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Rayno Life Science Portfolio: AMGN, EXAS, NEOG, REGN Winners on a Risk-Off Day
Biotech Stocks Remain Resilient On A Bad Day The market took a nasty turn today with a 1.36% sell-off in NASDAQ and 1.05% for the S&P. The damage was across the board but the healthcare sector...
NASDAQ Slips Down 0.4% But Biotech Sector Hits New Highs
The ETF IBB (142.62) hit an all time high today and is up 36.6% YTD. The low for IBB over two years was August 19, 2011 at $88.50. Our mid-cap biopharma index is up 0.8% with big winners in JAZZ...
Biotechnology Does Create Jobs and MASS Effort pays Off
The MASS Biotechnology industry has crossed $6B as a 25 year effort beginning in 1985 with the MASS Biotechnology Council. Several major biotechnology companies were created around this time such as...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio: ILMN, RGDX,QQQ
FED Policy Boosts Risk Assets -QQQs Should Outperform IBB We expect the biotech sector to slightly underperform NASDAQ (QQQ $70.22) in light of "QE Forever" yesterday and the shift to financials,...
“QE” Forever: Buy on Rumor, Buy on News- Market Up 1.5%
Gold, financials, energy and materials soar-Gold up $34 to $1767 You have been hearing about the FED and QE for weeks now and today announced a $40B/month purchase of mortgage securities and after...
You Know Its a Bull Market in Biotech When……Update 1 9/8/12
Valuations Don't Matter-Institutional Holders Are the Drivers Medivation (MDVN $105.65) sold off 3 pts Friday on modest volume today as profit taking ensued after the big run-up from the high 95....
Rayno Biopharmaceutical Portfolio: ASTX IMGN, PCYC
ImmunoGen Gets Boost on Breast Cancer Drug Survival Results Immunogen (IMGN $14.36) and Roche announced improved overall survival (OS) as well as progression free survival (PFS) in a Phase III trial...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio: DX and Tools Q3 Review-Caution
We are in bit of a lull here as the sumer doldrums post earnings has hit many diagnostic stocks. Most stocks in the sector have hit their highs early in July prior to the July AACC Meeting. We will...
SnowBlog: El Nino on the Way in Sep?
End of LaNina? The weather is certainly in the news as drought approaches levels not seen since the 30's. But several reports recently indicate a shift coming in the fall toward an El Nino...
Biomarker MicroCap Challenge: BGMD,RGDX,VRML Update 8/21
Vermillion (VRML) stock outperforming BG Medicine (BGMD) YTD and Past Month Response Genetics thrown into the mix We have dropped the term "Face-Off" due to negative connotations of the "Face-"...