The three major US equities indexes opened lower this morning on continued worries about the still-pending Greek debt swap. The DJIA is about 43 points at about 12,819, the Nasdaq ... Read Full Story »
Major indexes reacted positively to this morning’s non-farm payrolls report and the drop in the US unemployment rate from 8.5% to 8.3%. Expectations for the unemployment rate had been no ... Read Full Story »
Among the major movers at around noon today are Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: THLD), Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: OPTT), Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA), MediciNova Inc. (NASDAQ: MNOV), and Mannkind ... Read Full Story »
There are several stocks trading more heavily than usual this morning, and also experiencing large gains or drops in share prices. These include Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: THLD), Zoltek Cos. ... Read Full Story »
This weekend will be a potentially important oncology and cancer news weekend for drug and biotech stocks. The American Association for Cancer Research Meeting will actually have a 100th annual ... Read Full Story »
This weekend we have the mother of all future cancer treatment conferences: ASCO, or The American Society of Clinical Oncology. Cancer stocks in the last few weeks have been seeing ... Read Full Story »