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Health Benefit Providers Index Drops on Reform Prospects OCR

73%

-6.81% in 272 days 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... Continue reading »

Health Benefit Providers Face Uncertain Future OCR

73%

-7.10% in 38 days (closed on 02/28/09) The table at my website link below contains 36 companies included in the ETF Innovators Health Benefit Providers Index. Many of the companies included in this index face an uncertain future with the prospect for healthcare reform threatening the profit margin of managed care companies; although the prospect for universal health insurance promises increased volumes as more Americans gain coverage.   http://www.etfinnovators.com/2009/01/health-benefit-providers...   <> The index contains retail pharmacies such as Rite Aid (RAD), pharmacy benefit managers su... Continue reading »

A New Global Healthcare Composite Index OCR

73%

+28.22% in 58 days (closed on 01/21/09) A New Global Healthcare Composite Index <> The accompanying table [click to enlarge or download] presents the top five rated companies with market caps of at least $250M from each of the 10 new healthcare indexes developed by ETF Innovators [ETFI] from a database of about 500 companies worldwide. The ETFI Global Healthcare Sector PerformIdex is a dynamic, semi-active index with monthly updates which consists of the 50 top-rated companies on an equal weight basis from each of the 10 healthcare indexes listed below and represents an alternative strategy to existing... Continue reading »

Bullish on OCR ... OCR

62%

-23.54% in 446 days Omnicare, Inc., a geriatric pharmaceutical services company, provides pharmaceuticals and related ancillary pharmacy services. The company�s Pharmacy Services segment distributes pharmaceuticals and provides related pharmacy consulting and other ancillary services, data management services, and medical supplies to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, retirement centers, independent living communities, hospitals, hospice, and other healthcare service providers. It purchases, repackages, and dispenses prescription and non prescription pharmaceuticals; provides computerize... Continue reading »

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Omnicare Finalized Settlement Agreement (NYSE:OCR)

38%

Omnicare, Inc. (NYSE:OCR) have announced today that they have gone ahead and finalized the previously disclosed agreement for a voluntary civil settlement with the US Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts, the Department of Justice and ... Continue reading »

Google compra reCAPTCHA, que capacidad de “darle la vuelta a la tortilla”

20%

Google ha anunciado a través de su blog que ha comprado reCAPTCHA, una compañía que proporciona imágenes digitalizadas de libros con el objeto de proteger el acceso a zonas restringidas de las webs de sistemas automatizados que intentan producir fraude o generar spamm. <>Estas imágenes (tienen el nombre de CAPTCHAS) como la que podéis ver en la parte superior,  las podéis ver habitualmente en los formularios de registro de muchas web (está siendo utilizado por más de 100.000 sites, entre ellos Facebook o Twitter),  donde van acompañadas de una solicitud para que introduzcamos las letras o<><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< /><><>< /><><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< />< />... Continue reading »

NZD/USD Surges Post-RBNZ Rate Cut - Why?

The New Zealand dollar rallied at the end of the New York trading session after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) cut their Official Cash Rate (OCR)... Continue reading »

Health Benefit Providers Index Drops on Reform Concerns

73%

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 in Medicare Advantage reim... Continue reading »

Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: VZ, CHS, DLTR, RGC ...

Filed under: Analyst reports, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: <> Jefferies upgraded Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) shares to Buy from Hold following the company's reduced guidance as it now believes estimates are much more achievable. Despite the upgrade, the firm lowered its target price to $25 from $29. Deutsche Bank upgraded shares of Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG) to Buy from Hold on expectations the company will benefit from a capacity reduction in U.S. jewelry retailing. <>Thomas Weisel upgraded Omnicare (NYSE: OCR) to Overweight from Market Weight citin... Continue reading »

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