April 30, 2025 7:46am

How much gas is in the sector’s tank?

Depends on the freak economic growth outlook

Breaking: Q1 gross domestic product (GDP) declined at a 0.3% rate, a rapid reversal from a 2.4% increase in Q4. Imports surged by 41% in, subtracting from GDP, as companies sought to get ahead of Trump’s global trade fight. The report also showed a big slowdown in consumer spending and a decline in government spending amid Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts.

  • An ADP report signaled an economic slowdown, with private payroll growth slowing in April to just 62,000 during the month. That was well below the Dow Jones consensus estimate from economists of 120,000.

Q1/25 earnings: IONS, MDXG 4/30, ALNY, MRNA and BPMC on 5/1,

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Remember that overnight and pre-open actions’ futures and markets doesn’t necessarily translate into actual trading in today’s market session.

“I also hate to be so negative or contrarian but, this is a NO spin zone and truth is its product; I can always be WRONG but, I am mostly EARLY!”

My interpretation of the morning’s numbers is written to be informative; it’s built on what happened to make “it” happen today!

 

Tuesday’s night’s … RegMed Investors (RMi) Closing Bell: Fluctuation with causation … https://www.regmedinvestors.com/articles/13898

RegMed Investors (RMi) Research Note: Harvard Apparatus GT (OTCQB: HRGN), The latest, WHAT happens to OTCQB: HRGN if the White House and the new head of the SEC starts to "DELIST" Chinese companies??? … Newest happening, public accountants walk … https://www.regmedinvestors.com/articles/13812

 

Wednesday: The pre-open Dow futures are UP +0.05% or (+22 points), the S&P futures are DOWN -0.32% or (-18 points) and the Nasdaq futures are DOWN -0.52% or (-101.50 points)

  • Futures are mixed on Wednesday, 4/30 – last session of April and Q1a blast of economic data,
  • European stock markets traded higher,
  • Asia-Pacific markets trade mixed as investors construe key regional data

 

Henry’omics: We need to more than consider the economic environment to comprehend the micro re “our” universe of cell and gene therapy companies

Tuesday: The Dow closed UP +300.03 points or +0.75%, the S&P closed UP +32.04 points or +0.58% while the Nasdaq closed UP +95.18 points or +0.55%

Monday: The Dow closed UP +114.09 points or +0.28%, the S&P closed UP +3.54 points or +0.06% while the Nasdaq closed DOWN -16.81 points or -0.10%

Economic Data Docket: Q1/25 gross domestic product (GDP) and personal consumption expenditures price index (PCE) for March

               

Q2- April – 10 negative and 10 positive closes

  • Q1/25 – March, 10 positive and 11 negative closes
  • February – 12 holiday, 11 negative and 7 positive closes
  • January - 2 holidays, 1 market close, 10 negative and 10 positive closes

 

Companies in my headlights – It’s your decision; I provide ideas and context

I post about “indication intelligence” looking toward investment conferences … to assist investors with insight into sector vulnerabilities and strengths.  A dictionary definition of “indicate” refers to something less than a certainty; an indication could be a signal of being oversold or overbought, a recommendation, or grounds for inferring or a basis for believing.

  • Better part of valor to not lead any investor to temptation; yet again, I am passing on forecasting the daily indications as to expectation while the aftermarket blanked while the pre-open waits for the …  econs, it is still a mix of ups, downs and just uncertainty
  • I ain’t playin’ today

 

The BOTTOM LINE:

The last week and month of April; Tuesday and Monday closed negative …

Last week, the cell and gene therapy sector dived on Friday after bounding on Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday and Monday.

  • After hints of de-escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions brought buyers in from the sidelines and after President Trump said he has no plans to fire Fed Chair Powell.

Friday initiated a solid weekly performance for the market; the S&P 500 is up +3.8% and Nasdaq +5.4% and the Dow +2%.

The earnings’ downdraft begins to happen next week!

 

April ‘25: understand the “flow” of bad market and economic karma…

  • 4/28 – Tuesday closed negative with 14 positive, 20 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/27 - Monday closed negative with 15 positive, 18 negative and 2 flats
  • 4/25 – Friday closed positive with 12 positive, 20 negative and 3 flats
  • 4/24 – Thursday closed positive with 29 positive, 5 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/23 - Wednesday closed positive with 22 positive, 10 negative and 3 flats
  • 4/22 – Tuesday closed positive with 30 positive, 3 negative and 2 flats
  • 4/21 – Monday closed positive with 21 positive, 13 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/18 - Friday, market closed on holiday
  • 4/17 -Thursday closed positive with 25 positive, 7 negative and 3 flats
  • 4/16 – Wednesday closed negative with 2 positive, 31 negative and 2 flats
  • 4/14 – Tuesday closed barely positive with 17positive, 16 negative and 2 flats
  • 4/13 – Monday closed positive with 23 positive, 7 negative and 5 flats
  • 4/11 - Friday closed positive with 28 positive, 5 negative and 2 flats
  • 4/10 - Thursday closed negative with 4 positive, 30 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/9 – Wednesday closed positive with 33 positive, 1 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/8 - Tuesday closed negative with 4 positive, 30 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/7 - Monday closed negative with 13 positive, 20 negative and 2 flats
  • 4/4 – Friday closed negative with 3 positive, 30 negative and 2 flats
  • 4/3 – Thursday closed negative with 2 positive, 32 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/2 - Wednesday closed positive with 9 positive, 25 negative and 1 flat
  • 4/1 - Tuesday closed negative with 5 positive, 28 negative and 2 flats

 

Brace ourself for more economics and their down trending affect?

 

Welcome to my world of defining the “grey’ in our universe!

  • The sector is what it is, until it isn’t and even then, it doesn’t seem to be… as NOT much changes as the sector’s share pricing rides the waves of volatility, algorithms, electronic trading and short covering.
  • I am more frequently right than consequentially wrong; if I wanted to be liked, I wouldn’t have been an analyst/journalist.

 

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