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Depressing times for biotech as key index hits 3-year low : And other notes on Biotech
Monday, May 13, 2002 ^ | Tom Abate

Posted on 05/14/2002 5:22:47 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Biotech stocks broke an important psychological barrier last week when a leading index closed below 400 points for the first time since the sector took off in 2000.

The American Stock Exchange biotech index, a basket of 17 leading stocks, closed at 383.34 Friday. The index first passed 400 in January 2000, when biotech stocks soared on excitement over the imminent completion of the Human Genome Project.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biotech; cloning; dnasequencer; patents; techindex
I post this as more of a news item than a call for heavy philosophic discussion.

1. Is it time to buy Biotech stocks?

2. What gives with the suit over the Caltech DNA Sequencer?

1 posted on 05/14/2002 5:22:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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2 posted on 05/14/2002 5:24:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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3 posted on 05/14/2002 5:37:55 PM PDT by Fish out of Water
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