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Mixed Markets With Mixed MacroEconomic Data – $ATOS, $KDNY & $HL Move Higher

By John F. Heerdink, Jr.
“When purchasing depressed stock in troubled companies, seek out the ones with the superior financial positions and avoid the ones with loads of bank debt.”Peter Lynch

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great start to the week.

As for the markets, we saw a bit of a mixed day as it initially rose across the board, but then tailed off somewhat towards the end of the day as investors were met with a mixed bag of macroeconomic reports.  The macroeconomic schedule produced the ISM Manufacturing Index report for April which moved down to 60.7%. Total construction spending rose by .2% month/month in March, while total private construction moved up .7% month/month, & total public construction spending dropped 1.5%.The energy sector led all sectors moving up 2.9% as oil prices moved 1.5% higher to close at $64.49/bbl, while other cyclical sectors had good days as the materials sector move up 1.5% & the industrials added 1%. The 10-yr treasury yield fell 2 basis points to 1.61% &  the 2-yr yield pulled back 1 basis point to .15% while the U.S. Dollar Index fell .4% to 90.96. The markets in turn ended as follows: the S&P 500 closed at 4,192.66 (+.27%), the Dow ended at 34,113.23 (+.70%), & the Nasdaq closed at 13,895.12 (-.48%), the Russell 2000 closed at 2,277.45 (+.49%). Tomorrow’s schedule will deliver the Trade Balance Report for March & the Factory Orders report for March.  

The energy sector led all sectors moving up 2.9% as oil prices moved 1.5% higher to close at $64.49/bbl, while other cyclical sectors had good days as the materials sector move up 1.5% & the industrials added 1%. The 10-yr treasury yield fell 2 basis points to 1.61% &  the 2-yr yield pulled back 1 basis point to .15% while the U.S. Dollar Index fell .4% to 90.96.

The microchips also continued to find bids again today, while 2 VP Watchlist biotech stocks moved up nicely throughout the day.  Chinook Therapeutics (KDNY) closed at a session high of $18.98, +5.74%  while Atossa Therapeutics (ATOS) closed at near a session high of $2.48, +6.44% on 11.03 million shares of trading volume. The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) closed at 134.99, -1.19%, iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) closed at $154.66, +.01%, while the NYSE ARCA Biotech Index (^BTK) closed at 5,613.57, +.02%.

The FAANG stocks closed mixed as follows: Apple (AAPL) closed at $132.54, +.82%, Alphabet (GOOG) closed at $2,395.17, -.62%, & Amazon (AMZN) closed at $3,486.49, -2.33%, Facebook (FB) also closed at $322.581, -.77%, & Netflix (NFLX) closed at $509.11/share, -.85%. The MicroSectors FANG+ Index 3X Leveraged ETN (FNGU), which offers 3x leveraged exposure to an index of “FANG” companies, and other companies that exhibit similar characteristics, closed at $30.90, -3.77%. 

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), unveiled recently that The Walt Disney Company (DIS) is leveraging AWS for the global rollout of Disney+, one of the largest online streaming video services in the world. The Walt Disney Company relies on AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider to support the explosive growth of Disney+, which quickly surpassed 100 million subscribers only 16 months after launch in November 2019. Leveraging AWS’s fault-tolerant, highly performant infrastructure, The Walt Disney Company has been able to rapidly expand Disney+ to 59 countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Disney+ is expanding its use of AWS’s industry-leading services to include more than 50 technologies, such as machine learning, database, storage, content delivery, serverless, and analytics.

Reportedly, Verizon Communications, Inc. (VZ) to sell its media unit, which includes Yahoo and AOL, to Apollo Global Management Inc for $5 billion, in a move to offload its digital media business. Verizon declared the unit nearly worthless with a $4.6 billion write-down in 2018, as major market giants like Facebook and Google occupy the digital advertising market. As per the terms of the deal, Verizon to get $4.25 billion in cash, with preferred interests of $750 million, and a 10% stake in Verizon Media. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2021 and the business will be called Yahoo after the deal closes.

