by Rod Raynovich | Mar 29, 2011 | 2024-25 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
As has been the pattern lately biotech sector rallies coincide with NASDAQ with the NAZ (2753) up 20.2 or 0.81% . The mid caps are the sweet spot in the market with as our mid-cap index of 33 biotechs are almost all green with the average up 1.57%. 14 of the stocks...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 29, 2011 | 2024-25 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
In January we reported from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference regarding convergence of communications and medical technologies. Two trends mentioned were use of cloud computing and connectivity in medicine. Here is a brief update: Abbott (ABT $48) announced today...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 28, 2011 | BIOgraph
Ariad (ARIA $7.24 up 4.3%) continues to roll on today on heavy volume up 17% over 5 days on speculation, news and upgrades with strong expectations for their chronic myeloid leukemia drug ponatinib. Articles from Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha and The Street.com have...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 24, 2011 | BIOgraph
On robust and active Life Science trading day two laggard diagnostic stocks perked up: Iris International (IRIS $9.41) is up 4.44% on FDA clearance of its iChem Velocity Workstation for automated Urine Chemistries. The stock is been trading from $9-10 over the past...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 24, 2011 | 2024-25 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
Biotech rally day with speculative news: ASCO,M&A,and Clinical News. Biotech stocks were green across the board with our mid-cap index of 33 stocks up 1%. ETF’s were strong: FBT up 1.3%, IBB up 1.3% and XBI up 1.45%. The NAZ is up 1.11%. Some notable winners...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 23, 2011 | 2024-25 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
Good news boosted many biotech stocks today as the XOMA clinical trial failure of yet another diabetes drug did not scare away investors. Although the major ETF’s were barely up, there were a lot of individual stock winners. Within the Rayno Life Science...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 23, 2011 | BIOgraph
But Cardiovascular Biomarker Indicates Anti-Inflammatory Activity For XOMA052 Xoma (XOMA $3.55) said its lead Type 2 diabetes drug-XOMA052- in a Phase 2b study failed to meet its main goal of lowering blood glucose levels. The trial failed to achieve its primary...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 18, 2011 | 2024-25 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
Quest Diagnostics said today it would buy the diagnostics company Celera (CRA $8.10) for $671M.Celera business momentum had stalled in 2010 with Q4 Revenue down 11% at $34.9M with Net Income at 3 cents a share down from 4 cents a share in Q4 2009. Results from...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 17, 2011 | 2024-25 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
M&A Target?? Molecular diagnostic device maker was a mover today on low volume with an analyst initiation at outperform.The stock is near its recent 52 week high of $27.79. Cepheid is an emerging growth leader in molecular diagnostics with its GeneXpert platform...
by Rod Raynovich | Mar 15, 2011 | 2024-25 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
Volatile Day on Wall Street-Biotech Stocks Are Holding Up Well with NASDAQ Down 1.18% Selected biotech stocks were in the green today responding to good news despite a nasty day in the market. The major ETF’s were down FBT ($38 down 1.09%), IBB ($94.25 down...
