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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pseudo Biologist who wrote (13873)	1/29/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: Proton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32384

Re: Are You Saying the Biotechs are Doing Well? Check the AMEX web site, if interested, for the exact composition and calculation of BTK. I could suggest the same to you. The index is calculated on a regularly adjusted market-weighted basis. If interested, you could check and see that the majority of issues on the BTK are down today. I consider the BTK a "best case" estimate of what biotechs are doing. If interested, you could go into the second and third tiers and see that "biotech" is doing poorly today. Today's CORRosion is and will have a deleterious effect on the sector. Pý

To: Pseudo Biologist who wrote (13873)	1/29/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: tonyt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32384

> BTK includes 12 or 15 companies ONLY A better indication would be to compare this weeks BTK to this weeks LGND -- Anyone have that info readily available?