Health Winners & Losers: Savient

Stock quotes in this article: SVNT , BMRN , SEPR , VRTX , JNJ , VPHM , GENZ  

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

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