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Shares of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals spiked 19% after the biotech company won US regulatory approval for Orladeyo, (berotralstat), its lead drug candidate for the prevention of attacks in hereditary angioedema (HAE) patients. BioCryst (BCRX) said that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the oral, once-daily Orladeyo as a treatment to prevent attacks of hereditary
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Amazon (AMZN) kicked off its 9th annual AWS (Amazon Web Services) re:Invent conference on Monday with a keynote speech by AWS CEO Andy Jassy. As the event was virtual, RBC analyst Mark Mahaney logged in to get the lowdown and logged out “incrementally positive about the opportunity given AWS’s immense scale, market leadership, continued customer
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by confoundedinterest17 Call option volume has soared with The Fed’s endless monetary easing. But it isn’t just call option volumes that increased with The Fed’s balance sheet, but the S&P 500 index and commercial real estate have increased as well. Home prices and mortgage originations have also soared with Fed stimulus. We now have an economy
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Last Week, Illumina (ILMN)-owned GRAIL announced that it has formed a partnership with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Starting in 2021, GRAIL’s multi-cancer early detection blood test Galleri will become available to UK patients. The program will initially screen 165,000 patients, but that figure could rise to 1 million by 2024-25 and consequentially expand
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Friday: Ollie’s Bargain Outlet (OLLI) — Shares of the retailer slid more than 11% following commentary around a slowdown in the company’s fourth-quarter trends. “Quarter-to-date, our comparable-store sales increases are tracking in the low single-digits,” CEO John Swygert said in a statement. Goldman Sachs downgraded the
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Today will be a make or break day for BioCryst Pharmaceuticals’ (BCRX) lead drug candidate. Orladeyo, (berotralstat), the biotech’s oral treatment for the prevention of hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks will face an FDA approval decision. A rare disease defined by unpredictable and possibly life-threatening periodic swelling attacks, hereditary angioedema affects approximately one in 50,000 people.
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by David Haggith Want to see a crystal-clear picture of who has been helped the most by decades of trickle-down economics, who has gone nowhere and who has actually gone slightly downhill? Well, here you go: Everyone has gone essentially nowhere, except the top 10%. Clear proof that throughout the years of trickle-down economics (primarily created by huge
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BY SVEN HENRICH As $SPX is trying for a new high here and $ES futures are retesting the highs from November 9th I thought I may chime in with a few thoughts here. Firstly, in general the bull price target outlined in October has barely been penetrated, but it may well be in the days ahead as
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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Wednesday: Pfizer (PFE), BioNTech (BNTX) — Shares of Pfizer and BioNTech rose 3.4% and 5.8%, respectively, in the premarket after the U.K. approved the Covid-19 vaccine designed by the two companies. The rollout is expected to begin next week, with elderly people and medical workers first
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