View gallery.(Flickr/Gonzalo Iza)Biotech investors have been here before.
Stocks are lower on Wednesday and the high-flying biotech sector is leading the way down, with the iShares ETF that tracks the sector falling more than 3%. And as the sector has weakened over the last several days, this sell off is starting to look at lot like the sell off we saw in […]
By Dow Jones Business News, March 25, 2015, 02:10:00 PM EDTAAABy Anora Mahmudova and Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatchDurable-goods orders drop in February; Kraft, Kofex up on M&A newsNEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, declining for the third straight session, as a selloff in technology and biotech stocks pushed indexes lower.The S&P 500 (SPX) lost 19.06 points, or 0.9%, […]
Source: Celgene Corp.Biotech companies have been among the market’s best-performing stocks, and that means many of the industry’s top stocks have soared to lofty levels that might have kept investors on the sidelines. Since sliding markets are likely to take biotech stocks lower, investors could soon have their first chance in a long time to buy into some great companies […]
In what looks like a sequel to March 2014, high-flying biotechnology stocks and exchange traded funds are retreating amid talk of frothy valuations and a biotech bubble.At least temporarily, Friday March 20 marked the top for several of the largest biotech ETFs. That is when big-name ETFs, such as the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) , the largest biotech ETF, […]
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, declining for the third straight session, as a selloff in technology and biotech stocks pushed indexes lower.The S&P 500 SPX, -0.88% lost 19.06 points, or 0.9%, to 2,072.44. Technology stocks were hit hard, with the largest company on the index, Apple Inc. dropping more than 1%.The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, […]
Here’s how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader
Susquehanna’s Stacey Gilbert thinks biotech could be due for a pullback. She lays out an options strategy to protect your biotech holdings.
It’s been a record-breaking run for biotech stocks, with the Nasdaq Biotech ETF, the IBB, up 18 percent this year alone and nearly 300 percent in the past five years. But […]
The biotech sector has been on a roll lately. The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF ; ;has more than tripled since the start of 2012, compared to “just” a 63% increase in the S&P 500 .Source: Jeff Kubina via Flickr .Are we in a bubble that’s about to pop? We’ll only know for sure if (when?) the sector pulls back.In the […]
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Biotech stocks are on fire.That’s given some analysts flashbacks of 2000, when tech valuations were red hot, but it didn’t end well because they crashed.Michael Batnick over at The Irrelevant Investor posted this chart Monday that compares the rally in tech stocks then to biotechs in recent years.He describes the biotech rally:”In the 168 weeks since […]
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3 Biotech ETFs in Focus as Biogen Soars – ETF News And Commentary
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ShutterstockNEW YORK (MarketWatch)—Biotech stocks slumped Monday, with the largest biotech ETF down about 1.7% and on track to snap an eight-session winning streak.The slide comes as some market watchers warn that biotech shares have enjoyed a great run-up and could be due for a drop.“Biotech must be slaughtered” is how a post over at the iBankCoin blog puts it.How low […]
