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Health Benefit Providers Index Drops on Reform Concerns
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+54.57%
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The accompanying table includes 38 companies in the ETF Innovators Health Benefit Providers Index, which was down sharply in the past week and has lost 14% of its market value to a level of 192,305 since I last wrote about the group five weeks ago. <> <> The uncertain future for health insurers and benefit providers that I wrote about previously came to a head this week with plans by President Obama for healthcare reform aimed at cutting health costs by favoring generic drug makers and smaller Medicare Advantage payments to private insurers, along with smaller increases...
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Healthcare Investing Trends in '09 and Beyond
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-16.07%
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21 days
(closed on 02/28/09)
<> While the departure of Tom Daschle and concerns over rising unemployment and the global economic slowdown may hamper many of President Obama's plans for healthcare reform; there are several growth trends within the sector outlined below which are poised to benefit in 2009 and beyond. Follow any of the links below for more information on the new ETF Innovators indexes and exchange-traded fund ideas for the sector.
Global Health IT : The top five rated companies include Swiss telemedicine firm Card Guard (CDGUF) – a pro< />< />< />< /><>< />< />< />< /><><>< />< /><>< />< />< />< /><>...
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Five Top Rated Healthcare Cost Containment Stocks
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+9.49%
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38 days
(closed on 02/07/09)
The table at my website link below includes statistics and the top five rated companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Healthcare Cost Containment Index. The index includes generic drug companies such as Teva Pharma (TEVA) and Perrigo (PRGO) as well as pharmacy benefit managers such as Express Scripts (ESRX), which share the common theme of promoting the use of generics to lower healthcare costs. http://www.etfinnovators.com/2008/12/five-top-rated-healthcar... <> <> The Top 40 Rated companies outpaced the overall market and benchmark healthcare ETFs over the past year w...
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Generic Cardio Drugs Equal Brands - JAMA
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+12.07%
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28 days
(closed on 12/30/08)
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A meta-analysis review of clinical studies published in peer-reviewed journals was featured today in The Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA] and concluded that cost-saving generics used to treat a variety of cardiovascular conditions produced equivalent clinical outcomes to higher cost brand name drugs. Despite this clinical evidence, the review notes that a majority (53%) of the 43 editorials analyzed had a negative opinion on generic substitution.
While there are currently no ETFs on the market w...
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Health Cost Containment Index: Expanded into India, Impax Labs to Re-List
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-7.66%
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5 days
(closed on 12/02/08)
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The ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Healthcare Cost Containment Index profiled in the accompanying table is updated and expanded to include more companies from my recent Analysis of Generic Drug Companies from India . The index is structured to include companies with market caps between $150M-$60B, which are involved in producing generic healthcare products such as generic drugs and pharmacy benefit managers which do not have retail store and insurance components.
The Top 10 ...
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From the Blogosphere
Company News for November 12, 2009 – Corporate Summary
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• Kraft (NYSE:KFT) reported third quarter earnings of 55 cents a share on revenues of $9.8 billion, beating Zacks estimates of 48 cents, but slightly below revenue projections of $10.24 billion • MedcoHealth Solutions (NYSE:MHS) reported third quarter earnings of 75 cents ex-items, 4 cents above Zacks estimates, on revenues of $14.80 billion, up from estimates of $14.71 billion • Miller Tabek upgraded entertainment stocks such as CBS (NYSE:CBS), Entravision (NYSE:EVC), News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWS), Viacom (NYSE:VIA.B), and Disney (NYSE:DIS) from "neutral" to "buy" <>• Disney (NYSE:DIS) said <><><><>< /><><>< /><>< /><>< />< />...
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MedcoHealth (MHS): 'Healthy breakout'
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 Technician Leo Fasciocco looks for "breakout" stocks in his Ticker Tape Digest advisory. Here, the advisor reviews pharmacy services firm, Medco Health Solutions (NYSE: MHS).
"With annual revenues: of $51 billion, Medco provides pharmacy benefit management services a pharmacy services designed to help lower the cost of healthcare. "Its services are provicded through its national networks of retail pharmacies and its own mail-order pharmacies, as well as through its specialty pharmacy segment, Accredo Health Group. , a pharmacy services firm that helps lower the cost of healthcare. <>"Tech...
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Bookkeeping: Dumped all SPY Calls
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I dumped all my October SPY calls bought earlier this week, throughout the day with the last 5% batch out about 10 minutes ago near S&P 1066. Probably should of waited til the now traditional "post 3:30 PM ramp into the close", but it's been a good enough run for me.
I will consider rebuying calls on any move over S&P 1070 in the coming days, as in the larger sense the resistance between 1050 and 1100 is almost nonexistent - but we are at the top end of our channel so I am going to lock in some meaningful gains.
Either way buying the double top breakout "wins" again, big time. Mid July it wa...
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: You can't afford to be certain
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+14.45%
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102 days
<>Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Ford Motor (F), Market matters, Walt Disney (DIS), International Business Machines (IBM), AT and T (T), 3M Corporation (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Schlumberger Limited (SLB), Citigroup Inc. (C), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY), Best Buy (BBY), FedEx Corp (FDX), Verizon Communications (VZ), Lennar Corp'A' (LEN), United Parcel'B' (UPS), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Stocks to Buy, Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC), Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), <>Cramer on Blogging...
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: The health care bargain
MHS
+6.26%
in
4 days
(closed on 07/31/09)
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