Eric Dutram: For at least the past few years, investors in the health care segment have been focused in on big pharma and the segment’s fast approaching ‘patent cliff’. During this period, many of the industry’s most popular and best selling drugs Read more…
NYSE:IHE, NYSE:XPH, PJP
Eric Dutram: In the last five years, investors have witnessed a variety of market conditions. Stocks were relatively strong in the middle part of 2007 but, as we all know, proceeded to fall apart during the turmoil of 2008 and one of the worst recessions in recent memory. Read more…
NYSE:FBT, NYSE:IAU, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:TLT, PJP
Michael Johnston: RBS rolled out its fifth ETN this week, debuting a product that offers exposure to the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms. The new Global Big Pharma ETN (NYSE:DRGS) will seek to replicate Read more…
NYSE:DRGS, NYSE:IHE, NYSE:PPH, NYSE:XPH, PJP
Michael Johnston: So far, this year has been tough for markets around the globe. Since the downgrade of U.S. credit quality in August, equity markets have become plagued with rampant volatility, discouraging capital inflows and prompting many investors to pull out of the markets entirely. Just when the Read more…
NYSE:DFJ, NYSE:ENZL, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:VPU, PJP
Jared Cummans: Pharmaceutical companies have long been popular investments as they offer relatively inelastic products as well as strong dividend yields that give both growth and value investors something to buy into. As far as the ETF world is concerned, there are four products that allow investors to gain Read more…
NYSE:IHE, NYSE:PPH, NYSE:XPH, PJP
Alex Strashny: Recommended funds. Our main recommendation this week is real estate (NYSE:IYR). Its expected return jumped last week as it gained +4.46% in 5 days on slightly higher volume. However, its risk is high and has increased slightly. Because of the high risk in IYR, some Read more…
NASDAQ:IBB, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:IYR, NYSE:SMH, NYSE:XLE, NYSE:XLU, PJP
Alex Strashny: Recommended funds: Biotech (NYSE:IBB) remains our primary recommendation this week. With the +1.68% rise and slightly higher volume over the past week, the expected return is definitely positive and slightly higher. IBB’s risk has decreased over the past week Read more…
NASDAQ:IBB, NYSE:EWJ, NYSE:EWM, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:IYR, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:XLE, PJP
The press is now talking about the swine flu again and it is putting a scare in the public sector. “In a recent report, the World Health Organization predicted that within two years nearly one-third of the world’s population will have contracted swine Read more…
NYSE:IXJ, NYSE:PPH, PJP
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