EV giant Tesla (TSLA) closed down again today at $684.90, -3.46%. 

Microsoft’s (MSFT, $251.86) co-founder Bill Gates announced that he and his wife, Melinda, will be separating. The couple’s philanthropic organization, The Gates Foundation enjoys an endowment of ~$50B & has paid out almost $55 billion in grants since inception and they plan to move forward with these good deeds.

The iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) closed at $24.96, +3.96% & the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) closed at $167.81, +1.3%. Silver prices closed at $26.99/oz, +1.01. Gold prices closed at 1,795, +$24. Hecla Mining (HL) closed at $6.43, +8.8%. Hecla will issue a news release reporting its first quarter 2021 financial results before market open on Thursday, May 6, 2021 & conduct a conference call and webcast at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss first quarter 2021 financial results the same day. You may join the conference call by dialing toll-free 1-833-350-1380 or for international by dialing 1-647-689-6934. The Conference ID is 7584113.

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE, $20.14, -9.07%), a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company,  has rescheduled the reporting of its financial results for the first quarter 2021 to following the close of the U.S. markets on Monday, May 10, 2021. Virgin Galactic will now host a conference call to discuss the results and provide a business update that day at 2:00 p.m., Pacific Time (5:00 p.m., Eastern Time). The Company is rescheduling its reporting due to the recent statement issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 12, 2021 relating to the accounting treatment of warrants issued by special purpose acquisition companies.

Bitcoin’s smaller sibling, Ethereum, moved up 11% to go above 3,333. 

VP WATCHLIST HIGHLIGHTS


You can review our complete VP Watchlist that we believe deserve consideration for short term and long term portfolio adds that include Apple, Tesla, & seven other names. The pages will enable you to stay informed and learn more about these companies daily.

Please review few of the updates on a few of the VP Watchlist companies below: 


  • Natural-Killer cell (NKcell) focused biopharmaceutical firm Fate Therapeutics (FATE) closed at $85.11/share, -2.61%.

    • FATE will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. ET to report its first quarter 2021 financial results and provide a corporate update. In order to participate in the conference call, please dial 800-708-4539 (toll free) or 847-619-6396 (toll) and refer to confirmation number 50156207. The live webcast can be accessed under “Events & Presentations” in the Investors section of the Company’s website at www.fatetherapeutics.com.

    • On April, 27th the company announced that two oral and two digital presentations of the Company’s induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) product platform were accepted for presentation at the 24th American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy Annual Meeting (ASGCT) being held virtually from May 11-14, 2021. In addition to the Company’s presentations at ASGCT, its iPSC-derived natural killer (NK) cell product pipeline is expected to be featured in a meeting symposium on May 11 by Jeffrey S. Miller, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota and Deputy Director of the Masonic Cancer Center and scientific advisor and collaborator of the Company, and its iPSC-derived CAR T-cell product platform is expected to be highlighted during the meeting’s plenary session on May 12 by Michel Sadelain, M.D., Ph.D., Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair and Director, Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and collaborator of the Company. The Company also plans to host a virtual investor event on May 13 to highlight interim Phase 1 clinical data from its FT516 and FT538 programs for the treatment of relapsed / refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The Phase 1 clinical trial of FT516 has enrolled the first and second dose cohorts (90 million and 300 million cells per dose, respectively), and dose escalation is ongoing in the third dose cohort (900 million cells per dose). The Phase 1 clinical trial of FT538 is ongoing in the first dose cohort (100 million cells per dose).
    • On March 25, FATE announced that Daniel D. Shoemaker, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, has advised the Company that he is retiring as of June 30, 2021 after more than 12 years with the Company. Dr. Shoemaker has been with Fate Therapeutics since February 2009, having served as the Company’s Chief Scientific Officer since May 2015. Bob Valamehr, Ph.D., Chief Research and Development Officer of Fate Therapeutics and scientific leader of its iPSC Product Platform since January 2010, will continue to lead all research and development activities.
    • On Dec. 6, 2020, Fate presented a patient case study from the Company’s Phase 1 clinical trial of FT596, its universal, off-the-shelf, CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) natural killer (NK) cell product candidate, at the 62nd Annual Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition and the street loved it. NK cells are the body’s first line of defense against viral infections and cancerous cells with an innate ability to rapidly seek and destroy transformed cells. NK cell therapy has the potential to 1) target multiple pathogenic antigens with measurably more efficient cytotoxicity, 2) be better controlled to reduce risk of cytokine storms and 3) be produced from a variety of sources without relying on patient-specific immune cells. Dr. Wayne Chu, Senior Vice President, Clinical Development of Fate Therapeutics stated, “The safety, pharmacokinetics and clinical activity observed following both the first and second single-dose treatment cycles of FT596 are compelling, especially when considering that the administered cell dose was significantly lower than the recommended cell dose of FDA-approved autologous CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapies and that the heavily pre-treated patient was refractory to last prior therapy. We are excited the CAR component of FT596 has shown clinical activity at this low dose level, and we continue to enroll patients in dose escalation with FT596 as a monotherapy and in combination with rituximab.”


