Biotech and pharmaceutical stocks were on the rise Wednesday, with the Nasdaq and Amex biotechnology indices up 4% and 5.7%, respectively.
Among individual stocks, notable movers were: Savient Pharmaceuticals(SVNT Quote), up 26.7% at $3.95 BioMarin Therapeutics(BMRN Quote), up 14.7% at $17.56 Amylin(AMLN Quote), up 11.7% at $9.42 Sepracor(SEPR Quote), up 8.5% at $13.12 Vertex(VRTX Quote), up 7.6% at $22.28 Viropharma(VPHM Quote), up 7.5% at $11.90 Cytokinetics(CYTK Quote), down 24% at $2.00 Auxilium Pharmaceuticals(AUXL Quote), down 11.3% at $16 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ Quote), down 4.8% at $61.13 Genzyme(GENZ Quote), down 3.7% at $70.89- Loading Comments...
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