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Iron Condor Flies Over United Health
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 10:24am | 128Today we are seeing a low volatility play on UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) called an iron condor. An iron condor is essentially a bull put spread and a bear call spread executed on the same security in the same expiration month. It is meant to take in a credit under the assumption that the...
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Reduce Your Risk In The Initial Public Offering Market With This IPO ETF
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 7:56pm | 2056“Everybody loves the romance of an IPO — a company going public with the potential to deliver huge profits to those investors on the ground floor. But the reality of initial public offerings are very different than the storybook version some traders believe. Trying to research these tiny upstarts...
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Stock Market News for March 24, 2010 - Market News
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 9:45am | 446It was the turn of the real estate sector Tuesday to send equities higher as a better-than-expected existing home sales report reconfirmed hopes the economy is slowly beginning to rebound. The blue-chip Dow average gained 103 points, its biggest advance in more than two weeks. Healthcare stocks...
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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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Volume Talks Monday: A Sirius Reversal
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 9:39am | 2912As the market traded higher across the board Monday on lighter volume, there were many stocks which traded higher/lower on above average volume. Today's breakout report is for Monday March 22, 2010. If this is your first time reading one of my breakout reports you'll want to read the section...
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Stock Market News for March 23, 2010 - Market News
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 9:21am | 491Shares from the healthcare sector led the broader stock market higher Monday, as the contentious healthcare overhaul bill crossed the final hurdle after months of debate and uncertainty. The 10-year, $940 billion bill will extend insurance to 32 million Americans who are currently without coverage...
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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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Top Performing Industries For March 22 (SSY, LVS, PZZ, DKS, CEA)
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 3:04pm | 333At 2:07 p.m., Dow gained 47.31, or 0.44%, to 10,789.29, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.15, or 0.44%, to 1,165.05. The Nasdaq composite index moved up 17.95, or 0.76%, to 2392.36. The industries that are driving the market today are: Hospitals: The top gainer of the day,...
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Healthcare Stocks Rally (CYH, AGP)
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:49pm | 266Shares of healthcare companies surged in trading on Monday after passage of a much debated legislation. Investors expect the passage of the healthcare reform bill to have a positive impact on the industry. The S&P Healthcare Index rose 1% on Monday after the final approval from U.S. House of...
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Benzinga’s Top Upgrades (UNFI, AGP, HALO, PPS, FSP)
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:23pm | 179United Natural Foods Inc (NASDAQ: UNFI) was upgraded by Argus from “hold” to “buy.” UNFI’s shares have gained 2.13% to $29.22. The company’s shares have gained only 6.99% so far this year. Collins Stewart upgraded AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) from “hold” to “buy.” AGP moved up 6.10% to trade...
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Top 5 Stocks In The Health Care Plans Industry With The Highest Cash (WLP, UNH, HUM, AET, HNT)
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 9:06am | 180Below are the top health care plans stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of total cash. WellPoint Inc (NYSE: WLP) had $21.55 billion of total cash in the latest quarter. WLP’s total debt liabilities during the same period were $8.40 billion. Unitedhealth Group (NYSE: UNH) had $11.04 billion...
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Top 5 Stocks In The Health Care Plans Sector With The Highest Operating Cash Flows (UNH, WLP, AET, CI, HNT)
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 8:06am | 172Below are the top health care plan stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating cash flows. The trailing-twelve-month operating cash flow of Unitedhealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is $3.57 billion. UNH’s quarterly earnings growth stands at 30.00% y/y. The trailing-twelve-month operating cash...
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Healthcare Stocks Set To Perform Well, Says Legg Mason’s (LM) Miller
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 8:01am | 325Bill Miller, chief investment officer at Legg Mason (NYSE: LM), expects U.S. healthcare stocks to perform well over the coming few months. Miller believes that with uncertainty over legislation for reforming the sector now over, healthcare stocks should see a strong performance. On Sunday, a long...
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Top 5 Stocks In The Health Care Plans Industry With The Highest Sales Growth Estimate (MGLN, CNC, AGP, MOH, HS)
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 7:40am | 199Below are the top health care plan stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of sales growth estimate for this quarter. Sales growth estimate for Magellan Health Services Inc (NASDAQ: MGLN) for the March quarter is 21.4%. MGLN’s quarterly earnings growth is 85.40% y/y. Sales growth estimate for...
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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...