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Evotec AG (EVTC) Extends its Current Research Collaboration with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 6:27am | 92Evotec AG (Frankfurt:EVT) (Nasdaq: EVTC) extended its current research collaboration with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and initiated a new discovery collaboration. Evotec, a leader in the discovery and development of novel small molecule drugs, will provide integrated drug discovery activities,...
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Rumors Swirling Around Sequenom (SQNM)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 10:41am | 77A day trading favorite, Sequenom (Nasdaq: SQNM) is spiking 12% or $0.25 to $3.29. Briefing Trader is reporting that the spike is due to rumors that Sequenom might put itself up for sale. Sequenom is an extremely volatile stock that has traded from a low of $2.83 to a high of $25.99 during the...
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A "Buy Anything" Market
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 12:02pm | 435I was patting myself on the back as I looked at the huge surge in the portfolio today - each and every long position is up, most materially so. Then I went into my watch lists which are literally hundreds upon hundreds of stocks - probably around 400. Excluding 50 or so which are "highly...
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Stocks to Watch (ASTC,MBI,SQNM,SIMG,NKE,DRI)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 5:16am | 270Astrotech Corp. (NASDAQ: ASTC) rose 74.42% to $2.10 in after hours trading after, the provider of satellite launch preparation services, said it’s exploring options to boost shareholder value, including a sale of the company. MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) slipped over 72% to $7.64 aftert he largest bond...
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Sequenom (SQNM) Fires CEO Harry Stylli after Investigation, CFO Resigned Friday
Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:17pm | 1260The drama never ceases at Sequenom (SQNM); tonight there appears to be a purging of upper management after investigations into what went wrong with the company's Down Syndrome's test. [Apr 29, 2009: Sequenom Bombshell] After *that* revelation (and stock plunge from $15 to $3s) speculators have...
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Helicos BioSciences Corporation (HLCS) Up Big Today on Breakthrough
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 3:21pm | 89Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: HLCS) is up close to 13% today and trading at $2.75/share after the company announced a breakthrough. Volume is about 5X normal. The company announced this morning that they have for the first time ever, accomplished the direct sequencing of single...
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Helicos BioSciences (HLCS) carries out successful landmark study of molecule
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 10:58am | 79Helicos BioSciences (NYSE: HLCS) announced the publication of a landmark study in which HLCS's True Single Molecule Sequencing technology was used to directly sequence individual molecules of RNA. The paper appeared yesterday in the on-line edition of Nature and will appear in an...
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Biggest Losers (CHTP,ILI,CNXT,HERO,NMR)
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 10:51am | 357Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHTP) plummeted 66% to $2.35 on huge volume of 26.84 million shares after its neurological disorder drug didn't meet the primary endpoint of a late-stage study. The biopharmaceutical development company said that in the first of two Phase III studies...
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Today's Morning Top Gainers (GBE,OPXA,FBC,ILI,ASTI)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 11:43am | 293Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) is among the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged among 26.32% today to $1.68 on huge volume of 4.56 million shares. Yesterday, the stock surged over 38%. Opexa Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXA) rallied 22% on 6.38 million shares and now trades at...
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Bruker Corporation (BRKR) Announces Secondary Offering.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 5:28am | 62Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), announced secondary public offering of 13M shares of its common stock at a price of $9.85 per share, expected to close on or about September 28, 2009 Bruker Corporation is a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular...
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New 52-Week High Stocks (GOOG,TNE,PALM,NKTR,GPS)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 11:27am | 225Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) crossed its earlier 52-week high of $498.90 and touched a new 52-week high at $501.49 in today’s morning trade. Currently the stock is trading at $500.94, up 0.79% on 931K shares. Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA (ADR) (NYSE: TNE) soared 2.84% to $19.20 on total volume...
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Jim Cramer Would Buy KMP, L And CVD
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 8:21pm | 147Kinder Morgan Energy Partner (NYSE: KMP) is one of the stocks that CNBC’s Jim Cramer recommended in the section of his show called Lightning Round OT. He thinks that this stock will be hitting or is hitting new highs and is one of the few bargains left. The stock gained 0.83% on Wednesday reaching...
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Perceptive Informatics in Alliance with Optasia to Enhance Musculoskeletal Medical Imaging Capabilities
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 9:34am | 77Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), announced that it has enhanced its capabilities to provide medical imaging measurements for osteoarthritis clinical trials through an alliance with Optasia Medical,...
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Jim Cramer Suggests Selling Brigham Exploration (BEXP), Sequenom (SQNM) and Anderson (ANDE)
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 9:21pm | 182CNBC's Mad Money Jim Cramer thinks that Brigham Exploration (NASDAQ: BEXP) has had too much of a run and that it is not good to hold on minor companies in Natural gas. He prefers XTO Energy (NYSE: XTO), one of the major companies in this sector. Cramer added that Andersons (NASDAQ: ANDE) had a good...
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Thermo Fisher (TMO) Agrees to Acquire Brahms for $470M
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 9:30am | 49Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (NYSE: TMO) has agreed to acquire German disease diagnostics firm Brahms, for $470M. Thermo Fisher expects the deal to add to its earnings per share in 2010. Brahms, which makes diagnostic tests used by laboratories, generated revenue of about $105 million in 2008.