November Non-Farm Payrolls Could Hit 400k
The US economy has officially entered a recession and the labor market numbers that are due on Friday will confirm that. Not only do we expect the US economy to report its eleventh consecutive month of job losses but the job losses will probably be the largest in 26 years. In 2001, there [...]
Schering Plough & Merck: Potential Cancer Concerns?
In a post on August 8th, I advocated purchasing Schering Plough and I spelled out my reasoning. In that post, I explained investor concerns of Vytorin. At that time, the ENHANCE panel found that Vytorin, a combination of Merck’s Zocor and Schering’s Zetia, worked no better than Zocor alone at removing plaque from arteries. This [...]
Buying Healthcare Stocks for an Obama Presidency (Part III)
In a previous post I spelled out, why I am buying healthcare stocks for an Obama presidency . In that post I promised to provide three stocks that would benefit from this fact. The first stock was AET and now I will discus the second stock in this series, Schering-Plough Corporation.
Schering-Plough (SGP)
Schering-Plough discovers, develops, manufactures, [...]
Buying Healthcare Stocks for an Obama Presidency (Part II)
In a previous post I spelled out, why I am buying healthcare stocks for an Obama presidency. In that post I promised to provide three stocks that would benefit from this fact. The first is Aetna Inc.
Aetna (AET)
Aetna, Inc. operates as a diversified health care benefits company primarily in the United States and Canada. The [...]
Buying Healthcare Stocks for an Obama Presidency
If you own any healthcare stocks, especially HMOs, you have felt the unease of investors this year. In an election year, especially one in which universal healthcare has been a key position; these stocks have taken a tumble. Because of this idealism, some healthcare names have seen their share prices beaten down to historic levels, [...]
