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Biotech Sector Avoids Nasty Correction and Hits New Highs
Why is the biotechnology sector still strong? Despite all the gloom and doom in the markets over the past 60 days the biotechnology sector has barely flinched and is currently at YTD highs....
Rayno Life Science -Biomarkers: BGMD,VRML
Biomarker MicroCap Face-Off: BGMD vs VRML Vermillion announced Q1 Results today today with OVA1 revenues of $312K of which $114 k was licensing revenues from their testing partner Quest Diagnostics...
Rayno Life Science: DX and Tools Update ALR 5/11/12
More Bad News on Alere The second shoe has dropped on Alere (ALR $19) with the stock off 15% as the FDA inspection news regarding manufacturing and quality at the "Biosite"facility.Leerink Swann...
Rayno Life Science Update-Macro Rules, Risk Off
Market Off Its Lows Today-Consumer Cyclical and Technology Outperforming Healthcare The market continues to be weak with the NASDAQ entering its 5th day of the sell-off down 4.29% but the QQQ...
Market Sell-Off Continues: Biotechs Follow NASDAQ Down 1.56%
The NASDAQ Biotechnology Index IBB ($122.30) is off 1.5% today and more than 2% off its all time high of $126.65. The first clue to the current sell-off was a CNBC Fast Money Contributor to buy the...
Alere Inc.(ALR) : Where is the bottom and what went wrong?
ALR ($21.58) Continues to Sell-off Slicing through 3 Mo. Technical Bottom We have included Alere in our diagnostics and tools portfolio since 2/2/09 at a price of $25, and although the stock is...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio Update: ALR, GPRO, REGN
Consolidation Continues in Mid Cap DX Companies: Bull Market in Biotech Hits New Highs Our Life Science Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio had a nice hit today with GenProbe up 18.75% on the Agreement...
Biopharmaceuticals Resist Market Correction: M&A du jour Ardea (RDEA)
Biotech Outperforming Tech Lately: M&A Hit of the Day Ardea Biosciences The market continues its choppy trend with the QQQ's off 0.9% to $65 with some Internet high fliers like AMZN and NFLX...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio: CBST, GILD,HGSI, REGN SQNM
Biotech Rally Ignited By Clinical News and M&A Theme The biotech sector roared back today with major ETF's IBB ($122) up 2.4% and XBI ($78.6) up 5.1 % driven primarily by Gilead (GILD $52.23) up...
Risk Off: Profit Taking, Spain and Jobs Data//BIO Update April 11
Nice Recovery in biotech today with our mid-cap index up almost 1%. Without doing a lot of detailed analysis it looks like stocks that have major institutional sponsors are rallying. Smaller caps...