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Benzinga's Weekly Bulls & Bears: AbbVie, Kinder Morgan, Paypal, Starbucks, Wynn And More
Sunday, February 4, 2018 - 2:28pm | 765Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls featured a top biotech, an online payment company and an energy infrastructure giant. Bearish calls included a leading coffee chain, REITs and a hotel operator in the news. Volatility came...
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Barron's Roundtable: A Big Basket Of Bargains For 2018
Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 5:56pm | 660This weekend's Barron's cover story features the second part of the 2018 Barron's Roundtable feature. Each Roundtable panelist offers up a handful of recommendations and reasons why they like these particular picks now. Other featured articles include an investor's guide...
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Morgan Stanley Expects Galapagos Shares To Rise 10%
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 11:36am | 543The preliminary success of a drug designed to combat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis could give Galapagos NV (ADR) (NASDAQ: GLPG) a 10-percent boost, according to Morgan Stanley. A 23-person study of the drug GLPG1690, an autotaxin inhibitor, found that patients had better lung function than those...
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Biotech In The Earnings Spotlight: Amgen, Celgene, Gilead Sciences
Sunday, July 24, 2016 - 4:03pm | 873Three leading biotech companies will step into the earnings spotlight this week. Consensus forecasts from Wall Street analysts call for earnings growth from just two of them. And only one of them has topped estimates by double-digits in recent quarters. While the biotechnology industry has had a...
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Big Biotech In The Earnings Spotlight
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 8:08am | 735The three largest biotechs are set to share their latest quarterly results this week. Wall Street analysts are looking for solid to strong growth from all three. However, expectations are lower for many other biotech and pharmaceutical companies reporting this week. The three largest public...
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Facebook And Amazon: More Earnings From The FANG Stocks
Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 4:38pm | 741Two of the so-called FANG stocks offered up disappointing quarterly results last week. The other two FANG stocks are on deck to share their latest results this week. Wall Street analysts continue to look for strong earnings growth from both of them. The so-called FANG stocks were the momentum...
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Chrysler And Ford Earnings: Following In GM's Footsteps?
Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 4:38pm | 725Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two automaker giants. Wall Street analysts are looking for strong earnings growth from both of them. However, estimates have been slipping for one and rising for the other. Expectations were already high for the latest earnings from...
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AbbVie's Venclexta Receives Accelerated Approval From FDA, Stock Ticks Higher
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 8:49am | 321Shares of AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) were trading higher by nearly 2 percent early Tuesday morning after the company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval of Venclexta. Venclexta, a table taken orally, is used for the treatment of patients diagnosed...
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AbbVie Falling After Q4 Report, 2016 Guidance Affirmation
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 9:14am | 240Shares of AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) were trading lower by more than 4 percent early Friday morning after the company reported its fourth quarter results. AbbVie earned $1.13 per share in the fourth quarter on revenue of $6.36 billion. Wall Street analysts were expecting the company to earn $1.12...
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Barron's 2016 Roundtable Part 2: Lots Of Savvy Investment Ideas
Sunday, January 24, 2016 - 6:05pm | 671The cover story in this weekend's Barron's offers the second part of the Barron's 2016 Roundtable. The panelists share their best investment bets for 2016, as well as some grim forecasts. Other feature stories include a report from Davos and a special monthly report on alternative investments....
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LifeSci Capital's Andrew McDonald On How To Invest In Booming Biotech
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 2:56pm | 1016"Biotech is booming," says LifeSci Capital co-founder and co-manager of the BioShares exchange traded funds, Andrew McDonald. McDonald, along with fellow LifeSci co-founder Paul Yook, spoke with Benzinga about innovations in biotech and how investors might take advantage. BZ: What...
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Barron's Recap: This Man Made, Lost And Made A Fortune Investing In Russia
Sunday, February 8, 2015 - 12:09pm | 896This weekend in Barron's online: a special report on the best mutual fund families, an interview with a noted critic of Vladimir Putin, as well as the prospects for AbbVie, Vantiv, Actuant, Ecolab and more. Cover Story "Dressing Up 2014" by Lawrence C. Strauss. This week's...
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Investors Rewarded With Treats, Not Tricks, As Dow And S&P Close At Record Highs
Friday, October 31, 2014 - 4:54pm | 1361U.S. stocks surged on Friday, lifting the Dow and S&P 500 to new all-time high record closes. Investors were treated to news of a surprise stimulus expansion from the Bank of Japan. The Japanese central bank increased its yearly target for monetary expansion to 80-trillion yen ($724 billion...
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#PreMarket Primer: Tuesday, October 21: China's Third Quarter Growth Disappoints
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 7:45am | 1371Data out on Tuesday showed that the Chinese economy grew just 7.3 percent in the third quarter, a sizable drop from the nation’s second quarter growth of 7.5 percent. The figure beat expectations, but still marks China’s slowest quarter of growth since the financial crisis and is...
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Markets Rebound After Getting Crushed Intraday, Still Close Lower
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 4:57pm | 2525U.S. stocks tumbled further on Wednesday and recovered significantly from intraday lows in a day of heavily volatility. The Dow traded lower by more than 450 points, dipping below 16,000 levels the index hasn't seen since February. The index recovered most of the losses but still closed the...