s health and diagnostics. Gene sequencing is important for...
by Raynovich Rod | Jan 20, 2017 | Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Outlook and Issues for Application of NGS for Clinical Diagnostics We heard a few presentations on NGS solutions and still think it is an important growth market for clinical diagnostics in oncology, rare diseases transplant medicine and NIPT. Gene sequencing (NGS)...
by Raynovich Rod | Nov 29, 2016 | Biopharmaceuticals
Market Reversal in Biotech Offers Bullish Set-Up After one of the worst down days in months yesterday biotech stocks broadly reversed today giving a short term “nibble” signal. The macro environment got support from economic data as well with upward Q3 GDP...
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 22, 2016 | Biopharmaceuticals
Biotech ETFs Are Having A Strong Quarter and Offer Good Investment Options On July 20 we did a review of active funds vs biotech ETFs in the biotechnology/life science sector just after the BREXIT lows. At that time biotech ETFs and broadly diversified funds beat the...
by Raynovich Rod | Aug 18, 2016 | 2024 Rayno Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Illumina (ILMN) Up 3 % to $174 on Buyout Speculation in Gene Sequencing Illumina, Inc. (ILMN) was up as much as 12 points earlier today on a rumored buyout from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (TMO). Thermo bought another major player in sequencing Life Techologies for...