Biopharma Stocks June 2017: BIO’s Rallying Cry Gets A Response

In this month’s stock column, after the Nasdaq Biotech Index (NBI) shot up over 10% at end of June, Scrip focuses on the biopharma companies that propelled that surge. It looks as if investors have been influenced by the BIO Convention held in San Diego, the industry’s biggest forum for self-promotion.

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BIO convention helped raise the tide for biopharma stocks • Source: Shutterstock

Between 16 June and 23 June, the Nasdaq Biotech Index (NBI) surged over 10%, the largest weekly growth since the market’s optimistic response to Donald Trump’s electoral triumph over Hillary Clinton on 8 November 2016. And it looks like the trigger was an industry event rather than an external clinical meeting or a game-changing regulatory breakthrough.

The performance of 162 companies are composited to provide a single figure for the NBI, one that might be presumed to represent the behavior of public

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