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Daily Archives: September 30, 2008

A Third Term for Bloomberg?

September 30, 2008
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As you know, the market plunged 778 points yesterday and it’s back up about 400 points today so far. These certainly are interesting times, and there’s no room to complain of boredom with market moves like we’ve seen lately. An interesting story related to the markets and finance today is the possibility that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg might try to change election law and run for a third term. According to The New York Times, Bloomberg is going to announce his intentions about this later in the week. As the financial crisis unfolded, Bloomberg was reportedly on...

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A High-Potential Health Care Investment

September 30, 2008
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So now, a little more on Sequenom (SQNM), the little company I wrote about last week after it had earned a spot in Cabot Top Ten Report several times in recent months by bucking the broad market’s downtrend. Sequenom started out as designer and manufacturer of genetic analysis systems … and this business is growing.  The company pulled in revenues of $12.9 million from these systems in the second quarter.  But the big story is that Sequenom has developed a test for Down syndrome that is performed earlier than traditional amniocentesis, that is less invasive (it analyzes a sample...

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Investing Carnival

September 30, 2008
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Good morning! The Investing Carnival is up today and you’ll find one of our articles featured there along with other great pieces on the subject. Enjoy!

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