Rayno Life Science Portfolios: Biotechnology Stocks Should Outperform in Q4
Good Day for Biotech with a Strong Appetite for Two IPOs in A Choppy Market Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT) was up 29.33% to $19.40 on a public offering of 5M shares at $15 raising $75M. The Company is developing clinical stage therapeutics to treat chronic liver diseases. BofA MerrillLynch is...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio Biopharmaceuticals: ALXN, GILD, REGN, SGEN
Biotechnology Sector Continues Amazing Bull Run Up 40% YTD The Rayno Life Science Portfolio had nice gains today with 1% + moves from Biogen-Idec (BIIB) and Gilead Sciences (GILD) and with our bellwether ETF (IBB) eking out a 0.5% gain at its 52 week high. Since the bull market began in...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio Dx and Tools: EXAS, ILMN,TMO
Molecular Plays Lead Rayno Dx Focus Stocks Up Illumina (ILMN) rose 4.5% today on "talk" that Roche will increase its buyout offer to $60. Roche told Bloomberg that it does not comment on rumors. Illumina was added to the Rayno Portfolio in 2/2/09 at a price of $29 and the buy was reiterated in...
Who Knows About the Bull Market in Biotech Stocks?
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...
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 rose above the flack down only 0.11%. Large cap drug and biopharmaceutical stocks were green. Our...