iShares Biotechnology ETF

NASDAQ: IBB
$139.91
+$1.95 (+1.4%)
Closing Price on November 25, 2024

IBB Articles

The short interest in biotech stocks is generally falling, judging by the short interest changes from August 31 settlement date versus the August 15 settlement date. We have tracked the key short...
Index changes are generally speaking a fairly routine event.  They can also create underlying moves in the companies added and deleted from them as money management firms often buy and sell shares,...
Thursday brought yet more merger and acquisition news in the ongoing buyout trends in the biotech sector.  Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced that it is going to acquire Micromet, Inc. (NASDAQ:...
The biotech sector has seen its share of ups and downs in 2011 and prior years.  It is almost always the case that some of the top performing stocks each year come from this sector due to the...
We have compiled a detailed list of expected upside in the biotech sector.  The sector has consolidated and now there is about to be a rush of earnings reports from tomorrow’s emerging drug...
Biotech is becoming the ever-shrinking stock sector.  It is almost weekly now that a new biotech acquisition is announced.  Big Pharma in the United States and large drugmakers internationally...
The proposed buyout of Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) by Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY) should close this week.  We are about to get a new Genzyme security on the market and that will be the...
Futurists are an odd lot.  Generally, they are authors, scientists,  consultants and economists.  What many people don’t know is that investors follow this philosophy as well.  Their goal is to...
Today’s version of the BioHealth Business Daily is rather different as we have a big disappointment from one of the top biotech operations in the world.  BioHealth stocks moving on news and after...