Health Winners & Losers: Amag
Optimer is up 17%.
Health stocks turned higher on Thursday, with the Nasdaq and Amex biotechnology indices tacking on 3.3% and 3.1%, respectively.
Among individual stocks, notable movers were:
Amag Pharmaceuticals
(AMAG) - Get Report
, up 88% at $34.61
Optimer
(OPTR)
, up 17% at $7
Alpharma
(ALO) - Get Report
, up 6.2% at $30.64
Savient Pharmaceuticals
(SVNT)
, up 12.9% at $4.65
Schering-Plough
( SGP), up 8.4% at $15.85
Wyeth
( WYE), up 6.2% at $34.46
Elbit Imaging
(EMITF)
, down 16.1% at $8.43
Poniard Pharmaceuticals
(PARD)
, down 10.8% at $3.47
Affymetrix
(AFFX)
, down 9% at $3.14
King
( KG), down 5.5% at $9.47
This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.com.
