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Pharma and journey-share vendors are among most overbought S&P 500 shares this 7 days
A group of effectively-identified shares together with some market titans could be in for a correction following acquiring snatched up throughout this week’s choppy buying and selling. The S & P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Typical have been on keep track of midday Friday to write-up compact gains on the 7 days, and the […]
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What Eli Lilly investors can learn from the slow launch of a competitor's drug
Club holding Eli Lilly is expecting to get approval for its Alzheimer’s treatment in the coming weeks, but investors looking for immediate financial success should temper their expectations. On its fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday, rival drugmaker Biogen shared data that showed its therapy for the memory-robbing disease, Leqembi, is off to a slower-than-expected start. In […]
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Biogen revenue and profit shrink on Aduhelm costs, slumping sales of multiple sclerosis therapies
Biogen on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter revenue and profit that shrank from a year ago, as it recorded charges related to dropping its controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm and as sales slumped in its multiple sclerosis therapies, the company’s biggest drug category. Biogen booked sales of $2.39 billion for the quarter, down 6% from the same period a […]
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Biogen drops controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm to focus on Leqembi, experimental treatments
The Biogen headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Biogen on Wednesday said it will discontinue the sale and development of its older and highly controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm to refocus the company’s efforts to treat the memory-robbing disease. The biotech company will focus on rolling […]
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Why we like health-care stocks in 2024 despite their spotty record in presidential election years
As the old Wall Street adage goes, health care tends to underperform the stock market in presidential election years — and in recent cycles, that’s been true. But, there’s reason to believe this year that many health-related stocks, led by Eli Lilly , could defy historical convention. The S & P 500 Health Care Sector […]
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ɺ trove of rebound possibilities': Strategists change bullish on biotech and much more, choosing leading stocks
2023 was not a good year for the overall health-treatment sector, but some traders be expecting it to make a comeback this 12 months — highlighting biotech and medical tech as parts to view. “Rising from a lousy money raising atmosphere in ’22-23, exactly where early-stage biotech firms grappled to fund their Research and Advancement […]
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Obesity and Alzheimer's drugs pack one-two punch to power Eli Lilly higher in 2024
Investor optimism for Eli Lilly ‘s diabetes and obesity treatments in 2023 lifted the stock to its seventh annual gain in a row. In the new year, it should be the same old story. Shares of Eli Lilly have taken a breather over the past three months, as investors book profits in the top performer […]
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Weight loss drugs, Alzheimer's treatments and gene editing: Enormous firsts defined 2023 in pharma
Soumyabrata Roy | Nurphoto | Getty Images Drugmakers are closing out a year when they achieved several historic firsts that will shape the pharmaceutical industry in 2024 and beyond. The weight loss drug market transformed into the pharmaceutical industry’s newest gold rush this year, as demand for costly but highly effective treatments from Novo Nordisk […]
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If you can't build the next Ozempic, buy it: Where M&A could be heading in the obesity drug space
Investors are contemplating where and when the next big obesity drug deal will occur. At the moment, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have the growing obesity drug market all to themselves. But given the potential size of this opportunity, which some have put at more than $100 billion by 2030 , other pharmaceuticals companies — […]
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More convenient form of breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi shows promising results in study
Eisai on Wednesday said an injectable version of the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi showed promising initial results in a clinical trial, potentially paving the way for a new and more convenient option for administering the antibody treatment. However, the injection did not cause lower rates of brain swelling and bleeding, which are Leqembi’s most concerning side […]
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