NPS CEO: Shire has rare-disease experience
NPS Pharmaceuticals president and CEO Dr. Francois Nader discusses opportunities the potential deal with Shire presents.
Anyone who follows Jim Cramer’s stock picks knows that he loves the biotech sector. Especially NPS Pharmaceuticals, up 45 percent in the past month. Wowzer!On Sunday, Ireland-based Shire PLC agreed to acquire NPS Pharma for an all cash deal of […]
Yale via Schwab.comThe Crash Confidence Index has gone down steadily since the beginning of 2014.FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Investors Are Getting Increasingly Worried About A Market Crash (Charles Schwab)Investment strategist Liz Ann Sonders considers several measures of individual and institutional investor sentiment in her latest market perspective […]
Source: GW PharmaceuticalsMedical marijuana is one of healthcare’s biggest stories this year and shares in marijuana companies are trading near all time highs, but not everyone is convinced that marijuana stocks should be in investor portfolios. So we asked three of our top analysts to weigh in on why they’d take a pass on owning marijuana stocks. Read on to […]
The EQLIM startup, which means ‘region’ or ‘territory’ in Arabic, has launched, aiming to create a subscription service for real-time data about human activity in emerging economies. The Beirut, Lebanon-based startup wants to address the lack of data about the Middle East.It will look at big data covering geopolitics, infrastructure, and commerce, as well as data cross health, environment, agriculture, […]
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong stocks moved between small gains and losses early Friday, while Shanghai shares nosed a little higher, with earnings results front and center in both markets. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index [s; HK:HSI] was down 0.1% about 5 minutes into trading, after the benchmark fell 0.7% a day earlier, while the Shanghai Composite
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ClearTV Trading On Bermuda Stock ExchangeAugust 28, 2014ClearTV opened for trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange [BSX] under the ticker symbol “CTV” after its Public Listing. Global Custody & Clearing Limited is the company’s listing sponsor and market maker to the BSX. The Company plans to dual list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange within the next week.Greg Wojciechowski, CEO of […]
Data should do more than help companies save money — it should make them money, said Peter Fishman, Director of Analytics at Yammer, Inc.. Since July of 2012, Yammer has been a part of Microsoft, Corp., providing private social networks within the company and contributing to Microsoft’s suite of products.Peter Fishman discussed Yammer’s integration with Microsoft, how companies can get […]
At the beginning of June, I was at the Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit in Berlin. It was an interesting event to attend in terms of the advice given to the CIOs at the event, how to deal with the “digital industrial revolution” and how to support the CEO’s top business priorities.From the Gartner survey, a CEO’s top five […]
By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New DealClick here to subscribe to Roosevelt First, our weekday morning email featuring the Daily Digest.Stiglitz: I’m ‘very uncomfortable’ with current stock levels (CNBC)Roosevelt Institute Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz emphasizes the difference between a strong stock market and overall economic strength, reports Antonia Matthews.Roosevelt Take: William Lazonick looks at the link between the […]
PredictWallStreet announced the ability to tweet stock predictions via the Twitter account @predict.Aggregate predictions from PredictWallStreet’s online community of thousands of traders, investors, and online stock aficionados are processed through proprietary collective intelligence algorithms to produce Daily Forecasts of stock and index movements. These Stock Forecasts are then released for free prior to the opening bell each market day at […]