  • INVO Bioscience (NASDAQ: INVO) is a medical device company focused on creating alternative treatments for patients diagnosed with infertility and developers of INVOcell®, the world’s only in vivo Intravaginal Culture System. Shares INVO closed at $4.04/share, -1.7%.
    • After the close April 26, INVO announced the appointment of Rebecca Messina to the Company’s board of directors. Ms. Messina has broad international experience in leading marketing for elite brands and businesses including Uber Technologies (UBER), Beam Suntory and The Coca-Cola Company (KO). She is currently a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company focused on advising internal teams and firm clients in the areas of marketing as a growth lever, including data driven marketing, brand building, and strategically shaping and transforming marketing agendas. Messina has also served as Global Chief Marketing Officer of Uber Technologies (UBER). As Uber’s first-ever CMO, Messina focused on executing Uber’s first global marketing organization, building a world class marketing network, with the mission of helping the company define a strong brand in the hearts and minds of all Uber stakeholders – furthering a movement around the possibilities of “progress for all” in a shared economy. Messina has been the recipient of a number of accolades, including: Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs, 2019; Ad Age, Women to Watch 2016; Business Insider, Most Innovative CMOs in the World 2016; as well as serving on several boards including the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
    • On April 22,  INVO announced that it has joined in supporting RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, a non-profit action-based, infertility and family building advocacy organization who strive for increased access to all family building options. RESOLVE is currently hosting their National Infertility Awareness Week, from April 18 to April 24 (#NIAW2021). “We are excited to be supporting RESOLVE’s mission to ensure that all people challenged in their family building journey reach resolution through being empowered by knowledge, supported by community, united by advocacy, and inspired to act. We believe that our effective and affordable treatment solution for patients diagnosed with infertility, INVOcell, can help address key infertility treatment challenges regarding cost, capacity constraints and access to care to help serve the very large, underserved patient population,” stated Steve Shum, CEO of INVO Bioscience. Please read the story here. 
    • On April 19, INVO announced the execution of a partnership agreement with Lyfe Medical, LLC (“Lyfe Medical”) focused on the expansion of the INVOcell solution in Northern California (with an area population of ~8 million people). “We believe that INVOcell can help address key infertility treatment industry challenges regarding cost & capacity constraints to help serve the very large underserved patient population. We are excited to sign this partnership agreement with the team at Lyfe Medical, a physician-led premier-level fertility practice, to establish an INVO center in the Northern California fertility market to help further our mission to increase access to care and expand fertility treatment across the globe. Lyfe has shown a strong commitment to bringing INVOcell into this region. We look forward to ramping up our respective requirements and begin operations later this year,” stated Steve Shum, CEO of INVO Bioscience. Please read the story here
    • On April 13,  I hosted INVO’s CEO Steve Shum at the Tribe Public CEO Presentation – Q&A Webinar Event where he delivered his presentation is titled “Democratizing Infertility – A Severely Underserved Global Market.” You may view the video of the event now at his link: https://youtu.be/w4yQIc7eO5k.
