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Increasing number of financings and IPOs in Q1
Frequent upward revisions lately to sales estimates at the largest biotechnology companies
Nasdaq Biotech Index (NBI) dropped 4.4% Friday
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Sharpest decline since Oct-11
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Triggered by a letter from congressional representatives to a biotech company Gilead Sciences, questioning its
plans to sell a hepatitis C drug (named Sovaldi) for $84,000 per dose
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Gilead required to give briefing by 03-Apr
Sovaldi expected to generate >$4bn in sales this year
The drug's expense might saddle state Medicaid programs with steep costs
The whole sector is as risk
US is the only major health-care market remaining without any meaningful drug price controls
Risk for the whole sector once the Congress gets involved, especially if focused primarily on pricing
The biggest NBI firms sold-off significantly
chg (%) Index Wt eic.)
BIOGEN DEC INC
-8.2
7.9
AMGEN INC
-3.2
7.8
C-ILEAD SCIENCES INC
-4.6
7.0
PEGENER0N PHARMACEUTICALS
-5.4
6.9
CELGENE CORP
-3.7
6.5
ALE-ION PHARMACEUTICALS INC
-8.0
4.6
ILL'.'MINA INC
-5.4
4.6
MY LAN INC
-0.9
4.3
✓ERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC
-5.1
3.8
BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL INC
-5.9
2.5
Ways to hedge exposure to the US biotech sector
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ProShares UltraShort Nasdaq Biotech Fund (BIS US Equity): designed to be 2x short the NBI
Options on iSharesNasdaq Biotech ETF (IBB US Equity)
NBI — last 5 ears
3000
2577.21
2009
1500
1000
500
2009 I
2010
I
2011
I
2012
I
2013
201•
NBI tnoex (Nasdaq Biotechnclogy Index)
Copynghtli 2014 Bloomberg Finance L.P.
ZS-Kw-2014 14:35:20
NBI vs S&P500 — last 1 year
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