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- From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Drug Stocks
- Message-ID: <sehari.728174059@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:34:19 GMT
- References: <tan.728153984@aries> <C1J3D6.LzB@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
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- Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu
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- In <C1J3D6.LzB@news.iastate.edu> bible@iastate.edu (Anthony E Bible) writes:
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- >In article <tan.728153984@aries> tan@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Lian Tan) writes:
- >>Does anybody know what's happening to the drug companies? Both Merck and
- >>Lilly (which I've followed very closely) have gone down fairly significantly
- >>lately. What gives??
- >>
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- > Anticipating governmental action to control healthcare costs will
- >reduce profits.
- > Yesterday Merck said their earnings for next year would be below
- >estimates. Can't recall, but they may have reported current earnings that were
- >low also. Don't know about Lilly.
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- >Regards,
- >tony
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- Nevertheless, they got the beating already. This means any bad news would be
- considered good news for them, since everyone is assuming the worst now.
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- Also, Drag sector is one of those areas that need to pull US economy up.
- It is among few good paying jobs in the economy, and has positive trade
- surplus. So, only takes a fool to shoot himself in the foot.
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- With highest regards,
- Babak Sehari.
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