    • After the close March 30, INVO announced 2020 financial results and highlights.  Steve Shum, Chief Executive Officer of INVO Bioscience stated, “In the face of a difficult year for many industries, including the fertility business, I am extremely proud of the accomplishments of the entire INVO Bioscience team. During the year, we put in place a number of building blocks for the future, which are already beginning to pay dividends. Recently we announced our plan to open our first U.S.-based INVOcell clinic in partnership with some of the most highly accomplished INVOcell practitioners in the world. Our partners are not only extremely well-versed in the INVOcell technology, but also have a proven track record of successful implementation of the platform within an established clinical setting. A few months prior, we announced that we plan to open dedicated INVOcell clinics in Mexico with Dr. Francisco Arredondo and Dr. Ramiro Ramirez, who were also early adopters of the INVOcell solution and have established a successful track record of successful implementation of INVOcell in a clinical setting. We believe the combination of strong distribution partners such as Ferring in the U.S. and other locations around the world, coupled with dedicated INVOcell clinics partnerships which INVO Bioscience has an equity interest in, position the Company well for the future. Another key development during the year was the availability of additional positive real-world usage data highlighting the success of INVOcell, including a published peer-reviewed manuscript (report). We expect to see further data from this year’s SART information in the near future. In our opinion, this expanded retrospective, real world validated data is extremely valuable to our commercial efforts and builds confidence with practitioners. We believe that this expanding portfolio of usage data will play an important role in expanding and accelerating market adoption.”
    • On March 8, INVO announced that they has agreed to an amendment of their agreement with Ferring Pharmaceuticals that provides for an increase in the number of INVO company-owned US-based clinics initially allowable under the agreement and removes certain geographical restrictions. The amendment also adjusted the remaining annual 2020 minimum contractual product purchase requirement, whereby Ferring will place a $501,000 order, which will be recognized as revenue by INVO Bioscience in the first quarter of 2021. READ STORY.
    • On March 1, INVO announced the Company has received approval by COFEPRIS to import INVOcell into Mexico. In late 2020, INVO Bioscience established a joint venture focused on establishing fertility centers dedicated to offering INVOcell, with the initial center, called Positib Fertility, to be located in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. Steve Shum, CEO of INVO Bioscience, commented, “We are extremely pleased to have received approval by COFEPRIS to begin importing INVOcell into Mexico. This was a key step in the process to open our first joint venture owned clinic in the large and growing Mexico market for infertility services. Our internal team along with our JV partners have and continue to work aggressively and with a relentless focus to bring the INVOcell treatment option to the many patients in need of care within Mexico.”
    • On Jan. 27, INVO announced that it has advanced its commercialization efforts into the European fertility market by securing initial orders of INVOcell in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. INVOcell will initially be available at three separate existing fertility clinics which have placed orders and commenced training. Please read the story here.
    • INVO’s Management Issued a letter to shareholders on Jan. 7 that spoke to their key developments and future initiatives that have positioned their product INVOcell® within the severely underserved fertility market. PLEASE read the story here.
    • Industry forecasts suggest that only 1% to 2% of the estimated 150 million infertile couples worldwide are currently being treated. INVO’s mission is to increase access to care and expand infertility treatment across the globe with a goal of improving patient affordability and industry capacity.
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  • Shares of Chinook Therapeutics (KDNY), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing precision medicines for kidney diseases, closed today at $18.98, +5.74%.
