By 10:45 am, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 35.03 points, or 0.26%, to 13,472.29, while the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index had dropped 4.76 points, or 0.32%. The NASDAQ composite index fell 19.89 points, or 0.64%.
Some of the narrow based indexes that are still afloat in the markets are Stem Cell Stocks, which have gained 1.5%, Chinese Healthcare Stocks, up 1.1%, and Dairy Product Stocks, moving 1.0% higher as a group. In Tickerspy’s Stem Cell complex, Pluristem Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PSTI) had surged 12.7%. Pluristem Therapeutics reported that the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute has approved the company’s request to expand its Phase II clinical trial in Intermittent Claudication.
The best performing Tickerspy Chinese Healthcare stock has been China Biologic Products (NASDAQ: CBPO), which was up 4.9%. China Biologic’s trailing-twelve-month ROE is 30.00%.
Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ: LWAY) is today’s leading Tickerspy’s Dairy Product stock, gaining 6.5%. Lifeway Foods’ Q4 gross sales rose around 23% to $23.0 million.
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