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Benzinga’s Top Pre-Market Gainers (RYAAY, AMAG, XRTX, KMX)
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 8:09am | 279Ryanair Holdings plc (ADR) (NASDAQ: RYAAY) rose 6.37% to $28.90 in the pre-market session. Ryanair Holdings lifted its annual profit guidance today. Ryanair Holdings now expects to make no less than 310 million euros ($418 million) in the year ended March 31, 2010. The 52-week trading range for...
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FDA Accepts Savient Drug BLA - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 5:16pm | 385Recently, Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BLA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the Biologics License Application (BLA) for its gout candidate, Krystexxa (pegloticase). The BLA was resubmitted by Savient on March 15, 2010. A response from the FDA should be out in...
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Small Cap Names That Are Surging (AEN, ENCO, ESPH)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 12:59pm | 356Among the small cap names that are surging today are Adeona Pharmaceuticals (AMEX: AEN), which has gained 32.11% to $2.51, Ecosphere Technologies (OTC:ESPH), up 6.36%, and Encorium Group (NASDAQ: ENCO), which has surged 91% to $4.03. Adeona (AEN) is a development stage, specialty pharmaceutical...
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KNDL Can Succeed In Evolving Landscape
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 1:17pm | 146Analysts at Barclays Capital maintain their "equal weight" rating on Kendle International (NASDAQ: KNDL), while reducing their estimates for the company. The target price for KNDL is set to $17. According to Barclays Capital, “While mgmt is not providing guidance for 2010 given the very limited...
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Stocks That Created New 52-Week Highs (MIL, NWSA, JWN, OMC, ORCL)
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 3:05pm | 254Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL) shares reached $105.62 to create a new 52 week high, before slipping marginally to $105.51, reflecting a 0.11% gain. MIL’s quarterly earnings growth stands at 41.20% y/y. Read more about this company here. News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWSA) shares climbed to $14.74,...
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Before Jumping Into A Single Health Care Stock Consider This ETF
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 11:22pm | 1667“The healthcare sector has never seen anything like this and neither has the American public. After months of political wrangling, the Affordable Health Care for America Act was signed into law by the President. The Act will extend health insurance coverage to roughly 30 million Americans without...
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Sequenom Shares Surge, Stock Offers Significant Risk/Reward (SQNM)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 4:32pm | 261Shares of Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) gained over 20% today to close at $6.64 in Nasdaq trading after a Lazard analyst upgraded the stock and attached a $13 price target. The analyst, Dr. Sean Lavin, believes that the company's prospects for developing a test for Down syndrome are good. At the...
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Market Roundup (VALE, LGF, BHP, RTP, CVC, SKS, SCHW, SQNM)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 3:13pm | 346According to Credit Suisse, with Vale (NASDAQ: VALE) pushing for shorter quarterly contracts with steel-mill customers, ore prices could jump 90% by next month. VALE has made a move to index pricing after BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP) have moved away from annual negotiations....
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Benzinga’s Top Pre-Market Losers (LINE, QGEN, DNDN, VOD)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 8:32am | 178Linn Energy, LLC (NASDAQ: LINE) decreased 1.12% to $25.70 in the pre-market session. Linn Energy, LLC announced plans to commence a private offering to eligible purchasers of $500 million in aggregate principal amount of its senior unsecured notes due 2020. The 52-week trading range for LINE is $14...
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Benzinga’s Top Pre-Market Gainers (ISSI, ORBK, SQNM, ELOS)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 8:21am | 231Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISSI) rose 16.65% to $8.70 in the pre-market session. Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. announced yesterday that for the second quarter of 2010, it increased its revenue guidance and expects net income and earnings per share to be higher than its prior...
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Investors Flock To Healthcare ETFs On Historic Reform
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 4:13pm | 1662“Wall street was glued to the weekend vote on health-care reform and scrambled to figure out which areas, if any, might benefit from its passage. Technically, however, the fortunes of the sector relative to the broad market changed for the better a month ago. In other words, nothing historic...
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3-22-10 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from SmallCapVoice.com
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:07pm | 2190Stocks are lower as investors worry about Greece’s ability to repay debt and the potential consequences for the global economic recovery Reaction to the U.S. government’s passage of sweeping health care reform over the weekend will also be closely watched. The reform could have a far-reaching...
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BioDelivery Sciences Increased After News
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 8:29am | 128BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDSI) announced today the positive outcome of a meeting with the FDA on the development program for BEMA Granisetron, the company’s potential treatment for the prevention of nausea and vomiting associated with cancer therapy. The FDA concurred with...
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How Will Obama-Care Play Into The Markets And ETFs?
Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 9:50pm | 4460“It is our opinion, along with that of many other market professionals, that this current market is overbought. An overbought market often searches for a place, or more to the point, a reason to pull back. This Sunday’s possible vote on Health Care Reform could very well be that catalyst. This...
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Brean Murray Carret & Co. Believes Pullback In Bruker Represents Opportunity (BRKR)
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 2:12pm | 210Today, Brean Murray Carret & Co. released a research note, arguing that the recent pullback in Bruker Corp. (NASDAQ: BRKR) stock offers an attractive buying opportunity. The analyst noted that a major shareholder has sold his remaining 2 million shares as of yesterday, and that this should...