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The Week Ahead: October Unemployment, Housing and Earnings
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 7:16am | 965Read More...The last week of October could prove to be significant for the markets. Notably, the final jobs report prior the U.S. Presidential election will be released at the end of the week, and the smaller employment reports (ADP, Challenger, etc.) will lead up to Friday's big release at 8:30 ET. A strongly...
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Short Interest Swings in Biotech Stocks (BIIB, GILD, VVUS)
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 2:09pm | 847Read More...The short interest in biotech and emerging pharmaceutical companies was mixed in the first two weeks of October. Shares sold short in Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN), Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG), Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN), Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), Onyx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ...
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Short Interest Swings in Biotech Stocks (BIIB, CELG, GILD)
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 6:59am | 826Read More...After largely rising in the previous period, short interest in biotech and emerging pharmaceutical companies was mixed in the final two weeks of September. Shares sold short in Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARNA), Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN), Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), Onyx...
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Three Biotech Stocks Analysts Are Keen On (MDVN, GEVA, OPTR)
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 3:34pm | 581Read More...Here is a quick look three top-performing biotech stocks with a consensus recommendation of analysts of Strong Buy. They are Medivation (NASDAQ: MDVN), Synageva BioPharma (NASDAQ: GEVA) and Optimer Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OPTR). Medivation This San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 30
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 10:46am | 980Read More...Most of the companies that compose the S&P 500 have reported second-quarter results already. According to Bloomberg, some 72 percent of S&P 500 companies that have reported quarterly results so far have exceeded analysts' estimates. But the earnings season is not over quite yet. Among the...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 30 (CMCSA, GM, KFT, V)
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 9:02am | 1279Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have posted stellar results, but earnings season rolls on. Here is a quick day-by-day rundown of what analysts are expecting from some of this week's most prominent earnings reports. Monday Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Watson...
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St. Jude, Novo Nordisk and Other Health Care Stocks Worth a Look Now
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 7:20am | 1030Read More...While the fate of the 2010 health care reform law may rest in the hands of the Supreme Court, the nation's focus on health care has returned for the moment. For investors, the following health care picks all pay a dividend and have seen double-digit percentage growth in their share price since the...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of January 30
Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 10:53am | 1336Read More...Lots more earnings are on the schedule for this week, even as the calendar page turns. Look for quarterly results to come from Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Hershey (NYSE: HSY), Kellogg (NYSE: K), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS). Analysts expect...
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Best Biotech Stocks of 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 11:39am | 830Read More...Here's a quick look at nine of the best-performing biotech stocks of the past year. Achillion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ACHN) is up almost 88% year to date and about 37% higher just in the past month. This Connecticut-based biopharmaceutical company has three drugs in clinical trials to treat...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 31
Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 11:31am | 1163Read More...Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...
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Bristol-Myers and Quidel to Open Near 52-Week Highs
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 7:37am | 500Read More...Health care companies Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) and Quidel (NASDAQ: QDEL) reached new 52-week highs of $32.75 and $17.21 per share, respectively, in Wednesday's trading session. Bristol-Myers saw its price target boosted by a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst yesterday on belief that...
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Eight Stocks Insiders Are Buying
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 6:46am | 907Read More...Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Market-driven sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...
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UPDATE: Goldman Sachs Adds Pfizer to Conviction Buy List
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 9:13am | 133Read More...Goldman Sachs has published a research report on Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) adding the company's stock to the Conviction Buy List. In the report, Goldman Sachs wrote, "We are adding PFE to the Conviction List, as we view PFE as a dislocated Buy opportunity in US Major Pharma, given (1) its dynamic...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of August 1
Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 10:02am | 1197Read More...Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...
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Fifteen Health Care ETFs Trading Near 52-Week Highs
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 1:57pm | 1271Read More...iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare Provider (NYSE: IHF) is up more than 19% year to date. The fund invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the underlying index, which measures the performance of the health care providers sector of the U.S. equity market. Top holdings include UnitedHealth...
