Rayno Life Science Portfolio Up 1.3% In A Strong NASDAQ Market
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 are up 2% or more. The major...
Technology Convergence in Healthcare: Abbott (ABT), Alere (ALR) and Merge (MRGE)
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 that the FDA cleared its...
Ariad (ARIA) and MolecularMD Collaborate in Companion Dx for CML
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 spotlighted the Company and...
Why is the Market Going Up?
Rick Santelli on CNBC answered the question today. Very few places to put your money: 1-In the mattress-cash. 2-In the ground-metals, energy. 3-In equities-earnings. With investors worried about interest rates rising and potentially no QE 3 , money could come out of bonds. In the WSJ today the...
Stocks to Watch-Life Science Tools and Diagnostics: Meridian(VIVO) and IRIS
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 six months.P/S for 2011...