The Department of Health and Human services recently contracted five bio- pharmaceutical companies to develop huge doses of H1N1 Vaccine in preparation for this year’s flu season. The five lucky winners: Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), MedImmune, Australian drug maker CSL, and Sanofi-Pasteur. These companies have been receiving money since late last spring, when worry about the [...]

As Obama’s economic team continues to work out the details of their stimulus package, they hint at a multitude of market sectors that could receive a significant boost from their actions during the administration. David Newman from Seeking Alpha notes that Obama’s frequent promise to improve our information superhighway could be realized very shortly. Some [...]

Real Money’s Chris Versace had an interesting point on alternative energy today. I can understand why several of the solar stocks are up big today, but if at least one of the driving forces here is how the next presidential administration will be favoring alternative energy programs, then why not LEDs, which use 10% the [...]

He’s Barack Obama. Sending his veep choice straight out to all the young people via text message sometime within the next week. Gimmicky? Sure. A bad idea? Not in the slightest. Honestly, can you think of a better way to appeal to the young vote? It’s not just pandering, it’s entirely legitimate. He’s taking advantage [...]

In an effort to find something that we could directly translate into stock ideas, the best we could come up with for today is this article from BusinessWeek a little over a month ago. It’s actually a really good article dealing with how the election will impact technology companies. As candidates can change their views [...]