Biotech Rides the September 1 Rally with a 2.5% Move Up
Biotech stocks perked up today emboldened by a new month and ISM data including some positive growth from China's manufacturing sector. Apple headlines with the iPOD and Apple TV helped catalyze the NASDAQ move. Biotech went along for the ride with most ETF's up 2%+ and our Mid-Cap Biotech...
Good Riddance to August 2010-Part 2 Safe Havens in Biotech and Gold
See Part One of the August review regarding the "bondfest". We'll spare you the review of what happened in August but now you know what worked- bonds and gold. Gold ended the month up 5.61% as it survived a correction under 1200 and brought in investors as fears of double dip and a waek dollar...
Good Riddance to August 2010- Part 1 Bonds for Everyman
The gloom and doomers are still out in force today but facing a little headwind as the market is stable to up helped by home prices and consumer confidence. Apparently the bulls were on vacation this August or frozen from clicking on something to buy except bonds. However the bond bulls rule...
Macro and Trading Rules-Risk Remains Off
Sequel to our Aug 11 post on "End of Summer Rally" If you hedged or exited stock positions on August 11 or a couple of days earlier you would have saved 5% and much more on tech and smaller cap stocks.Since John Chambers of Cisco came on with his cautionary statements on August 11 the stock is...
Successful IPO’s in Genomics Could Ignite Biotech Stocks
The IPO market is setting up for continued investor interest in the biotech sector. Two high profile genomics companies,Complete Genomics and Pacific Biosciences, have filed S-1 Registration Statements with plans to go public in the fourth quarter around the time when market seasonality becomes...