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Oil on running streak

Posted by admin on Friday, May 22nd 2009     

Oil has been on a running streak lately. While most stocks were down yesterday, oil seems decoupled from the fundamental problems of the economy to some extent and once again more influenced by the US dollar to oil price relationship lately. Might be worth rebalancing the portfolio a little to hedge against a weak dollar. A way to [...]

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Sequenom Plunges

Posted by scienceinvestor on Saturday, May 9th 2009     

There has been a big selloff in Sequenom’s shares  (SQNM) end of April. This has been caused by mishandling of test results by Sequenom’s employees, it is not clear whether deliberate however, investigations are pending. Sequenom worked on a blood test against down syndrom for pregnant women, which is much faster and less invasive than current methods. [...]

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Pfizer and Glaxo combine efforts in search for HIV medicine

Posted by scienceinvestor on Friday, May 1st 2009     

Last week on April 16 th the two pharma giants GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer anounced to collaborate in the field of HIV research. The joint venture will pool resources to develop and market HIV treatments and to create a new company still to be named (nature) based in the UK. This spin off will lead to a [...]

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