    • On April 15, Chinook announced six poster presentations at the ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2021 (WCN ’21). Eric Dobmeier, president and chief executive officer of Chinook stated, “The depth and breadth of our presence at this year’s WCN ’21 is a testament to Chinook’s role as a leading kidney disease company. Our data demonstrating BION-1301’s ability to significantly reduce Gd-IgA1 levels in healthy volunteers, as well as the favorable pharmacodynamics of subcutaneous administration of BION-1301, position the program well to move forward in demonstrating its disease-modifying potential for IgA nephropathy patients. In addition, our preclinical poster presentations on atrasentan provide broader insights into its anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory properties that are additive and complementary to its proteinuria-lowering mechanism of action.”
    • On April 15, Chinook’s CEO Eric Dobmeier  & CBO Tom Frohlich delivered a presentation titled “Revolutionizing The Treatment of Kidney Disease” followed by a Q&A session at the Tribe Public Network. You can view the video of the event here. 
    • On April 7, KDNY provided a business update and reported financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2020. Eric Dobmeier, President and chief executive officer of Chinook Therapeutics stated, “We are executing well on our goal of building Chinook into a leading kidney disease company. 2020 was a very busy and productive year, as we in-licensed atrasentan from AbbVie, closed a $115 million financing, brought BION-1301 into our pipeline through the merger with Aduro, unveiled CHK-336, our first internally-developed program, and bolstered our precision medicine discovery and research efforts. We are excited to have recently initiated our atrasentan phase 3 ALIGN and phase 2 AFFINITY trials and announced our collaboration with Evotec. We look forward to multiple data announcements from our BION-1301 program this year, as well as continuing to move CHK-336 towards the clinic. Our team has grown over 300 percent since the beginning of 2020, and we’re continuing to execute on our hiring plans to ensure we have strong resourcing in place to advance our pipeline. Our solid cash position, which we expect to fund our operations to the middle of 2023, enables us to achieve key milestones across our programs.”
    • On Monday, April 5th, KDNY announced a transaction with Van Herk Investments, a leading European life science investor, to create and fund a new company called Sairopa, with a pipeline focused on research and development of non-renal monoclonal antibodies generated through Aduro Biotech’s B-Select platform. Chinook will own approximately 40 percent of Sairopa after the first tranche of financing from Van Herk and have one seat on Sairopa’s Board of Directors.
    • On March 16, Chinook announced that the first patient with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) has been enrolled in the ALIGN Study, a pivotal phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of atrasentan, a potent and selective inhibitor of the endothelin A receptor. “The initiation of the phase 3 ALIGN Study is an important milestone for Chinook as we advance our pipeline of programs for rare, severe chronic kidney diseases,” said Alan Glicklich, M.D., chief medical officer of Chinook. “Atrasentan has been studied in over 5,300 diabetic kidney disease patients in the phase 2 RADAR and phase 3 SONAR studies, demonstrating rapid, sustained proteinuria reductions of approximately 30 to 35 percent as well as improved eGFR. Importantly, treatment with atrasentan also resulted in a reduction in clinical outcomes of development of end-stage kidney disease and doubling of serum creatinine. We look forward to exploring the proteinuria-lowering, anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects of atrasentan in patients with IgA nephropathy, a serious progressive disease for which there are no approved therapies.”

