It was a busy week for the biotech sector, with a lot of important regulatory and pipeline updates.
Source: ThinkstockAfter the markets closed last night, drugmaker Affymax Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFY) said that it would cut 230 workers (75% of its workforce) and “evaluate strategic alternatives” for...
Get ready for the underwriting floodgates to open next week.  There are many deals that have been in the IPO hopper for weeks or months, and next week is the last week that the IPO markets will...
Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE:ACI) plans to buy a coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin from Rio Tinto plc (NYSE:RTP) for $761 million. The Jacobs Ranch mine includes 381 million tons of coal reserves...
ABD cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.AFL raised to Buy at SunTrust Robinson Humphreys.AHG started as Sell at Deutsche Bank.ALV cut to Underperform at Baird.AMED started as Buy at Deutsche Bank.AXL cut...
Apple's planned addition to help protect children from certain types of images is getting some pushback from privacy advocacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology CYPRESS BIOSCIENCE [CYPB] +5.81% SGX PHARMACEUTICALS [SGXP] +5.44% AFFYMAX, INC. [AFFY] +5.35% CERAGENIX PHARMACUTL [CGXP.OB] +5.26% LEV PHARMACEUTICALS...
From BioHealth Investor Biotechnology HEMOBIOTECH INC [HMBT.OB] +9.52% AFFYMAX, INC. [AFFY] +7.03% OSIRIS THERAPEUTICS [OSIR] +6.93% IDM PHARMA INC [IDMI] +6.53% 0 BIOCRYST PHARM INC [BCRX] +6.23%...
ADTN raised to Neutral at Merrill Lynch.ALNY cut to Mkt Perform at Piper Jaffray.AMAT cut to Equal Weight at Lehman.AME cut to Mkt Perform at FBR.AMED cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank.APD started as Buy...
Source: Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe market is down Thursday over concerns on China’s GDP growth, which could not be offset by a drop in jobless benefit applications. The Dow Jones...
ALV started as overweight at Prudential.AMLN started as Outperform at CIBC.AN started as Neutral at Prudential.BCS cut to Peer Perform at Bear Stearns.CDCY cut to Mkt Perform at FBR.COCO raised to...
The annual Federal Reserve symposium at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, starts on Friday, and Fed watchers are pulling out their binoculars. Fed Chair Jay Powell is set to speak in the aftermath of being...
One of Cathie Wood's ARK Invest funds bought nearly 20,000 shares of Disney on September 14.
A web security group challenged Verizon (NYSE: VZ) on the security of encryption software it issued in 2005. The encryption is meant to keep financial data from being hacked.The Electronic Frontier...
Friday Energy Focus announced the pricing of a registered underwritten offering of its common stock by certain selling stockholders.