The stock has even more upside from where it was trading Friday, around $475 per share, Yaron Werber, senior biotech analyst at Citi Investment Research, told “Power Lunch.” As the Alzheimer’s drug likely will not reach the market for years, it is important to Biogen’s long-term prospects, he said.When looking at valuations, investors need to consider that low interest rates […]
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The current bull market is marking its sixth birthday, and a few slices of the stock market have more reason to celebrate than others.Who really deserves to whoop it up? Biotech and pharma ETFs, value ETFs that aim to find bargains, and ETFs targeting consumer-discretionary or retail stocks.The 10 ETFs that have performed best since the […]
Biotech companies are restoring sight to the blind, curing hepatitis C and fighting off HIV.As they save lives, biotech companies are simultaneously making a lot of money for investors.That’s why the hottest ETFs (exchange-traded funds) on the planet since the bull market began in March 2009 invest in biotech companies.The First Trust NYSE Arca Biotech ETF (FBT) has skyrocketed more […]
Best and worst ETFs in 2014
Best & worst ETFs in 2014
CNBC’s Bob Pisani discusses what was behind the strong performance of biotech ETFs in 2014 and if the NYSE will be sold off in 2015.
The exchange-traded fund winners this year were biotech and mainland China. It was a home run for biotech across the three largest ETFs.SPDR Biotech, an equal-weighted […]
View photo.The biotech stocks are hitting fresh new highs to start the week after the announcement of yet another multi-billion dollar deal. Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) has agreed to purchase advanced antibiotic pharmaceutical company Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: CBST) for $9.5 billion.The deal breaks down to Merck paying about $102 a share, a 37-percent premium from […]
Instant Big Data Stream Processing = Instant StormbyMaarten EctorsonSeptember 3rd, 2014| Filed in: Enterprise Java Tags: Apache Storm, Big Data Every 6 months at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, I work on something technical to test our tools first hand and to show others new ideas. This time around I created an Instant Big Data solution, more concretely […]
General Electric – a literal powerhouse of a corporation involved in virtually every area of industry, has been laying the foundations of what it grandly calls the Industrial Internet for some time now.But what exactly is it? In this post I will try and give a basic overview of the ideas which they are hoping will transform industry, and how […]
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“As the rest of the society, from business and economics to journalism and art, wakes up to the power of big data, the world of research is, ironically, not doing nearly enough to embrace the power of information. A big-data mindset involves more than having a lot of petabytes on your hard drive, and science is falling short in three […]
Today, Monday, August 25 at the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in New York, ISTC for Big Data researchers will present a paper entitled “Unfolding Physiological State: Mortality Modelling in Intensive Care Units.” The paper is an important work that looks at clinical notes – the observational, timely and knowledge-based information captured by nurses, doctors […]