    • On March 1, Chinook and Evotec SE announced a strategic collaboration focused on the discovery and development of novel precision medicine therapies for patients with chronic kidney diseases. Based on Evotec’s proprietary comprehensive molecular datasets from thousands of patients across chronic kidney diseases of multiple underlying etiologies, Chinook and Evotec will jointly identify, characterize and validate novel mechanisms and discover precision medicines for PKD, lupus nephritis, IgA nephropathy and other primary glomerular diseases. The collaboration will also involve further characterization of pathways and patient stratification strategies for programs currently in Chinook’s clinical and preclinical pipeline. “We are excited to embark on this strategic collaboration with Evotec, the leading drug discovery alliance and development partner in nephrology,” said Andrew King, D.V.M., Ph.D., Head of Renal Discovery and Translational Medicine at Chinook. “Gaining access to the NURTuRE cohort study and other proprietary patient biobanks, along with Evotec’s multi-omics integration platform, will enable us to define the molecular drivers of kidney diseases, identify novel targets for drug development in selected patient sub-populations and continue to build the foundation for our precision medicine approach. With a focus on comprehensive molecular disease classification, combined with prospective clinical outcomes, Chinook has the opportunity to potentially deliver targeted therapies to the right patient populations.”
    • On Feb. 2nd, Chinook announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted rare pediatric disease designation for CHK-336, an investigational oral small molecule inhibitor of lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) for primary hyperoxaluria (PH). PH is a group (PH1, PH2 and PH3) of ultra-rare genetic diseases caused by enzyme mutations that result in excess oxalate production in the liver, and in its most severe forms, can lead to end-stage kidney disease at a young age. Inhibition of LDHA with CHK-336 allows for the potential to treat all forms of PH and other disorders arising from excess oxalate, while its liver-targeted tissue distribution profile enables maximal inhibition of liver oxalate production with minimal systemic exposure. Please read the story here.
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  • Shares of Seattle-based Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company seeking to discover and develop innovative medicines in areas of significant unmet medical need with a current focus on breast cancer and COVID-19, closed at $2.48, +6.44%.
    • On April 8, Atossa announced that an ovarian cancer patient has begun treatment with Atossa’s proprietary oral Endoxifen. The FDA previously issued a “Safe to Proceed” letter under their expanded access pathway, permitting the use of Atossa’s oral Endoxifen in this patient. The patient is being treated at the University of Washington Medical Center by Dr. Barbara Goff, Surgeon-in-Chief. “The patient has recurrent ovarian cancer and did not tolerate tamoxifen, which is sometimes prescribed for ovarian cancer as well as breast cancer,” commented Steven Quay, M.D., Ph.D., Atossa’s President and CEO. “The patient recently underwent functional molecular genomic testing using 3D tumor organoid cultures grown in the laboratory from the patient’s tumor to help determine potential therapies. This testing revealed that the combination of Endoxifen and alpelisib produced an exceptional tumor response. We will follow the progress of this patient and consider additional clinical studies in patients with ovarian cancer.” Under the FDA expanded access program, the use of Atossa’s proprietary oral Endoxifen is restricted solely to this patient.
    • On March 31, Atossa announced their financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, and provided an update on recent company developments. Read the complete story. 
    • On March 22, Atossa  announced that it had entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors to purchase $50 million of its shares of common stock and warrants in a registered direct offering priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. Read the complete story.  Atossa has now raised ~$141M in gross proceeds (via registered directs and warrant exercises) since Dec. 2020 affording the company a significant development runway and many more options to be considering including acquisitions. 
    • On March 11, Atossa announced the FDA has issued a “Safe to Proceed” letter under their Expanded Access Pathway, permitting the use of Atossa’s oral Endoxifen as a treatment in an ovarian cancer patient. The patient is being treated at the University of Washington Medical Center by Dr. Barbara Goff, Surgeon-in-Chief. Under the FDA expanded access program, the use of Atossa’s proprietary oral Endoxifen is restricted solely to this patient. Approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) must be obtained prior to providing oral Endoxifen to this patient. Read the complete story.
    • On Feb. 25, Atossa announced final results from its Phase 1 double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical study using Atossa’s proprietary drug candidate AT-301 administered by nasal spray. AT-301 was considered to be safe and well tolerated in healthy male and female participants in this study at two different dose levels over 14 days. AT-301 is being developed for at home use for patients recently diagnosed with COVID-19. There are currently no FDA-approved therapies to treat COVID-19 at home. Steven Quay, M.D., Ph.D., Atossa’s President and CEO stated, “The results from this study are very encouraging and we look forward to quickly commencing the next study of AT-301. We recently received input from the FDA on this program and based in part on that input, we are now preparing to conduct an additional pre-clinical study, which we expect to start this quarter. Following that, we expect to apply to the FDA to commence a Phase 2 study here in the United States.”
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Economic Reports

