02/28
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Healthcare Touched New Highs: Select Medical Holdings (NYSE:SEM), Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated (NASDAQ:CORT), Novartis (NYSE:NVS), Becton, Dickinson (NYSE:BDX)

John Bellich02 mins

Select Medical Holdings Corporation (NYSE:SEM), announced that the company has completed its private placement of $110.0 million in aggregate principal amount of its 6.375% senior notes due 2021 (the “Additional Notes”) as additional notes under the indenture pursuant to which it previously issued $600.0 million of 6.375% senior notes due 2021. Select intends to use…

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Healthcare Touched New Lows: Recro Pharma (NASDAQ:REPH), Sophiris Bio (NASDAQ:SPHS), LipoScience Inc (NASDAQ:LPDX), Mediwound Ltd (NASDAQ:MDWD)

Jason Knox02 mins

Recro Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ:REPH), a clinical stage specialty pharmaceutical company developing non-opioid therapeutics for post-operative pain, today announced the appointments of Alfred F. Altomari and Dr. Michael Berelowitz to the Company’s Board of Directors. Recro Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:REPH) stock performance was 1.95% in last session and finished the day at $7.32. Traded volume was 35,553.00million…

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Biotech Gainers: Xencor Inc (NASDAQ:XNCR), Pacific Biosciences of California (NASDAQ:PACB), Endocyte (NASDAQ:ECYT), Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ:INCY)

Kevin Long02 mins

Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ:XNCR) is unchanged at $11.73, with 934,368 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for XNCR is in the “strong buy range”. Xencor Inc (NASDAQ:XNCR) stock performance was 11.18% in last session and finished the day at $11.73. Traded volume was 1.86million shares in the last session and the average…

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Biotech Decliners: Ocera Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:OCRX), Marina Biotech, Inc. (OTCMKTS:MRNA), CorMedix Inc. (NYSEMKT:CRMD), Idera Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDRA)

John Meady02 mins

Ocera Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:OCRX) is a company with one main value driver, OCR002. Financially, the company is now sitting on $47.2 M and will be spending $30M in the 2014 financial year. It has about one year in cash. Last year, it spent $3.5M in R&D and these costs are set to increase as it…

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Stocks Touched New Highs: Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)

Kristen Barton02 mins

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) released the latest development version of MySQL — Development Milestone 5.7.4 — along with a number of add-ons to help manage databases earlier today. The new version provides a number of important upgrades, including a major boost in query-handling speed. MySQL Version 5.6, which is the current version of the popular database…

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Biotech Most Active Stocks: Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD), Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARIA), Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARNA), MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD)

Mark DeFrance02 mins

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) was active yesterday as one Bloomberg reporter thinks he has another take on the recent Waxman letter. Drew Armstrong — via his own Twitter account — said Gilead execs had a meeting scheduled with Waxman all along and the letter just seemed like Waxman was making an effort to drag them…

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