Healthcare: Why This $6 Billion Biotech Stock Is Skyrocketing 70% in November
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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A flurry of news has investors clamoring to add Nektar Therapeutics to their portfolios. Plus, we explain why investors are disappointed by Loxo Oncology’s good news and how a new smart pill could change medicine forever.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is November 14th and this is the health care edition of the show. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Christine Harajis and I have health care specialist Todd |
| 0:13.2 | on the line welcome to the show Todd. Hey Christine how are you? I am |
| 0:18.6 | pretty well I am recovering a little bit I ran my first half marathon this past weekend so I'm still pretty sore even though it's now Wednesday. |
| 0:27.2 | Wow, congratulations. That's phenomenal. I have never done anything like that. |
| 0:33.8 | Yeah, it was interesting, you know, it was painful, obviously probably goes without saying, |
| 0:38.6 | but I get why people do it. |
| 0:40.6 | It was a very, very cool experience. |
| 0:43.0 | Did you end up getting that, you know, euphoric runners high, you know, |
| 0:48.0 | somewhere through it that kind of helped you press forward? |
| 0:51.0 | I mean, was it, were there any moments during the race where you were like |
| 0:53.8 | oh I just can't go on? No it was a very positive experience. I think the runners high |
| 0:59.8 | is a real thing and I feel like I shouldn't say that on a health care show because I have no idea |
| 1:04.4 | whether there's science backing that up or not but just based on my own observation it's a real thing. |
| 1:09.7 | Wow that's great congratulations I did not do that. |
| 1:14.0 | You do anything interesting? |
| 1:16.0 | No, but I did drink a lot of coffee in preparation at today's show because I saw how many things we were going to be discussing. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, we have kind of a list. |
| 1:24.5 | We actually were going to cover four different topics, |
| 1:26.3 | but we paired it back to only three. |
| 1:28.3 | So hopefully we can be within a reasonable time today. |
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