Stockwatch: Third-Quarter Earnings Portents
Executive Summary
Negative third-quarter earnings announcements from Vertex and Illumina are not good portents for an end of year life science rally and the absence of helpful positive announcements from Valeant and Gilead does not bode well either.
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