by Raynovich Rod | Feb 25, 2019 | Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Update: 1:40 EST 2/25… Gene Therapy stocks soar on Spark (ONCE) Deal: BLUE, CRSP, RARE; and XBI up 4.2%. Another big deal as GE sells healthcare business to Danher (DHR) for $21.4B; GE up 8.26%, DHR up 8.38%. ========== M&A Drives Mid and Small Cap Biotechs...
by Raynovich Rod | Feb 10, 2019 | Biopharmaceuticals
Biotech Stocks Hold Despite Last Thursday’s Sell-Off All in the Technicals For Now, Large Caps Look Steady Biotech ETFs lost momentum last week but held near term support near the 20 Day moving average. Now that most companies have reported we should not expect...
by Raynovich Rod | Jan 24, 2019 | Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Update ….Jan 30 2:45p EST …FED to be Patient and Policy Stance is Appropriate FED to “wait and see” before raising rates-stocks soar. FED-“US Economy in a good place” NASDAQ up 2%, DOW up 1.73%, S&P up 1.53% XLV up 1.27%, IBB...
by Raynovich Rod | Jan 8, 2019 | Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Update-1…1/21/19 Liquid Biopsy I attended a Panel Session on Cancer Liquid Biopsy and although progress is being made on molecular diagnostics there are no newsworthy breakthroughs nor actual data showing a hard timeline. Here is an article from BIO 2016. There...
by Raynovich Rod | Jan 7, 2019 | Biopharmaceuticals
1/7/19 …After Close: Most Mid-Caps held gains but check AH trading Selected Winners today: AGIO 8.7%, ALNY 8.75%, ARRY 8.85%, BLUE 6.67%, BPMC 14.1%, NKTR 7.83%, SGEN 5.68%, ICPT 7.28%, XBI 5.97% (closed at highs. $79.50). Many of these mid-caps are still at low...
by Raynovich Rod | Dec 22, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals
Update: 12/29/18 Biotech Stocks Halt Slide: IBB down 0.34% to $94.84 and up 4.7% for the week, XBI up 0.73% to $70.09 and up 5.6% for the week. XLV up 3.5% for the week to $85.25.Volatile market trying to hold DEC 24 bottom. Recent trades that worked: ABBV AMGN ; did...
by Raynovich Rod | Dec 5, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals, Macro
Update -4 After Close 12/7/18 Market Performance for the Week XBI down 7.8%, IBB down 6.6%, XLV down 5.2%, QQQ down 5.11%. Futures not looking good at 12:40a EST, NAZ down 0.82%. Global Growth worries mount; geopolitical turmoil reigns. Moderna (MRNA) IPO closes down...
by Raynovich Rod | Nov 27, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals
Update-2 December 3 …Our Top Pick TSRO is up 58% on GSK Buyout We recommended Tesaro (TSRO) at $34 and it paid off today with a ~$5.1B buyout by GlaxoSmith Kline! Year End Rally Intact with XBI up over 3% to $84 handle, ====== Update-1 December 1… NASDAQ...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 10, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals, Macro
Biotech Momentum Lost Technical Breakdown: XBI Near April Bottom but XLV Looks Good Market Looking for Growth from Large Cap Earnings 10 year auction has tepid demand at Yield of 3.225%, NASDAQ at 7602 own 1.75% (Prices as of mid-day 1:30 p EDT) Biotech momentum...
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 10, 2018 | Biopharmaceuticals
9/16 The Week That Was: September Trending Down for Biotech NASDAQ-100 Holding (QQQ) at 184 up 1.7% last week. Large caps all weak on Friday; key will be Q3 earnings. FBT, IBB and XBI flat for the week; off highs reached 8/31/18. Mid-caps more mixed with strength in...