Overall, the healthcare stocks fell 0.7 percent this morning, according to an Investor Place report.
The companies with biggest gains were:
• Achillion Pharmaceuticals: 16.2 percent
• Exact Sciences: 6 percent
• Abiomed: 2.6 percent
• Newlink Genetics Crop: 2.5 percent
• Nxstage Medical: 2.5 percent
• Cubist Pharmaceuticals: 2 percent
• China Biologic Products: 1.7 percent
• Vertex Pharmaceuticals: 1.6 percent
The companies with the biggest losses were:
• Gilead Sciences: -10.6 percent
• Isis Pharmaceuticals: -4.3 percent
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals:- 2.4 percent
• Heartware International: -2.4 percent
• Halozyme Therapeutics: -2.2 percent
• Biogen Idec: 2.2 percent
• Eli Lilly: -2.1 percent
• Wright Medical Group: -2.1 percent
• Celgene: -1.9 percent
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