Stockwatch: Colors Of The Fall
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Something strange is happening in the stock market. What ended up as the best week of the year for the broad S&P 500 index was a down-week and month to date for the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (NBI). This is not supposed to happen since the biotech sector is higher beta, meaning that if the broad equity index finishes the week up, the NBI should finish the week up more.
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