The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued its final ruling governing use of a class of anemia drugs including Amgen’s (AMGN) Aranesp .The CMOS guided doctors to restrict the use…
Stock Tickers: KO, MRK, PG, CAG, BUD, HRL, CL, MO, MCD, KFT, NVO, WTR If you are a long-term bull and aren’t feeling panic after seeing a huge down day (of over…
Stock Tickers: AXP, AMZN, BIIB, BNI, CME, DD, HAL, LMT, MRK, PEP, T These may not be the ONLY important earnings, but we wanted to hit most of the major earnings. It…
According to Reuters, SAP (SAP) admitted that one of its divisions has inappropriately downloaded documents from rival Oracle (ORCL), but said the parent company never had access to them. Larry Ellison’s company,…
(AAPL) Apple’s iTunes passed Amazon.com in music sales to become #3 music seller behind Best Buy and Wal-Mart.(AFOP) Alliance Fiber Optics raised Q2 sales guidance.(AGN) Allergan trades ex-split to reflect a 2-1…
As you will see, the short interest changes in medical and drug stocks of the active NYSE-listed names was a bit of a mixed bag. GlaxoSmithkline (GSK) saw the lagest increase, but…
Stock Tickers: AA, AIG, AXP, BA, C, CAT, DD, DIS, GE, GM, HD, HON, HPQ, IBK, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MMM, MRK, MO, MRK, PFE, PG, T, UTX, VZ, WMT, XOM As…
Shares of microcap biotech Coley Pharmaceutical Group (COLY-NASDAQ) saw shares get pounded late on Wednesday afternoon. Right before 2:00 PM EST, the company announced that its partner Pfizer (PFE-NYSE) had discontinued and…
Stock Tickers: MRK, PFE, JNJ, GSK, SGP, LLY, WYE, NVS, NVO On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said he keeps getting asked about Big Pharma drug stocks. He’d rather focus…
Stock Tickers: AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, BA, UTX, ATI, RTP, RIO, FLR, SGR, PEP, KO, BUD, CAG, HNZ, CPB, HRL, K, GIS, KFT, MCD, MRK, PFE, ALO, PYX, HME, WTR, SNH, SRZ, PG,…
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 a muted…
Stock Tickers: IBM, JNJ, JPM, MCD, MRK, MSFT Tonight Cramer said it is ok to stay bullish and stay long on a down market day. He is sticking with his 1,000 point…
We reviewed various short selling trends and noticed that most sectors were mixed to up as the April to May reached record levels. But reviewing the 28 Dow Jones Industrial Average components…
Some sectors showed mixed results in the short selling, but the Big Pharma and medical instruments and related companies saw an increased activity in short selling in May versus April. Below is…
