Posts Tagged drug companies

3 Safe Defensive Stocks For A New Bear Market (MCD, AWK, TEVA)

Investors usually flock to defensive stock names during a bear market or when they are concerned that the market may not run much more.  Whether this is becoming a bear market or a bull market at all depends upon how long you’ve been in the market and how long you have been investing.  The latest [[ This is a content summary only.

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Genzyme Needs to Update Its Merger Status (GENZ, SNY, PFE, AMGN, JNJ)

Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) still has an incredible merger ‘deal premium’ associated with it over a pending Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) buyout.  Genzyme’s troubles have left it vulnerable to a deal for a while now, and its share price having been in the high-$40′s and low-$50′s before word of the deal leave Genzyme extremely vulnerable if [[ This is a content summary only.

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Looking at Genzyme’s Peers for ‘Other Buyout Candidate’ Probabilities (GENZ, SNY, GILD, CELG, BIIB, LIFE, HGSI, DNDN)

Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) is flying high on reports that Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) may have an interest in the company.  The WSJ reports that the large drug giant has approached what was the #5 biotech on NASDAQ by market cap, now #4, about an acquisition.  This is all informal as of now, but when one [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Smart Grid and Energy Efficient Technologies Boost Earnings for Established Companies (JCI, HON, XIDE, WMT)

While there are a lot of small companies vying for market share in the rapidly-growing alternative energy sphere, they’re not the only players in the game. Two established players reported earnings this morning that testify to the growth that is just beginning for companies that don’t build windmills or solar panels

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BioHealth Business Daily (AMGN, SNY, AFFX, CORT, CRIS, CYTR, HGSI, NEXMD, NYMX, XNPT)

Today’s version of the BioHealth Business Daily is a very unusual lot of movers.  Some moves are merely in sympathy and some are on news.  We also have a re-review of Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) for those potential merger candidates, some of which are on the move today. The stocks in [[ This is a content summary only

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China Won’t Call-in US Debt

As of the end of June, China owns $900.2 billion in US Treasury bills. If you add in all of China’s dollar-denominated assets, the total investment by China in the US is about $2.5 trillion.

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Media Digest 7/1/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   The House passed the financial reform bill leaving the Senate to act Reuters:   Work on the BP plc (NYSE: B) oil spill will be delayed because of Hurricane Alex. Reuters:   China’s economic growth slowed.

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BioHealth Business Daily (AMGN, AMLN, ALKS, DNDN, SNY, GENZ, MIPI)

There are many key movers in today’s BioHealth Business Daily.  We have included background data, news, reactions, and added in color where applicable.  BioHealth stocks to watch today are Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN), Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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BioHealth Business Daily (ARQL, APPY, BPAX, BMY, CLDX, CELG, DCTH, JAV, KERX, PCYC, TLCR, VVUS)

Today’s edition of the BioHealth Business Daily is going to be very cancer-dominated due to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2010 meeting that started this last weekend.  There are many other stocks on the move in the land of drugs and biotech as well.  Today’s key movers are ArQule Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQL), AspenBio [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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BioHealth Business Daily (AEZS, ACHN, EXEL, MNTA, NBIX, OXGN, PGNX, SQNM, SCLN, VVUS, VICL)

There were many stocks in Biotech and BioHealth with plus-signs after their share prices today.  The BioHealth Business Daily is smoothing out the brief winners and losers to only weed out the market moves.  Those on the move with news or events were AEterna Zentaris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS), Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHN), Exelixis, Inc

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