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Investing & Inspiration

  1. “When purchasing depressed stock in troubled companies, seek out the ones with the superior financial positions and avoid the ones with loads of bank debt.” – Peter Lynch
  2. “No stock price is too low for bears or too high for bulls.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr.
  3. “Investment is most successful when it is most businesslike.” – Ben Graham

  4. “Value stocks are about as exciting as watching grass grow, but have you ever noticed just how much your grass grows in a week?” – Christopher Browne

  5. “Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.” – Benjamin Graham
  6. “Individual who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.” – Benjamin Graham
  7. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life until then.” – Warren Buffet
  8. “I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.” — Warren Buffett
  9. “There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.” – Jack Welch, former CEO of GE
  10. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble” ― Warren Buffett
  11. “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” – Warren Buffet
  12. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” — Robert G. Allen
  13. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett
  14. “A market downturn doesn’t bother us. It is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices.” — Warren Buffett
  15. “Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.” — Jim Cramer
  16. “The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition.” — John D. Rockefeller
  17. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
  18. “Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part ownership of a business.” – Peter Lynch
  19. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” – Rhonda Katz
  20. “Invest for the long haul. Don’t get too greedy and don’t get too scared.” – Shelby M.C. Davis

  21. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.”
    -Jeremy Siegel
  22. “With a good perspective on history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.” — Carlos Slim Helu
  23. “If we like a business, we’re going to buy as much of it as we can and keep it as long as we can. And when we change our mind, we don’t take half measures.” – Warren Buffett
  24. “The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.” — Peter Thiel

  25. “Never depend on a single income, make an investment to create a second source.” Warren Buffet

  26. Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”
    ― Warren Buffett
  27. “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” – Peter Lynch
  28. “Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets … any sound investment will eventually pay off.” — Carlos Slim Helu
  29. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
  30. “As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.” — John Maynard Keynes
  31. “Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time.” — Jeff Bezos
  32. “Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
  33. The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less.” – Joel Greenblatt
  34. “We don’t have an analytical advantage, we just look in the right place.” – Seth Klarman
  35. “Men, it has been well said, think in herds. It will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay
  36. “It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.” – George Soros
  37. “No Price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.” — Anonymous
  38. “Investment is an asset or item that is purchased with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future.” Anonymous
  39. “Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.” — Peter Lynch
  40. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” –Rhonda Katz
  41. “It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.” ― Robert Shiller
  42. “A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.” — Barton Biggs
  43. “The investor’s chief problem — even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself.” — Benjamin Graham
  44. “No profession requires more hard work, intelligence, patience, and mental discipline than successful speculation.” – Robert Rhea
  45. “Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.” – William Somerset Maugham
  46. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” — Albert Einstein
  47. “Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results” — Warren Buffett
  48. “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” – Warren Buffett
  49. “Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed’s policy on money supply…and they can’t predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.” – Peter Lynch
  50. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
  51. “You cannot save time for your future use however you can invest time for your future.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr. 
  52. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
  53. “Liquidity is only there when you don’t need it.” -Old Proverb
  54. “If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” – Richard Branson
  55. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.” – Jeremy Siegel
  56. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” – Robert Arnott
  57. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.” – Charlie Munger
  58. “The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.” – Edward Lampert
  59. “The rivers don’t drink their own water; Trees don’t eat their own fruits. The sun does not shine for itself, And flowers do not spread their fragrance For themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature” – Pope Francis
  60. “It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” – John Templeton
  61. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin.
  62. I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!” -Bill Gates
  63. “Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won’t grow any faster than the rate of inflation.” – Suze Orman
  64. “The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility, and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.” – John F. Kennedy
  65. “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. -George Bernard Shaw
  66. “There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”-Ed Seykota
  67. “Let this scenario play out on its own, in its own fashion. As you watch it unfold, you will soon be grateful that you choose the peaceful path. Remember — those who live by the sword, die by the sword.”
  68. “As long as you enjoy investing, you’ll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game.” -Jim Cramer
  69. “I rarely think the market is right. I believe non-dividend stocks aren’t much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.” -Mark Cuban
  70. Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.” -Bruce Kovner
  71. “The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
  72. “The only true test of whether a stock is “cheap” or “high” is not its current price in relation to some former price, no matter how accustomed we may have become to that former price, but whether the company’s fundamentals are significantly more or less favorable than the current financial-community appraisal of that stock.” -Philip Fisher
  73. “I learned to avoid trying to catch up or double up to recoup losses. I also learned that a certain amount of loss will affect your judgment, so you have to put some time between that loss and the next trade.” -Richard Dennis
  74. “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.” -Sir John Templeton
  75. “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger

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